Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — Page 5

Talk About BARGAINS! The Largest Size Package White Rolled Oats We are sell- We are S fiu se j] ing more A. g faJH B I ing the Tried and Flour || B True Miller Line | BB o fCoffee. Fresh shipment just received. Lay in a liberal supply. Phone 41, Home Grocery

Oh! Those Delphi Gilds.

Logansport Pharos: Alleging that he has always been unable to refuse to extend credit to the pretty girls who are so fond of candy and other delicacies he sold, John Lathrope, Delphi confectioner, has filed a petition in bankruptcy giving his liabilities as $1,793 and assets as $1,487. Lathrope did not know the surnames of many of his fair debtors, merely having them listed by their given names.

Live Stock For Sale.

As I intend going west, I shall dispose of my live stock on 240 acre farm, 2% miles south and 1 mile east of Demottb, occupied by Ed. J. Steinke. Said stock consists of about 100 young merino sheep (ewes), to be sold by the half dozen, or more, also one registered Jersey bull, 2 year s old. Sale to be Nov. 15th and 16th, at which time I shall be present.—ROßEBT W. CLAUDER, Owner.

Another Assault and Battery Case at Fair Oaks.

Edward Frawley of Fair Oaks is confined in jail in default of SI,OOO bonds for an alleged murderous assault on John Stowers, aged 65 years also of Fair Oaks, whom he is alleged to have struck over the head with a beer bottle Saturday morning and nearly killed. In fact the victim of the assault lay unconscious for a long time and is even now reported in a critical condition, by the (.attending physician Dr. Rice of Roselawn. According to Frawley’s story he found Stowers cutting wood on ground which he had rented, and instead of ceasing when he told him to quit, Stowers struck at him with the ax and it was in self defense that he struck him with his fist in trying to take the ax away from him, denying that he struck him with a beer bottle.

Other Fair Oaks people, however, deny that there is anything in the man’s story about Stowers having attacked him, and say the assault was unprovoked and that Frawley has brutally assaulted others at Fair Oaks without just cause. Frawley claims that Stowers got up, and walked away after the trouble, and w r as not unconscious as alleged. Frawley came to Rensselaer on the 11:20 a. m. train, after the trouble and swore out two warrants for Stowers’ arrest for assault and with attempt to commit murder, and it was while in Squire Bruner’s office that he himself was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Gus Grant for assaulting Stowers. Frawley is aged 43 years and claims to have been raised at Warsaw, but has lived most of his life at Knox. He came to Fhir Oaks some three years ago,, and is the husband of Lewis Stowers’ widow, Lewis and John Stowers being brothers. 1 '

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

Notable Votes By States and People Are Recalled. The first presidential election was held in 1789. Only 10 states voted in this election; New York did not vote. It was not until the election of 1828 that political parties began to assert themselves in the affairs of the country, and it was not until four years later that all presidential candidates were named at national conventions, Until then there had been no conventions, no platforms, the candidates having been chosen by common consent, the legislatures of the several states expressing their choice. What Washington feared as the bane of popular government, the cultivation of party spirit, has since

dominated the politics of the United States. The whole story cannot be told in one chapter; but there is a good deal of present-day interest in some of the facts of past history that might well be recalled for the information of the people who fought the real battle of Amrageddon, speaking in the political sense, at the ballot Tuesday. Let us take the post-bellum period.

In 1868, the first presidential year after the close of hostilities, there were two tickets in the field—the Republican hosts, led by General Grant, and the Democratic ticket, by Horatio Seymour. In that election 34 states voted. - Of these states 25 were carried by the Republicans. Mississippi, Texas and Virginia had not been sufficiently reconstructed to vote in that election. Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee voted the Republican ticket—they Could not help it, the presence of the soldiers at the polls exercising s o restraining an influence on the Democratic voters as to make them stay away from the ballot boxes. The total vote wak only s,724,oß6—Republican 3,015,071, Democratic 2,709,615. The Republican plurality was 305,456. The electoral vote was 294—Republican 214, Democratic 80. The republican majority in the electoral college was exactly the total of the electoral vote cast for Grant.

In 1872 37 states voted, and of this number only six voted the democratic ticket. The total vote was 6,466,165 : —Republican 3,597,070, Democratic 2,834,079. Charles O. O’Connor received 29,408 votes, and James Black, Prohibitionist, received 5,608 votes. The Republican plurality was 726,991. At that election some of “the states lately in rebellion,” as the phrase ran in those faraway days, had not been strong enough to assert themselves and voted the Republican ticket, which received 286 Electoral votes out of a possible 349, a clear majority of 223.

In 1876, one of the most eventful years in politics, 38 states voted. Of these 21 voted the Republicau ticket, or, at least, that is the way the returns, after they had been carefully revised, made it appear, and 17 states voted the Democratic ticket—2l states for Hayes ard 17 for Tilden. The. “Solid South” was getting together then. There was a great deal of excitement about the vote in the southern states. Commissions were appointed by the government at Washington, and there was talk of direct military interference by the government, as if there had not already been quite enough of that, and when the election was finally settled. to the satisfaction of the party in power it was found that, while the Democrats had received 4,284,757 votes and the Republicans 4,033,950 a democratic- plurality of 250,935, out of the total vote of 8,412,733—rthe Republicans had won by a majority of one in the Electoral College, the vote standing, as finally manipulated, 164 for Tlden and 165 for Hayes. That was the closest electoral vote that has ever been cast in ap election in this (Country. > In 1880 there were 38 states vot-, ing—Republicans 18, Democrats 18, split 1, California, wmen even at that early time was manifesting some of the bull moose spirit. The popular vote that year was 9,218,251; Republican 4,454,416, Democratic 4,444,952, Greenback 308,578, Prohi bitionist 10,305. The Republican plurality was 9,464. The majority vote for the Republican candidate (Garfield) was 214; the o'ectoral vote for the Democratic candidate (Hancock) was 155. The total electoral vote was 369. The Republican

majority in the Electoral College was 59.

I In 1884, when Cleveland ran for* President, 38 states voted against him and 20 states voted for him. The total popular vote was 10,035,731. Cleveland received 4,914,986 I votes and Blaine received 4,855,011 i votes. Cleveland’s plurality was 59,975, but his total vote was 265,759 less than a majority of all the votes cast. , In the Electoral College he received 219 votes an dßaine received 182 votes. Cleveland’s majority in the Electoral vote was 37. In 1888 Harrison was elected by an electoral majority of 68 in a total vote of 401, but a total popular vote of 11,376,022 lacked 496,916 ' of obtaining a popular majority. | There is a good dea’l of "recent his tory” in the presidential elections that have followed the eighties. The most remarkable of these was the election of 1904, when Mr. Roosevelt was the candidate for the Republcan party and Judge Parker was the standard bearer of the Democracy. The total vote that year was 13,4 60,648, and of' these Roosevelt received 7,613,486, and his majority over all the other candidates, of whom there were five, was 1,766,324. The electoral vote in 1904 was 476, of which Roosevelt received 336 and Parker 140, a majority of 196. — New York Times-.

WILSON CARRIES NEW YORK STATE

Plurality Is Somewhere Over 150,000 FAVORED BY COUNTRY AND CITY Democratic Nominees Come Down to Harlem River with Large Majority for First Time in Many Years. - .... New York, Nov, 6. —Wilson and carried New York State by a plurality of anywhere from 150,000 to 200,000. It is impossible to give close figures to indicate the Democratic presidential sweep of the state.

For the first time in years, a Dem ocratic presidential candidate has come down to the Harlem river with a plurality to add to his own plurality in the greater city of New York. Wilson and Marshall seem to have outrun both Roosevelt and Taft in the Republican strongholds beyond the northern barriers of the Democratic city of New York. Sulzer -Wins Governorship. But the Democrats this year have seemed to stop at nothing. Congressman William Sulzer has knocked the spots out of both Oscar Sitraus, his Progressive opponent, and Job Hedges, the Republican standard bearer. Mr. Sulzer has a plurality of something like 140,000. Wilson has probably carried the greater city by not far from 125,000. New York, in addition to choosing Democratic candidates in the state and nation, has put the Democrats in

1912, by American Press Association. WILLIAM SULZER.

power, apparently, in both branches Of the state legislature. It looks as if the New York state senate would stand thirty-three Demo•gressives and Socialists, if the Progrsessives and Socialists, if the Progressives and Socialists have elected any members of the state senate. The lower branch of the state legislature will be almost two to one Democratic. Indications are that the lower branch of the legislature would stand 100 Democrats to fifty Republicans, and any other parties that may have elected assemblymen.

Wilson Gets Florida Electors. Tallahassee, Flo., Nov, 6. —This state gives her six electoral votes to Wilson by a big majority.

MIDDLE WEST STATES DIVIDED

Wilson Carries Most of Them, Roosevelt Trailing. COLONEL WINS IN ILLINOIS Michigan Also For Progressive Candidate—Taft Captures a Few Electoral Votes in the Rocky Mountains. Chicago, Nov. 6.—Early returns having made certain the victory of Wilson and Marshall in the country at large, the people of Chicago watched with the greatest interest the vote in Illinois and the surrounding states, and the Progressive# rejoiced exceedingly when the news came that Democratic Chairman McCombs conceded Illinois and Michigan to Roosevelt. The colonel made a great run in Chicago, and in many parts of the state also was far ahead of his ticket. The most remarkable feature of the vote in the city perhaps was the remarkably large vote cast by Debs, who rah Taft a close race for third place. The Democrats had little cause for dejection over losing Illinois and Michigan, for as the bulletins came in it was seen that they had carried Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and of course Arkansas. This gave them nearly a clean sweep of the middle west, and late In the night Oklahoma also was placed in the Wilson column. South Dakota for Roosevelt.

South Dakota, where Roosevelt electors were running on the regular Republican ticket, was conceded to the colonel by a moderate plurality, despite the desperate efforts that were made to win the state for Wilson. In Minnesota the polls did not close until 9 o’clock and the returns were distressingly slow In coming In. The indications were that the state had gone for iWslon.

lowa also was in doubt for hours, the bulletins on partial returns showing Roosevelt In the lear, and this was confirmed later.

Kentucky went to Wilson by 38,000, with Roosevelt running a good second. The Taft vote in the Bide Grass state failed to materialize, and In many districts was scarcely noticeable. The total vote was the heaviest In years. In the Eleventh district H. H. Seavy, Progressive, defeated Caleb Powers for congress. In Louisville Roosevelt and Wilson ran neck and neck. Good Showing in Wisconsin. In Wisconsin the Progressives did not make a good showing, doubtless due to the stand taken by La Follette, and Willson, with Karel for governor, carried the state with comparative ease, Taft running second. In most of the middle western states the president was In third place, but Ohio also gave him enough votes to put him in second place. Tennessee, despite the hopes of the Progressives, refused to be turned aside from its usual position In the Democratic galaxy of states and gave Wilson a comfortable plurality. .... Colonel Strong In Illinois Roosevelt’s personal strength in Illinois was clearly shown In the results of the contest for the governorship. Dune, Democrat, was victorious, polling nearly the ful strength of his party vote, while the normal Republican vote was divided between Deneen, Republican, and Funk, Progressive, the former getting about 55 per cent of It. The fight In the city of Chicago was bitter, the effects of Democratic dissension being seen In the extraordinary vote cast for Cunnea, Socialist candidate for state’s attorney. Indiana > stood firm in the Democratic column, glvng Its 15 electoral votes to Wilson and choosing Ralston for its governor. Beveridge made a good hard race, but could not overcome his chief opponent’s lead.

Taft Behind in lowa. As returns came in from all parts of lowa it was seen that Taft was polling only about one-third of the vote he received in 1908, that Wilson was holding a majority of the Democratic vote and that Colonel Roosevelt was running strong and getting votes from both the old parties. In the cities alone Wilson was in the lead. In St. Louis the vote for Wilson was greater than that cast for Taft and Roosevelt combined. Kansas City also gave a majority for Wilson, and there Roosevelt was far ahead of Taft. In Nebraska Wilson polled about 45 per cent, of the entire vote cast, Roosevelt getting 30 and Taft 25 per cent. Taft ran better than even his adherents had expected. Bryan’s precinct gave Wilson 77, Roosevelt 47 and Taft 52. A small rift in the clouds that hung over the Taft headquarters came with the pews that the president had carried Idaho and Utah.

Going farther west, Wilson carried Oregon,New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and California, while Roosevelt captured Washington. > Republican Party Is Dead. New York, Nov. 6. —Colonel Roosevelt telephoned friends at the Union League club that the Progressive party had annihilated the Republican party in the nation and would control the national committee and national convention tn 1916.

UNDER APPLE TREE IN OLD ORCHARD

Trespasser Was Not One of the “Seven Sleepers.”

By CATHERINE COOPE.

Joan sped down through the riot of flowers to the foot of the garden path; there, she stopped to catch her breath before continuing on through the hawthorn lanes that led to the fruit orchard. Her wide garden hat had slipped from its nest of spun gold ringlets and her heart beat joyously with the pulse of spring. She stood for a moment poised under the old ivy-covered arch that admitted her to the orchard and drew in long breaths of delight. The great gnarled trees were weighted with blossoms and the air was heavy with the sweetness of their perfume.

Joan made a swift dart and with the agility of a squirrel climbed into the topmost branches of her favorite tree. There she sighed happily, then laughed at the shower of pink and white petals that her ascent brought down.

“Now I am monarch of all I survey,” she told herself gleefully, and settled herself in the secure seat the gardener had 'made for her. Because their orchard was only a sixteenth part of the original orchard that had been the pride of the onetime Lamberth estate, it was not walled in, but merely inclosed by hawthorn hedges. Joan regretted that necessity had called for a division of the property, yet she rejoiced that the lot which her grandmother had purchased possessed the most beautiful tree in the entire orchard. She gazed out over the vista of pink and white, and from her high perch could see the various winding lanes that divided the properties. Suddenly she leaned forward, her eyes focused upon a figure that was moving about among the private gardens.

"He must be trespassing," was Joan’s mental comment. “I have never seen hteu before.”

She watched him Intently, half out of fvuMup interest for a masculine person and half because of the pe-

“Now I Am Monarch of All I Survey."

culiar actions of the man. He stood quite still for moments at a time, apparently gazing at the wonder of the orchard, but suddenly he would dart toward a specific tree and make numerous circuits about its base.

Joan began to fear for his sanity and for her own safety. Certainly his actions were not those of an evenly balanced man. She felt reasonably sure that neither an Insane nor a sane man would catch sight of her In her bower of thick foliage, but her heart beat rapidly. “You never can tell,’’ she told herself “what any man is likely to see.” With considerable trepidation she watched the man drawing gradually nearer and nearer to her retreat,. Would he or would he not venture within her grandmother’s private orchard? Joan felt reasonably sure now that the trespasser was mentally unbalanced. i “He is coming In!” Joan caught a sharp breath and drew up Into the branches of her tree. He seemed to catch sight of the great tree the moment he stood within the arch and made straight for it. As he came forward, Joan again drew a quick breath. The man was undoubtedly good to look at and his shoulders were big and broad. He had taken off his qap and the sun shone on a head-of thick, red-brown hair. Joan’s grandmother had a miniature of a man with just such a head of hair. The girl in the tree-top sighed, partly because she felt a strong desire to drop twigs down on the goodlooking young fellow whose wanderings had brought him into her garden. “But I do not dare,” she told herself and realized that her fear of the man had vanished, “I suppose his eyes are brown,” Joan decided. She leaned forward cautibusly and watched him prowling about the foot of the tree. Suddenly he threw himself down on the wide bench that encircled the tree. “Discovered!” she heard him mutter, and peered down to see him draw a great knife from his pocket. He brandiished it about and the blood in Joan’s veind stood still. He opened the evil-looking blade and ran his finger along it. Joan gripped the branches to keep from tumbling headlong out of the tree.

The man was silent for a moment, then’ he began very calmly to carve his initials in the bark of the tree. The blood in Joan’s veins took up Its course and she drew a long breath of relief. “Rather nervy, however,” she commented, forgetting that her grandmother abominated slang. Evidently the young man had finished his carving for he returned his knife to his pocket and cast a glance about the orchard. Seeing no one about, he threw himself full length on the soft turf and prepared for a nap. “I certainly hope he is not one of the seven sleepers,” Joan thought petulantly, "my left foot is already asleep—Oh-h!” She uttered a half cry and tried to drag her foot from the crutch of the branch into which she had pressed it.

The young man below blinked his eyes in the sunlight, then sat bolt upright. His eyes, blue as the summer shy, gazed up into the branches of the tree as if an apparition had suddenly appeared.

“My foot is caught,” cried Joan, accusingly, "and y*ou did it!” “I!” The man’s breathless ejaculation brought the color to Joan’s cheeks. She frowned' "Besides,” he continued, “you have been trespassing for the last half hour.’*

A slow smile dawned in the man’s eyes, as if he were glad that he had been watched for so long a time. Joan blushed furiously at herself, then retreated behind a mask of light fabrication. "I suppose you were going to take some of the apple blossoms for a wedding or something—so 1 kept my eye on you,” she finished, lamely. “Not both eyes?” he questioned, with a merry’ look. He was suddenly serious. “But this is not getting your foot out of the branches of my grandfather’s tree.” He climbed up with a quick movement and placed himself beside her before Joan could gasp indignantly:

“Your grandfather’s tree, Indeed! It is my very own grandmother’s tree and she did all her courting under it on that very branch,” Joan informed the young man’s back, "but she didn’t marry the man.”

He turned about, having extricated her ankle from the crutch and gazed back at her.

"In that case,” he Informed her, “it was your grandmother who jilted my grandfather because he lost all his money and had to sell the Lambreth estate.”

“She did no such thing,” retorted Joan. “She gazes at his mlnature every day In this world." She cast a quick glance at him. “I know now,” she exclaimed, “you look exactly like that miniature.”

“My grandfather was 1 very handsome,” laughed young Lambreth; then growing serious again, he continued: “When he sent me to England he told me very particularly to look for this tree, which he said bore the best apples in the whole orchard, also to look closely to see his Initials carved with those of the only girl he ever loved.”

“When the estate was cut up into building lots,” said Joan, taking up the thread of the story, “my grandmother made a bid for this especial piece because it had that tree on It.” “I have carved my initials on it,” said Lambreth, “and they look a bit lonesome." His eyes met her appealingly. ,

“We will go in now and have tea and a proper introduction from my grandmother, and after that we will discuss whose initials would look well entwined with yours.” “That discussion will be short. Come,” he said, “give me your hand* —I want to help you down from the apple blossoms.” (Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary Press.)

WOULD RETAIN ART TREASURE

English Antiquarians Up In Arms at Prospect of Loss of Cromwell’s Staircase.

London antiquarians are up in arms against a proposal to sell to wealthy Americans the famous carved staircase In what is known as Cromwell’s house, Highgate Hill, a fine seventeenth century mansion, presented, according to tradition, by Cromwell to his eldest daughter Bridget. Cromwell house is a red brick house faced with stone. A boundary stone in the adjoining wall bears the date of 1614, and this is generally accepted as the year of Its construction. The house was occupied at one time by General Ireton, Cromwell’s son-in-law, and it is suggested that it formed part of the dowry of Cromwell’s eldest daughter Bridget. The whole of the Internal ornaments bear evidence of military occupancy. Unfortunately the greater portion of the drawing room celling was destroyed by fire nearly a century ago, but some exquisite -woodwork haw been revealed during recent renovation.' I ■ , . ( s The main staircase, which is the immediate subject of concern, is of handsome proportions, and bears at Its various corners beautifully carved figures of soldiers of the commonwealth period The handrail is of distlnctlve molding, whilst the balustrades are rich with cleverly executed devices emblematic of warfare. Handsomely carved oak pendants appear at intervals above the staircase.

His Catch.

A man with a fishing pole sat on the river bank near the Atchison waterworks intake. “How many have you caught?” some one asked him, “When I get another I’ll have one,** he replied.—Kansas City Star.