Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1914 — Page 2

IRE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. t. BABCOCK. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Advertising rates made known on application. - Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914.

STATE CONVENTION CALL.

To the Democrats of Indiana, and All Those Who Desire to Cooperate With Them. By order of the Democratic State Central Committee, the Democrats of Indiana, and all who desire to cooperate with them, are invited to meet in delegate conventicn at Tomlinson Hall, in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, on

„ Thursday, March 19, 1911, for the purpose of adopting a platform, of nominating a candidate for United States Senator, and of nominating candidates for the following State offices, to-wit: Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Clerk Supreme Co rt. State Geologist. One judge G: the Supreme Court for the Fifth District. Two judges of Appellate Court for the First District. Three judges of the Appellate Court for the Second District. The convention will be composed of 1,386 delegates, necessary to a choice, 918, of which Jasper county will have eight. The delegates from the respective counties composing the several Congressional Districts will meet Wednesday, .March 18, 1914, at seven o clock p. m., at the following places: First District—State house, room S 3, second floor. Second District -State house room 11, first-floor. 1 bird District—-State house, room 12, first floor. Fourth District—State house, room 41,, first floor. Tilth District—State house, room 91, third floor. Sixth 'District—State house, room 55, second floor. Se\pn>h District —State house, criminal court room. Fichth District—State house, room 15. first floor. .\'i> rh District-—State house-room 50, second floor. Tenth District—State house, room 120. third floor. Eleventh District—State house, ’oom 27 first floor. TwePth District-—State house, room 99, third floor. Thirteenth District—State house, room 112. third floor. At each of such meetings the following officers and members of committees will be selected, viz: One member df the Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization. One member on the Committee on Credentials. One member on the Committee on Resolutions. One Vice-President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. The Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization will meet in room 371, Denison hotel, immediately after the adjournament of District meetings. The Committee on Credentials will tneet in room 37 2, Denison hotel, immediately after the adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Resolutions will meet in room or Ordinary, Denison hotel, immediately after adjournment of District meetings. The Convention will meet on March 19. 1914, a’ 9 o’clock a. m., at Toirilsor Hall, to receive -eports of the committees, for the adoption of a i Intform and the nomination of candidates. '’•fposs- my hand and seal this olc'-p- » <i«y of January, 1014. BERNARD KORBLY, Chairman.

[?]ORATIC CALL

rtion of a Congressman tenth Congressional District rats o' the Tenth ConST' ftriet will meet in Delegation at the Jefferson Cle \ a °*O r °t Hammond, It 10 o’clock a. m., on tl March, 1914, for the P l electing a candidate for cr r the Tenth Congressional P < r he total number of delegates to said convention will consist \Of one hundred and twelve (112) apportioned among the different counties in said district as follows: Benton 9 Jasper , . , . . . . . . g Bake . .... . . 32 Newton . . fi* Porter • ~. . , . 9 Tippecanoe . .... ...... ... 29 Warren ...... 6 White 13 Total 112 By order of State Central Committee. C. J. MURPHY, District Chairman fW your correspondence stationery. ensrraved .and printed calling ca at • The Democrat office. We c'Try the largest stock of this class r iu Jasper county, Call in and see tor yourself.

SENATOR FALL’S LIST.

There should be no secrecy concerning the fate of Americans in .Mexico, but if we are to have statements on the subject they should be fully authenticated, should he muah more explicit than those of Senator Fall and should give to the public a clear idea of the responsibilities involved, of the difference between easels, of the bearing of governmental policies upon the facts.

Wilson became president March 4,1913. A very large percentage of the reported murders of and outrages upon Americans occurred before that date. Some of them occured nearly two years before. Evidently they cannot be connected in any way with a policy that was formally announced little more than six months ago.

hen ( we come to the nature of the crimes we are thrown at once into great confusion. Certain persons are said to have been killed by stray bullets. Certain others fell during the bombardment of the City of Mexico at the time of the overthrow of Madero in February, 1913. Others, apparently, were the victims of thugs—that is, they were killed as people are killed in Chicago every year in numbers exceeding the entire list of Mexican outrages upon Americans.

Senator Fall gives us no new revelation of our responsibilities, but leaves us where we were. What there is of immediate sensational interest in his recapitulation has been anticipated in the press dispatches on the Benton and Vergara cases.—-Chicago Record-Her-ald.

We Can Say Amen to This.

Indianapolis News: We observe with regret that the members of the house of representatives have again rallied manfully to the support of the free seed graft. When the agricultural appropriation bill was under discussion Representative Sumner, of Texas, urged an amendment to place the distribution of government seeds in the hands of the department of agriculture. This introduced a lively debate, followed by a vote which showed that ninety-six representatives favored the continuance of the seed graft, while thirty-six desired distribution to be controlled by the department of agriculture. Where the other members of the bouse stood ran only lie conjectured. They, at tiny rate, silently acqiesced' in the defense of the graft by abstaining f roin voting. A feature of the debate was the earnestness with which the members from the farming districts recommended that the distribution be taken out of petty politics. It was said a long, long time ago, that government seeds were mainly for the benefit of the agricultural communities. Here are all the great resources .of the government, it was argued: and there are the farmers and the vegetable and fruit growers. What could lie better for all concerned than that these seeds and bulbs should be distributed? And why not kill two birds with one stone? Why not let the home congressman sow the seeds of popularit.v 1)) Scattering the seeds of grains and flowers and vegetables at the expense of the government? ft has been very simple and of late years most, of the supporters of tine free seed graft have dropped all pretense and have defended the graft as graft and nothing more. The department of agriculture has for years been trying to reform the system of distributing seeds. It lias bad the assistance of congressmen from the rural districts— those who have the interests of the users of seeds really at heart. But year after year the small-minded members whio put polity favors above economy and service have clung to the old graft.

Thus the expense continues. A disagreeable feature is that the seeds, which are, as a rule, of good quality, do not go to the persons by whom they are most needed. They are sent out in great lots—-almost in carload lots, as Indianapolis has had occasion to note—and are th n redistributed to the faithful and <o those who “esteem ’• little favors from the “boys down in Washington. If the democratic house of* representatives uesires to make a name for itself, aside fhmi the ambitious legislation which the administration has planned, let it ao in for economy and efficiency—let if abolish the free seed and mileage graft and break up the log rolling end pork barrel activity.

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Washington Fears To Admit That Business Is Honest

By DARRIN P. KINGSLEY,

dent New York Life Insure ance Company

TIIEBE will be some liquidation in 1914. Not even the turn in business, which I believe we have reached, will be able to stop that. The outlook generally is IMPROVING EVERY MINUTE. If only the . federal administration comes to realize that business generally is honest, because it always has been honest and the men who control it are honest, the surprise now apparently felt by oflieial Washington as it gradually realizes the honesty of business would diminish and the approach of brighter days would be more certain. NOW, UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN OFFICIAL WASHINGTON ADMITS BUSINESS IS HONEST IT APPEARS TO FEAR THAT SUCH ADMISSION MAY COMPROMISE IT. THIS ATTITUDE IS ONE OF THE FACTORS OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE FORCES WHICH WILL CONTROL BUSINESS IN 1914. The currency hill is generally accepted as a step forward. Business, however, will for some time continue to womler how President Wilson did it. There is a RESIDUUM OF UNEASINESS over the curious political situation out of which this law was brought into being. The forces which have technically produced the law historically and actually do not believe in its doctrines. The forces nominally in opposition to the law believe both historically and actually in its doctrines and would have gone further. FOR THE GREATER PART OF 1914 I BELIEVE THAT TRADE OUTSIDE OF WALL STREET WILL PROBABLY BE QUIET. IF A SOLUTION OF THE SUITS AGAINST THE STEEL CORPORATION AND THE HARVESTER COMPANY SHOULD BE ANNOUNCED AND THAT SOLUTION CARRIED THE CONVICTION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT WASHINGTON. WHILE READY TO PROSECUTE CRIMINALS, IS IN SYMPATHY WITH BUSINESS, EVEN THOUGH BIG AND EFFICIENT, A GREAT MOVEMENT FORWARD AND UPWARD WOULD FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY. v

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End Law s Delays; Complex Procedure Often Defeats Justice

Main Issue Becomes SideTracked

By District Attorney CHARLES S. WHITMAN of New York City - i ~—■ '■ ■ '■■■ : ■. ——r IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS OF THE PRACTICE OF THE LAW TODAY ARE SUCH THAT THE MERITS OF THE CONTROVERSY ARE OFTEN SWALLOWED UP IN PROCEDURE; THE TECHNICALITIES AND OVERABUNDANCE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE FEATURES OF A LAWSUIT ARE SO GREAToTHAT THE MAIN ISSUE BECOMES SIDETRACKED, AND THEREBY JUSTICE IS OFTEN NOT ONLY DELAYED, BUT ABSOLUTELY DEFEATED. IN SHORT, THE ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH OF OUR LAW HAS GROWN TOP HEAVY. As to the remedies, the bar has come to regard it as settled that some branch of the main tribunal should be delegated to fitrip the controversy prior to its appearance before the trial court of everything but the real issue, and the only difference of opinion existing is as to the best method by which ihis result may be accomplished, but it is now generally conceded that masters ESPECIALLY COMPETENT TO DEAL WITH PROCEDURAL MATTERS should be appointed, so that only the matters really in issue will be presented to the trial tribunal, and all this should be speedily, inexpensively and effectively done as soon after the institution of the suit as is consistent 1 with the preservation of the rights and liberties of the suitors. A constitutional convention will be held in New York soon. There will be a great forum for the discussion of these matters, and there b\ furthering the selection. of delegates competent to consider these important matters and bv the prior formulation of a program embodying ideas ot relorm (he bar of tin- state may make its voice, heard in no fincertain way. confident that the great mass of the people will stand behind it in taking a stop that Will. be the means of handing down a new freedom—A FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANNY OF PROCEDURE, bondage to which you add I have grown accustomed, as it has IN NO SMALL DEGREE ENSLAVED LITIGANTS, lawyers and courts and judges as well. THE FOUNDATION STONES OF ALL SYSTEMS FOR THE DISPENSATION OF JUSTICE SHOULD BE SPEED, SURENESS AND SIMPLICITY, AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SIMPLICITY.

A Candidate

Who will Add Strength to the Ticket. *'*. W, I*auenstdn, of EvansviTM, Candidate for Treasurer of State, Receives Unanimous Endorsement of the First District. The Hendricks Club, of Evansville, presents the name of Frederick W. Lauenstein for the consideration of the Democracy of Indiana as a most formidable candidate for Treasurer of State. His ability to fulfill the duties of this office in a satisfactory' manner is unquestioned. Mr. Lauenstein received his eduea t ion in the Public Schools of Evans viHe, St. Louis University' and lnd» aha University. Immediately upon leaving school he became interested, with his father, in the Daily and Weekly Demokrat. Since the death of his father, in 1904, he has been its proprietor and editor. He is a director and stockholder in a number of high class financial enterprises of Evansville and his advice is sought at every opportunity'. Mr Lauenstein is serving hi 3 third term as Vice-President of the State Alliance of German Societies, an organization having close to 100,000 voters in the State of Indiana. For three and one-half .years he served as a member of the School Board of Evansville. The favorable comments of the leading citizens and newspapers (Republican as well as Democratic); at that time showed in what high esteem he was held. He was ttie first Treasurer of the School Board to pay interest into ti e School Fund. This was some time before the law compelling a Thnusurer to do so went into.effect. His life work hsv* neon characterized by an orderly, program, starting, without rn v van king ambition to accomplish something especially groat or illustrious, he has followed the lead his position gave him The simple weight of his ability and character ir. spi red ©confidence ino->thers others and carried him forward into the important positions he has held. He is a man of character, probity md high standing in his community. —Advertisement.

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Administrative Branch Is Top Heavy

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Abstracts. Rea! Estate Loans, over Fendigs Fair, aU COUrbi ° ffice RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE &. INSURANCE 5 Per Cent. Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

S. HERBERT MOORE PHYSICIAN <5. SURGEON., CallS rece >ve prompt attention, % day from my office over the Model Clothing Store. Telephone No. 251. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention given to diseases of n and low grades of fever. in Williams block, opposite Court House, formerly occupied bv Dr. Hartsell. ‘ Phone Office and Residence, No. 442. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. Office phone 2 rings on 177. House phhne 3 rings on 177. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

C. E. JOHNSON, M. D. SPECIALTY, SURGERY. 'Office Hours—9-11; 1-4; 7-8. Telephone 211. Office over Jessen’s Jewelry Store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER. , (Successor Frank Foltz) Practice in all Courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection Department, notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phone No. 16. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Graduate American School of Osteo pathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours—B-12 a. m.; 1-5 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. Office 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

H. L. BROWN DENTIST. Office over Uarsh & Hopkins’ drug store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

J. w. HORTON DENTIST. Office opposite court house square RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Millions to Loan! I | - $ We are prepared to take care of £ all the farm loan business in this & and adjoining counties at LOW- 5. EST RATES and BEST TERMS, g 'regardless of the “financial 5 stringency.” If you have a loan g coming due or desire a new loan 2 it will not be necessary to pay 3 the excessive rates demanded by d our competitors. g FIVE PER CENT. SMALL COMMMISSION—PROMPT SERVICE, ffl

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188 I Pitt AT REASONABLE RATES Your Property in City, Town, Village or Farm, Against Fire, Lightning or Wind: Your Livestock Against Death or Theft, and I YOUR AUTOMOBILE Against Fire From Any Cause, Theft or Collision. Written on the Cash, Single Note or Installment Plan. A‘ll Losses Paid Promptly. Call PHONE 208, or\ Write for a GOOD POLICY IN A GOOD COMPANY. RAY D. THOMPSON, RENSSELAER, INDIANA

D. J. Harris Geneal Auctioneer Motion, = Indiana Cry sales anywhere: phone me at my expense and arrange for dates. Satisfaction guaranteed, terms reasonable. Several years experience in the business and a good judge of values. Try a “want ad” In The Democrat

■fpjSEEEia Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Leuisviile and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. [Effective Nov. 2, 1913.] NORTH BOUND. y °- Des. Time. 36 Chicago-Ind. Ex., daily.. 4:44 a, m 4 Louisville Mail, daily.... 4:57a.m. 40 Milk Accom., daily 7:33 a.m. || , Mjtfl- daily. 10:11 a. in. 33 Ind pls-Chgo ex., daily... 3:29 p.m Louisville-Chgo. Ex., d’v 3:39 p.m. 30 Hoosier Limited, daily... 6:02p.m. 16 Mich C'y Accom., daily. 6:22 p.m. SOUTH BOUND y o. Des. Time. 31 Fast Mail, daily 4:29 a. m. 15 Mich. City Accom., daily 10:54 a. m. 37 ndianapolis Ex., daily.. 11:20 a.m. o Louisville Mail, daily... 11:47 a.m. 33 Hoosier Limited, daily.. 2:00 p.m. 59 Milk Accom., daily. 6:22 p.m. „§ Louisville Ex., daily 11:05 p. m. 3-> Chicago-In’pls Ex., daily. 12:13 a. m.

Train No. 31 makes direct connections at Monon for Lafayette. arriving at Lafayette at 6:15 a. m. No. 14, leaving Lafayette at 4:30, connects with No. 30, the Hoosier Limited, at Monon,arriving in Rensselaer at 6:02 p. m. > Trains No. 30 and 33, the Hoosier Llmlteds, run only between Indianapolis and Chicago, the C. 11. & D. service for Cincinnati having been discontinued. Train No. 35, known as the “Theater Train,” arriving at Rensselaer station at 1- ; 13 a. m., will stop to let off passengers fiom Chicago. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer station to take on passengers for Lowell, Hammond and Chicago. No. 6 stops at Shelby and Hammond only; Nos. 38. ;> and 37 make no stops between Hammond and Rensselaer; Nos 39, 15, 40, 16 stop' at Water Valley No. 15 and 16 is the new Michigan City-Chicago train and makes all stops between Michigan City and Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk ..Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal W. R. Shesler Civil Engineer,. . .W. F. Osborne Fire Chief . ..... J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden .... J. J. Montgomery Councilmen. 1s t Ward............... . Ray Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King At Large.; Rex Warner, F. Kresler JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge. .Charles, W. Hanley Prosecuting Att’y..Fred Longwell Terms of Court —Second Monday in , February, April, September and- November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Judson H. Perkins Sheriff .W. I. Hoover Audit0r"........... J. p. Hammond Treasurer A. A. Fell Recorder .George Scott Surveyor DeVere Yeoman Coroner W. J. Wright Co. Supt .Ernest Lamson County Assessor ..... .J. Q. Lewis Health Officer E. N. Loy COMMISSIONERS. Ist District...... W. IJ. Hershman 2nd District........D. S. Makeever 3rd District Chafes Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION. Trustees Township nt. Fplgar Barkley < harles May Carpenter •L W. Selmer Gillam George Parker ....Hanging Grove X'; HWortley Jordan John Shirer J ............ Kankakee Tunis Snip Keener H. W. Wood. Jr.. Marion George L. Parks Milroy p- L*tm\ Newton Isaac Kight Union Albert Keene Wheatfield Fred Karch Walker H. J. Kannel .Rensselaer James A. At ashburn.. .Remington Av O. Nelson Wheatfield E. Lamson. Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, • Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. { 4! The undersigned trustee of Jor- | < dan Township attends to official \ 41 business at his residence on the i 4 first and third Wednesdays of i i t each month. Persons having busi- \ i ness with me will pleace govern I } themselves accordingly. Postoffice 1 • < address—Rensselaer. Indiana R-4 \ |t W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee.' > I€ UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned Trustee of Un- j ton Township attends to official J business at his store in Fair J Oaks, Ind., on Fridays of each J week. Persons having business .! • with me .will please govern them- ! selves accordingly. Postoffice address—Fair Oaks, Ind. J ISAAC KIOIIT, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. \ The undersigned Trustee of New- 1 ton Township attends to official l business at bis residence on the \ Itrst and Third Thursdays of l each month. Persons having busi- \ ness with me will please govern i p ° B “> mce i E- P. LANE, Trustee. ) I (ill Ml. | 4* DBALKR in 'I p« iTitii j Hill I mum ind. || a PARKER’S c KAJR BALSAM A tom t preparation ot tm. :t. Helps to eradicate dandri.:i . For Restoring Color and Beauty toGray or Faded Hair. and SIOO at Druggists.