Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1916 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Dopartmonts OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Marriage licenses issued: October 18. Harry Walker of Gifford, aged 21 September 13 last, occupation farming, to Clara Grimm, also of Gifford, aged 28 September 5 last, occupation housekeeping. Second marriage for male- first marriage dissolved by death in 1914. First marriage for female Married by Rev. Strecker at the M. E. parsonage. October 18, Russel Charles Fisher of Remington, aged 21 September 24 last, occupation clerking, to Lulu Louise Hall, also of Remington, aged 19 May 1 last, oecnpation telephone operating. First marriage for each. Married at M. E. parsonage in Rensselaer by Rev. W. B. Warriner of Remington. Now that Union township i? practically ready to begin the construction of its extensive stone road system. thereby giving ns an all-stone road to the north end of the county. The Democrat believes it would be the proper thing for Marion township to resuiface with stone the one mile of roadway leading north from the Union school house and connecting with the proposed Union township stone road. This highway lies one mile west of the road running north from Rensselaer. With this improvement we would then have two complete stone roads from here to Parr and vicinity, when the Union township system is in. This would have a tendency to divide the traffic and thereby elongate the life of each road. When the weather is bad this stretch of road from the Union school house north is almost impassable. and necessitates traveling east from the Amos Alter corner over a road consisting of two or more heavy grades, connecting with the north stone road to Rensselaer. If improved it would be of great benefit to the lands adjacent thereto in this township and would prove a great convenience to the people of Parr and vicinity.

As no doubt readers of The Democrat have observed in reading the proceedings of the county commissioners in this paper, the Winamac Construction company has of late been securing quite a number of bridge contracts in Jasper county. As we understand, the Winamac Construction company is but a new name for an old acquaintance here, the old Winamac Bridge company, which used to do considerable work in Jasper county and was in the habit of scaling down its work considerably, as shown in the court investigation made here a few years ago of the bridges it had constructed. C. L. Bader was then practically the whole thing in the Winamac Bridge company and he and his son are said to be practically the whole thing in the Winamac Construction company. They should understand that no more work like that of their old company goes i n Jasper county, and if they attempt anything of the kind it will not be well for them if the

taxpayers get onto it. In view of the record of the old Winamac Bridge company in this county it would be well to examine the work carefully now being done by its successor and see that no "short change" tactics are worked off on our taxpayers.

nt in their precinct is completed, y cannot wait until next" day to ’t with this report, but must immediately, as soon as the j it is completed and t'he tally ts signed by the board. It usutakes most of the day following for the election comiloners to complete t’he tabulatand fill out the returns to be } to he secreary of state.

to progress on the road toward meeting those needs. Hughes’ mind contains nothing of that sort of insight; reading his speeches is enough to show it. * “Wilson has ideas about democracy in Europe after the war. If Hughes has any ideas about Europe, except the attempt to keep the German vote, I do not know what those ideas are. If he has any ideas about Mexico, except the protection of the larger foreign investors, I have not found any such ideas in his speeches. “If his vague and empty comments on domestic affairs mean anything, they mesa, that he wants to go back to the tariff of Mark Hanna, and presumably to the currency of Aidrich. American people will never stand for that long, so if Hughes Is elected this country merely faces another period of violent agitation. “The one topic on which Mr. Hughes has been able to remain stirred up for some weeks is the Adamson bill. He and T. R. feel

bad because they say the President yielded to pressure, and t, R. cries out that nobody could ever hare coerced him. It took representatives of J, P. Morgan, & Co. and the steel trust just twenty minutes ot coerce T. R. wbpj. a threat of a panic into authorizing a step toward still more complete monopoly by the purchase of the Tennessee Coai & Iron company. “If Wilson was coerced, he was coerced into applying to the railroads a principle already widely accepted by the American people. Mr. Hughes naturally leaves out of his speeches the fact that the Republicans in the senate did not debate the matter and that the majoriy of the Republicans in the house voted for the Adamson bill, while Hughes never opened his month until it was all ovter. “He also leaves out the fact that the President recommended this w as part of a total program protecting ug against tie-ups in the future. And he likewise leaves out the fact that this Adamson law is for a limited period, during which time we are to get, through practice, the best possible evidence of the working of the eight-hour principle; evidence infinitely superior to the so-called investigation ahead, which is merely guess-work. "This brings me to the farmer. The reactionaries always go on the idea that farmers and laboring men are fools. They think that the laboring men; in spite of the Clayton act, the seamen act, and the Adamson law, will not know enough to act as a body for the support ,of an administration which has done more for them than any other administration ever did. “They think that the farmers can be made to forget the effect of the currency act on their credit facilities; to forget the rural credits act; to forget the unexampled contribution to their welfare by the dell partment of agriculture during Secretary Houston's administration, , and be stampeded with the idea that the eight-hour law works against them.”