Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — Page 4

DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN CARE OF “AFTER THE WAR-WHAT THEN?”

Many “old guard” Republicans like Cannon, Watson, Fairbanks, Penrose and Smoot are indulging in loud lamentations over the sorry plight to befall America if the close of the European war finds us without a.tariff act of the Payne-Aldrich variety to prevent the destruction of our manufactories by foreign dumping. Possibly they do not know that the anti-dumping act, passed by congress in September last, will absolutely prevent any such condition. Possibly the speeches of the gentlemen were prepared before the law was passed, and thy have forgotten to revise them. Anyway, they don’t mention the fact. This law absolutely prevents the injury to any American industry by unfair competition by making it a felony to import manufactured goods for sale at a less price than the wholesale one of similar goods, plus transportation expenses, in the country of manufacture, or other foreign countries where similar goods are sold. A violation of the law is punishable with a $5,000 fine and a year’s imprisonment. Another section of the law authorizes the President to prohibit imports from a foreign country that prohibits the import of any product of American soil or industry. Still another provision of the act clothes the President with power to restrict or prohibit imports from foreign warring nations which may place restrictions on our foreign exports by blacklists or other preferential devices. Finally, the act authorizes the refusal of clearance papers to foreign merchant vessels that discriminate against American shipping. This calamity howling will not catd) intelligent votes. President Wilson has seen to it that this country shall be prepared, industrially as well as from the military standpoint, to meet any emergency evolved by the horrible war in Europe.

HE JISPERICOUNTY DEMOCRAT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office Sls Residence Sll Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 8. 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. SATURDAy7nOV. 4, 1916.

IS WORSE THAN SWAPPING HORSES!

Swapping horses in the middle of a stream is bad enough. But what shall we say of absolutely abandoning the only horse in the middle of the treacherous current? That is exactly what the defeat of President Wilson and the election of Mr. Hughes would mean, for the period between November 7, 1916, and March 4, 1917. The fact that President Wilson had been defeated would rob the administration of prestige in European eyes. Nothing that Mr. Wilson could say or do would have the proper weight. Discredited and rebuked by his own country, who imagines that foreign countries wotffd regard his voice as the authoritative voice of the nation?

Yet grave dangers, may arise within those four months. There may be special need for an administration known to have the power and purpose of the nation behind it. And if Mr. Hughes is elected there will not. he such an administration at Washington for a long and perhaps critical period. If it were only swapping from Wilson to Hughes in the middle of the stream it would still be unwise but not necessarily dangerous. But swapping from Wilson with Hughes still four months away—not even in the middle of the dangerous current—that would be folly.—Chicago Hergld.

It has ever been the aim of the American people to enthuse the rising generation with a love and respect for this nation of ours and the grand old Stars and Stripes, but such is made almost impossible when a considerable percent of the people, the Republican partisans, tauntingly portray Uncle Sam as being “gloriously drunk,” and send pictures broadcast over the country showing foreign nations in an attitude of derision toward us. When such talented men as John T. McCutcheon turn their efforts toward belittling our country, we can justly question their true Americanism.

A Chicago visitor from a nearby city on the day Roosevelt visited that city said at every depot in the city a hand was stationed with an announcer to urge people to attend the Roosevelt reception and . speech, and that the same procedure was pursued in the loop district. Evidently there was a determined effort to insure a crowd and not have Teddy’s reception a frost when .compared with the spontaneous reception accorded President Wilson the week before. Earlier in the fall the Democratic state central committee sent a quan-

WEATHER FOR SATURDAY. PROBABLY

“A FORTUNATE ESCAPE”

* * I * It is fortunate for this * * country, for Mexico and for * * the world that we have at the * * present time such a man as * * Woodrow Wilson in the White * * House. There is, of course, * * much yet to be done, but no * * more than there would have * * been had we Intervened, or * * recognized Huerta, and sent— * * as Ambassador Wilson advised * * —an army to uphold his au- * * thority, and conquer the north- * * ern states for him. If the * * President’s plan succeeds we * * shall have the friendship of the * * Mexicans, which we should not * * have had if any other plan * * had been followed.—lndianap- * * olis News, May 19, 1914. *

tity of Wilson badges to this county which was considered adequate to meet all demands, but this supply was exhausted two weeks ago. The demand elsewhere has been equally beyond expectations, and alt efforts of the local committee to get more ha f, e been unsuccessful. The Republicans are reported to have a large number yet on hand. The fact that Charles W. Fairbanks, . Republican candidate for vice president, is a heavy stockholder in the Indianapolis Nejys, it is alleged, no doubt has considerable to do with the recent change in the editorial policy' of that paper, which until quite recently was a very warm supporter of President Wilson. Four years ago Wilson carried Jasper county by fifty-four, and the indications .are very favorable for an increased Democratic plurality in Ifl6. The total vote received by Wilson here in 1912 was 1,292; Taft 1,238; Roosevelt 694.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO VOTERS The voters of Jasper county should make it a point to go to the polls early ne*t Tuesday and oast their votes. There is no good reason no r sense, as a rule, Jn waiting until late in the afternoon or evening to cast, your vote. The polls will close promptly at 6 p. m. no matter whether all the votes are in or not, and in some of the larger precincts many voters may not get to cast their ballot at all unless they heed the admonition to “vote early.” There are six precincts in Jasper county in which the registration exceeds the number supposed to vote in a precinct—2so. These precincts are: Barkley, East, 330; Carpenter, South, 252; Marion, No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4, 310, 356 and 252, respectively; and Weatrleld. 280. In each of these precincts it is going to take quite rapid voting to get all of the votes in. Especially is this true of Barkley, East/ Marion No. 1 and No. 2, and voter's should make it a point to go to the polls early and stay in line till they get to cast their ballot. Should there be twenty or thirty votes at 5:30 o’clock in any one of these precincts—or any other, for that matter—it is not at all likely that all will get to vote, as the polls will be closed before they can be accommodated. Let “vote early” be your maxim next Tuesday.

“KATY” HAS GRANTED RAISE

Denison, Texas, November 2. — One thousand employes of„ the car department of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway company of Texas have been granted an increase of 1% cents an hour, effective November 1, it was announced today. An armload of old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

DENIES ROOSEVELT CHARGES

Owen Discusses Killing of Americans in Mexico Under Three Presidents. Phoenix, Arizona, October SI. — Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma in a speech here yesterday replied to statements of Theodore Roosevelt on his . recent Western campaign tour that during President Wilson’s administration “over 500 Americans and 300 Chinese” have been killed in Mexico. “Mr. Roosevelt’s promises are untrue,” declared Senator Owen. “Under Roosevelt’s own administration at least sixty Americans were reported killed; under Taft fiftyseven Americans; under Wilson 119 citizens and thirty-eight soldiers and marines during nearly four years of revolution. During Taft’s administration 386 foreigners were reported to the state department as killed in Mexico and during Wilson’s administration only 230 were reported, Including seventeen British, thirty-eight Spaniards, four Germans, four Japanese and seven Chinese. “Roosevelt’s statement that the President had abandoned 3,000 Americans exposed to a mob at Tampico is a base campaign canard and calumny. “Admiral Mayo ordered his boats in and Captain Dougherty of the British navy requested Admiral Mayo to permit British marines to remove all foreigners to prevent loss of life. This was done and all Americans were sent home by Admiral Mayo without any loss of life. Captain Dougherty put his request on the ground of protecting British subjects from exposure to battle in the streets of Tampico which would have occurred if United States marines had landed. The United States had just killed over 100 Mexicans at Vera Cruz.”

PROGRESSIVES FOR WILSON

Resolutions Committee Says f*resident Is Real Progressive. New York, October 31.-—“ Without a candidate of our own for President we are unalterably in favor of the re-election of President Wilson, under whose guidance and leadership more progressive principles have been enacted into law than we believe might have been accomplished if the Progressive party was in power.’’

The above endorsement of President Wilson was contained today in a statement signed by eleven of the nineteen members of the Bull Moose resolution committee that drafted the Progressive platform in Chicago. Five of the remaining Progressives were said by Democrat leaders to be in accord with the sentiment of the statement, but refused to name their choice for President.

The statement said: “We, the members of the resolution committee, that formed the platform of the Progressive party on August 7, 1912, do hereby reaffirm our sincere allegiance to the progressive principles embodied in this platform and do herewith call the attention of the American people to the unparalleled achievements of the progressive legislation secured during the past four years. “Of thirty-three planks in the Progressive platform of 1912 twen-ty-two already have been wholly or partly enacted into law. The eighty propositions embodied in these planks more than half of them have been carried out by administration acts or by laws.”

THAT “ARGENTINE CORN” SCARE

Sad News for Republican Spellbinders in Market Reports. Chicago, November 2.—Assertions that rain in Argentina had been insufficient to relieve the drought there and that an embargo on exports from Argentina was under discussion did a good deal today to bring about a sharp advance in the price of wheat. Closing'quotations, although unsettled, were 2%c to 4 3-4 c net higher, with December at •>54,85 3-4 to $1.86, and May at $1.86 to $1.86 3-8. Corn gained 2 l-8c to 2%c and oats 3-4 c to 1 l-Bc. In provisions there were net losses of 20c to 22%c and 95c.

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ALVA D. HERSHMAN

* of Gillam township, who is the * * Democratic candidate for clerk * * of the Jasper circuit court, is * * a man exceptionally well quali- * * fled for this position and is as * * clean as a whistle. Mr. Hersh- * * man is a native of Jasper coun- • * ty and a former school teacher, * * He is a quiet and unassuming * * gentleman but is a man of * * capability and ia held in very * * high esteem by all who know * * him. If elected to this office * * the people of Jasper county * * may rest assured that it has * * fallen into good ands. •

DEVERE YEOMAN

has served one term as county surveyor and for business reasons at the time declined a second nomination. Even the opposition conceded that Mr. Yeoman was one of the most capable county surveyors Jasper county ever had. He is young and energetic and pushes work right along. The office of county surveyor in Jasper county is an important one indeed, and we should have a capable man in this place.' Vote for Mr. Yeoman November 7.

CAMPAIGNING COSTS MONEY

Parties and Candidates Make Statements of Expenditures. Campaign expenditures, state- ' ment of which was required to be filed in Washington ten days be--1 fore election, show that the Republican national committee spent sl,- > 578,934.38. The National Hughes Alliance reported contributions of $172,903, with J. P. Morgan, Clarence Mackay, George W. Perkins, i Louis Clarke, Harry F. Sinclair, Robert Windsor and F. C. Walcott j among the largest contributors. The Republican congressional com- ' mittee reported contributions of $316,930. 1 The Democratic congressional | committee reported receipts of $25,646 and expenditures and obligations of $41,383. The Woodrow j Wilson Independent league reported expenditures of $31,503.89, and the Democratic national committee’s report showed contributions of sl,j 176,000. Contributions to the Prohibition 'party amounted to $44,096.04, and the disbursements were $41,767.65. The largest single contribution listed was for $5,000. Campaign expenses of the Socialist party were estimated at £29,953.89. In the Tenth Indiana district Will R. Wood, Republican, reported expenditures of SBSO, and George iE. Hershman, Democrat, reported $99.

GAS WAR IN CARROLL COUNTY

Standard Oil Company Cuts Price on Independent Concerns. Carroll county Monday became the setting for a lively and interesting gasoline battle. The Standard Oil company has launched an assault against the independent oil and gasoline distributors of this vicinity and the first gun fired lowered the price of gasoline 1 cent. According to the independent agencies, the Rockefeller interests are seeking to obtain control of all the garage filling facilities by slumping the price until their rival concerns show the white flag. It is said the Rockefeller interests are offering the garage stations a percentage of 1 cent a gallon for the control of their gasoline fillers, thus cutting the retail price to 15% cents per gallon.— Delphi Journal.

GEORGE E. HERSHMAN

* now of Crown Point, who is the * * Democratic candidate for Con- * * gress from the _ 10th Indiana * * District, is a Jasper county boy * * and was born and raised in * * Walker township. He is a * * good clean young man and is * * deserving of the support of * * every voter who wants to see * * this sort man sent to our nat- * * ional congress. * * Especially should Mr. Hersh- •" * man receive a good big vote in * * Jasper county, which has ’ not • * had a representative in congress * * for nearly twenty-five years. *

****♦*♦*•**•♦** Col. W. A. McCurtain’s Sale Dates Phone Rensselaer, 926-R. Terms—l per cent. P. O. Address, Fair Oaks, Ind.,R-2. Nov. 9, Lee Myers; stock sale, 75 head of cattle,, Nov. 14, Oscar Russell; farm sale. Nov. 15, Jack Reeder; general sale. Dec. 6, Lewis Todd, general sale. Dec. 15, George Salrin; general sale, including 75 head of cattle. Dec. 27, Joe Thomas; general sale. Jan. 11, Dana Rishling, general sale. Feb. 14, John R. Lewis; Hampshire hog sale.

n m. We will call at your premises if within twenty miles of Rensselaer and remove all dead or undesirable animals. We disinfect the barns or pens in which animal has been kept, leaving the farm in sanitary condition. -And this is all done without expense to yon. B. & L. MFG. CO. Telephone 17 Rensselaer, Ind. Have toll calls charged to n^.

TEUTONS QUIT VAUX

BERLIN SAYB GERMANB EVAOUATED FORT NEAR VERDUN. Statement Declare* Garrison Was Withdrawn Following Terrific Bombardment by the French.

Berlin, Nov. 3. —Fort Vaux on the Verdun front has been evacuated by the Germans, it was officially announced by the german war office. Following a violent bombardment, during which hundreds of great French guns poured tons of steel upon the battered work, the Germans withdrew. A great deal of the fort had been demolished before the Germans withdrew'. Gains for both the Germans and allies were reported from the Somme front by the war office. The text of the official report follows: “Western front —Army group of Prince Rupprecht—ln the district north of the Somme river artillery activity has been locally renewed. An attempt by the English to advance north of Courcelette was easily repulsed. French attacks in the sectors of Les Boeufs and Rancourt brought small advantages to the dhemy northeast of Morva! and at the northwestern edge of the St. Pierre Vaast wood For the most part, however, these attacks were repulsed-with heavy losses. Our troops, in spite* of tenacious French resistance, made an advance in the northern part of Sailly-Saillisel. “Army group of the Crown Prince — The artillery duel on the right bank of the Meuse lias repeatedly increased to great intensity. The French have directed an especially heavy and destructive fire against Fort Vaux, which has been evacuated by us during the night in accordance with our military plans. Our troops were not disturbed by the enemy while carrying out this operation. Important parts of the fort were blown up by us before we evacuated it.”

Not German Submarine.

A then#, Nov. 3. —The German legation issued a statement-denying that a German submarine sank the Greek steamship Anghelika. It adds that German submarine warfare is “being conducted according to the laws of nations.”

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Nov. 2. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. ing. Dec. .....LS2%-53% 1.86% 1.81% 1.86%-W May 1.81%-82% 1.87 1.81% 1.86-86% July 1.46%-% 1.50 1.46% 1.49%-% CornDec 8374-84% .87% .83% .86% May 56%-% .89% .86% .88% July 86% .89% .86? .88% Oats— Dec 53%-% .54% .53% .54% May .. 57-57% .58%-% .56% .58%

FLOUR—Spring wheat, special brands in wood, $10.30 per bbl.; hard spring wheat patents, 95 per cent grade, in jute, $9.30® 10.10; straight in export bags, $9.10; first clears, $8.25 in jute; second clears, $6.00® 6.50; low grade, [email protected]; fancy soft winter wheat, patents, in jute, $8.70; standard soft winter wheat, patents, $8.60 in jute; fancy hard winter wheat, patents, $8.90 in jute; standard hard winter wheat, patents, $8.75 in jute; first clears, sß.oo® 8.15 in jute; second clears In Jute, $6.00® 6.50; pure white rye flour, $6.70 In jute; pure dark rye, $7.20 in jute. HAT—Market steady; choice timothy, [email protected]; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, [email protected]; No. 3 red top and grassy mixed timothy, [email protected]; light clover, mixed, [email protected]; heavy clover mixed, [email protected]; threshed timothy, $7.0fl @9.00; alfalfa, choice. [email protected]; alfalfa No. 1, [email protected]; alfalfa No. 2, $15.00® 16.00; Kansas and Oklahoma choice, $15.00 @15.50; No. 1, $13.50® 14.00; No. 2, $12.00® 13.00. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 35%c; extra firsts, 34%@34%c; firsts, 33@34c; seconds, 32®32%c; packing stock, 27%@28%c; ladles, 29%@30c; process^.3l@32c. EGGS— First, 31%@32%c; ordinary firsts, 29%@31c: miscellaneous lots, cases included, 25%@31%c; cases returned. 25@34c; extras, 37%@38%c; checks, 20@24c; dirties, 22@26c; refrigerators, Aprils, firsts, 30® 30%c; extras, 30@30%c. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 19c per lb.; fowls. 13@16c; spring chickens, 17c; roosters, 13c; ducks, 13<814%c; geese, 12@14c. DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys, dry picked, 25c; chickens, 16%®17%c; geese, 14@18c; ducks, 15@18q. POTATOES—Minnesota and Dakota Ohios, [email protected] per bu.; Minnesota white, [email protected]; Wisconsin white, $1.50@L70. SWEET POTATOES Bbls., Jerseys, $4.25; Virginias, [email protected]; hampers, Jerseys, [email protected]. New York, Nov. 2. WHEAT—Higher; trade fair; No. $ red, $1.93%; No. I northern, $2.06%; No. 2 hard, $1.99%. CORN—Easier; inquiry is fairly good; No. 2 yellow, $1.11; Argentine, sl.lß delivered. OATS—Firmer; trading is inactive; No. 2 white, 60 Vic; standard, 69%c; No. I white. 59%c; No. 4 white, 58%c. Live Stock. Chicago, Nov. 2. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $9.00® 11.75; yearlings, good to choice, $9.25®11.40; fair to good steers. [email protected]; range steers [email protected]; stockers and feedeiy, [email protected]; good to choice heifers, [email protected]; fair to good cows, [email protected]; butcher bulls, $6.00® 7.23; canners, [email protected]; cutters, [email protected]; bologna bulls, $0.75®6.15; good to prime calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime light butchers, [email protected]; fair to fancy light, $9.75®10.06; prime medium weight butchers, 200®226 lbs., $9.86® 10.20; prime heavy weight butchers, 226® 300 lbs., [email protected]; heavy mixed packing, [email protected]; rough heavy mixed packing, [email protected]; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]. SHEEP—Yearlings, [email protected]; fair to choice ewes, [email protected]; breeding ewes, $7.00 @9.00; wethers, fair to choice, [email protected]! western lambs, [email protected]; feeding lambs, [email protected]; native lambs, [email protected].

East Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 2. CATTLE—Market slow; prime steers. [email protected]; butcher grades, [email protected]. CALVES—Market active and 25c higher; cull to choice, [email protected]. SHEEP AND LAMBS-Market active; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, sß.oo® 10.25; yearlings. [email protected]; sheep. $4.00®8.25 "HOGS— Market active and 5c higher; Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, [email protected]; heavy, slo.2s@l<Mo; roughs! staes 17 HOAX Bl .

***■ head notice* will b* pubJ""***, V O6ll1 -*" word for the I '2-cent-per-word for each &d----,n*e cti°u. To save book-keeping cash should be sent' with notice. No no*l°® for less than twenty-five ®® nts > o ut short notices coming within al » ve rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may be—for 26 T^ here replles f-re sent in The Democrat s care, postage will be charged , auch re P lles h> the adver- ~ ~ Forsale For Sale—-Some good doors and windows.—SYLVESTER GRAY. For Sale—Coming 4-year-old bay horse colt, driver, not broke, wt. about 950. Cash or bankable note. —DANA RiSHLING, Gifford, Indira. n-5 For Sale—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale or Rent—A new 4-room cottage on a fine lot, with considerable fruit, located in Kniman. — ROBERT MICHAL, Kniman, Ind. ts For Sale—Radiant Home base burner, almost like new. Can be seen at Warner Bros. ' hardware store.—Call PHONE 9 4 3-D. n-4 For Sale—One surrey, very nearly as good as new; 1 set livery harness; 1 one-horse mowing machine; 1 range stove; 1 five-tooth cultivator; l sausage grinder; I bedstead; churn.—F. M. PARKER. Phone 217. n-24

For Sale—My property on corner of Franklin and Plum streets; lot 75x180 feet; 8-room house with all modern conveniences, city water, electric lights; 112-barrel cistern; good driven well;, new garage built this spring and new chicken house. Everything in good condition.—J. A. KEISTER. Phone 535. n-12 For Sale—9-room modern house, hot water heat, electric light, city water, etc.; house is nearly new. Almost five acres of ground with house, and has lots of fruit; located three blocks from court house, on improved street. Am offering property for sale on account of poor health.—MßS. A. GANGLOFF. n-10 For Sale—24o acreg of land, one mile north of Kersey, with new sixroom house, new barn with cement’ foundation and room for eight head of horses, new double grainery, which will hold 4,000 bushels of corn. This land is known as the Frank G. Ray farm. It is appraised at $75 an acre. Will be sold at the office of Charlee G. Spitler at Rensselaer on Thursday, November 9, 1916, at 10 o’clock a. m. Must be sold to settle an estate.—JOSEPH B. ROSS, executor of the will of Frank G. Ray, deceased, Lafayette, Indiana. n-9 ——* For Sale—Three houses of 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. HOPKINS. ts

For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west es Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr. ts - j 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, bam 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—Six-room bouse, newly papered. Enquire of MOSE LEOPOLD. WANTED ’ Wanted—Married man, wife capable of managing bouse on ranch. —Call JAMES E. WALTER, phone 337. ts Wanted—Two or three lady roomers. Steam heat and all modern conveniences.—MßS. MARY D EGER. Phone 170. n-8 Wanted Cheap typewriter, in good condition.—THE DEMOCRAT.

___ LOST Lost—Saturday a traveling bag containing note books and clothing, some place between Rensselaer and Remington, with t&g on handle with name and address, “W. M. English, Lafayette, Indiana.” Reward if returned to this office. n -4 FINANCIAL Money to Loan—6 per cent farm loans.—JOHN A, DUNLAP. ts Mntnal Insurance— Fire and lightning, Also state cyclone. Inquire ol M. I. ADAMS, phone 633-L. Farm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 6 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after & U SON ap ' proved -' —CHAS - J - DEAN Farm Loans-—Money to loan on farnr property in any sums up to slo,ooo.—e. p. HONAN. I( Pi IIIP Omaiata Uul llll) Charge* fn n Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON