Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — Page 1

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CAMPAIGN OPENS IN THIS COUNTY

Hon. Philip Zoercher Makes Several Stirring Speeches. GREEtED BY LARGE CROWDS * Discussed National and State Politics in Logical and Convincing Way at Several Points in County.

Ttye Democratic campaign in Jasper county was opened Wednesday afternoon with a speech in the east court room by the Hon. Philip Zoeiicher, reporter of the Indiana supreme court. Mr. Zoercher is a very entertaining talker, one who knows what he is talking about and knows how to say it. He is of German descent and speaks that language almost as fluently as he does English. At the meeting in Rensselaer Wednesday afternoon the speaker was greeted by a good sized audience in the east court room. He did not mince words in preliminaries but launched straight into the issues now before the people. His talk was not one of defense of the state and national administrations, but, instead, one of acclaim for what they had accomplished and the numerous measures that had been passed tending to relieve the stress on business and the people as a whole.

Chief these was the new currency law, which has brought about such an improvement in the banking and money conditions of the country that the Republicans are trying to claim the law as their own, saying it is identical with what they would have passed had they been continued in power. But. as Mr. Zoercher said, they were in power for many years, they had the opportunity to pass it, but they did not.

The pension laws was another thing which Mr. Zoercher dwelt upon briefly. It is now an old story of the Republican claims'that if the Democratic party once got into power the old soldiers and their widow's would have to suffer. But all know the truth. All know that the old soldiers have fared better, have received more money for their service and sacrifice under the present administration than ever before. As evidence of this fact one has but to turn back less than a month and review the law granting to widows of soldiers an increase of pension from sl2 a month to S2O a month. Does this look as though the Democratic party was opposed to helping the old soldiers and their widows? Wednesday etening Mr. Zoercher, accompanied by several auto loads from this city, went to Remington. The meeting was held in the basement of the public library, and was attended by George E. Hershman, candidate for congress from this district, and several of the county candidates.

After the meeting wag called to order Mr. Hershman was asked to make a few remarks. He did not m try to make a political speech, but for perhaps fifteen - minutes indulged in a heart-to-heart talk with the voters present. Mr. Hershman is a very pleasing gentleman and his hearers listened with the closest attention as he pledged himself in all sincerity . and honesty that if he was elected their representative he would be such in act and deed as well as in name' that he would not spend his time and their money playing petty politics. He > was roundly cheered .and the audience gave every indication of being in complete accord with all he said. .Robert J. Yeoman, candidate for

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WE AT HR It FOR SATURDAY. PARTLY CLOUDY AND

HON. E. P. HONAN AT MT. AYR

Will Address Assemblage at HomeComing This Evening. Hon. E. P. Honan will go to Mt. Ayr this evening to deliver an address at the stock show and homecoming being held there yesterday and today. Yesterday evening was devoted to the Republicans, and today, the big day, will be devoted to the Democrats. Mt. Ayr has made thorough preparation for this event and, assures all who come a good time. Mr. Honan is well known as an orator of ability and will in all probability be greeted by a good crowd. Many Rensselaer people are planning to go over today and spend the afternoon and evening.

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices.

Frank Davis wag over from Brook Wednesday and Thursday on court business. ; The court house clock, after having been out ofs striking order most of the time for several months, is again striking off the hours, much to the gratification of the residents of Rensselaer. New suits filed: No. 8669. State of Indiana vs. William Weese; intoxication. No. 8670. Ray G. Anderson vs. William F. Stump; suit on note. Demand $37.44. No. 8671. Ray G. Anderson vs. Carson VanDusen; ' suit on note. Demand $75.

County Treasurer May sold two stone road bond issues Wednesday, the Rowles issue of $5,600 in Marion township, and the Slight issue of $7,600 in Kankakee township. The Rowles bonds were sold to the Fletcher-American National bank of Indianapolis at a premium of SS9.G~. Other bidders were Edward O’Gara, Lafayette, SB4; J. O. Dollings, Indianapolis, SB4; Breed, Elliott & Harrison, Indianapolis, SB6. The Fletcher-American National hank also got the Slight bonds, their bid being $122,25 premium. Breed, El- - & Harrison, sll7, and J. O. Dollings, sl2l.

MRS. JESSE WELSH IS DEAD

Word' was received by the Welsh boys Wednesday morning informing them of the death at 10:30 Tuesday night of the wife of their brother Jesse in Chicago. Mrs. Welsh had been an invalid for the past year or more and had undergone several operations. She left no children.

WILL BUILD NEW RESIDENCE

William M. Hoover of southwest of town has purchased of Alex Merica the lot just wejt of Mr. Merica’s new residence, 5oxl»0 feet in sir.-, and will build thereon a fine new brick veneer residence, something after the style of the A. G. Catt residence on River street. It will be 34x50 feet with basement and all modern conveniences. Excavating for the basement will probably begin in a few days. The price paid for the lot was $l,lOO, but this is a nice central location on the main street, just out of the business district.

STOLEN CHICKENS COME RACK

All of the chickens Stolen Saturday night from the M. P. Warner home at the east side of town came back except three, which possibly filled some one’s pot for their Sunday dinner. It was quite evident that whoever'took the chickens d’d not live very far away, and when they found that a diligent search was being made for them they got cold feet and turned the chickens loose. The number taken was really ninety-five, instead of 200 as first reported, and they were oid bens, not spring chickens, as it understood

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1916.

GEORGE E. HERSHMAN Of Crown Point, Democratic Candidate for Congress from This, the Tenth District.

MURDOCK TO SUPPORT WILSON

Kansan’s Paper Praises His Course in Urging Adamson Wage' Law. New York, September 21.—Victor Murdock, editor of the Wichita (Kansas) Eagle and a pioneer of the Progrbssive movement in the West, has declared unqualifiedly in faVor of President Wilson’s course in averting a nation-wide railroad strike. . Referring to Mr. Hughes’ opposition to the Adamson wage law and his insistence that arbitration should have been compelled, Mr. Murdock’s newspaper says, in part:. “But Mr. Hughes, like the Republican newspapers, failed to point out how this cquld have been done. The railroad men took the position that the eight-hour day was not arbitrable. They refused flatly to arbitrate. Under the circumstances, then, unless the eight-hour day was granted, a strike would have been inevitable. Would Mr. Hughes'have preferred a strike, with its inevitable burnings- n.nd disorder, its bloodshed and prostration of industry, its stirrinu of class hatreds and suffering of millions of people, to the settlement that Mr. Wilson effected, for the strike of 1 894 gives a faint idea of what might have been expected in 1916 if the President, following Mr. Cleveland’s precedent, had attempted to it by force.

“The great mass of people will undoubtedly feel that Mr. Wilson was wiser in his generation than Mr. Cleveland or than Mr. Hughes. The Adamson bill does not effect a permanent settlement. Further measures are necessary and should be adopted, as the President has recommended. As to the of the President to the demand foe an eight-hour day, Progressives demanded that measure of social justice four years ago, and it certainly ill becomes any one who supported that platforhT to "rail at the President for helping to secure for the railroad men a measure so manifestly just to labor.”

FALL CAMPAIGN OF K. OF P'S

At the regular meeting of the K. of P. \odge held Tuesday evening the membership voted to inaugurate a campaign to secure new members, the same closing Thanksgiving day. The lodge was divided , into two teams and D. D. Dean was' elected captain of one and C. Earl’ Duvall captain of the other. The membership of the lodge is now about 170 and it "is hoped to! increase this to 200. Arrangements will be made to confer the first degree or rank of page on all of the new members at the same time, and the lodge will serve a banquet in their honor.

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HENRY LANE WILSON SPEAKS

But It Is Quite Evident Business Men Do Not Agree with Republican Spellbinders, A dispatch in one of the Indianapolis papers of Thursday told of a Republican address made at Greensburg by Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico, in which he referred to the present prosperity as “gunpowder prosperity,” and could not last; that like the |iouse builded on the pands, would wash away when the floods came. Mr. Wilson said, among other things, that “men of incapability had been placed in places of responsibility as a reward for political service,” and that the Underwood tariff had-nearly caused ruin of the country but for “gun powder prosperity.” > It is quite evident that the real business interests of this country do not agree with Henry Lane Wilson nor the other Republican spellbinders who are going about the country prophecying such disaster, as the Lafayette Journal, the leading Republican paper of the Tenth district, had the following item in its news columns yesterday: “A mammoth order from the New York Central lines totaling 115 engines, and a smaller o>* from the Chicago & st. Louis railroad, totaling ten, have just been received at

the Libia Locomotive corporation. The order from the big Eastern line is to be made ffp of heavy switching locomotives and of engines of the type known as Mohawks. The New York Gentrar company has issued an order for 230 engines in all, the Lima firm receiving half the order and the American Locomotive works the remainder. The order for the Western road is confined to the regular Mikado type engines.” The men at the head of the New York Central railroad lines are among the very brainiest men in the world. Does it Took reasonable that they would place an order for 230 locomotives if they believed the prosperity “house” was soon to be “washed away”?

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AWAY TO ATTEND THE COLLEGES

Rensselaer Young People Leave for Various Schools. Among the Rensselaer young poo pie away attending college this year are:, Miss Edith Sawin, at the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio; William and Carl Eiglesbaek, at Notre Dame; William Babcock and Edson Murray, at Wisconsin university; Marguerite Norris, Margaret Babcock and Edward Honan at I)e----pauw; Helen Leatherman at WardBelmont boarding school, Nashville, Tennessee; Mabel Waymire, Upland; Mae Clark and Jane Parkinson at Jacksonville, Illinois; James Babcock and Victor Hoover, at Purdue university.

BOLD ROBBERS INVADE MOROCCO

Open Four Sates and Steal a Ford Automobile MACHINE FOUND IN THIS CITY Reported to Have Made Away with S3O-1, and as YTet No Trace of the Bandits Has Heen Discovered. - , 0 t A gang of bold robbers visited Morocdo Wednesday night and opened four safes, obtaining about 01 in all, and then stole a Ford automobile in which to make their getaway. From all the facts at hand it appears that the robbers entered Morocco with a horse and buggy which they hitched in the driveway of the lumber yard. They forced an entrance to she Brewer Bros, garage through a rear window and gathering together a number of robes and overcoats they went to the blacksmith shop of Emory ■ Christenson which they entered, and using the robes and coats as a blanket over the safe they blew the same open and obtained $166 in cash. They also visited the poultry house of Daniel ITnzicker, where they worked the combination to the sate but obtained nothing of value. The office of the Farmers’ Elevator com 'panv was also visited and after working the combination to the safe there they secured about. $25. It is thought they then returned to the Brewer garage where they would have an automobile handy to make

their escape with. They were unable to work the combination to the garage safe and blew the same open, securing about sll3. One of their number then took the horse and buggy from the lumber yard and the others, three it is thought, took a new Ford belonging to C. A. Brewer and departed. The people of Morocco were not aware of the robbery until about t> o'clock Thursday morning, although some had a heard muffled explosion between 12 and 1 o’clock. Steps were taken immediately to apprehend th«e thieves and a description of the stolen car and its number telephoned to all nearby towns. An automobile also started in pursuit of the horse and buggy, which started northeast from Morocco. F. A. Gruver, an employe of the Rensselaer telephone exchange, made note of the number of the stolen car when the same was phoned to

Rensselaer, and about !i o’clock Thursday morning found the machine standing at the Monon station. Residents of that vicinity had seen three men trying to start the car at an early hour that morning, and being unable to do so it is presumed they abandoned it and took an early morning train to Chicago. The car was then taken to the Schroer garage and word sent to Morocco that it had been found. About noon Attorney J. C. Murphey, C. A. Brewer, Elmer Brewer, Fred Jessen and John Biesecker came to claim the same. While here they received word from the machine that was trailing the horse and buggy and they were then about five miles northeast of Fair Oaks and still fol. lowing the trail. There is little or no doubt that the robbers were a band of profesfessionals, else they could not have worked the combinations of two of the safes and blown open two others with so little noise. Morocco has attractive to the criminals being chased out of the cities.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. RALSTON TALKS TO METHODISTS Franklin, September 20.—Governor Ralston was the principal speaker topight at the eeiitfennial meeting of the Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference in session here. He spoke of the history of the church and state during the past century. A movement was started in the conference to eliminate soino of tho features which have proven objectionable in the past regarding the assignment of ministers. Objections have been made that in some cases where a minister has come to tho Indiana conference on transfer from another bonference a choice assignment has been given him, which some of tho home men believe they should have had.

HOY AI’TO THIEVES SENTENCED Indianapolis, September 20.—Details of the theft of a number of automobiles from Anderson, Cottage Grove, Indianapolis and other cities in the southeastern part of the state in a systematic way were given In criminal court here today when two hoys from Rushvllle were found guilty of stealing automobiles. They were given suspended sentences of one to four years in the Indiana reformatory after they had revealed the methods which they said had been followed by persons concerned in the thefts. They said the machines were sold after being taken. The number of machines taken was Placed at thirty or forty. Names of the owners of the cars were not given. * #

MONON’S NET GAIN IS $02,1,310 llc|miil of President ,Kurrle Ts Made Public at Stockholders’ Meeting. Indianapolis, September 20. —The report of H. R. Kurrie, president of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway company, read at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the company here today, shows an increase i n the net income of the road for the year ended June 30, 1010, of $652,310.1 2or 272.1 » per eent. The operating revenues for the year were $7,604,733.91 and the operating expenses wore $5,111,003.35. All the old directors of the road were re-elected at the meeting. WILSON AT INDIANAPOLIS OCT. 12 Indianapolis, September 21.—President Wilson lias accepted an invitation to speak in Indianapolis October 12, at the celebration of Highway day in connection with (lie Indiana centennial observance, according to a message received here today by Governor Ralston fro/n Vance c. McCormick, Democratic national chairman. The governor said the address is to be non-political. An effort will he made to get the President to remain here in the evening for a political rally, which will be arranged for him, should ho decide to stay for it.

$15,000 NIGHT FIRE AT DELPHI Delphi, September 21. —The Delphi Strawboard works suffered a loss of $1 5,000 tonight when 350 tons of baled straw was destroyed by fire. The fire started from a spark from a passing locomotive and spread with great rapidity. The Delphi fire department responded to the alarm and did heroic work, in saving the buildings of the strawboard plant and adjoining property. It is said that the loss is partly covered by $5,000 Insurance. DEMOCRATS FIRST ON BALLOT Indianapolis, September- 20.—1 n analysing for the names of nominees of t the different political parties on the ballots to be voted in the election next November, the Democratic nominees will, appear in the first column, Republicans -in the next,

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