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THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 111 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensse- •» 1079. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. ADVERTISING RATES ® is l\W 12%c Inch Display, special position. . . . 15c Inch Readers, per line first Insertion.. 5c Readers, per line add. Insertions. .3c VI ant Ads— One cent per word each insertion; minimum 25c. Special price If run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has open account. Card of Thanks—Not to exceed ten lines, 50c. Cash with order. All acounts due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No' advertisement accepted for first page. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1916

a fl FOR 2b WILSON • jKoSt, sea gsga|\ and ® M mawwi fcARMn * bh/>ng / nOy £Ot TOR ' t%g 180, PEACE Oct jyai PBtPAiffl>NKS Q and PROSPERiH Wfe ******** * • * * • NATIONAL TICKET • • a For President • WOODROW WILSON • of New Jersey * For Vice-President • THOMAS R. MARSHAL - » of Indiana • • , • STATE TICKET • • , For Governor • JOHN A. M. ADAIR • of Portland • • , For Lieutenant-Governor • MASON J. NIBLACK • of Vincennes • • For United States Senator • • (Long term.) • • JOHN W. KERN • • of Indianapolis • • • • For United States Senator • • (Short term) * • THOMAS TAGGART • • of French Lick • • ••••••• • • • • i

• For Secretary of State • • HOMER L. COOK • of Indianapolis • • For Auditor of State * • DALE J. CRITTENBERGER • • of Anderson • • e • For Treasurer of State • • GEORGIJ A. BITTLER • of Fort Wayne • • For Attorney-General • • EVAN B. STOTSENBURG • of New Albany • For Supreme Court • (Second district) • DOUGLAS MORRIS • of Rushville • • For Supreme Court • (Third district) * • CHARLES E. COX • of Indianapolis • • For Appellate Csurt * (Northern division) • JAMES J. MORAN • of Portland • • For Reporter of Supreme Court • PHILLIP ZOERCHER • of Tell City • • For Judge Appellate Court * (First district) • John c. McNutt * • of Martinsville • • * For State Superintendent of • Public Instruction • SAMUEL L. SCOTT • of New Albany • For State Statistician • S. W. KANN • of Ligonier • * DISTRICT TICKET • * For Representative in Congress • Tenth District ♦ *. GEORGE E. HERSHMAN * of Crown Point • * ft * For Joint-Representative Jasper, ♦ * Benton and Newton Counties * CARL LAMB * of Benton county * * For Prosecuting Attorney, 30th * Judicial Circuit * C. ARTHUR TUTEUR ♦ of Rensselaer • * * COUNTY TICKET • * For Clerk of the Circuit Court * * ALVA D. HERSHMAN * of Gillam Township. * For County Sheriff ♦ HARRY GALLAGHER * of Rensselaer • * * For County Treasurer ♦ * STEPHEN A. BRUSNAHAN * of Union Township ♦ For County Recorder * JOHN BOWIE * of Wheatfield ♦ ♦ * * For County Surveyor * * DEVERE YEOMAN * of Newton Township » * For County Coroner » DR. A. P. RAINIER ♦ of Remington * * For County Commissioner ♦ * First District ' • * • JAMES CLARK • of Kersey • * • * For County Commissioner • * Second District * * ROBERT J. YEOMAN • * of Newton Township • *••♦♦* • * * • • • Really, now, we are jmst pining for an opportunity to giv®-you the latest authentic news from the European front. But since none of it is authentic we leave you to group the multitudinous lies to suit your own purposes. *We give it up.

HUGHES IN LAFAYETTE

Mr. Charles Evang Hughes came —and has gone. He was advertised to speak from 9:35 a. m. until Ila. m., but he spoke twenty minutes. There- was a large audience to greet him. Farmers in their new automobiles, their pockets filled with money from $11.35 hogs and $1.51 wheat, with all their other products proportionately high Jn price, came in large numbers. The laboring men were not so well represented—there was so much demand for them at their tasks that they could not get away, even for the few minutes that the candidate was here.

Mr. Hughes hit the beaten path of standpatism in his speech. He gave no encouragement to the Progressives; no word of cheer to the big army of voters who look forward instead of backward; he gave no explanation of how he would have acted in the places where he claimed Wilson made mistakes' The burden of his talk was that he was a protectionist and that he had a patent on Americanism. The nearest that he came to making a point was when he stated that if he was elected he would take steps to protect this country from the invasion of foreign made goods and foreign laborers at the close of the world’s war, claiming that the Democratic free trade would open the gates to each. Of course Mr. 'Hughes did not tell how dismantled factories must be put in operatioß by the onearmed, one-legged, one-eyed remnants of the war, if it ever comes to an end and how all the stores and supplies of Europe must again be replenished before there will be anything to sell here. To the laboring man he gave assurance of friendship, but did not speak of the eight-hour law. Probably some good friend of the candidate warned him that union labor would stand no such assault on the Adamson law as he made elsewhere. In summarizing, Mr. Hughes’ speech appealed to no one in this locality. It excitement; it elicited slight even forced applause. Unbiased ones who heard it felt that a Hughes victory would be a victory for reaction, a victory for the trusts, a victory for high tariffs, a victory for all the graft financial interests that have lost their control over the United States government since Woodrow Wilson became President. As the campaign progresses it becomes more and more apparent that the Hughes candidacy is the candidacy of organized property and organized wealth. Mr. Hughes’ speeches are a continuous appeal to dollars, to dollars invested in railroads; to dollars invested in Mexico, to dollarg invested jn the former beneficiaries of monopoly tariffs, to corporations that are insatiably greedy for more and more dividends at whatever cost to the general welfare. While he was here he was surrounded by wealth and class. No laboring man rode with the candidate or even in his parade. Ao he" passed it was asked in whose machine . he rode—it was wealth and aristocracy.

When Mr. Hughes spoke he spoke in terms of property and money and material things. It is their support to which he appealed, it was their support which he solicited. Mr. Hughes has thrown himself into the arms of reactionary Republicanism and reactionary Republicanism is a government of the cash register by the cash register and for the cash register. No Progressive who heard him received any encouragement. It may be possible that the American people are weary of political progress and favor a return to plutocracy; that they are ready to make a new experiment with corporation government and special privilege on the theory that a plutocracy is a better order of things than Democracy, and that the rich should rule by virtue of being rich. We do not think so but we may be mistaken. Right or wrong Mr. Hughes has staked his political future on the certainty of the pendulum’s swinging back and those who heard his brief remarks of yesterday in Lafayette are so convinced.-—Tippe-canoe County Democrat. The people of the United States are asked to contribute a million dollars a month toward feeding the destitute and starving Belgians. If needed it will be done, of course. But contributions in large chunks should be extracted from those who are piling up millions in wealth from war orders. The poor man has his own mouths to fekd.

Why all of this hue and cry over the latest brand of blackmailers? Millionaires who dance should not yelp when they have to pay the fiddler. Whenever you hear a town spoken well of you may»know that its citi-

zens are on the same plane as ftp reputation. Government authorities are talking of prosecuting the food boosting combine. And that, we presume, will result in the usual manner—another boost. It pays to keep your eyes on two spots—the advertising pages of this paper and the stores of the merchants who advertise. When a dog hollers it makes a big noise. And that is about all you can say of some people when they open their mouths. Clean back yards indicate healthy minds in the house. How is yours?

ROAD BUILDING IN INDIANA Road building and road maintenance are subjects of the utmost concern to every resident of Indiana, and;- the following extracts from an article by E. I. Lewis in the Indianapolis News will be of interest to everyone: The state of Indiana —and, the nation—is now at the threshold of a new, unprecedented, expenditure of money on public works. The federal government stands ready to hand over to the state, installments covering a period of five years, $2,109,000 for highways. The “gift” or “aid’’ is contingent on the state appropriating a like sum and on cer tain other conditions. Thus, at the outset, $4,218,000 of federal and state money is to be available for the first five-year period of" the new' road era. From the first, however, the fact must be faced that this four millions is just a beginning—-a mere “drop in the bucket.” The federal appropriation for the five-year period is $75,000,000 for all the states. Already it is predicted that in the five years in which this stimulant is to be applied, at least $1.000,000,000 jand possibly $1,500,000,000 will be spent on the highways of the country. In Indiana not less than $50,000,000 instead of $4,218,000 will be spent—it may, far exceed that amount. This prediction is predicated on the fact that in the last five years, without stimulation, almost $25,000,000 of money has been raised and put into Indiana road construction by bond issues alone. Bert Winter of the state board of accountants recently compiled figures which showed that in .1914 the state through its different divisions spent more than $13,000,000 on highways and that was only the beginning of real spending—this year it may be almost double that Sum. When the legislature convenes it will have to decide whether it desires to accept the federal aid. If it does so, it will have to create a central state control of highways as well as appropriate its first $2,109,000. This central state control will have to prepare and offer to the federal government three plans of action. Kindred to all this are questions of whether the automobile license revenues, which this year amount to SBOO,OOO, and beginning next year will run $1,000,000 a year, are to be directed into the same channel and control, and whether they should be increased. Also, equally kindred, is the question of whether convicts jn prisons and workhouses should be put on this great internal improvement work, as they are being, or have been, placed in other Northern states. Then, too there are questions of whether or not there should be changes in the present road and tax laws to fit in with a new order of thoroughness and efficiency in road matters. Already there is being started a propaganda that would, as far as Indiana is concerned, scatter the money broadcast, each county—even each township— “getting its share.” Already there is being organized forces to get hold of the state commission and pull it this way and that way, to serve the purposes of speculation, exploitation and political purposes, and to yield large orders for certain road materials. All of this means personal gain or preferment, but' death to any broad state-wide concept w’hich would lav, in the five-year period, the whole backbone and skeleton for a state highway system that would last for decades. Carl G. Fisher, the father of the nation wide concept of permanent I highways, out of which already Is developing in substantial form the Lincoln. Dixie and other great highways, has been called to Washington for conference, and he was also delegated by Governor Ralston to represent Indiana in the conference, of the highway engineers and commissioners of the forty-eight states whch was recently held. He is home with definite ideas of how the new flood of money that is to be ‘• ur " e d loose for the roads should j be hailed. .

VVe are now.” he said, “in a carnival of criminal waste of money in this state. Millions are being poured into the rat holes of roads not permanent. Other millions are going through the failure to keep up the costly roads that are built but that can not stand up under the new traffic. Still other millions are being squandered by building roads that mean nothing—that begjjl nowhere and end nowhere. In-efficiency-ignorance —in road building accounts for more millions being lost. If * he state of Indiana accepts this aid which the federal government offers it should start out with two fundamentals. They are: 1. Create a non-partisan commission, whose members shall be competent men, interested in highways, who will serve without pay, and who shall be free of political and other pull. “2. Lay out and get final state, as well as federal ap-

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; ; OFFICIAL DIRECTORY, i !, CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler i Clerk... Charles Morlan ; Treasurer. Charles M. Sands ; Attorney Moses Leopold j ii Marshal Vern Robinson ■ 1 1 Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne < 'i, Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery ■ Ip Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery j If Councilmen • I Ist Ward..... Ray Wood : I 2nd Ward Frank Tobias : » 3rd Ward............. Frank King 1 I At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Kresler ' JUDICIAL !> Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley ’ Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess ' » Terms of Court —Second Monday 1 in February, April, September ’ and November. Four week ' ■ terms. 5 ’ COUNTY OFFICERS ’ } Clerks. s. Shedd J ■ Sheriff B. D. McCoily • Auditor J. p. Hammond ; . Treasurer.. Charles V. May , Recorder..... George Scott ; , Surveyor. ...M. B. Price i I Coroner Dr. C. E. Johnson | I County Assessor.. .G. L. Thornton I f Health Officer.. Dr. F. H. Hemphill I I COMMISSIONERS 1 I Ist District H. W. Marble 1 I 2nd DistristD. S. Makeever i f 3rd District Charles Welch 11 ‘ Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. ’ I > COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION ' i Trustees Township J J Grant Davissonßarkley ; Burdett Porter. Carpenter ! [ James Stevens. .Gillam ! , Warren E Poole. .Hanging Grove J John Kolhoff.......Jordan I 5,. Davis Kankakee > , Clifford Fairchild Keener ' , Harvey Wood, jrMarlon ' I ? e ? Foulk s Milroy ' I John Rush Newton J » George Hammerton Union ' I Joseph SalrinWalker ' I Albert S KeeneWheatfield ’ ! m Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer ! I Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, ! Rensselaer j * ♦ ♦ —♦—♦ —* ——44—4_ TRUSTEES’ CARD. JORDAN TOWNSHIP < , The undersigned trustee of Jor- ’ dan Township attends to official , business at his residence on the ' first' and third Wednesdays of each , ’ month. Persons having business with me will please govern them- < > selves accordingly. Postofflce address —Rensselaer, Indiana. < JOHN KOLHOFF, Trustee.

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