Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

11.50 Per Year.

RALSTON HAS A GOOD CROWD

And Speech Was Best Heard Hero This Campaign.

CLEAR DISCUSSION OF ISSUES Without the Rancor Frequently Indulged In By Political Speakers.— Spoke at Remington Also Same Afternoon.

The speech of Hon. S. M. Ralston, -Monday afternoon in the Princess Airdome, was listened, to by a goodsized crowd, considering that it is the poorest day in the week to draw a crowd in Rensselaer.

There were probably about 500 people present, nearly all voters. Mr. Ralston held the close attention of Lis hearers during his entire speech of over an hour and a half. -He presented the issues of the campaign clearly, and in a logical and convincing manner showed why the deniocratic policy was the correct one, and that the only hope of correcting the evils of state, which the people are complaining of, is through the democratic party, Mr. Ralston is an easy and fluent speaker and said nothing that could give offense to those of other political faiths. His speech was declared by everyone who heard it an excellent one and the best that has been delivered in Rensselaer this campaign.

Mt. Ralston was accompanied here by District Chairman Murphy, of Brookston, who is taking him over the Tenth district in his automobile on his speech-making tour. He is also accompanied by W. H. Blodgett, 'the well known Indianapolis News correspondent, who will probably be with him during the remainder of the campaign. From here Mr. Ralston went to Remington where he spoke at 4 p. m., and thence to Kentland where hespoke at night. He spoke at Crown Point yesterday.

Prisoner Took “Leg Bail.”

There was quite a little excitement in town Friday evening when Charles Martin of' Newland, who had been arrested for beating up William Postil that morning at Newland, made his escape from the officers and hiked down North Van Rensselaer street at a marathon gait, making good his escape. George Martin, the father of Charles, was arrested some two or three weeks ago on the charge of assault with attempt to kill his wife, which arrest Postill was instrumental in bringing about, he having stopped Martin in his alleged attempt to kill his better-half. Friday, while Postil was working on the cold storage plant at Newland, he had occasion to go to Jim Reese's after a tool and met Martin and his son, the latter having just returned from the northwest. Young Martin, who is a big husky fellow, is alleged to have at once set upon Postil and beat him up pretty ..badly before his father asked him to desist. The father, Postil thinks, countenanced the assault if not actually instigating it. Postil came to town later and had his face patched up and swore but a warrant for the arrest of young Martin. Marshal Mustard and Constable Parks went out and brought the young man in and he was arraigned before Squire Bruner, and during the hearing they asked to get another doctor to see Postil and determine how. badly he was hurt. Father and son started to leave the room to get a doctor, the constable accompanying them, an-d the young man suddenly made a dash out of the stairway and ran w’est to the Forsythe store building arid there turned north. Mr. Parks and the marshal, who was just coming in the stairway, when he made a break, being close bn his heels, and Parks fired a shot from his revolver in the air to enforce heed to his cries to the fleeing man to stop. But Martin only ran the faster, and he threw off his overcoat when passing the Knapp Liveny barn to be better able to distance his pursuers. Automobiles were hurriedly got in action and the telephone was used to try to head off the escaped prisoner,

but he got away in spite of everything. An affidavit was filed against the father after the boy made his escape, charging him with being an accessory before the fact in the assault, and his bond was fixed at SIOO, L. H. Hamilton going his surety. T oung Martin's father denies that he instigated or countenanced the assault on Postil and says that he will try and find the boy and have him return and stand trial. «

OFF TO THE FRONT

Company M Goes to Porter County to Put Down a “Rebellion.” : Governor Marshall is trying to put a stop to the alleged racetrack gambling at the new Mineral Springs Jockey Club track in Porter countv, and the alleged persistence in betting and gambling despite the numerous warnings sent the race track people, caused him to order out Co. F of South Bend and Co. M of Rensselaer •nday night to go to the track grounds and take charge of same. Accordingly Co. M„ some 38 .strong, left yesterday morning on the milk train for the scene of carnage. Before this item is read no doubt every Chicago gambler and thug who -was connected with the alleged institution will have been shooed back across the line in the Sucker state or their bullet-riddled bodies will be swinging from limbs of the Jack oak shrubbery that infests the sand dunes of the Lake-Porter section.

BULL MOOSE TICKET FILLED.

Fred Phillips Put On For Recorder and John L. Osborne for Commissioner. The vacancies on the Progressive county ticket caused by the declination of Eli Arnold for county commissioner in the Second district and C. D. Shook for recorder, have been filled by placing John L. Osborne of Hanging Grove on in Arnold's place, and Fred Phillips, the auctioneer on in Shook’s place. The - petition to have the<e names placed cn the ballot was signed by the following persons: John E. Robinson, Marion tp. Max R. Kepner, Marion tp. Charles W. Clift, Marion tp. Arthur H. Fletcher, Marion tp. William E. Cook, Marion tp. John J. Eiglesbach, Marion tp. George W. Hopkins, Marion tp. Earl Clouse, Marion tp. James Hemphill, Marion tp. Rial B. Benjamin, Marion *p. Wm. R. Brown, Rensselaer. Edward VanArsdel, Marion tp. Edgar J. Duvall, Marion tp. The county ticket .of the Progressives is complete except for prosecuting attorney, surveyor and coroner, and the petition to have the ticket placed on the county ballot is signed by the following: Emil Besser, Remington. Horace J. Bartoo, Remington. D. H. Rhoades, Remington. Edwin E. Lucas, Remington. Charles Hensler, Remington. Charles -Somers, Remington. Willis A. Lutz, Rensselaer. John R. Parkison, Barkley. Granville Moody, Barkley. John L. Hefferlin, Barkley. Amos H. Alter, Union. Elias Arnold, Barkley. David E. Grow, Marion. Albert R. Hopkins, Marion tp. Albert E. Abbott, Marion tp. Scott R. Chestnut, Marion tp. George L. Morgan, Marion tp. E. A. Aldrich, Marion tp. Clifford H. Dayton, Marion tp. Orla Clouse, Marion tp. Louis E. Barber. Marion tp. Arthur R. Kresler, Marion tp. Stewart D. Moore, Marion tp. Simon Leopold, Marion tp. Edwin W. Miller, Marion tp. Chas. M. Blue, Marion tp. Ira F. Meader, Union. R. H. Eilts, Union. Robert Ott, Union. William H. Wells, Keener. Lee Story, Keener. William Lewen, Wheatfield. George W. Ferguson, Wheatfield. Alfred S. Barlow, Wheatfield. Warren J. White, Wheatfield. Horace M. Clark, Wheatfield. Simon W. Hamilton, Wheatfield. George L. Parks, Milroy. i James H. Chapman, Rensselaer Harvey J. Dexter, Union. Amzie S. Laßue, Rensselaer. Schuyler C. Irwin, Rensselaer Harvey J. Kannal, Rensselaer. John W. Tilton, Rensselaer. Samuel E. Sparling, Rensselaer. Edward D. Rhoades, Rensselaer. Milton Roth, Rensselaer. Frank M. Haskell, Rensselaer. Philip R. Blue, Rensselaer. Lloyd S. Parks) Rensselaer. F. H. Hemphill, Rensselaer. Jesse L. Brady, Rensseiaer.

Turkey Season Is Getting Ready.

Will pay 15 cents for young turkeys, both toms and hens weighing .8 pounds or over; 26 cents for strictly fresh clean eggs. This is our regular, not a special price.— Fancy Produce Market, C. E. Prior, Phone 39.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY OCT. 23 1912 - ■ 9 9 * i

COURT HUUSE NEWS IN GRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs tram the Various Departments

OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from (he Several County Offices. New suits filed: No. 7933. John Pinter vs. U. H. Cottingham and Samuel Ritchie; suit on note. Demand sllO. . —o— ■ The divorce case of Clyde Ulrey of Broow. vs. Mrs. Linnie Lewis Ulrey. pending in the Newton circuit court and taken under advisement by Judge Hanley last week, has been decided in plaintiff s favor and the decree granted him. —o— Marriage licenses issued: October 18. Henry Delbert Drake of Wheatfield. aged 26, occupation farmer, to Arminia Ruth Cox, also of Wheatfield. aged 17, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Mother of female filing written consent to issuance of license.

The former George A. Strickfaden property on South Cullen street, at present occupied by Mr. West, has been purchased of E. L. Hollingsworth by T. M. Callahan; who expects to move from the Robert Michael property, which he now occupies, into same in about six weeks. The consideration is understood to have been $3,000. —o— Miss Lennie Grant, who has been employed for several years as deputy in the Recorder's office has resigned and it is understood she will be married very shortly to Joseph O’Connor of Hammond, a son of exsheriff John O’Connor of Kniman.' Miss Agnes Platt has taken the position made vacant by Miss Grant’s 1 resignation. —O— Rev. W. H. Groendyke, the Starke county Hollander who 'was honestly and fairly defeated for the democratic nomination for state senator recently and was so sore over it that he has since been howling about over the district trying to defeat Chester A. McCormick, to whom the nomination went, has filed his petition—— signed by all Starke county men, so the petition states —to get his name on the ballot as an independent candidate for senator. In conversation with a prominent Starke county gentleman recently, this gent’eman said that he didn’t know of out one vote

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he would get in Starke county, and that was Groendyke’s Monday a prominent While county democrat offered to guess us that he wouldn’t get a solitary vote in White. He may perhaps get a few Holland votes in Keener township in Jasper county, and perhaps a few in Newton, but it doesn’t look as though the canvassing boards would be to any considerable extent overworked in counting his ■vote" any place.

"BILLY” RUGH DIES.

Gary Newsboy Who Sacrificed Useless Limb for Skin-Grafting, Dies From Pneumonia. Billy ’ Rugh-, the Gary newsboy who sacrificed his crippeld leg for skin grafting purposes to save the i life of Ethel Smith, a Gary young [ lady who was, so terribly burned , by a gasoline explosion some time ago while out riding with her fiance, died Friday of pneumonia that followed the amputation of his limb. His funeral Sunday afternoon was the largest ever held in l Gary and was i in the nature of a state affair, the procession being headed by the Masonic band of Whiting and the mayor city officials, steel trust officials, Baikal! Reservists, Y. M. C. A,, etc. A memorial fountain will be erected by public subscription in the business district of the steel city and a bronze tablet set up along side the building where he had his news stand. Mayor Knotts issued a proclamation making the funeral a public occasion and naming committees for receiving public subscriptions for a suitable memorial to the dead newsboy.

Negotiating for Purchase of Gifford Railroad.

Charles Hotchkiss, president of the I Illinois Trust Co., Judge Riley of . Chicago, and George Gifford, attorn;ey and a nephew of B. J. Gifforc, were here Saturday afternoon negotiating with the latter for the purchase of the Gifford railroad, it said. Rumor has it that he is offered $300,000 for his road entire, I which has cost him about $600,000 but is of little value to him or the public as long as Mr. Gifford owns it, judging from the past. I| Is also rumored that Mr. Gifford could clear up all his remaining 20,000 acres of land and have $207,000 left should he sell at $300,000. Everyone hopes that the road will be sold and something will be done with it.

Death of Aged Barkley Tp., Woman.

Mrs. Louisa Gratner, aged 86 years, died at the home of her son, William Gratner, in Barkley tp., Friday and was buried In the Prater cemetery in that township Sunday forenoon. Her husband died many years ago. She leaves four children, William of Barkley; Mrs. John Roadifer of Jordan tp., Mrs. Many Potts of near Brook, and Mrs. Ellgn Ott, of Dodge City, Kan.

Progressive Party News. [Advertisment]

It is better to be a half block ahead of the parade than two miles in the rear. Collier's Weekly gets its fill of Dr. Wilson and Tammany and <is now .with the Progressive party. Don M. Dickinson, former member of Cleveland's cabinet,, is out for the Progressive cause and Roosevelt. Wherever bosses repudiate or override a primary majority, the need for primaries is emphasized anew. • vThe Wall street conception of a perfectly good President is one who will never make a move for fear of upsetting a stack of chips. They say the colonel wants to be King. Nonsense! Wmy should he .want to be King when his followers already regard 'him as ace? Colonel Fred A. Phillips, Progressive candidate for county Recorder, and his sheep-skin band will attend all progressive meetings from now to election.

TAMMANY MURPHY. By James J. Fitzgerald. As boss of that powerful organization for public plunder, Charles F. Murphy, of Tammany Hall, represents more than a pillar in the temple of the Associated Political Democrat-ic-Republican Bosses of the United States of America. Besides bqing one of the pillars, Murphy is also the keystone in the main arch as well as the cornerstone of the boss system. By extending his dictatorship beyond the limits of New York City add seizing control of hte state of New York, he has attained a point which no other ruler of the Fourteenth Street Wigwam ever accomplished. John Kelly tried It and failed. Richard Corker undertook the same contract and lost. Murphy, more cunning and more astute, has obtained complete control of the state. Murphy now dictates to the 8,000,000 residents of the Empire state without regard to their own wishes in the matter. He forced the notorious Levy Election law upon them, designed only to tighten his grip upon the state for an indefinite period. He was a member of the Dock Board during the Van Wyck administration and helped Croker ‘‘work for his pocket all the time.” When Croker retired to Ireland in exile eleven years ago and left a vacancy as boss of Tammany, Murphy quickly and neatly appropriated the job to himself.

Besides bossing the city and the state, he takes a keen interest ini bossing contracts. As boss of the state he has made certain that all contracts awarded on the $50,000,000 appropriation for State roads and the $101,000,000 barge canal are in the hands of trusted lieutenants. As boss of New York City he takes the same interest in the contracts for the new $161,000,000 Catskill water improvement, and the $200,000,000 which the city is spending in the construction of new rapid transit lines Besides these there are hundreds of other contracts to be looked after annually opt of the $275,000,000 which the City of New York spends annually for maintenance and permanent improvements. Murphy seldoin talks. It Isn’t necessary; his dictatorship is so complete that a nod of the head is generally sufficient. “It’s a nice day, chief,” one of his friends said recently in greeting him. “Is it?” was the only reply. His rule is not disputed. He is bossing the biggest, city in the country and the, most important state in the Union. <He is also making careful plans toward the bossing of the United States in case Governor Wilson is elected. Murphy is the boss! all others are countr felts.

Trusts in New Jersey. Woodrow Wilson is governor of the, state of New’ Jersey. Section 4 of the corporation laws of New Jersey, enacted in 1890, is as follows: “The character of every corporation, or any supplement thereto, or amendment thereof, shall be'subject to alteration, suspension, and repeal, In the discretion of the legislature,

POLITICAL SPEAKING. Wednesday, Oct. 23—Parr. • Thursday, October 24—<JHn- ‘ dale. Friday. October 25—Newland ' and Blake school. Saturday, October 26—Fair * Oaks.'.

and the legislature may at pleasure dissolve any corporation.” Mr. Wilson vigorously declares that he is in favor of the immediate dissolution of the trusts of the country. Why has he not attempted to bring about their dissolution under the laws of New Jersey, the lax corporation laws of that state furnishing a harbor of refuge for them? .The following arc a few of the trusts hold. Ing their charters from and having their home offices in New Jersey: The American Wkiolen company, the woolen trust. The American Sugar Refining company, the sugar trust. The American Tobacco company, the tobacco trust. The American Sewer Pipe company, the sewer pipe trust. The American Radiator Company, the radiator trust. The Amalgamated Copper company, the copper trust. Ihe American Can company, the can trust. , The American Agricultural Chemical company, fertilizer trust. > The American Linseed company, the linseed oil trust. The American Hide and Leather company, the leather trust. The American Cotton Oil company, the cotton oil trust. The American Cement company, the cement trust. The American Car and Foundry company, the car trust. The American Ice Securities company. The American Ship Building company. The American Smelting and Refining company, of the Guggenheim trust. The American Locomotive company the locomotive trust. The American Writing Paper Company, the writing paper trust. The Central Leather company, the leather trust. The Corn Products Co. Chicago Pneumatic Tool company, the tool trust. Cuban-American Sugar company, the Cuban sugar trust. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Powder company, the powder trust. The General Asphalt company, the asphalt trust. The International Mercantile Marine company, the shipping trust. The International Harvester company, the harvester trust. The International Paper company, the paper trust. The International Steam Pump company, the pump trust. The National Biscuit company, the cracker trust. The National Carbon company, the carbon trust. The National Enameling and Stamping company, the metal ware I trust. The National Lead company, the . lead trust. The New York Air Brake company, the air brake trust. The Pacific Coast company, controlling Pacific coast shipping. The Pittsburg Coal company, in coal trust. > The Pressed Steel Car company, , the steel car trust.

The Quaker Oats company, controlling the American Cereal company which is the breakfast food trust. The Standard Oil company, the oil trust. The Standard Milling company, the flour trust. The Union Bag and Paper company, the paper bag trust. The United Fruit company, the tropical fruit trust. The United Machinery corporation, the shoe riiachinery trust. United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company, the cast iron pipe trust. The United States Steel corparation the steel trust. J The Virginia Carolina Chemical company, the chemical trust. ' The Great Lakes Towing company, the towing trust.

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