Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1916 — Page 2

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STATE CONVENTION CALL.

To the Democrats of Indiana, and All Those Who .Desire to ( '<»- operate With Them. By virtue of the Primary Election Law enacted by the Sixty-ninth General Assembly of the state of Indiana and approved by the Governor March 8, 1915 ( Acts I»15. page 359, Chapter 105 f, and in pursuance of the ‘'Rules fqr the Government and Regulation of the Democratic Party in Indiana." adopted l>y the Democratic State Committee of Indiana on July 22, 1915, the Democratic Party 01 the State of Indiana, and all who desire to cooperate with them, are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall, in the City of Indianapolis, Indialfa, on Wednesday, April 26, 1916, for the purpose of adopting a platform, selecting Presidential Electors, Contingent Electors, Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the Democratic National Convention, and of nominating candidates for United. States Senator and Governor, if no nomination is made at the Primary Election to be held on March 7,191 G, and for nominating the following state officers, to-wit: Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Reporter Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instruction. ~ "—— - ~ Chief Bureau of Statistics. One Judge of the Supreme Court for Second District. One Judge of the Supreme Court for Third District. One Judge of the Appellate Court for the First District. The Convention will be composed of 1,263 delegates, apportioned among the several counties of the state; from this, the Tenth District, are as follows: Benton .. . 7 Jasper. 6 Bake . . .. to Newton ... .. ... .. ....... , n Porter 7 Tippecanoe ’ . .21 Warren . . ..... . . ... .... .. * 4 White ... .- .......... .. ’ . .10 The delegates from the respective counties composing the several Congressional Districts will meet Tuesday, April 25, 1916, at seven o’elockp. m., at the following places: First District—State House, Room 83, second floor. \ Second District—State Hodse, Room 11, first floor. Third District—State House, Room 12, first floor M Fourth District—State House, Room 41, first floor..

Fifth District—State House, Room 91 . third floor. Sixth District-—State House, Room r> 5, second floor. Seventh District—Court House. j Criminal Court room. . j Eighth District —State House, Room 15, first floor. Ninth District —State House, Room I second floor. j Tenth District St,Do House, ! Room ; 126; third: floor. j - FleVentli : Dist ri'-i • j-'tet I lot; : Room 2 7. first floor. i Twelfth District- - Flat" House.j Room 99, third floor. j Thirteenth District —State House,] Room 112, third floor. j At each of such meetings the fol . 'lowing officers' and members of com-! mittees will lie selected, viz: One member of the Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization. One member of the Committee on Credentials. One member of the Committee on Resolutions. One Vice-President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary - of the Convention. One Presidential Elector and one Contingent Elector. Two delegates to the National Convention. Two alternate delegates to the National Convention. The Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization will meet at Room 371, Denison Hotel, immediately after the adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Credentials will meet in Room 372, Denison Hotel, immediately after the adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Resolutions will meet in Room of Ordinary, Denison Hotel, immediately after adjournment of District meetings. The Convention will meet on April 25, P.Ut; at 9 o'clock a. m., at Tomlinson I lull, to receive reports of the committees, for the adoption of a platform, the selection of delegates-at-large and alternate-at-large to the National Convention, the selection of Presidential Electors and Contingent Electors, and the nomination of candidates. Witness mv hand and seal this l Hh day of January, 1916. BERNARD KORBLY, Chairman. Attest: A, C. SALLEE. Secretary. .' '

THE RESIDENT'S SPEECHES.

We think there can be no doubt that tlie speeches that the President lias thus far delivered have greatlv influenced the thought of the people. Many who were doubtful as to the need for more adequate defense, and even some of those who felt that there was no need, must have been greatly impressed. For the President has appealed solely to reason, and thus has given the people credit for intelligence—which is more than can be said of some otherb who have spoken and written on the subject. Mr. Wilson has proceeded on the theory that the business was the people's own, and that they would manage it wisely if only they understood the situation. And so lie to make them understand it. There has been no appeal to tear—much less to passion—nor have the perils been in the slightest degree exaggerated. The speeches have been as moderate as the policyin support of which they were delivered.

Nor is there the slightest trace of jingoism in anything that has been said. Mr. Wilson has spoken as a iban of peace, and also as one who has and rightly—gone to extreme length’s to keep this country out of war. When such a man urgently

advises that we make ready for possible war bis words naturally have great weight. It to to be remembered further that Mr. Wilson has the very great advantage of knowing v. hat he is talking about. This point was made by Mr. Mann in a speech in the house of representatives last week. When, therefore, Mr. Wilson tells us that we have been for months walking amid great dangers, that he has found it most diflieult to keep the peace, that he can not tell us what our foreign relations will be tomorrow, and that we are living in the midst of conditions that we can not control —When such Warnings come from such a man as Woodrow Wilson, who is accustomed to measure his words—we can not but feel that the situation is indeed grave. And when he plainly- says that the time may come when it will not longer be possible to maintain peace and also guard the nation’s honor, there can be no mistaking his meaning/

The President's arguments also derive strength from the fact that he is not seeking to force any pet program on the country. All that he asks is that in some way we provide for a reserve of a half million men trained in the rudiments of war. Thus far he has said comparatively little about the navy—that will come later. - Mr. Wilson has not made the mistake or belittling our present defenses, as have some others. On the contrary, he has shown that we are far from defenseless. Our navy Js not, as some sensational magazine writers have said, mere junk. It is not as large as it ought to be, and is lacking in ships of the newer type, but it is an efficient navy. And so of our coats defenses —-these, too, are good, but there are not enough of them. Tb*re is in these speeches no note of panic, passion, jingois.n, militarism or ha*e. What we have is a sober and re--irained dismission of a great na[tidnal problem- an appeal to a free, I ir.t* liig.-nt and enlightened people jib a mat er involving their dearest j interests. In nothing that has been paid is there the slightest departure J from American traditions and principles. On tie contrary, the people are asked to provide for the defense j<; those traditions and principles. - { Indianapolis News.

ONE QUESTION FOR EVERY AMERICAN TO ANSWER.

Hammond Times: In the subjoined sentences from President Wilson's latest addresses in support of hi:- 1 military policy we believe the hopes and ambitions of all reasonable Americans are exactly set forth and the Question every man must seriously ask himself is clearly propounded: "There are two things which practically everybody who comes to the executive office in Washington telle ine. They tell me that the people are counting upon me to keep u s out of this war. "And in the next breath they tell me: The people are equally counting upon you to maintain the honor of the United States. 'Have you reflected that a time might come when i could not do both, and have you made yourselves ready to stand behind your government for the maintenance of the honor of your country as well as for the maintenance of the peace of the country?" The heavy- burden that is laid on ike government all men must recognize. The dangers that are encountered each day force themselves on public attention. The obligation of the President to preserve peace so long as peace may be preserved without loss of honor does not obs. ure the possibilities inherent in the international situation. Could any more pertinent and searching question be framed for the consideration of every American than that -wiSjeh Mr. Wilson posed for his auditors on the edge of the middle west? asks the New York Sun.

OUR RIGHT TO SELL MUNITIONS.

The following from the Youth’s Companion is of interest to people of America who are disposed to criticise our government for not stepping in and prohibiting the shipment of war munitions to the fighting nations of Europe: Munitions of war are a recognized article of international commerce. Every manufacturing nation sells them to other nations, and no nation has ever thought of forbidding their sale except to rebels who are trying to overthrow a friendly government. A nation that is debarred by the sea power of its enemy from buying arms might with equal reason protest against our selling cotton, or wheat, or shoes, or oil, or meat; and that, as we can all see, would be absurd. Legally, therefore, tnere is no excuse for an embargo on ammunition. Such an embargo would not be truly impartial, for in laying it we should be changing the conduct of this neutral nation because the fortunes of war had placed one of the

„ $ belligerents at a disadvantage in our markets. We should be denying to the belligerent who had fairly won the advantage the right to use it. That would nqt be strict neutrality. But, the argument then runs, It is not a legal, but a moral question; we ought not to traffic in instruments of death. “We,” the nation, are not doing so; individual business men are. Shall the government forbid them to carry on a business that the world recognizes as legitimate? If it does so, is it not equally bound to prevent them from selling motor trucks that will carry ammunition to the front, and gasolene to run them—or shoes and shirts to clothe the soldiers, or foodstuffs to keep them alive, or cotton that may be used to make explosives? Moreover, if we refuse to sell ammunition to others, we cannot expect to buy it when our own turn comes. If we should succeed in establishing any such principle of international law, every, nation would have To increase its means of manufacturing guns and ammunition until it was equal to turning out at any moment all the material it might ever neetf. The temporary diversion of English and French and American ironworks to the purpose of war would become permanent. Whether that would ibe a movement in the direction of peace, let any intelligent man say. Every American would welcome an understanding between the nations that would make war impossible and destroy the business of mu-nitflons-making forever. Meanwhile, an embargo on the exportation of arms would not really look either toward peace or toward justice; it would neither serve our best interests as a nation nor properly discharge our responsibilities as a neutral power. »

SAYS INDIANA'S ROAD TAX IS STAGGERING BURDEN.

Luke Ruffey Talks to Realty Men at Lafayette, Denouncing Present System. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. I.—Luke Duffey, a "good roads” candidate for the state legislature, addressed a meeting of the Indiana Real Estate association in Lafayette yesterday. The meeting was one of a series which the association is holding in each congressional district. ‘ The people of Indiana are demanding that the antiquated scum of wastefulness and coin percolation in our road system, which came with cur statehood, must disappear in the current of a modern, businesslike road department for our state,” I)!v_f'ey said in his address. "Progressive road legislation whereby results may be obtained commensurate with the time, money and labor expended is only opposed by the special interest fellows, who fight it in a spirit most humorously akin to the dog’s defense of the table under which he lies. “You many look the United States over and you will never find a state with a career of waste and inaptitude so checkered as that of our own Indiana. As a people we are filling our earning capacity too full of road obligations. It has become a matter of common knowledge that our road bonds have floated out on our chattel markets as a great dreadnought to realty ownership, and designed to pester and burden our township freeholders for a score of years after the benefits are gone.

“In this age of dollars and cents we find that a single road debt rides our Hoosier commercial pride in the staggering sum of sls per capita, or $3 an acre, which amounts rests against our land area solely as a preferred claim for traveling privileges. We are sufficiently rich to pay as we go, if a state unit could he created to direct the outlay of our annual payment of $18,000,000 for roads. I do not favor a topheavy commission, but in leaving many of the privileges with the people as now. I believe in the supplying of a fountain head for the gleaning and disseminating information to each county in the slate, no one of which could afford to employ the engineering skill needed. "The great volume of our roatl transactions is beginning to assume the appearance of a business proposition. The tax-tired people are paying $4,000,000 a year in interest nd retiring funds on road bonds. The remaining $14,000,000 vanishes as through a sieve, without any traceable direction. ’’

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Chas B Wells et ux to Nicholas A Schmitter, Feb. 1, e y 2 so, 2 6-3 Or 6, SO acres, Barkley, $9,600. John 2ehr et al to George H Ferguson et ux, Jan. 31, w y 2 se, 32-28-6, e % sw, 32-28-6, 160 acres, Jordan, $20,800. Minerva J Swisher to Frank W Johnson, Sept. 25, 1915, pt out lot 29, Wheatfield, S4OO. Grace L. Clark et baron to Rose Lenora Sage, Dec. 29, 1915, ut out lot oi, Rensselaer, pt ne nw, 30-29-6, $3,700. Rudolph B Miller et ux to Henry C ReKoek, Jan. 31, sw ne, 10-31-7, 4 0 acres, Keener, $1,400. Allen's Foot-Ease for the Troops. Many war zone hospitals have ordered Allen’s Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to shake into your shoes, for use among the troops, because it gives rest and comfort to tired, aching, swollen feet and makes walking easy. At druggists everywhere, 25c.—Advt.

O. L. Calkins Leo Worland Funeral Directors Calkins & Worland Phone 25 and 307 Office in Nowel’s Block. Ground Floor. Washington Street Opposite t^ostoffice RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA ‘

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, Abstracts, Real Estate Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA

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

GEORGE A. WILLIAMS LAWYER Special attention given to preparation of wills, settlement of estates, making and examination of abstracts of title, and farm loans. Office over First National Bank. RENSSELAER, INDIANA DR. I. M. WASHBURN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 10 to 12 A. M. “ “ 2 to 6 P. M. “ “ 7 to 8 P. M. Attending Clinics Chicago Tuesdays—--5 A. M. to 2 P. M. 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 stroe. Phones: Office No. 442; Res. No. 442-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-3. RENSSELAER, INDIANA

JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltz) Practice in all Courts; Estates settled. Farm Loans. i 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 JOE JEFFRIES Chiropractor Graduate Palmer School of Chiropractic. Chiropractic Fountain Head, Davenport, lowa. Tuesdays and Fridays at Remington, Ind. Forsythe Bldg. Phono 576 Rensselaer, Ind. H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA J. W. HORTON DENTIST Office opposite court house square. RENSSELAER. INDIANA

11118 1 Putt 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. .1 Call Phone 208, or Write for a GOOD POLICY IN A GOOD COMPANY. RAY D. THOMPSON RENSSELAER, INDIANA

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CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS * LOUISVILLS RV RENSSELAER TIME TABUS In Effect April 10, 1915. NORTHBOUND | No. 36 Cincinnati to E°. .4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. £*°- 32 Indianap's to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Cincinnati to Chicago 2:51 p.m. N°. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 0:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:38 ami. No. 5 Chicago to Louisville 10:55 a.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m. No. 37 Chicago to Cincinnati 11:17 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:50 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:30 p.m.

I'* OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Gierk. Charles Morlan Treasurer. ..Charles M. Sands Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal. Vern Robinson Civil Engineer W. F. Osborne Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden J. J. Montgomery ) | Councilmen U Ist Ward...... Ray Wood 1, ,2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward.... .Frank King Ip At Large.. Rtx Warner, F. Kresler )) JUDICIAL j* Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley • Prosecuting Attorney; .Reuben Hess 2 Terms of Court—Second Monday J in February, April, September 2 and November, Four week J terms. Z COUNTY OFFICERS d. Clerk— J udson H. Perkins Z Sheriff b. D. McCollv Z Audit0r......... :..J. p. Hammond & Treasurer.......... ......a. A. Fell i Recorder George Scott « Surveyor M. B. Price • Coroner.... Dr. C. E. Johnson m County Assessor....G. L. Thornton • Health Officer F. H. Hemphill !l COMMISSIONERS 2 Ist District.... H. W. Marble .1 2nd District D. S. Makeever C 3rd District Charles Welch J Commissioners’ Court meets the I! First Monday of each month. 1 1 COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION \ I Trustees Township J I Grant Davisson Barkley j! Burdett Porter Carpenter J I James Stevens Gillam .1 Warren E Poole.. .Hanging Grove ij John K01h0ff.............J0rdan R. E. Davis Kankakee 1 1 Clifford Fairchild Keener \ | Harvey Wood, Jr Marion George Foulks ..Milroy \ | John Rush Newton Ip George Hammerton ...Union i I Joseph Salrin Walker H Albert S. Keene Wheatfleid t E. Lamson, Co. SupL..Rensselaer j I Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

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