Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1915 — Page 2

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THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT f. S. BABCOCK, EDITOR Oil PUBUSBtR. 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 Aet of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY .................. 12%c 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, 2 sc. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has an open Account. CARDS OF THANKS—Not to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. ACCOUNTS—-All due and payable the first of the- -month following publiWant Ads. and -Cards of Thanks, which are cash with the order for same. NO advertisement accepted FOR FIRST PAGE. . The Democrat was established in April, .] 898, and has a large circulation in both Jasper and surrounding co u n ties., It is allhomepr in t, st an fiard width 13 eins; 6-column quarto, and is published twice-a-week, Wednesday's and Saturday's, reaching all parts of county on rural routes' 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 municipal water, light and power plant, flouring mill, three modern garages, three lumber yards, five coal yards, and practically all lines of other business are represented here. The county has over 200 'miles, of improved macadam roads, and a. network of stone roads extend out from Rensselaer in every direction. We are on the direct automobile route, between Chicago and Indianapolis, and many thousands of tourists pass through our city during the touring season. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1915

ELECTION FRAUD VERDICT.

At last the press maj' discuss judicially the remarkable Terre Haute election fraud cases. Without prejudice to men on trial it is possible to look at the verdict and the evidence and to draw lessons front’ the most sensational political trial ever held in Indiana. There has been no persecution of the defendants in this case. No partisan politics has had place in the proceedings at any stage. Donn M. Roberts and his followers were warned in advatace of the election that vigorous prosecutions would follow any attempts at election debauchery. The men who have just been declared to be guilty of conspiracy, went into their conspiracy with eyes wide open, counting the possible cost and defying decent people to bring them to book for their frauds.

The gang was utterly defiant, bold and brazen. It overreached itself at last.

Th© jury has judged the evidence and has accepted it. That evidence is the most amazing recital of outrages ever offered in any Indiana court. The evidence comes from all kinds of people. Fraud-workers, pleading guilty, laid bare the intermost operations of a startling conspiracy to steal public offices and to defraud the electorate of a county. Oh the other hand the most reputable citizens, men and women who did valiant duty at the polls election day, corroborated the story in detail. and amplified its hideous exposures. ,

it is related the mayor of Terre Haute, the sheriff of Vigo county, tlie city judge, a candidate for circuit judge, the prosecutor, the police < aief and his assistant, in short most oi the agencies of justice in the community, were involved in a bold Conspiracy, to steal an election.

Think of it! Think of the plight the people were in! Think of the apparent hopelessness of fighting against such a tremendous combina lion. Think what actually happened to many of the brave men who made the light in spite of odds!

Men who had been duly chosen to act as members of election boards were arrested in their homes at. night and were held in prison by the law's officers to prevent them from serving on the boards. Men who insisted on acting as election sheriffs were beaten and dragged from thei. places by thugs and gunmen, with the connivance of so-called officers of t lie law. Challengers were assaulted. A minister was arrested and taken from his place as a challenger at the polls.

It is asserted officers of the law, notably a county sheriff, actually paid out money for votes and for repeaters. One man testified he had voted twenty-one- times and got pay for -'only twenty” of Hie votes. The stories of repeaters were grotesquely, grimly humorous, but think of the tragedy* of an election! held under such auspices and conditions! Think of a republic on such a basis! Think of representative government and then study Terre Haute and the Roberts ’era. Think of honest votes thus overwhelmed and nullified by armed fraud!

A decent judge issued a restraining order to prevent certain outrageous wrongs from being done at the Terre Haute election. The county sheriff snapped his fingers at the order—he was so busy buying votes he could not serve the papers. Special deputies were sworn to serve the injunction writ. These special deputies, were assaulted by policemen and driven from their place of duty. And this happened in 1914, in Indiana.

A brave woman stood at one polling place and saw from 300 to 400 negroes voted, and that precinct at the time had but eighteen legal colored voters within its bounds. Think of it! Think of an election actually decided by such votes! Think of public officers of a city and county giving their time on public pay to the filling out of fraudulent registration cards for use in voting repeaters! Think of toughb

and outlaws turned out of jail by officers of the law to prey on the good citizenship of a city; to bully voters, to assault honest men at the polling places; to intimidate, harass and abuse decent, law-abiding folk in the exercise of their constitutional rights!

Get all this; in your mind, and infinitely more Evidence of a still more damning. character, and you begin to. realize something of the heinous criminality of the political machine which for years has dominated Terre Haute. Fiction has nothing to compare with the story told to the federal grand jury and to the federal jury which now brings its verdict of "guilty” agaiqst twenty-seven defendants.

One would be glad and happy to find in it all something to indicate the presence of a human, mitigating element in the conspiracy. It is exposed as a monstrous, brutal thing, sordid, mean, blasphemous, insolent, hideous. From end to end the cabal shows nothing but a ruthless, arrogant, greedy lust for power, and a reckless, determined, persistent pursuit of sordid purpose, 1 The conspiracy apparently became literally ah obsession. It appeared like nothing so much as the product of insanity, a political summer madness, folly running amuck. One lunacy led to another.

The thing apparently was built on the theory the conspirators controlled the agencies of public justice and so could not be reached. This theory apparently persisted stubbornly, The conspirators were exposed repeatedly in their persecutions of persons who were likely to furnish information against the plotters. Federal grand jury witnesses were haled before the conspiracy’s own inquisitors. Men who pleaded guilty and became governfent witnesses were jailed on trumped-up charges and were held by the conspirators at Terre Haute until habeas corpus writs forced open cell doors. Attempts were made to tamper with witnesses in the time of the great irial. Every hazard was tempted by men grown finally desperate and thoroughly afraid of justice. It is gratifying to all that the law’s agencies at last proved adequate' To handle the Terre Haute situation, it is a good thing for Indiana the, strong, firm hand of exact justice at last seized and laid the wriggling, squirming gangsters and stopped all their schemes of evasion, reprisal and deception.

Shorn of red tape and well rid of technicality and trickery, the trial of the Terre Haute conspirators has been based on sheer, clear duty to the public. Impersonal, nonpolitical, square, straightforward, open and above board, the trial has been, all the way, conducted as was fitting to tlie vital importance of the case.

/ Whatever the result of an appeal cm technical grounds, the wonderful lesson of the trial will remain to cleanse and purify future Indiana elections. For in the splendid work of fighting citizens of Terre Haute in forcing the truth to the surface, an example has been set to other communities. In the verdict against Roberts and his crowd a sober warning has been sounded to careless politic;}.! .hucksters everywhere. The warning ought to have a salutary effect. The people ought to be stimulated to activity in guarding their elections —serene in the knowledge justice is to be obtained if it is, sought in the proper, manly spirit. The verdict opens a new day in Indiana politics, for it means an awakening of citizens to duty and notification to arrogant petty bosses and machine politicians that their game is ‘‘played out” and that danger lies ahead for every violator of election laws.

It seems entirely clear the Terre Haute conspirators were guilty of a conspiracy to defraud the federal government. They plotted to debauch tin election in which a United States senator and a national representative were voted for. Under The criminal code of the United States the crime is specifically set out, with penalties attached.

It is difficult to see how convicted men can see any hope of the setting aside of the plain law by any higher court. In the name of fairness to the public, it is to be hoped no agency will intervene to block the progress of justice based on evidence. If these men have not been properly reached; if they are able by any' technical means to dodge justice; if it finally turns out there is no legal way to bring these Terre Haute conspirators to rightful-pun-ishment, then, indeed, it may be< said the people are in a pitiable plight.—lndianapolis Daily Times.

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He Did It.

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But he, with a chuckle, replied That “Maybe it couldn’t,’’ but he would be one Who wouldn’t say till he tried. So he buckled-right in, with a trace of grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That wouldn’t be done—and he did it. Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that, At least no one ever has done it.” But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew he’d ~. begun it. With the lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting of quiddit, He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done—and he did it. There are thousands to tell you it can not *be done; ■ . ■ .< There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, Then take off your coat and go to it; Just start to sing as you tackle the thing ' ‘I That “cannot be done”—and you’ll do it. . —Tit Bits.

City Council Will Hold Special Meeting Tomorrow Night.

At the regular meeting of the common council of the city of Rensselaer on Monday night, air members were present, but very little business was done. A petition was presented signed by J. C. Gwin and others, asking’ for the oiling of certain streets in the vicinity of the Gwin lumber yard. The council deefrred the matter until tomorrow night when they hope to get an expression from the people of the city generally regarding the oiling of other streets. From what The Democrat has been able to learn, most people favor the use of oil, and would like to have the work done under some such plan as that adopted last year in putting on tarvia. The tarvia was not satisfactory, and no one, so far as we have heard, favors the use of it again. It would seem that the work could be done much more economically by spreading on the oil with a tank wagon especially equipped for the purpose, such as was used by the contractor last year in putting on the tarvia. The street committee was authorized to purchase of John M. Knapp a horse at $175. The usual grist of claims were allowed.

It Wasn’t His Wife.

The application of a little logis and quick reasoning often saves some people from keen mental suffering and this is humorously demonstrated by the following: “I received a ’phone message the other day,” said Noyes E. Brewmore jn the Kansas City Star, ‘‘to the’ effect that a woman answ’ering ’description of my wife, with SSO in her pocketbook, had been found dead. My ..fellow workers commented severely because I continued calmly with my task, but I knew restively it was not my wife. In the first place, I knew my wife never had SSO; and in. the second place I knew if she ever got hold of anywhere near SSO she would never drop dead until she had got rid of it.”

Not Quite Explicit.

The rich old man had died, and all the relatives were on tenderhooks. Who would get his money? Would it be shared among them, or had the old man left it to charity? At last one particularly hard-up cousin could wait no longer. He to the office of the old man’s lawyer, and tackled him. ‘‘You made old Tompkins’ will?” he asked bluntly. "Yes.” “Then you probably know how much he left. WoiAd you mind telling me?” “Not at all,” said the lawyer courteously. ‘‘The late Mr. Tompkins left everything he had!”— Pearson’s Weekly.

What Did She Mean.

The two young ladies had gushed and “dearied” each other until the other passengers in the tram were heartily sick of it; especially as they never lost a chance of getting in a nasty cut at each other. Just before they parted, Angeline obliged Emmeline with a stamp for a “Oh, I must give you a penny for this!” exclaimed Emmie, as she prepared to leave the car. “Don't bother, dear,” coed Angie; “give it to me the next time I see -JfOU.’/ , ’ “But you mayn’t see me for a long time,” protested Emmie. “Oh, well, the loss wouldn’t be great!” cooed Angie, more sweetly than ever.—Pearson’s Weekly.

Sound Counsel.

The successful man of business was giving his son sound advice. “My boy/’ said he, “whatever you do don’t brag.” i “No, father,” said the young man dutifully. At least, not until after you have done it.” "And then?" j “Then,” said the father slowly, “if you were clever enpugh to do it really well you will be clever enough to know that it’s not worth bragging about.”—Pearson’s Weekly.

The Highlander's Resource.

The order had. been given to the soldiers at the-front that they must not harm any animal unless it attacked them. One day a Cameron Highlander saw a sheep near him and he bayoneted it. Unfortunately, just then an officer appeared. The soldier without hestitatio’n stabbed the sheep again; crying, “Ye divil, ye’d bite me’,'would ye!” The officer passed on and the sheep soon after became a dinner. —Boston Transcript.

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FOR SALE —— - - For Sale—Southeast Missouri lands where they get two crops from the same land in the same year. Corn from 40 to 90 bushels. Wheat from 18 ti 45 bushels, followed by a crof) of cow peas which makes from $25 to $35. Alfalfa makes from 4 to 6 cuttings and pays from SSO to SBS per acre. Cow peas are-sowed in cornfield last cultivation and will produce as much hag fiesh as an acre of corn. Go there and see if we have told the truth; if we have not we will pay your round-trip railroad fare, which is $7.96 one way from Rensselaer. Unimproved lands can be bought from $25 to S4O; partly improved from S4O to SSO; improved from SSO up, according to location and improvements. Terms: Onethird down, balance on time at 6 per cent. Charleston is the county seat of Mississippi county, Mossouri, and is situated in the heart of the finest farming country in the world. Charleston has three railroad connections and ten trains daily. Mississippi .county comprises 265,000 acres of fine black alluvial soil which grows in abundance corn, wheat, alfalfa, clover hay and in fact all kinds of farm products. It is a city of beautiful homes, churches (all denominations) and is not surpassed by any city of like size in the state for general neatness and an attractive appearance. It has a population of 4,500; has great thrift and enterprise. Three newspapers, three banks, large flouring mills and wooden ware enterprises. The farm products marketed in Charleston reach very large proportions and the general merchantile business would be a credit to any city twice its size. The population is growing steadily and substantially. Most of the inhabitants own their own homes. They have excellent schools. There are no saloons. They nave the finest water. A healthful climate the whole year round. Mississippi county corn exports, 1,500,000 bushels. Mississippi county wheat exports, 1,100,000 bush—JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff of Jasper county, L. B. 4 75., Rensselaer, Ind.

used, only ?5 for quick sale.—Enquire at Democrat office, phone 315. a>o^ or —2ffioo white oak posts, sß.oo' per hundred.—RANDOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, R-R-3, phone Mt. Ayr, 54-C. t s For Sale—Good big 3-year-old draft mare, one of the good kind, will sell for cash or on time,—W. M. MARKIN, parr, Ind., R-l. bor Sale—lto San and Early Brown Soy Beans and Hungarian seed.-—J. M. YEOMAN, phone 915For Sale or Trade— Studebaker Four roadster; will sell or trade for cattle. Is in A-l condition.—E. P LANE, phone 537. For Sale— 2 lots, good house, barn, wood and coal house, chicken house and park, good well and cistern, all kinds of fruit, cheap for qui ok sale,—Enquire at HEMPHILL BROS. S BLACKSMITH SHOP. h y° r Sale-—lmported French cornet, silver satin finish, in fine condition. Will be .sold for almost half its original cost a few months ago.Call at Democrat office apd see instrument. ts tor Sale— 3 60 acres good corn and gram land, 20 acres timber, rest in cultivation and pasture; 7-room S’ barns , cribs and other outbuildings; good drilled well; orwest and 5 miles TefTt, % mile of new stone road, R F. D„ T mile from school, ™ miles from two churches. Reainnrrr, Ol ’ Keli 'ng, too old to farm longer Free of incumbrance. Terms « a t mv Purchaser.— CHRISTOPHER salrin, Tefft, Ind > „ B . 1 Box 58 m.—z

iBARGAINS I J IN SECOND-HAND [ ; Autos; ♦ 2 Ford Touring Cars, * ♦ 2 Buick 5-passenger, 2- * ♦ cylinder cars, 1 Regal 5- ’ ♦ passenger, all in good T running order. Will trade 7 T for live stock or sell on * time with approved se- i ; curity. «. RENSSELAER GARAGE : t J. w. MARLATT, Prop. ■ Subscribe for The Democrat.

for Sale—Clover and timothy seed, stovewood, cordwood, oak lumber and bridge pIank.—JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l, phone 37-K Mt. Ayr. a -19 Fox Sale Cheap—Owing to my husband’s long , continued sickness we wish to sell our residence property on Forest street, lot 71%xl80; 7-room house, electric lights, cellar, cistern, splendid drilled well, barn, 2 hen houses and parks, all in good condition; fruit and strawberries.- ' See MRS. J. W. KING, or J. C. Passons, phone 132. for Sale—lo 7 acre farm in Otsego county, N. Y.; 8 acres maple, beach and hemlock timber, including sugar grove, balance in good state of cultivation; good living springs in pasture lots, good well of water at house, land is gently rolling but not hilly and is easy to work. House recently remodeled, and practically good as new; 2 large barns in fair condition,\ and other outbuildings; farm well fenced, wire fencing; on R. F. D., and telephone. New evaporator and sap buckets goes with farm, all for $2,100. Reason for selling, poor health and too old to farm.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y. FOR RENT for Rent- —Good 8-room house, with 4 lots, in east part of town. A. S, LaRUE, phone 111. WANTED Wanted—Girl for general housework.——Phone 409 or address Lock Box 693, Rensselaer, Ind. Wanted—Experienced girl for general housework. No laundry.— MRS. H. R. KURRIE, phone 286. Wanted— To borrow $4,000 on good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent interest, semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office. ■ MISCELLANEOUS Estray Taken Up—Came to my I place in Newton tp., about Feb. 1 I a yearling calf. Owner may have • same by paying charges and proving I ownership.—CAS COX, Rensselaer j R-3, phone 21-D Mt. Ayr. Storage Room—Storage room for 3 household goods, etc., on third floor ’ of The Democrat building. Prices I reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK.

Painting Wanted— l am again pre"- ’ pared to do painting either by jot) or day, and in town or country Have my own means of conveyance. , - C. M. BLUE, Box 304, Rensselaer - a-6 Auto Livery— “Frenchy” Deschand, P£?P- A new car just purchased. Will drive any where at any time Phone 319. FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance— Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of I M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans— l can procure you a I nve-year loan on your farm at a low I rate of interest. See me before plac- I ing your loan. Office, west side pub- s he square.—P. R. BLUE. " | Farm Loans—Money to loan on I « a i l n n nAA rol)^ rty In any Bumi t 0 I $10,000.—-E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—l am making farm 1 loans at the lowest rates of intereat. ® len year loans without commission > and without delay.— JOHN A. DUN- f I Cpi I UDI IllU without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W- H. PARKINBOF