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INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER

By Willis S. Thompson.

Indianapolis, August 28; —United States Senator Thomas Taggart vrites to Chairman Bernard Korbly of the Democratic state central committee, that he expects to be in Indiana soon after the first of September when congress adjourns. s He declares that he will rest two or three days and then get ‘‘into the mix.” He says if necessary he will camp by the roadside every! night in order, if possible, that he may cover the entire state. He will travel by automobile. He will not • indulge in any long speeches, but 1 will aim to see as many people as possible in the brief time allowed him for making his campaign. There is a great demand made on the speakers bureau to have Senator Taggart present at all meetings, no matter who the other speakers may be. He is just as anxious to meet and see the people as they are anxious to see and hear him, since hie speeches in the senate have been some of the best, so far as good business sense is concerned, that have ever been made in that body. The people of Indiana are anxious to meet and know personally the man who has had the courage to assail systems of extravagance, which have existed for many years. "Democratic politicians apparently are coAducting a very energetic gumshoe campaign to spread the impression that prosperity is due to the present administration,” says the Indianapolis Star in an editorial ‘Spatting the people next.” Bless your heart the Democrats are proclaiming this good news from the housetopr. ""uy gumshoes? The Republicans have covered the gum-

shoe market. But when the Star says “prosperity is not due to the! Democrats” it is getting entirely off the reservation. It is completely out of harmony with the party. Candidate Hughes says “there is no prosperity.” We simply live in aj fool’s paradise and think we are prosperous. The Democrats have' made it impossible for people to' make a living.’’ Right in the face ' of this the Star assures us that we j are prosperous. It is like the can-! didate, in first telling us the Demo- ! crats “did not bring prosperity” and 1 then failing to give us any idea | what did bring it. Probably the • candidate brought it by some of his decisions as a supreme court justice? Who knows? —o —o— Candidate Goodrich seems very, much annoyed about the state oil and gasoline inspection law, and what he calls its extravagant man- ■ agement by the Democrats. The fees were fixed by the Republicans , when they passed the law. These 1 fees are the same today. The law ■ i.» a revenue producer for the state ' the revenues produced to the state and the protection to the people in watching the standard of oil and gasoline being sold, depends upon* the efficiency with which the in- \ specters do their work. Increased revenues indicate increased efficiency in enforcing all the provisions of the law. It makes no difference to the people whether the fees'are all paid to a few men or to many men, since he total amount is the same. But there should be enough men to | make the work thorough. Under! the Republicans, with a true follower of Goodrich and Watson and Hemenway and Kealing, the revenues turned into the state treasury were $35,386.90. The Democrats in 1915 turned into the state i treasury $91,712.65. Under the j Democrats the people received $56,325.75 more than under the Republicans in a single year. Are the | taxpayers peeved because of this increase? The Indianapolis Star also declares that while child labor legis- : lation is an excellent thing, the Democrats are not to be credited with its enactment. Certainly not. The Star is more definite in this editorial than in most of the really funny things it says for it tells thai the “Republicans talked about child labor when that party controlled the congress and white house,” or words to that effect. Therefore, the Republicans deserve credit for child, labor legislation passed by the Democratic congress the other day, and that men who were in the congress “are to be congratulated that the good law is finally passed.” —-o —o—■ The American Locomotive company reports net profits In 1916 of $10,769,000 as compared with a deficit of $1,500,000 in 1915, says the Indianapolis News in an editorial. Candidate Hughes, Jim Hemenway, Leslie Shaw and Joe Kealing please copy for use in their calamity feampaign literature. o O Candidate Goodrich and Jim Wat- i son and Jim Hemenway and Joe | V.

Kealing and Harry New and Tobe Hert, and all 'the rest of the managers and bosses of the Republican machine in Indiana, profess to be -horrified at the terrible extravagance of paying sixty-two cents a day for the housing, attendance, medical care, clothing, food, medicine, and all other things necessary to the proper care of each inmate of the Central Hospital for the insane. If any of their personal friends, or members of their own families, were housed at this State institution, would they consider 62 cents a day too much to spend for all th£se attentions? Do they really mean to tell other persons who have friends or relatives among these unfortunate patients, that the Republicans propose to cut this to less? Do they believe the people of the great state of Indiana will have any sympathy with this talk? Will the Republican machinists who are hungry for office dare advocate repeal of any of the Democratic laws tljat have been enacted for the proper care of the educational, benevolent and correctional institutions? Like Candidate Hughes they scold and offer nothing constructive.

The Republicans made the staib debt. The Democrats paid the state debt. The Democrats used the state sinking fund tax to pay debts. The Republicans used the state sinking fund tax to pay the boys and perpetuate a political machine. The Democratic legislature will repeal the sinking fund tax levy in January, 1917, because there is no longer any debt to be paid. For the first time in 84 years the state of Indiana is out of debt because Democrats paid. —o —o — Candidate Hughes told one of his audiences “out West” that “I am here because I have a vision of what America needs.’ To which the New York World says, “If Mr. Hughes says he has a vision we are bound to believe him; but what i? it?” And the New York Herald, which is trying to support Hughes, says “Mr. Hughes should stop finding fault with Mr. Wilson and enunciate some constructive policies of his own.” Why thus cruelly pursue the gentleman who says he is “one hundred percent a candidate,” by propounding questions that embarass? Probably he has no policies of his own. Besides he has left many important questions unanswered. Again his “vision” may be like his polices, something too intimate and too sacred to be discussed in public. —o —O — The annual outing of the Indiana Democratic Editors’ association, occupying three days at Michigan City, under the chaperonage of State Senator Faulkner, Mayor Krueger and Warden Fogarty of the state prison, was not the largest attended on record but there was enough real good entertainment for a host of ten thousand. Candidates who could not attend sent regrets and acceptable excuses, and Dale J. Crittenberger, George A. Bittler, Phil Zoercher and Fred Van Nuys did the honors of speechmaking, in answer to much hospitality extended by the good people of Michigan City. —o —o — If William Holton Dye, the man from whom dangles the can tied by the Indiana Progressives is going to make good on his public promise to remove Charles Warren Fairbanks from the Republican ticket, he should do it before Charlie finds out he has been nominated. Jim Hemenway and Joe Kealing are getting up a surprise party on Charlie for August 31st and are threatening to tell him about it. John A. M. Adair, Democratic candidate for governor, is speaking one or more times each day and he is being greeted everywhere by audiences both large and enthusiastic. Sent from a strong Republican district to the congress for ten successive years, with majorities as high as 10,000 where they were originally 12,00 0 or more Republican, his present campaign for governor is bringing the same sort of response as his appearance in years past in the Eighth district. —o—o— Senator, Taggart, wUo is making an enviable record at Washington, says he would like to see the civil service law amended to require the occasional examination of occupants of soft snaps protected by the present laws. He says he doubts if onethird of the persons who have held easy jobs for years in the government service could answer the fool questions put to applicants for places under the civil service and that they ought to be made to take their chances with the outsider trying to break in. You are right, Senator. Give everybody a chance and make each one stand on his or her own merits. End the soft snaps. —Marion . Leader Tribune. Subscribe for The Democrat.

THE FLY.

By Walt Mason.

One little fly, so busy, will jnake a strong man dizzy, and drive him to despair; ’twill spoil a day delightful, and fill with language frightful the palpitating air. I murmur, after dinner, “A nap would be a winner; so I shall sleep a few; some snores, in Greek and Latin, will make me fresh as satin, in half an hour or Then to my couch repairing, I soon am smoothly farj ing into the land of dreams; and I then a fly comes pacing along my forehead, tracing the furrows and | the seams. Around my eyes it rambles and then it lopes and gambols, along my queenly nose; then my bald head exploring, still burrowing , and boring, industrious it goes. Ma- ; liciously is chases around the tick- \ lish places, which isn't right or fair; I feel my hair grow 9orrel; t I lam severely moral, or I would rise ! and swear. At last I rise and slay | it, decapitate and flay it, and then I lie down again; no use—there comes another! The dead fly left a brother, to plague the souls of men!

STRIKE ORDER IS ISSUED

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without giving him a chance to intervene. As soon as he saw the strike order the President sent for the four brotherhood chairmen. He expressed to them astonishment at their action and manifested emphatically his disapproval of their course. He declared it would not do for the strike to take place, and he demanded that the strike order be recalled. The brotherhood chairmepr,calmly replied that the situation had passed out of their hands and that the order could not be reeallel. The President dismissed the brotherhood chairmen. Then he notified the railroad executives of the negative results of his conference with the brotherhood chairmen. Thereupon the railroad executives informed that there was no other recourse open for them than to go home and prepare to cope with the strike. Some left tonight. Others will depart tomorrow'. The President expressed regret at their decision, but urged that a committee be left here to continue negotiations. The executives agreed to comply with the President’s wish. They are holding a session tonight discussing the entire situation and formulating instructions for the commiltee. It is confidently predicted, in spite of the brotherhood claims, that the strike cannot be prolonged beyond four days. C oncentration will be made upon certain kinds of traffic, such as food, mUk, etc.

The brotherhoods announce their willingness to permit the milk trains to be run; also trains carrying supplies for the troops along the border. Passenger trains also will be exempt from the strike. Passenger trains may haul express parcels, but if a freight car he attached to such a train, the strike will be extended to that class of transportation. The sensational developments growing out of the revelat.ior of the strike order to the President took place while the latter and Senator Newlands, who is operating with him, were endeavoring to formulate a program of legislation which would avert the strike. The President spent the morning conferring with members of the senate, and for two hours and 40 minutes was in secret session with the nine members of the steering committee of the senate. It was decided that the President should go before a joint session of congress tomorrow' or Wednesday and recommend enactment of the following legislative program: 1. A bill establishing the eighthour day on all common carriers, which day should be inaugurated 30 or 60 days after the President’s approval of the measure. 2. A bill instructing the interstate commerce commission to consider the wages paid by the roads in connection with the fixing of freight rates. 3. A bill increasing the membership of the interstate commerce commission from seven to nine members. 4. A bill creating an industrial commission bill similar/;o that in Canada, which would have the power to prohibit all strike or lockout activities pending an investigation and publication of the report made.

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FOURTEENTH ENTRY IN WAR

Roiunania Declares War on Austria- / Hungarian Government. London, Aug. 28. —Italy’s formal declaration of war on Germany has been followed promptly by a declaration of war by Roumania against Austria-Hungary. Official announcement of Roumania’s action was made in Berlin today. Roumania’s decision to enter the war was taken at a meeting of the crown council held at Bucharest terday morning, says a news dispatch from Geneva. / Rome and Berlin both reported officially late yesterday that declaration of war had been issued by Italy. The notification was sent through the Swiss government and declared that the Italian government regarded itself at war with Germany from August 28. Germapy probably will declare war on Roumania within 24 hours, after which Turkey and Bulgaria are expected to do likewise. The Roumanian legation in Berlin is being guarded by the police, these advices say, as stones were thrown through the windows of the Italian embassy in Berlin yesterday.

Roumania is the fourteenth nation to join in the war. Her intervention either on the side of the entente allies, or the central powers has been awaited with symptoms of concern by both since the beginning of the great conflict. This is due, not entirely to Roumania’s military strength, but also to the strategic advantage of her geographical position, and the fact that her entry into the struggle opens to the Russian army a gateway through to Roumania to attack the Bulgarians from the north, while the allied army having its base at Salonica attacks them and their German allies from the south. Roumania’s military strength is by no means inconsiderable. The country has a population of 6,800,000 and her army has been estimated at 580,000. It often has been described as one of the most thoroughly equipped and disciplined armies in Europe, but recent information from Bucharest has thrown some doubt on its quality. Lately it has been stated that Roumanian officers are illtrained and undisciplined, that Roumania has no heavy artillery and that its flying service is inferior. Some advocates of Roumania’s participation in the war have asserted that she could mobilize as many as 1,000,000 men. The mobilization of her army has been in progress for months and, a few days ago, was reported to be complete.

Crump Murder Trial Now on at Fowler.

Fowler, Aug. 29. —When court adjourned here last evening a jury had been secured and the prosecution had concluded its opening statement in the case of the state of Indiana vs. Jesse Crump, charged with the slaying of Donald McGregor on June 21 last. Crump and McGregor were neighbors and it is alleged that their trouble was of long standing. On the day of the alleged homicide, it is said, McGregor shot a dog belonging to Crump and the latter attacked him with a club. McGregor’s skull was fractured and he died from the effects. The case is being heard by Judge B. B. Berry. Carl A. Mehaffey and Wilbur Noiin are representing the state and Elmore Barce of this city and A. J. Shelby of Lebanon are defending Crump. The attorneys for the defense announced that they would withhold their statement until the state had concluded with its testimony. The jury Is composed of *he following men: John D. Forcing, Parish Grove tp.; Elmer Dimmick, Grant tP v ; D. J. Clark, Pine tp.; F. Smith, Center tp.; John Messman, Richland tp.; Sam Hull, Oak Grove tp ; Godfrey Eckerstrom, Grant; Elmer Shonkwiler, York; Jacob I euck, Jr., Hickory Grove tp.; Claude Boesch, Pine tp.; Henry Miller, Hickory Grove tp., and Earl James, Grant tp.

Admits He Shot Girl Trying to Rob Bank.

Seymour, Ind., Aug. 28.—Herschell Phillips, the 17-year-old bandit who attempted to rob the State'bank at Medora of $5,000 and in his excitement shot the assistant cashier. Miss Mera Hunsucker, in the mouth, pleaded guilty today to a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. He will be sentenced later. His brother Bluford, who is held in custody also, was arraigned. He pleaded not guilty. The young men are confined in separate jail cells.

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To the Farmers of Jasper County.

We, want to impress upon the farmers of Jasper county and of the vicinity of Rensselaer that we handle more cream than any other two stations in the county; that we have been in the business for several' years and thoroughly understand it; that we have ftie best facilities for handling and testing cream and always pay top prices, giving our patrons everything they are entitled to. The more cream we handle the smaller margin we can handle it on and the higher prices we can demand from the people we sell to, thus enabling us to pay better prices to our patrons. We have dealt honorably with you in the past and expect hy fair dealing and honest tests to merit your continued patronage. New customers are welcomed and courteous and fair treatment is assured them.—JASPER COUNTY CREAMERY, J. C. Harris & Son. Proprietors. s _ 7 Do you use the want ad. columns of The Democrat? If not, try an ad. and notice the results you get. “Everybody reads The Democrat,” and thus the satisfactory results received from advertising in its columns.

L U ? d ? r th ' a head notices will be published for 1-cent-a- word for the first I ' 2 ' e ent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keepin* cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five ?£ nts V but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may be—for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—Recleaned timothy seed, $2.50 per busheI.—CHESTER HALSTEAD, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 90K, Mt. Ayr exchange. s-2 For Sale—Some fine Turkey Red seed wheat at $1.50 per bushel.— JOSEPH NAGEL, phone 945-A, Rensselaer. s _2 For Sale—2 percent potash, 1-8-2 and 12-2, and the price right. Now get in your orders before it is all gone.—S. KOHLEY. S -3 lor Sale—Three houses five and six rooms; in good condition and well located. Can oe sold on monthly payment plan. Also small farm, with fair improvements; on stone road and well located; small payment down and balance in annual payments.—AßTHUß H. HOF>KIN 3. ts For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west «f Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer. ts For Sale—One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For farther particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. FOR RENT For Rent—2oo-acre improved farm in Union tp„ 2% miles of railroad station.—N. LITTLEFIELD, Rensselaer, Ind. s-3 WANTED AVanted School boy boarders, three blocks from school.—PHONE 213. s-2 FOUND Found—l9l6 auto license number. Owner may have same by calling at DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this ad. MISCELLANEOUS Storage Room—For household goods and other light weight personal effects. Large, dry quarters, and will take goods for storage by month or year.—THE DEMOCRAT. financial Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans,—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire oi M. I. ADAMS, phone 633-L. Farm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after & SON approved ’~ CHA S. J. DEAN Farm Loans—Money to loan on •^ r n m /v«5 roperty * n any sums up to SIO,OOO.— E. P. HONAN. ftnUhnl Wlthout I 111 I Till w,thout Commhwlo* I Ul)l Nil) ,Without Chargee fw n Making or Recording Instruments. W, H. PARKINSON Don’t forget that the subscription price of The Democrat will be raised on Sept. 1, 1916, to $2 per year, as previously announced, but new subscriptions and renewals will be accepted up to that time at the old price of $1.50 per year. gi