Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — Page 2

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The Indiana Forum, an independent Democrat paper, lays the loss of Indiana to the Taggart state organization, which has been too cocksure of success, and have not kept up with progressive ideas. The following article is taken from the Indiana Forum: Truth is a very unkind creature, and yet it must be served. Indiana Democracy has been destroyed by its own child; it has reaped the whirlwind of its own folly. The people of Indiana believe they have chastised the political boss and the regime of the “personal organization.” The Republican party did not win the election in Indiana. The Taggarts, Crittenbergers, Korblys, Bells, Cooks lost The responsibility can not be shifted. This party disaster has been brought about by the ruthless, selfish policy of that inner ring that has ruled the Democratic Party in Indiana for many years with a rod of iron. The Democratic party had nothing to offer the people, but a coterie of big and little bosses in whom the public long since had lost confidence. The result should not have been a surprise. It was to be expected. It was the logical conclusion of recent events within the Democratic party. Mr. Taggart’s own organization was irr-absolute control. It made up the ticket. It had its way in the primary, it had its way in the convention, it had its the platform, it had its way in the campaign. To it be the glory. How well we remember the ridicule heaped upon us during the primary fight when we were telling the state organization that Adair could not be elected! The evidence was clear to all except those who would not see. How wg were scoffed at when we insisted that unless Joe Bell was made to keep his hands off the Marion county situation there was no hope! All that could be said for us then was that we were suffering from sour grapes; that we were playing second fiddle to the Indianapolis News; that we were wild idealists, impractical reformers, knowing nothing about practical politics. On February 26, 1916, in an editorial “Hnnest Democracy and Our Standard Bearer,'” we said: “The honest Democracy is stronger than ever before in Indiana. If it were given leadership in its state ticket that would in

some degree measure up to the leadership of President Wilson and John W. Kern, the Democratic majority in Indiana next November would be the largest in the history of the party. “To attempt to force a machinemade, brewery-supported candidate onto the ticket and to commit the party to a wishy-washy, gold-brick platform dictated by breweries and bosses, is to kill all hope of Democratic success. “What is done in Indiana toward getting a capable state ticket and a party platform that rings true with the Wilsonian administration means more than defeat or victory for the state ticket. It means defeat or victory for Wilson and Kern and it means defeat or victory for the men who spend their money in campaigns for county office. “We want a leader at the head of the state ticket who can get the vote of the honest Democracy of this state and who will appeal to the progressive Republican in this state who doesn’t care to tolerate Hamilton’s methods. "Honest Democracy is against machine rule in the party. There is the most determined opposition to the kind of leadership that gave us the shame of Terre Haute and that has split the Democracy of Marion County in five pieces* “Can J. A. M. Adair coming from the atmosphere of that fatal leadership undo what has been done in the party in Indiana? Can he, with Taggart and Crittenberger behind him. get that great volume of voters who have been crying out against these Taggart-Bell policies for years? “He most certainly cannot. His nomination spells certain defeat. Not only defeat for John Adair, but his nomination immediately jeopardizes the chances of Woodrow Wilson in Indiana, it places John W. Kern where his battle is almost hopeless, it places every county candidate in the place where he not only has to fight his own battle, but he has to fight Adair’s battle and carry the Taggart burden while he fights. '“Mr. Crittenberger and Mr. Van Nuys were present at the meeting of the Irish-American Democratic club in Indianapolis last Wednesday night. They know what took place there. If they are as patriotic to Democratic principles and lo the party as they pretend to be, lot them carry the word to the l owers that be of what took place in that club. Let them tell Mr. Adair and Mr. Bell that revolt is in the air; let them nail this fatal confidence in the ability of the machine to get by with whatever it undertakes. Let them say to those in high places what they must know is true, that a machine slate, even if John Adair is on it, is absolutely fatal to victory in November.” This wasn’t “hind-sight.” We made this statement in February, nine months before the election, it was plain to us that time that the old organization in Indiana was driving the party to destruction and defeat, and it was plain to thousands of progressive Democrats throughout the state. The Democratic party of Indiana would not listen to the progressive spirit that was abroad in the land. The old horses were brought out for the race. There was no attempt made to get a progressive ticket, every effort was made to build a reactionary platform, the brewery crowd was permitted to have its own way in that platform, and then 'the Fleming crowd went to St. Louis and there put Indiana in the attitude of being out of harmony with the national administration. That was true. There was nothing in common between Wilson and Steve Fleming. There was nothing in common between the national Democratic platform and the Indiana state platform. The first was a platform of Democracy; the latter I a platform of brewery plutocracy. J And what happened?

Why, the very brewery crowd to which our leadership had been playing went out and pulled the trap on the party after it had seduced it. Will any Democrat who is in a position to know of what he speaks saj that the liquor vote remained with the Democratic ticket? - < Some of it, yes. Most of it, no. It played its own game. After having put its trade-mark on the back of Democracy so that the vast number of voters who are against the liquor interests would flock to the opposition, much of that liquor vote crept in along with the drys. That is the way the liquor interests double-cross the drys. Tying up in the open with one party, the liquor crowd swung the dry vote to the other party, to which the liquor interests, of course, are tied by a hidden and secret bond. The Democratic having the power to put up its old pensioners, presumed on Wilson’s strength. It proposed to set up its decrepit favorites at the pie counter again, believing that Wilson would pull the ticket through. Having kicked every decent element in the party in the face, when the. fight was on, the organization began to cry, “Line up for Wilson.’’ It urged those who had been insulted, ignored and mocked to “vote her straight,” for fear of losing Wilson. It knew all Indiana contributed was a drag. Mr. Adair went before the people on but one proposition. His-whole case is summed up in this: “Thank God for Wilson.” When he wanted to change the tune a little, he said, “Ralston Paid the State Debt.” But not a word of what Adair did, less of what he intended to do. He sought office on the record of two other men. Let us face the trqth in time to revive and rejuvenate the Democratic party in Indiana. The Republican party won by no merit of its own. Its victory is builded on the demerits of its opposition. The resurrection day is at hand. The day is near when we can have a truly Democratic party in Indiana, a party that will fill the place which would have been filled by the Progressive party had it not been basely betrayed. Democracy is not dead in Indiana. It has asserted itself. It has thrown off its tyrants. Perhaps it has installed other tyrants, but it has at least the novelty of a new master. That such men as Kern, Zoercher, Schlosser and men of their type were dragged down to defeat is deplorable, but it is according to the inexorable law. The just suffer with the unjust. Marion county lost. The state ticket lost. The national, ticket defeated in Indiana. Who led us to this station of circumstances and glory?

MORE EGGS

Thf>- prevailing high prices for food supplies of every kind ought to set the farmer to thinking. He can materially increase his income, says the department of agriculture, if he cares to increase it—especially under conditions as they are at present and as they probably will continue to be for some time to come. Attention is called, for instance, to the fact that the average farm hen lays only sixty-three eggs a year, while the average hen in the pens of the poultry specialist lays about 200 in the same period. It is the farm hen, however, that supplies more than 90 per cent of the eggs consumed by the nation. These facts, the department suggests, are worth considering. They are facts, though, that ought to be considered, in most instances, by the farmer’s wife. It is she, rather than the farmer himself, who takes care of the farm flock. If she can be persuaded to devote a little time to the study of poultry feeding, of selection, of housing and similar details of poultry raising, she could soon become possessed of a flock producing twice as many eggs annually at a cost only slightly, if, indeed, any, greater, than the cost accruing in supporting the flock that lays only the poor average of sixty-three eggs a year. Records from the state of Missouri show that farmers—or their wives—who by county agents or other influence were induced to experiment with scientific poultry feeding doubled their egg production almost immediately. The hens went to work. And the additional labor involved on the farmer’s part was too insignificant to ( be considered. It has been demonstrated by practical trial that the proper housing of poulticy together with scientific feeding will double the profits from the ordinary farm flock. There is no theory in this; it is proved fact. The department, accordingly, and all the various state experiment stations as well, urge the farmer to devote some of the less busy days of fall and winter to the construction of poultry houses of approved plan and to a little study of scientific feeding. He is already ’ keenly appreciative of what the latter will do in the way of increasing his product of beef and pork. Why not carry the same ideas into the field of his poultry flock? If 25,000 Indiana farmers were to begin tomorrow to convert the farm hen into a profitable producing instrument instead of what she is now—little more than a liability—these farmers would not only serve themselves to advantage, but the public as well.

WHY YOUR TIRES BLOW OUT

“Underinflation” Bends the Fabric and Generates Beat. Ask a tiremaker why tires break down and he will promptly answer “underinflation” or “overloading,” which is the same thing. A highly inflated tire is almost as hard as solid rubber. Let out some -of the air, and its springiness increases. Since most of us ride for the joy of it, we are inclined to pump air into our tires too sparingly. The car bowls along easily; the tire absorbs all the shocks. But all the time the underinflated tire fabric is bending and bending at the sides, thousands and thousands of times, until at last the heated interior walls weaken and a loud explosion breaks upon the air. That incessant bending and straightening of side walls to which a tire is subjected generates heat. Bend a piece of wire back and forth in your hand many times and it will become so hot that your fingers can not hold it. Heat, similarly generated, breaks the chemical union between the inner fabric and the outer, rubber and reduces a tire to separate layers. No longer” are the strains equally distributed. One layer is pulled this way, another that way—moreover, with unequal forces. Blisters, corrugations, bumps large and small, appear on the surface. Tires are popularly supposed to blow out because they have been heated by the sun. No tire manufacturer makes allowances for hot weather. It is true that heat expands, but the amount of expansion due to the sun alone is negligible. A certain degree of heat is geherjj|ted in running over the road. But even that does not increase the air pressure as much as motor car owners believe. If the temperature of the air is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (cold enough to freeze water), if the tire is blown up to a pressure of seventy-two pounds a square inch and if the rise in the tire’s temperature at the end of a run is thirtyfive degrees, the total pressure within the tube will be seventyeight pounds, an increase of only six pounds. But if the thermometer records ninety degrees, as it often does on a summer’s day, the rise in temperature at the end of an equivalent run will be only thirtythree degrees, and the total air pressure 77)4 pounds, an increase of only 5 % pounds. Paradoxical as it may seem, the increase in pressure due to the sun’s heat is not nearly so great as motor car users suppose. For a given distance, it, is actually less on a hot than on a cold day.—Waldemar Kaemffert in McClure’s Magazine.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Goodbye, old town, I’m going home, to shuck the corn and plow the loam, to prune the tree and train the vine, and feed with swill the shrieking swine. I was not built for urban life, for city tricks and city strife, and every time I walk the street I’m euchred by some smiling beat, who sees in me an easy hick, and sells me a goldplated brick. I’m always buying costly shares in ginseng plants and Belgian hares, in silver mines and orange groves, and mills that turn out wooden cloves. The smiling fakers of the town! I simply cannot turn them down. They charm me with their sunny smiles, they fascinate me with their wiles, and sell me, from their catalogues, tin motor cars and hairless dogs, and remedies that grow new hair on domes of thought that long were bare, and lithographs of Statesman Hughes, and ships and sealing wax and shoes. Tomorrow, if you look for me, my form in town you will not see, though you may rake it with a comb—-goodbye, old town, I’m going home!

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CHICAGO, IMOIACf ArOMS A LOUIS WILLS RV RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect October, 1915 NORTHBOUND No. 36 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:51a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 5:01 a.m. xt 0 ’ to £* f ayette to Chicago 7:30 a.m. No. 32 Indlanap s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indianap’s to Chicago 2:51 p.m. N°- Louisville to Chicago 3:31 p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:50 p.m. SOUTHBOUND No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 1:38 a.m. No. Chicago to Louisville 10:55 am. N 0.37 Chicago to Cincinnati 11:17 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Indianap’s 1:57 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 5:60 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Cincinnati 7:31p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m. CHICAGO & WABASH VALLEY RY. Effective Match 20, 1916. * Southbound Northbound Arr. Read up Lv. Read down No.l No. 8 | No. 4 P.M. AM. P.M. a&pm 5:20 7:05 McCoysburg 6:10 11:10 •5:13 *7:00 Randle *6:15 *ll-17 *5:05 *6:54 Della *6:26 nLU T M ° od y 6:27 11:85 •4.45 *6:41 Lewiston *6:84 411:46 4:37 6:38 Newland 6:40 11:58 4:28 6:29 Gifford 6:46 12:01 *4:16 *6:20 Laura *6'55 *l2-14 *4:01 -*6:10 McGlinn *7:05 nr 39 3:56 6:06 Zadoc 7:08 12-24 Calloway *7:11 *12«38 3.40 s:ssKersey7:20 12:50 •Stops on Signal. ’ CONNECTIONS. No. .i—" Connects with C.1.4L. Train No. 40 northbound, leaving McCoysbura 7:18 a. m. C. I & L. Train No. 5 will stop on signal at McCoysburg to let off or take on passengers to or from C. A W. V. points. M No .; Q 3— Co£ nect3 with C. I. & L. Train No. 39 southbound and No. 30 northbound. Train No. 30 wil stop on signal at McCoysburg for C. & W. V. passengers to Chicago or Hammond. All trains daily except Sunday.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spitler C1erk........ Charles Morlan Treasurer... Charles M. Sand* Attorney Moses Leopold Marshal Vern Robinson Civil Engineer.... W. F. Osborne Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery Fire Warden....J. J. Montgomery Councilmen Ist Wardßay Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Frank King At Large. .Rex Warner, F. Kresler JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney-Reuben Hess Terms of Court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS £l erk S. S. Shedd Sheriff b. D. McColly Auditor....,j. p. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott SurveyorM. B. Price Coroner E. Johnson County Assessor...G. L. Thornton Health Officer. .Dr. F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS lst District H. W. Marble 2nd DistristD. S. Makeever 3rd District... Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter James Stevens Gillam Warren E Poole.. Hanging Grove John KolhoffJordan E- P a^ ls Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Harvey Wood, jr Marion George FoulksMilroy John Rush Newton George Hammerton Union <s Sa £ ,n Walker Albert S Keene..Wheatfield E. Lamson, Co. Supt... Rensselaer Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer

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