Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — Page 2

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IBE JASPER GOUNIY DEMOCRAT F. S. BABCOCK. EDITOR lIP PUBLISfIER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postofflce at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8-pages. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY . .;..; .IS’ic inch DISPLAY [special position] ..15c inch READERS [per line first insertion]. 5c READERS [per line add. insertions] 3c WANT ADS—One cent per word each /insertion; minimum, 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser ,has an open account. CARDS OF Til ANNS—Not to exceed ten-lines, 50c. Cush with order. ACCOUNTS—AII due and payable the first of the month following- publication, except Want Ads. :■ nd Cards of Thanks, which are cash with the order for same. NO AD V ERTISEM ENT A CCIIPTEI) FOR FIRST PAGE. The Democrat was established in April, 1898, and has a large circulation i n bo th ,J asper and suitor ndtng counties. It is all home print, standard width 13 ems; 6-column quarto, and is published twice-a-week, Wednesday’s and Saturdayls, reaching all part's of county an ratal route's on day of publication. A network of rural mail routes covers practically every section of Jasper county, which is the second largest county in Indiana in area, and is a splendid stock and agricultural county. RENSSELAER, its county seat, is located 73 miles southeast of Chicago, on the Monon, and 14 passenger trains arrive and depart from this station each day. Rensselaer has a population of 2,500; its principal business streets are lighted with boulevard lights, and we have more miles of paved and macadam streets and cement sidewalks than any city of like size in the state. •It has four large brick school buildings, five : churches, two newspapers, a fine municin.. 1 watek, light m; 1 power plant, flouring mill, three modern garages, three lumber, yards, five, coat yards, and' practically all lines or other business are represented here. The county has over 200 ; miles ot' improved xiiacadam roads, and a network of stone roads extend, but from Rensselaer in every direction. We are on the direct automobile route bet ween Chicago and Indianapolis and many thousands of tourists pass through our city during the touring season. ■ SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1915

THE PENSION LIST.

"In the fifty years since the civil war ended the American people have paid to its survivors or their dependents $4,500,000,000,” asserts a writer in the World’s Work. This sum is beyond ordinary comprehension, but that it is large .enough to represent a fairly adequate return for the service performed is certainly within the grasp of ordinary comprehension. The . pensioning of wounded and disabled soldiers began immediately after the war. In 1866 the government was paying s abput $15,000,000. annually to survivors. By 1880 this had groWn to $56,000,000, and in 1889 to The sums were paid out under the pension law, which provided only for invalids, that is, men wounded or otherwise physically disabled during the war. With each increase of

the pension fund it was predicted that the country had - taken on a financial burden which could not be increased and borne, but in the light of later happenings these predictions sound absurd.

In 1872 it was estimated by Pension Commissioner Baker that all veterans entitled to a pension had made application, and that the pension roll had attained its maximum length. Subsequent developments, however, showed that only about a third of the legitimate pensiofiers had taken advantage of the government's generosity. .Many had not applied for the season that they iookedupon a pension as a kind of charity; others maintained that it was pay for patriotism, which was not a pturchasable quality ;'and many more .who were in comfortable cirurtstances had never felt the need of the money, and hence had never tied to get what was coining t-o them. But then began an era when i-mtsion doctors and pension lawyers worked up a flourishing trade as pension getters. They advertised extensively and scoured the whole uuntry for eligible applicants. Many veterans reached an age when injttries which had once been thought slight became acute handicaps, ana ■ ’•ey joined the throng of appli-

/’H.’. A: .cclations of veterans also interested themselves in securing ilie passage of more liberal pension laws, and almost before the country knew how far the matter had been allowed lo go it was carrying a pension burden which twenty years before it had declared no nation could carry without inviting bankruptcy. In 18 79 a law was passed which provided that veterans who qualified as invalided pensioners before January 1, 1881, would receive full pensions from the time of their injuries. Under this law a veteran mounded in 1 865, and placdd on the pension list in 1880, received as first payment back pension for the preceding fifteen years. There was a rush to take advantage of this, ■ •;ir h increased the pension apitro-i-iiation from $33,000,000 in 18 79 ■?o 5>55,090,000 in 1880, and it has been estimated that this act has cos't the government to date $200,000,000. Another law which greatly increased pension expenditures was that which provided that a widow should receive a pension from the day her husband died. Both.of these acts encouraged fraud, and was frequently practiced. Widows concealed facts about later marriages which they had contracted, and veterans long since dead were impersonated by unscrupulous persons in the employ of agents, it is a matter of record in the pension office that one man received a pension for having a “normal heart,” and another for having a “sallow complexion,” both acquired in the service of their country. ... Beginning in 1890 the government introduced a new principle into its pension .legislation. Until that time pensions were granted <lhly- to those veterans or their dependents who wdre actually suffering on account of injuries sustained during the war. But in 1890 it was decided that inasmuch as the veterans were beginning to show traces of age, they needed further help. They became invalids of nature’s

maklng, and a new pension law was passed providing pensions for all veterans, regardless of whether thfey were disabled in service. Pensions of from six j; to twelve dollars a month were all veterans who could not work. In three years ..this ran the pension expenditures from $86,000,000 up to $157,000,000, and increased the pension list fi/om 489,000 to 566,000. Now the advocates of a straight pension of a $1 a day to all veterans are multiplying and it is not unlikely shat before many years the -government will be supporShg all veterans of the war.

WORTHY OF STUDY.

V.Tlen, as in the Terre Haute election § cases, one is told by witnesses under oath, many of them, that a mayor took active part in debauching registration and election; that a candidate for judge was connected with the rotten business; that a sheriff actively assisted in paying out corruption money; that a prosecutor and deputy, the police force, the controller and many other public officers did their several parts in carrying forward the infamous job, one is moved to ponder seriously what interests and what influences have been at work to bring official life to the present Terre Haute and Vigo county level.

Nor does one seek far in order to locate the seat of the disease. In a, reckless and ruthless alliance of evil the liquor interests, the gamblers, the . illicit dives and corrupt busiinterests of other sorts, regardless of pretended party affiliations, have combined to debase a city ana exploit a community. The lines and interwoven relations of the formidable machine run crookedly and deviously in many directions. To throw out the combination bodily might mean to grub for the roots of the political upas tree in many yards heretofore not involved in the scandal.

Just now a small army of the “lower-downs”, is being hauled over the coals by an outraged public. In the meantime what is to be done about the “men higher up,” the big profit-takers in the deal? In the meantime what is being done to rescue Terre Haute and Vigo county and other Indiana cities from the wreckage and ruins, wrought by the sinister interests which debauch politics?—-In'diana Daily Times.

LEAGUE DEPLORES MACHINE CONTROL

V, ilsbii-ilryan Organization Calls on Deinoratcs to Overthrow the Bosses. The following statement was issued Friday, by the Wilson-Bryan Lcagqe of Indiana, of which Richard B. Kirby is president and Bernard E. O'Connor, secretary and executive officer; “To the Democrats of Indiana: “The Wilson-Bryan League, believing in the morals of government as represented by President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan, has taken a deep interest in party affairs for the purpose of keeping the ideas of Wilson and Bryan before the democrats of Indiana, their main purpose being to hold those elected to represent them, to the pledges of the party and to keep faith with those who intrusted them with the affairs of government. “The Wilson-Bryan League does not assume to monopolize all of the credit for the legislation enacted in compliance with party pledges. It did, however, use its efforts in bringing to , the attention of the legislature the sentiment of the people back home. “The surprising thing is that a legislature, presumed to be under the, control of the Indiana bossocracy, threw the machine in the scrap heap and passed a primary law with teeth in it; passed a "primary law in keeping With the pledges of the party, and one that is satisfactory to the democracy of the state of Indiana; passed the primary law in spite of the opposition of Crawford Fairbanks, Thomas Taggart, Governor Ralston, Auditor of State Dale Crittenberger, Secretary of State Homer L. Cook, chairman of state board of accounts, Gilbert H. Hendren; former Auditor of State William H. O’Brien, Mayor Joseph E. Bell and his administration, Bernard Kerby, state chairman, and that portion of the state committee controlled by Mr. Taggart. “This group of men is now in charge of the’fetate government and is seeking to perpetuate its control. Mr. O’Brien, who recently retired from the office of state auditor, after a four years’ term, is now being urged as a candidate for governor. We are convinced that this is a part of a plan arranged at least four years ago, and that the state appointments during the present administration have been and are being made to promote this plan rather than to obtain efficient service. . “Others of the group will be candidates for re-election, and they

feared the effect of a primary law, which would make the control of nominations by them more difficult. For these reasons they did not consent to the enactment of a truly state-Wde primary law, but compelled tho friends of this legislation to accept a law which does not directly apply to any state office, and does not even allow a preferential vote for candidates for any of the offices now held by them and to which they desire a re-election. “The passage of the primary act has saved the party from disgrace and defeat in the coming election. This legislation was brought about by the free thinking and clean minded democrats of the state of Indiana. The democracy of Indiana owes nothing to the political machine that has so long been a disgrace and a byword in every decent community.

“The Wilson-Bryan League wishes to call to the attention of the democratsOf Indiana, the splendid work done by John R, Jones, representative from Marshall county, who framed and introduced substantially all of the provisions of our present primary law. “Mr, Jones has worked in and out of season to bring about the reform in this direction. He never at any time permitted any part of the machine or even the governor to make him swerve in the slightest degree from his purpose. He was honest and steadfast throughout the fight; a manly man with an honest purpose. This fight for honest elections made Mr. Jones the real leader of the house. .

“In his fight for a primary law, Mr. Jones was ably and earnestly assisted and supported by a number of earnest progressive democrats in the house and by a few progressive democratic senators in the senate. “The Wilson-Bryan League is sorry to say that when it looks into the senate, the picture is, different. The young man upon whom it depended so much failed, in the hour of need—Fred Van Nuys, senate leader, fell under the baneful influence of the machine and fought against carrying out the expressed pledges of the democratic party, and in his efforts to defeat the primary bill, used his position as senate leader to speak most disrespectfully of the great commoner whom the democrats of Indiana have welcomed in every campaign, since 1896.

“Jf the democracy of Indiana desires Mr. Bryan in time of need, it should at all. times welcome his advice. Tn nearly every campaign since 1896, Mr. Bryan has spoken in Mr. Van Nuys’s home town, and we have no doubt Mr. Van Nuys was always glad to be seen in Mr. Bryan’s company. We are confident that the rank and file of the democracy of Madison county is not in accord with Mr. Van Nuys’s abuse of the great commoner on the floor of. tho senate.

“The Wilson-Bryan League understands that the motives Of Mr. Van Nuys in opposing primary legislation were selfish and small and that' his efforts- were designed to benefit himself and certain personal and political friends. That out of these motives grew the fact that the primary was limited to an expression of preferences upon Hye candidate for governor only on the state ticket. It is understood that Mr. Van Nuys is a candidate for lieu-tenant-governor of Indiana and that the personal and political friends whom he sought to serve are candidates for nomination or renomination, to state offices.

‘Heretofore the democratic party has been organized from the top down, behind, closed doors in the Dennison Hotel. The new primary law has placed in the hands of the people the instrument with which they can reverse the old order and organize the party from th'e bottom up. This is the greatest ' step ever taken by any party "in Indiana since the enactment of the Australian ballot law for cleaner and better polities. 1 his law will forever prevent the re-enactment of the crimes committed in Terre Haute, Evansville and Indianapolis. This law will do much to overcome the shock and disgrace of the trials now going on in the federal court and will prevent the forcing of undersirables upon our state or county tickets. It will also prevent the importation of crooks, sluggers and repeaters from the city of Terre Haute into Marion county primaries.

“The Wilson-Bryan League deplores the efforts of the boiler plate factory located in the Denison Hotel to exculpate the governor and those who. stood against progressive legislation. It must be said, however, in ■benefit of the young man in charge, tiiat if he had written his honest convictions his story would not have been the same. “This primary law will ‘help all parties to accomplish the! same ends, and it certainly will enable the democratic party to get from under the control of those who has bossed the party and who at no time have ever had the capacity to understand what Mr. Wilson and Mr, Bryan stand

for. The Wilson-Bryan League desires to express its gratitude and appreciation for the splendid help which it received through that portion of the Indiana press that stands for clean politics and favors the keeping of party pledges. “The Wilson-Bryan League has made its fight, ably assisted by those who are in sympathy with its purposes, and now makes its appeal to the militant democrats of Indiana, who understand the purposes of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan; who understand the principles of - the great democratic party; who have clean minds and honest hearts, to make use Of this great instrument—the primary election law, and elect men who are in full accord and sympathy with our national administration as committeemen in the several precincts of Indiana. “The Wilson-Bryan League will, from time to time, during the coming year, have more statements to make concerning the attitude of persons upon important public questions, so that the democrats of Indiana may be informed of the truth and may act

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SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE 5 Per Cent. Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of women and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig’s drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Resl , No. 442-B RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. 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 Osteopathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours —8-12 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 Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. HORTON DENTIST Office opposite court house square. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. “"PARKER’S "" HAIR BALSAM A preparation of merit. ddsSgST Helps to eradicate mtn * ?or Restoring Color and 5? Reauty to Gray or Faded Hair. ~3~J 50c. and 81.00 al; Druppists.

Plfl P (ink? - -biu uu no tart The Democrat keeps on hand a number of legal blank forms, such as are endorsed by prominent attorneys of Rensselaer, Including the following: Contracts for Sale of Real Estate. Warranty and Quit Claim Deeds. Cash and Grain Rent Farm Leases. City Property Leases. Notices (cardboard) for posting for Road Supervisor Elections. Chattel Mortgages. Rlease of Mortgage. Assignment of mortgage. Real Estate Mortgages, long or Short form. Special price on quantities of 100 or more made up of different blanks. Price mailed postpaid to any address (cash with order) for any of the above, two for sc, or 25c per dozen (except long form Mortgages and Grain Rent Farm Leases, which are 50c per doz. or 5c each.)

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS & LOUISVILLE RY RENSSELAER TIME TABLE InEffdct January 3, 1915. , NORTH BOUND No. 4 Louisville to Chicago..;. 5:01a.m. N°. 36 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 4:23 a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago.... 7:30a.m. No. 32 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 10:46 a,m. No. 38 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 3:15 p.m. n°- 6 Louisville to Chicago.... 3:44p.m. No. 30 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 7:06 p.m. J ?OUTH BOUND No. 5 Chicago to Louisville... AT:OS a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Ind. and Cin. 11:20 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Ind. and Cin.. 2:01 p.m No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette.... 6:12p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Ind. and Cin.. 7:41 p.m .. 3 Chicago to Louisville... .11:10 p.m. No. 3a Chicago to Ind. and Cin. .12:15 a.m

| OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS S Mayor. Charles G. Spitler w Cierk Charles Morlan 4 Treasurer.. Charles M. Sand# I® Attorney Moses Leopold Mar5ha1......,..W. R. Shesler Civil Engineer..... W. F. Osborne Fire Chief.J, J. Montgomery Fire Warden... .J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward. ........ .Ray Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Kresler b JUDICIAL J Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley J Prosecuting Attorney. .Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday 2 in February, April, September J and November. Four week J terms. a b COUNTY OFFICERS 1 Clerk.... Judson H. Perkins 2 Sheriff B. D. McColly 2 Auditor....J. P. Hammond 2 treasurer A. A. Feh 2 Recorder George Scott 2 SurveyorM. B. Price 2 Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson 2 County Assessor....G. L. Thornton X Health OfficerF. H. Hemphill X COMMISSIONERS Z i st s. 5? str i ct - H. W. Marble Z 2nd DistrictD. S. Makeever b District...;....Charles Welch I Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davissonßarkley Burdette Porter.,Carpenter J • W. Stevens Gillam Warren K OO X e Hanging Grove John Kolhoff. .Jordan £ ) i £!? ar 5 i J?-, Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Z Jr w - Wood, JrMarion to Milroy X i oh ?r Hush..... Newton X HammertonUnion 2 Albert KeenWheatfield 2 Joseph Salnn. ,^r a i^ er u § eO TA; Williams... .Rensselaer U tA», L ’ ?,^ ck ’’” Remington b i ohn T 81 5&5..... Wheatfield ™ Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer X Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, ' i ■ Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARD. < > ~ JORDAN TOWNSHIP ♦ The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official <> business at his residence on the arst and third Wednesdays of each ° month. Persons having business „, with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice ad- ,, dress—Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee. ♦—♦ —♦ —♦ —♦ —♦ —*—»- ♦ ♦ —«—* iHUBiiPWS b AT REASONABLE RATES i, Your Property In City, Town or Farm, Against Fire, b Lightning or Wind; Your Llveb stock Against Death or Theft, 4 and YOUR AUTOMOBILE, ip Against Fire From Any Cause, Theft or Collision. Written on the Cash, Single b Note or Installment Plan. All Losses Paid Promptly. Call Phone 208, or Write for b a GOOD POLICY IN A GOOD COMPANY. 1 1 RAY D. THOMPSON b RENSSELAER, INDIANA

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