Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — Page 2

1 ! ' j ~ : ‘ " ~ —~ 1 KflC AYcgeFaWc Rrparalionfor.Vs 1.505« SimilaiiiigilicFootfamJßcguta DfigK ling (Ite Stomachs aiulßowclsol iTClii.i]JM in..,. v Promotes Digcstion,Cheerful- ] tc3> ness and Rest.Containsneither j Opium.Morphinc nor Mineral ] Not Narcotic. | | gjj Beetle of Old DckudL’HItHSER c ft/! Pttmffui Stid“ •& , 1 jUxSauia 1 1 | rffeb JtxMkSdts- f FccO- jiitiseSetd * l" ■ ;j kCcO /fapftminf- > Utiuotonakhda* ( t Him Srtd- 1 fpg«<A I 0 Aperfeel Remedy for Consfipfr ’ vgjtt* fi lion, Sour Stoiukh.Dlarrtm !i-Q < Worms Convulsions. Feverish ness amlLoss or Sleep. :oo‘ M TlacSiniik Signaiure of ' ■ ‘ v*C< * Tile Centaur Compass; gocc l .!*-*■ i ■' ill wuSr Exact Copy o> Wrapper.

THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. S. BABCOCK. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephone# Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June S. 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, .181'.9. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY .............. . .1214 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, 25 c. 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—AII due and payable the first of the month following' publication, except Want Ads. and Cards of Thanks, which are cash with the order for same. , NO ADVERTISEMENT ACCEPTED FOR FIRST PAGE. SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1915

WHAT A REPUBLICAN PAPER THINKS OF IT.

The indictment of . Tom Taggart and a host of Democrats, Republicans and Progressives in Marion county for alleged election fraud? and irregularities will not excite any particular astonishment in Indiana. Indicting them and proving them guilty are horses of two entirely difl'orent colors. This paper finds it difficult to work up any hysterics over the indictment of Taggart and believes that he is no worse than, numerous other political bosses who lead the dear people into the barnyard where the trough nestles and then permit just who they want to feed at the trough. If Taggart is guilty or if any of the indicted crew are punished on the charges brought against them we shall say "Amen.” We have always stood for the purity of the ballot and no paper printed in Indiana can point to its files and show a more consistent fight against corruption at the polls than The •Times. Tito -memorable Cary campaigns of years ago when election practices were carried to such a degree of scandal that they reached depths hitherto unknown will never be forgotten in this office where the fight against the shameful methods was carried on single-handed. The recent Terre Haute stench is fresh in the public nostrils. If the Indianapolis scandal is of the same calibre we can only pray that it be fully exposed and the political cancer cut out. It will be interesting to note now the attitude of the holier-than-thou Indianapolis and down-state papers who were wofit to hold their noses between the thumb and first finger an,d “phew” distressingly whenever the cities of Gary, East Chicago and Hammond elections were mentioned. Everyone up here when our own cities were experiencing growing pains, when election riots and sensations succeeded each other, knew that conditions were just as bad in Indianapolis and elsewhere. .

iCASTORIA For Infants and Childre^i. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always / . Bears tlio Signature / V. V* (\ Jr ln fir Use U» For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA TWC CINTAUN COMPANY, NCW VOAA CITY.

Now before these afflicted spots ever open their heads at Lake county again let them do a job of housecleaning themselves.—Lake County Times, .

THE FIGHTING NATIONS.

By Walt Mason,

‘•Another nation takes up arms,” and trades its peace for war’s alarms, and all of war’s atrocity; why do all countries wish to scrap and thus incarnadine the map? They have of a paucity. The latest comer to the fray is welcomed with a “Hip, hooray! Come on! The more the merrier! The foe has blood that should be spilled, and hosts of men who should be killed, so dig in like a terrier!” The farmer leaves his fields of grain, his useful labors, safe and sane, the smith becomes a warrior, front every trade and helpful art, 'or crimson fields the men depart—alas, the more the sorrier. What ails the nations of the earth, that they forsake all things oi worth, and think they will be happier, when wading to the knees in gore, and piling dead on every shore, each mo ment growing scrappier? Is madness epidemic now, that every king will trade his plow for something he can slaughter with, that where the harvests used to grow, red Death is stalking to and fro, pale Famine, his dread daughter, with? If I were king i would Sit tight; I'd surely be "too proud to tight,” though called an also ran again; if I had rude, rambunctious foes, l think I'd let them pull my nose, before I’d start shenanigan.

TAGGART AND 127 OTHERS INDICTED.

Wholesale Arrests at Indianapolis on Election Fraud ('barges. Indianapolis, June 22.—Not half oi the 128 jnen indicted by the .Marion county grand jury here today on charges of conspiracy to commit felonies such as are defined by the election laws of the state and the laws against bribery and blackmail bad surrendered to Sheriff George V. Coffin and given bond tonight. Thomas Taggart, Democratic national—committeeman for I Indiana, - Joseph E. Bell, mayor of Indianapolis; Samuel V. Perrott, chief of police, and Robert M. Metzger, Republican member of the board of public safety, however, were among those to acknowledge service in the case and give surety. The bonds of those who surrendered today ranged from $2,500 to SIO,OOO. It was estimated that if all the 128 were to give bond, the total will be run to more than $300,000. No date for the arraignment has been announced and Judge James A. Collins of the criminal court said late today that none would be ser until next week. Mr. Taggart and Mayor Bell tonight proclaimed their innocence and asserted they had committed no crimes for which they should be indicted. “I have not been able to find out what I have been indicted for,” said Mr. Taggart. “I have not seen the indictment and when our attorneys asked for copies they were told the

indictment was not ready to spread upon tße record. UntTt TAtnOw with what I am charged, obviously there is little for me to say.” Mr. Taggart added that he would remain in Indianapolis until bonds were provided for all those who were indicted. / • “I shall remain here until the boys are taken care of,” he said. . Mayor Bell declared that he was ready for trial now. “1 have violated no law,” said the. mayor, “and the story in the newspapers today was the first intimation that I had of the indictment. After our attorneys have had an opportunity to examine the indictment 1 may have something to say/' All the men—Democrats, Republicans and Progressives—are named in a single indictment, which contains forty-eight counts and covers 175 typewritten pages. The main -charge U conspiracy to commit felonies by corrupting the election, by violation of the primary law, the registration laws, by bribery and blackmail. Included among those indicted are said to be a number of primary, registration and election officials. Conviction of the charge of conspiring to commit a felony or felonies carries with it-a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $5,0 00 and imprisonment of not less than two years or more than fourteen years. At the time of the Terre Haute indictments there was talk of an investigation of election conspiracies extending to Indianapolis, Evansville and other Indiana cities. The Indiana statute under which the indictments were returned differs from the federal provisions, which permitted the trial of all the Terre Haute defendants at one time. Attorneys for Mayor Beil said tonight that the 128 indicted men have the right to demand separate trials.

Items From the State Fire Marshall's Office.

The motive lurking ever in the crime-creased mind of the fire bug is as varied as the hues of the chameleon. A comparatively new plot has been, unraveled as a result of the fire that destroyed the drug store of W. A. Dodge, on the west outskirts of. Indianapolis. The State Fire Marshal found on the morning following the fire, unburned empty boxes that had contained the entire stock of narcotics of the store. The hoxes had been cast aside in the rear after being emptied of their contents, apparently bv the dope fiend incendiaries. The crime is one of several perpetrated by users of drugs made desperate because of the recent prohibitive federal legislation. Incidental to the fire Mr. Dodge, who lived in rooms over his store, Was carried out by firemen when his escape was cut off by the flames. I nder a new fire marshal act passed recently the state of Tennessee is to have a fire commissioner's department modeled after the Indiana fire marshal’s department.', Charles W. Schuyler, appointed state commissioner under the new law, was in Indianapolis this week and spent a day in study of the Indiana department. Commissioner Schuyler stated that he regarded the Indiana law as being the most modern and probably the most effective in the country, lie expected to install similiar operating methods In Tennessee.

It was an expensive sky rocket that was a part of the Labor Day celebration in Bloomington, in 1906. That city must pay approximately $9,000 to Miss Josephine Moore., according to a decision of the supreme court because of injuries inflicted by a sky rocket on the night of the celebration. Miss Moore, who was then sixteen years of age, was disfigured ,for life by the acfcident. The county court refused her damages. The case was appealed and the supreme court has held the city responsible, after nine years-of lit-iga-tion, and rendered judgment for SS,OOO plus interest and costs. The following table compiled by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows by years the steady progress of the safe and sane idea in the celebration of Independence Day: ear Dead Injured Total 1903 . . 466 3,983 4,449 1904 ...183 3,986 4,169 1 905 182 4,994 5,176 1 906 158 5,398 5,466 1907 164 4,249 4,413 1908 163 5,460 5,623 1909 .215 5,092 5,3071910 .131 2,792 JD)23' 1911 57 trS-tfiy 1/603 1 912 ..41 947 988 1913 32 3,131 1,163 1914 .......... 40 1,466 . 1,506 Total 12 years 1,832 40,954 42,786 The Democrat keeps in stock blank statements for the Ideal Account Files, and there Is no need In your sending out of town for them.

EFFICIENT AND WISE EXECUTIVE

Governor Ralston’s Record One of Achievement. GAVE STATE USEFUL LAWS Man of Broad Sympathy and Democratic Manner, Learned In Law, Has Exerted His Influence to Beneficial and Constructive Legislation. As one sits in the large reception room of the Governor's office at Indianapolis and sees the heterogenous crowd waiting “to ajje the Governor” lie appreciates anew, or possibly for the first time in his life, the democracy of our form of government. One knows that he is there to get an interview from the Governor, for whatever he has to say is of interest to the • public, but what can all the others want with him? Here is an old woman with a shawl of ancient pattern about her shoulders. She asks if she can see Governor Ralston, for her son is in prison and is needed at home. She is told by the secretary —and they all, rich or poor, look alike to Secretary Johnson—that the Governor is now engaged, but that she can see him presently. Here are a half dozen working men who believe they have not been given a square deal by their employer and they want to present their, case to the Governor, for they know he is eminently a fair man and that if ho believes they have been wronged, will do what he can for them. The important little fellow over by the window is a local politician and he wants to “see the Governor” about a job—and the man next to him is a member of the legislature and has a pet bill he wants the Governor to advocate —and tne next one to him is the representative of a big corporation who thinks liis company is suffering from restrictive legislation; and so they come from all walks of life and on all sorts of missions. And the Governor will see them all and listen attentively to what they have to say.

It may be well said here that the Governor was particularly fortunate in securing for his secretary a man ot mature judgment. Mr. Johnson has had years of experience as a newspaper man and is held In the highest esteem by all his fellow scribes. At the time he was called to the secretaryship, he was engaged in business and has an intimate knowledge of the business affairs of the state. He is always alert the interests of the administration with which he is so closely associated. At last you are told by Secretary Johnson that it is your turn to "see the Governor,” and as you receive his cordial greeting you wonder “What manner of man is this,” tnat men ana women of all classes look to him for counsel? Tall and broad and sincere, he stands squarely upon both feet, courageous, and ever alert to any situation, and impresses you that he Is every inch a Governor. Shortly after his inauguration as Governor, one of his little friends was told that Mr. Ralston Is Governor now that he had just been made Governor and she quickly responded, No, he wasn’t, he was born a Governor.” And so he impresses one that he is by nature a Governor of men—a man who “can talk with crowds and keep his virtue, or walk with kings nor lose the common touch.” And it Is because of this broad sympathy and democratic manner of his that folk from all stations or life feel free to confer with him. There is no frigid formality to be gone through in order to gain an audience with him, and the ease with which he receives callers is often commented upon. Governor Ralston’s strength of bodyand mind and his ever readiness for instant action have given him a wonderful mastery over the details. W his office and made him a most excellent Judge of state and economic problems. In his inaugural address, January 18, 1913, he said: “Unless the law Is enforced, constitutional guarantees become but the dreams of our fathers and the most sacred rights of citizenship have nothing secure upon which to rest. Before the law the rich and the poor, the capitalist and the laborer must stand upon an equality. As Governor, I shall have no favorites in the execution of the law, and let it now he understood that I shall hold that the mind which devises a scheme that is in violation of law 13 guiltier than the dependent hands that execute the offense in obedience to orders.” Next year Indiana will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of her admission into the Union, and she is proud that she has called Samuel M. Ralston for her Centennial Governor. No other Governor of Indiana during her one hundred years of state-

(Continued on page six)

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS A LOUISVILLK At RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect April 10, 1915. NORTHBOUND No. 36 4:48 a. m. No. 4 .. .. .. . , .... .. . 5:01 a. m. No. 40 7:30 a. m. No. 32 .10:36 a. m. No. 38 . .- 3::12p. m. No. 6 3:31 p. m. No. 30 6:45 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 1:38 a.m. No. 5 10:55 a. m. No. 3 11:10 p.m. No. 37 11:20 a.m. No. 33 1:67 p.m. No. 39 5:50 p. m. No. 31 . . 7:31 p. m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Charles XL Spitler. C1erk..;........... . Charles Marian Treasurer Charles M. Sands Attorney. Moses Leopold Marshal W. R. Shesler Civil Engineer W. F. Osborne Fire Chief......J. J. Montgomerj Fire Warden...,J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Ward ...Ray Wood -nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd. Ward Frank King At Large.. Rex Warner, F. Kresler JUDICIAL Circuit Judge, .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney. .Reuben Hess T erms of Court—second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. s COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Judson H. Perkins Sheriff.... B. D. McColly Auditor ...J. P. Hammond Treasurer...., A. A. Feb Rec0rder..... : ......... George Scott Surveyor.. M, B. Price Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson County Assessor... .G. L. Thornton Health Officer F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS Ist District H. W. Marble 2nd District.. D. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson Barkley Burdette P0rter......... Carpenter J._ W. Stevens Gillam Warren Poole Hanging Grove John K01h0ff............... .Jordan Richard E. Davis Kankakee Clifford Fairchi1d.......... .Keener H. W. Wood, Jr. Marion Gebrge Foulks... .....Mllroy John Ru5h................ .Newton G. H. Hammerton Union Albert Keen. .... .Wheatfleld Joseph 5a1rin...............Wa1ker George A. Williams... .Rensselaer F, L. Peck Remington John 8igg5.............Wheatf1e1d E. Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARD. ♦ i JORDAN TOWNSHIP 4 | The undersigned trustee of Jor- f dan Township attends to official * 4 business at his residence on the 7 first and third Wednesdays of each 4 ♦ month. Persons having business T with me will please govern them- f ? selves accordingly. Postoffice ad- I I dress—Rensselaer, Indiana. f JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee, j

IISUIIB 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 YOUR AUTOMOBILE Against Fire From Any Cause, Theft or Collision. Written on the Cash, Single Note or Installment Plan. All Losses Paid Promptly. Call Phone 208, or Write for a GOOD POLICY IN A GOOD COMPANY. RAY D. THOMPSON RENSSELAER, INDIANA

111 11 DBALER IN UK i Hi i Until. ItISStLIEI 111. -

Glassea Fitted By DR. a. g. catt OPTOMETRIST. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Office Over Long's Drag Store. Phone No. SIS.

Kills Pesky Bed Bugs P. D. Q. A 2Sc. box of P. D. Q. makes a full quart of the strongest bug kiiier or. earth. The new chemical, P. D. Q. Pesky Devil’s Quietus puts the everlasting to bed-bugs, roaches, acts and fleas. Pesky bed-hugs can’t exist vvhere P. D. Q. i- used, as itleaves a coating on their eggs and prevents hatching.* A box of P. B. Q. goes farther than a barrel of old-fashion bag kiiier. P. D. Q. will not rot or stain clothing, kills fleas on dogs Sold by Druggists, or mailed upon receipt of . >c. by the O. C. Company, Terre Haute, Ind. Sold by B. F. Fendlg and other leading druggists. Hhair R balsam A toilet preparation ot merit. Helps to eradicate di. ruff. For Restoring Color and Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair. Druxrgrists.

MAGELLAN d’HONDZOCHT. Sound PURE BRED Stallion No. 3153. . (Lays of Indiana 1913, Chapter 28) The pedigree of the Stallion Hegelian d’Hondzoeht, No. 5636 American, Vol XVII, P. 543 Foreign. Owned by North Union Belgian Horse Co., postoffice, Rensselaer, Ind., R. F. D. 2., county Jasper, described as follows: Color and marks: Bay, star in forehead. Breed, Belgian. Foaled in the year April 7, 1908, has been examined in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board and it Is hereby certified that the said stallion is of PURE BREEDING and is registered in the American Association of Importers and Breeders of Belgian Draft Horses Stud Book. The above stallion has been examined by Johan Hansson, Rensselaer, Ind., a duly qualified licensed veterinarian, and is certified by affidavit to be free from the transmissible unsoundnesses specified as such in the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. CHARLES W. HICKMAN, President. C. M. McCONNELL, Vice-President. D. O. THOMPSON, Secretary. Dated at Lafayette, Ind., this 31st day of March, 1914. Renewed February 23, 1915. Void after January 1, 1916. Faria I roporting Not exact likeness Company, of Indianapolis, Ind. He has good bone and action and will weigh 1900 pounds. Magellan is owned by the North Union Belgian Horse Co., and will make the season of 1915 at the farm of Paul Schultz, 2 miles east and 2% miles north of Parr, 4 miles east and y 2 mile south of Fair Oaks. ly 2 miles west and 1% miles north of Aix, 4 miles south.“of Virgie on main gravel road, at sls to insure colt to stand and suck. Parting with mare or moving from county, fee becomes due and payable at once. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any »occur. PAUL SCHULTZ, Keeper. Phone 953-M. Rensselaer, R-2.

JACK HIGH ROLLER Sound PURE BRED Jack. Xo. 1059. (Laws of Indiana, 1913, Chapter 28) The pedigree of Jack High Roller Xo. 2336, owned by L. L. Colton, Pleasant Ridge, Ind., described as follows: Color and marks: Black with mealy points; Breed: Jack, foaled in the year April 7, 1906, has been examined in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board, and it is hereby certified that the said Jack is of Pure Breeding and is registered in the Standard Jack and Jennet Register of America Stud Book. The above named Jack has been examined by Dr. G. M. Funkhouser, Lafayette, Ind., a duly qualified licensed veterinarian, and is certified by affidavit to be free from the transmissible unsoundnesses specified as such in the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. CHARLES W. HICKMAN, President c. M. McCOXNELL, Vice-President. D. O. THOMPSON, Secretary. Dated at Lafayette, Indiana, this 9th day of March, 1914. Renewed Jan. 18, 1915. Void after Jan. 1, 1916. Jack High Roller will make the season of 1915 at my farm, % mile west of Pleasant Ridge, at sls to insure colt to stand and suck. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible shouL. any occur. LON COLTON, Owner.

boxilliaxt Sound PURE BRED Stallion. No. 1554. (Laws of Indiana, 1913, Chapter 28) The pedigree of the stallion Bonilliant No. 27158, owend by .Lon Colton, Rensselaer, Ind., described as follows: Color and marks: Red roan. Breed: French draft, foaled in the year June 20, 1907, has been examined in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Board, and it is hereby certified that the said stallion is of Pure Breeding and is registered in the National Register of French Draft Horses Stud Book. The above naiped stallion has been examined bv Dr. George G. Doctor, Wolcott, Indiana, a duly qualified licensed veterinarian, and is certified by affidavit to be free from the transmissible unsoundnesses specified as such in the Indiana Stallion Enrollment Law. * CHARLES W. HICKMAN, President c. M. MCCONNELL, Vice-President: D. O. THOMPSON, Secretary. Bonilliant will make the season of 1915 at my residence % mile west of Plqasant Ridge. Terms—sl2.so to insure colt to stand and suck. Care will be taken to prevent accidents but will not be responsible should any occur LON COLTON, Owner.