Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — Page 8
GANDERBONE'S FORECAST For November.
"Wo is the candidate ahead, ■ ad gaining rapidly?" they said. The one who dashes down thg track With the others howling at his back?" “Why, that,” said Hilles, Hopeful still, “Why, that’s our man, 1 reckon—Bill.” "The one in running tights,” ihey cried, "With a smelling bottle at his side, lis backers greeting him with cheers And his knee-caps fanning at his ears?” “Why, that,” said Mr, Bryan. “Yes—- , Wfiy, that’s our Jerseyman, I guess.” "The fast man raising all the dust?" They said in evident distrust. "The fellow’ showing them his heels Like a farmhand going to his meals?” ’Why, that,’ tae RoocevcUers s-‘l, “Why, that's our lion hunter, Ted." . ' “The front one galloping?” they whined, With his coat tails standing out Dehind, lis brogans putting up the dirt, And a sandbur working in his shirt?” “That’s him!" they Separately said. “That’s Bill! “The Jerseyman!" And “Ted." \ November is from the Latin Noyem, nine. It was formerly the ninth month of the year, but Numa, who was running for a third term, refus'd to is£”e the regular Thanksgiving proclamlion until he knew how he was coming out, and pushed it along to eleventh place. He was defeated, and did not proclaim any Thanksgiving at all, but the one and two termers got together, and the day was celebrated over his head.
A fond farewell, thou lovely fall, the winter days are coming. The ivy rattles on the wall and flowers are succumbing. The wild goose wedges down the sky, with Boreas :o bite him, and the bull moose sounds his thrilling cry for all who care to fight him Adieu to peace, the tender sky, the beauties of the season, the candidate’s untroubled eye\and the mere appeal to reason. The (battle rushes to its close, the bull begins to bellow, the last man with a bloodj' nose will be a lucky fellow. The field at Armageddon throbs with the heat of battle on it, and the red bandanna blithely bobs above the royal bonnet. The golf club rises on the air from’ each new-spatter-ed noggin, and the Jerseyman is everywhere with his bloody pogamoggan. Lay on, thou warriors athirst, With neither let nor comma. And fie upon the one who first Shall bellow for his mamma. The country will survive the row. However it’s decided. And it can’t much matter, anyhow. The way we are divide,d.
The hunter’s horn will rouse the morn with mellow music of the chase and waking day will look the worn and cold duckshooter in the. face. The pneumococcus will devise a few wet inlets in his boot, and in the end he will arise and calmly massacre a coot. Meanwhile the farmer will pursue the bold quail hunter on his manse, and having deftly worked him through a few wire fences, get his pants. The chilled trespasser, with his knees in rapid contact in the blast, will hurry homeward while disease pursues him hotly to the last.
The frightened men. this last time out. Will cast their vote for President, And the women, loitering about. Will voice their growing discontent. They’ll get the men in such a state Before the voting has commenced. They’ll sometimes help the candidate That like as not they bet against. What women’s rights can haply be occasions many grave disputes, but once the women folks ngree, they 11 get them, j’ou can bet your boots. As like as not another fall or such a matter will suffice, and in the new arrangement’ all the men can ever be is vice. At any rate, we’ll vote this time, and till that imminent event, the Wondrous beauties of the clime will not occasion much comment. The sassafras will waste its , frail and fragile beauty on the blind, add the sweet cadenzas of the quail will perish on the Autumn wund.
Old King Corn and all his men Will tent upon the fields again, And in the few contested states Will succor all the candidates They’ll make their military round Wherever hungry people sit, And see that credit shall redound To everybody claiming it. \ The doughty little Balkan states will measure courage with the Turk, and keep the harvester of dates attending strictly to his works. They will make him pile his blooming rugs as high as Haman for defense, find we*ll be picking out the slugs a year or such a matter hence. The only damage to accrue will be to fill the rugs with lumps, and buying them as we do, we’ll wonder If they have the mumps. The baby
every now and then will dig a bullet from the nap, and having paid the doctor ten, we’ll excoriate the scrap. The calf will show a redder plush, and take a tail-hold in the stack. The end will meet the center rush, and spring the hinges in his back. The hired man will bawl for more and thicker blankets in the night, - and the wind will pry around the door to see if everything is tight. For the first twenty-two days November will be under the influence of Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac. Any boy born in this period can be president without the usual formalities. Scorpio people are the rulers of the earth". They always have a good toe-hoid on the kick off. If they once get the ball it is impossible to take it away from them. Luther, Von Moltke and Bwana Tumbo are typical Scorpio people, all of them having been born under this sign. The last seven days of November Will be under the influence of Sagittarius the Archer. The best anyone born in this period can hope for is the vice-presidency. Still, these people have tremendous foresight, and can usually see where they aren’t going to jail, which is a great help to any big business man. Carnegie and Croker are typical Sagittarians,, and were both born under this sign. The President’s regular Thanksgiving proclamation, advancing tur- • key about ten cents a pound, will be issued right after the election. And then December's winds will rout The last leaf clinging to the tree, And the cider will become ftbout What apple cider ought to be.
Democratic Nominee for State-Sena-tor [?] Salf-Made Young Man.
Chester A. McCormick, the popular young democratic nominee for Joint State Senator from the counties of White, Jasper, Newton and Starke, is a forcible example of the self-made young man. He was born and reared upon a farm and attended the district schools of Starke county and later graduated from the Knox high school and spent a year in normal school. He made his own. way through school by selling newspaper* and by doing considerable writing for Chicago and Indianapolis papers. He taught several successful terms of country school and has walked as far as ten miles a day to and from his school. While yet in his teens he
CHESTER A. McCORMICK
compiled and published in.book form a comprehensive and accurate history of his, cwn county. He has always taken a pronounced interest in the work of the farmers' institutes and in all worthy public enterprises. For the past seven years Mr. McCormick has been engaged as editor and publisher of the North Judson News, which, under his direction, has become one of the foremost country newspapers of Northern Indiana. Mr. teen twice elected to the office of • lerk of Nortn Judson by majorities of rjore than three to one and later was given the nomination, over his vigoroils protest, for County Clerk. Although he had an adverse majority of iver 300 to confont and being opposed ty the strongest man on the republican ticket, he came within six votes of of election. Ip this race he carried his home township by a splendid majority of over 2uo.
That he is held in high esteem by his neighbors and friends and those who know him best, is evinced by the fc. lowing comment Which appeared in the Starke County Republican directly after his nomination: “In nominating Chester A. Cormick. of North Judson, for State Senator, the democrats of this district did a handsome, fitting thing. Chester is a good, deserving young man.’’
Mr. McCormick is peculiarly fitted for the position he is .seeking and in the event of his election to the state legislature, promises to be a real representative of all the people, irrespective of party, location, or creed and to work at all times for good, clean, honest and wholesome legislation.—Kentland Democrat.
BAUM’S BRIDGE.
James Clark of Kersey was in our midst Saturday. Elder Gray was a business caller at Kcuts Thursday. Miss Ethel Custard spent Sunday with the B. B. correspondent. Frank Lindy, the merry bachelor, is working for R. H. Morehouse. The Clark gasoline hay press is baleing out the Stembel hay on the Ray land. Miss Mary Morehouse, who has been quite ill the past week, is better at this writing. Alf Tilton, who has been putting up hay for Stembel on the Ray land, finished up last week. Lee, Morehouse, Arzona Custard and William Bush run a bicycle race Sunday. They all beat. 'Mrs. Roberts and daughter returned to Wlarren Thursday after a two weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Custard. Arunah Bacon of Leßoy, a former neighbor of these was calling on friends and looking after business interests here the latter part of the week,
Real Estate Transfers.
Daniel J. Schmucker to Lovel C. Asher, Sept. 6, ne, 32-32-5, 160 acres Kankakee, $5,000. John Eger to Hugh P Cavinder. et ux, Sept. 24. se nw. 26-0-6; 100 ecres, Barkley, $4,000. Paul Alexander Jensen, et al, to Hans Christian Jensen, May 2, Its 3. 4, bl 3, Wheatfield, Graham’s add $650. Edw. L Grobe to Edwin S Yeager, Sept. 17, ne nw, 34-28-7, Jordan, $20,400. Mary E Kannal to F Gertrude Kannal, July 6, 1911, pt se se, 30-29-6, Marion, $lO. Clifford W. Woodward, et al. to William B Fisher. March 21, 1911, e 1-2 w 1-2 >se, 25-28-6, 200 acres, Milroy. SIO,OOO. E R Mickelberry to John H Brenner, March 16. e 1-2, 11-31-5, 320 acres. Walker, sl. Randolph Wright to Charles T Battleday, September 28, ne sw\ 31-29-7. 120 acres. Newton, SIO,BOO. A. D. Swan to L. J. Witham. June 21, 1911, el-2 nw 11-27-7, Carpenter, sl. i Mary E Lowe to James S Hemi plhill'. October 1, Its 2, 3 bl 16 Rensselaer Leopold’s Add.,. $1,350. Nancy B Dunn et baron to Noah Gingrich, et al. Oct. 1, It 12, Dunn’s Kankakee Pleasure Resort, Ist Add., $75. Benjamin Rouse to Jacob Johnson., July 31, pts 1-2 se 28-31-5, Gillam. $8,650. John H. Holden to Alfred B. Lowman. Sept. 24, It 3, bl 4. Rensselaer Benjamin & Magee’s add., SI,OOO. Alfred B Lowman to John A Dunlap, et al.. Sept. 24, It 3, bl .4 Rensselaer Benjamin & Magee’s add., sl,-, 000. Charles A Boody to John A Dunlap, et al.. Sept. 26, outlot 13, Asphaltum. sl, William A Gray to Charles Horn. August 9. 1911, n 1-2 9-31-5. 320 acers. Walker. $20,160.
Charles W Horn to Richard Wolfe, Sept. 12, n 1-2 9-31-5, 320 acres, Wiker, $19,200. Arthur G Catt, et ux, to Florence L Peacock, October 5, pt It 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County Drainage Ass n, plat, $1,500. ' William F Meyers to Clyde C Phillips, Sept. 21, Its 1,2, bl 2 Wheatfield Miller’s add., sl. George H Hammerton to Walter Harrington, Sept. 28. h 1-2 sw nw. 24-30-7 20. acres, Union, $2,000. George H Hammerton to Leslie Alter, Sept. 28, nw nw 24-30-7, 40 acres, Union. $4,000. Maria Biggs to Daniel D. Marston, et ux, Oct. 4. e 1-2 he 23-32-6, 80 acres. Wheatfield, $6,000. Erastus Peacock, et ux, to Joseph Nissius, Sept. 25, pt se 25-29-7, 10 acres, Marion, $3,500. John Eger to Joseph Nissius. Oct. 5, pt he se 25-29-7, 2.25 acres, Maripn, $ 121.25. q. c. d. John A Dunlap et al. to Milton E Graves. October 3, oulot 13. Asphaltum, SIO,OOO. Nancy B Dunn to George W Goar, Sept. 21. It 7, bl 6. Dunnville, SSOO. Charles W Moore to Anna Blake, Sept. 12, It 17, Remington. Shafer s add.. $650. Maggie J Worden to Van M Wood, October 10, pt outlet 80, Rensselaer, pt ne nw, 30-29-6, Marton. $1,200. Arthur R K rosier, et ux, to John W Marlatt, October 10, outlets 62, 63, Rensselaer, nw 30-29-6, Marion $3,000.
Andrus Misch to Maud Hight, Oct. 5. Its 15, 16. bl 2, Wheatfield Graham’s add., $1,125. Sarah B French to Frank L Clark Jan. 27, 1906, Its 4, 10, bl. 20 Remington original plat, $250. Frank L Clark to Mary E Clark, May 6. 1908, Its 4,6, bl 20 Remington original plat, $250. Martha E Corliss to Maggie Worden, October 12, It 3, bl 8, Rensselaer original plat, $2. Maria Biggs to Michael V Kannally October 10, und 1-2, pt nw. 30-32-5 Karikakee, $l5O. Industrial Aid Society to Michael V Kannally, April 23, ne nw 19-32-5, 40 acres Kankakee, $1,500.’ q. c. d. Lemuel Ross Wlhite to Herman R Langdon, Sept. 27, pt sw ne 23-32-5. 107.2 acres, Kankakee, $1,550. Orlando F Mace tp Herbert L Bozell, October 15, pt It 3, bl 4 Fair Oaks, $325.
Virginia W Halstead to Orpheus C Halstead, October lo.se sw 8-29-7, 80 acres, Newton, $15,000. Virginia W Halstead to William Halstead, October 15, w 1-2 se nw, 17-29-7, 60 acres Newton, $9,000. Jeremiah K Butz to Robert E Garrett, Feb. 21, 1911, el-2 nw, 14-31-6, Walker, sl.
Progressive Party News.
BOTH OLD PARTIES LOSING. Chairman Lee Confident Roosevelt and Beveridge Will Carry State. Progressive victory is practically assured in Indiana on both the national and state tickets. If the trend keeps up as it now is going, with the immense gains being made by the Progressive party among the hitherto silent or undecided voters, election day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, will see a memorable “landslide” to the new party and historical precedent will have been overthrown once more by the progressive movement. Assurance of victory has given the progressive part workers new energy, '/and the hardest work of the entire campaign will be done in the time between this and election day. Especial attention is to be given in the next week to the boosting of the legislative ticket. To get regressive measures the people are called on to elect Progressives to the law-making bodies as well as to, /administrative positions. This point is to be driven home. It is predicted that the Progressive party will carry seven, possibly nine, of the thirteen districts for national representatives. This prophecy was made by the Progressive state committee after reports had been heard and discussed from all parts of the state.
Progressives Well Pleased. State Chairman Edwin M. Lee gave the following interview on the situation as the state committee found it in a four nour session at Progressive state headquarters: “The state committee, with all districts represented, spent four hours today going over the condition and inspecting the organization in the state The polls were gone over carefully. Plans were made for the work that remains to be done in the final week of a great campaign and up to the casting of the last vote Tuesday, Nov. 5. “The committee finds that conditions as reported in almost eveny one of the ninety-two counties of th* state are extremely satisfactory from a Progressive party standpoint. “Conditions as found justify the Progressive state committee in expecting to carry Indiana for both the national and the state tickets. There exist a few weak spots in some districts, and these weak places are to have special attention in the next; few days. “The reports indicate that Progressive national representatives probably will be elected in seven, and possibly in nine of the thirteen districts of Indiana.
State Ticket Assured. “The election of the Progressive state ticket in Indiana is now practically assured. In all the legislative units or districts an especial effort will be made in the next week to elect the Progressive party candidates to the Legislature, to the end that genuine Progressive legislation may be obtained for the people, and in order that the hands of a Progressive executive department may be properly upheld by lawmakers in sympathy with-progress. '’The reports showing a large doubtful or undecided vote in practically every county of the state indicate that the people have been thinking seriously of the platform contract proposed to the voters by the Progressive party. “All reports show the hitherto silent voter is making up his mind at this time, and this fact accounts in a measure for the immense daily and hourly gains of the Progressive party. These accessions continue to come steadily and in growing force, and a continuation of present rapid gains means one of the most notable landslides ever recorded in history. That is exactly what the signs indicate—a ‘landslide’ for the Progressive party in state and nation. Not only is this coming triumph logical, but it is • foretold in the tendencies and in all the political omens of the hour.”
Treml of Progressivism. It is not difficult to find concrete and living illustrations of the trend of the voters to Progressiveism. There was the action of the big weekly, Collier’s. There was the action of the Denver Post and many other large and small newspapers. There was the announcement the other day of Don M. Dickinson of Michigan, a member of Cleveland’s cabinet, that he was for Roosevelt. There was the announcement of W. H. Williams of Minnesota, who served as state labor commissioner under Johnson, the great Progressive Democratic Governor of Minnesota. Williams has become a Progressive. A few days ago John T. Gill of Chicago, formerly of Port Huron,
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Mich., long time socialist leader and orator, a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and prominent in the order, appeared at Indiana state headquarters and offered his services as a campaign orator for the Progressive party cause. Then there is the announcement that Lejon Sanders, head of a great organization of Jewish citizens, is out in suport oi Roosevelt and the Progressive cause. The important I and notable individual accessions are many, but they are important Only as marking the groundswell trend of the day. The real important fact is • the muster of the rank and file under ' the Progressive banner in the precincts, in the townships, in the counties and in the cities.
Progressivism Is Denied. The great growth of the Progressive movement shows itself alike in the city and country. Out in the state the old party men say there is no Progressivism in Indianapolis and other places, though there is plenty of it in the rural lanes. When they reach the cities these same old party men wag their heads and assert that I there is a lot of Progressivism in the cities but that the farmers are standpat. The fact is, the Progressive party draws strength equally from all de- , cent elements and its appeals is as | wide as brotherhood. This is the ; big reason why the two old parties ! and their organizations are not able to meet the-Progressive wave or impede its sweep. In the matter of registration the ; Progressive party has had all the i best of it. Old party men, who are in a position to know, declare that nearly 150,000 Indiana voters will lose their votes this year because they failed, refused or neglected to register. This statement by old party workers confirms absolutely the reports made by Progressive workers, and | it is especially significant that whereas the Progressives registered practically every Progressive convert, the old party organizations fel down miserably in getting their voters to register in most of the state. Some Democrats Apathetic. There are spots where tjie Demoi crats organized with some effectiveness and got their voters registered. I But there also are places where the 1 Democrats, with all their organized | effort and sinews of war, were not able to induce apathetic Democrats to heed the call of Taggart. Many thousands of Republicans disgusted by the outlook and revolting against the Republican organization in * Indiana as it is now controlled, decided to make their silent protest felt bj refusing to have any part in the election of 191?. Over the state, from precinct to precinct, the story ran much the same, ten or more men to a precinct in i each old party refusing .to register and thus losing their chance to vote.
Men of the Progressive tendencies have been easy to induce to register. The disgusted standpat element and the apathetic Democratic crowd have been shy of registration. This means full ranks for the Progressives and decidedly depleted batallions for the two old parties. Democrat Changes Faith. As showing the trend, one worker told of a young Democrat who had announced his changre from Wilson .and Ralston to Roosevelt and Beveridge. “I have come all the way,” he said, “I have studied all the platforms. I find the Progressive platform fills modern requirements and that it proposes continued evolution to still better things, with immeasurable good in the immediate plans proposed. I have witheld my support because of personal inclinations. I have decided that the issue is entirely too big to permit any persona! inclinations to influence “p liitical action.”
The same worker, leaving this young democrat turned Progressive, stepped on board a train and greet;ed the railway conductor. This con/ductoir had been a strong Taft up to a few weeks ago. “I’m for Roosevelt and Beveridge,” he announced when questioned by the Progressive worker, who was an old acquaintance. Same Sentiment in State. And this is the way it goes the state over and the country oiver. I Men who have hesitated for any rea- ’ son are deciding now for progress , and lighting leadership. A young democrat of Indianapolis : stopped a Progressive worker a day I or two ago to “get the dope” as he I said. “I am going to vote for Bever-
Progressive Meetings.
Oct. 30 (Wednesday)—Virgie and Surrey. Oct. 31. (Thursday)—Queen City, Milroy. Nov. 1 (Friday)—Demotte and Gillam Center. Nov. 2 (Saturday)—Wheatfield. Note—Tefft meeting canceled and Kankakee requested to attend the Wheatfield meeting. Meetings will be addressed by W. H. ParkiSon, J. H. Chapman, S. E. Sparling, L. H. Hamilton and P. R. Blue. Everybody invited to attend. Women especially invited. IFred Phillips’ and Parr sheep-skin band will attend all meetings.
idge, he said. “I had hot thought a great deal about the national situation until I found my father, who is a life-long Democrat, declaring strongly in favor of Roosevelt for President and Beveridge for Governor. This set me to thinking. My father declares that he will not vote for any man who will keep Tom Taggart in power in Indiana. ■ That is why he has become a Progressive. He has pointed out to me that it would be entirely inconsistent for me to vote for Wilson for President in knowledge that by so doing I would be helping to maintain Taggart as state boss, regardless of Wilson’s acts as President. I find many Democrats bent on hitting Taggart whreeever they can find an opening. That | means Roosevelt and Beveridge, of j course.—George W. Stout, in Indianapolis Star.
A Remarkable Prophecy By Senator John W. Kern.
I am compelled to believe, though reluctantly, that tariff reform has been abandoned by many of our greatest leaders, and that the Democratic party will never again be united as it was in the old days when fidelity to convictions gave it harmony , character and cohesion. * * * As for myself, I can not see any chance of Democratic success at a presidential election. Patriotic men within the Democratic and Republican parties will save the United States both from socialism and from the ravages of selfish and special interests. LaFollette and Cummins, who have been vigorous and consistent from the first, are directing and creating public opinion among the republicans. Other strong men—Dolliver of lowa and Beveridge of Indiana, for instance ‘having read the signs of the times, are also diligent and enthusiastic. A revolt is being organized inside of the Republican party and it may be joined finally by those Democrast who are in sympathy with its principles.-—Senator John W. Kern, Dec. 26, 1909.
It Recognizes a Man.
Theodore Roosevelt is a fairly close presentment of what this nation likes to call a man. Such faults as faultfinders like ourselves have been able to descry in him are faults of the highly tempered, hasty and not always reasonable nation which selected him to govern it. * No man probably could have risen so high in American politics and emerged so stainless from his early struggles. No man could have used his power with a larger moral usefulness to his whole people. And we doubt whether any man in history has undertaken late in life as high and unselfish a venture in the field of politics as the bull moos°. It is fortunate that those who value lightly the important things of life—courage, personal honor, and the well-being of those about them—and who guard closely safety, comfort and their pocketbook are almost the only Americans cynical enough to disbelieve in the honesty of Theodore Roosevelt’s words within the fi\e minutes of an attempt upon his life: “Friends, I want to say this about myself: I have too many important things to think about to pay pay heed or to feel any concern over my own death.” Collier s is not so hypercritical that it can not recognize a man.— Collier’s Weekly, Det. 24.
Lyceum Course Dates.
Dec. 3—Sylvester Long. Jan. 31—Macinnes Nielson. Mar. 10—Sarah Wilmer. .April 14—The Bohannans.
We are paying for Butter Fat This Week 30c WILSON & GILMORE Parr, Indiana.