Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1920 — Page 2
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“WE ARE THE PEOPLE”
The Indianapolis Star, the official Republican organ of the Indiana g. o. p., has this to say about the Lodges and Jim Watsons who propose to let the people rule in the coming presidential convention, but declare that “we are the people”: The Washington correspondents inform us leading senators, including Messrs. Lodge of Massachusetts and Watson of Indiana, have a neat plan to go to Chicago in June and there formulate the Republican party’s views on men and things, approve the course of these seltsame senators at Washington, and Incidentally, no doubt, select the president and vice-president from among their own number. All of which is a travesty on sense and decency and repugnant to every idea of fair play and sound party policy. As we understand it, the Republican party 7 assembles once every four years to name its candidates and declare its policies. Republican members of congress may be supposed to learn from these mass conventions what the party expects and demands of them. If they are themselves to control that convention and dictate its actions, then we might as well dispense with the convention entirely, and humbly ask the senators to frame resolutions commending them for all they have done, good or bad, and meekly sup-
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plicating them to name the candidates. Another sinister aspect of the matter is the determination of the senators to control and carry out the voice of their states in the presidential selection. That is one reason we have the direct primaries—to get away from the control of everything by self-appointed delegates from the senate, the house and the state organizations. If Indiana goes for Wood, there could be no more ghastly joke or rape of popular sovereignty than for the representation at Chicago to be grabbed off by men whose chief alm Is to beat Wood out of the nomination. The same would be true of Lowden if he carries a state, or Harding, or (horrible thought!) Herbert Hoover, at whose specter on the horizon half of these self-anointed statesmen are shaking with fear. If Wood or Lowden or Harding carries the state, then the state convention should select a Wood or or a Lowden or a Harding delegation. What we are at, if we are honest men, is to obtain and carry out the voice of the people. What these plotters are after is merely the protection of their own status and the advancement of their own fortunes. It is plain to be seen that the uprising against the boss control of the Republican party, so pronounced in 1912, has not yet achieved its end, which was the substitution of control from the ground up for control from the top down. The men elevated to places of honor and trust within the party assumed to run everything with an iron hand. How deep was the resentment at their effrontery was abundantly shown in the election of 1912, when the archie tects of ruin at Chicago in June were shown in November to have with them only a minority of the party, even including these who swarmed under the banner of regularity, in spite of their disapproval of what had been done. There is widespread disapproval of certain senatorial operations at Washington. How general is it? To what extent is the course pursued there acceptable to the Republican rank and file? At the national convention we should be able to find out. But this is not what the senators want. They propose to take no chances. They will sit as judges of their own acts. They will meet there and resolve that they have done well. They will see to it that no man is nominated whom they can not control. They will frame up a platform saying in effect that the senators will be perfectly all right if they do whatever they dumbed please. This is not popular government- It is autocracy. It should not be allowed.
FOREIGN COMMERCE AND DOMESTIC POLITICS
Through the insistence of Democratic members of the house of rep-
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resentatives, Republican leaders of that branch of congress have been compelled to restore an appropriation of 1325,000 for the foreign trade bureau, after having attempted to cripple that agency by cutting in half the amount requested by the department of commerce. Inquiry shows that American exports during the first three months of the current year have rapidly declined in volume and value. Unless there is a governmental as well as a private effort to retain our foreign trade and extend it to new markets there is certain to be a further shrinkage of exports, accompanied by disturbance of domestic conditions. England and France are slowly but unmistakably renewing their former industrial activity, and soon will be producing in their own factories many of the manufactures that they are now buying in the United States. Until the latest upheaval interrupted Germany’s recovery she too was making progress toward Industrial rehabilitation. With a decrease in European demand for products of American manufacture, the makers and exporters of this country will have to extend their markets in Latin America and the Orient. It is for this purpose that the department of commerce requested congress to finance the foreign trade bureau, so that it might enlarge outlets and find new opportunities for American exports. The chamber of commerce and various commercial organizations saw the imperative necessity of some such stimulus. The department of commerce appreciated the situation and made proper and seasonable provision. Only Republican leadership in congress was oblivious or indifferent to a great problem.
The steering committee is the supreme authority in the house of representatives. The Republican jority is domineered by seven men who undertake to decide not only what *is good for their party, but also what is beneficial for the country. The entire membership of the house has been forced to surrender to this committee all control and direction of legislation. The people of the country, including Republican voters, would be surprised, no doubt, to learn that only seven of 435 representatives are deemed fit to determine what the nation needs and should have. Many are the signs that Republican candidates will expect to ride into office and power next November on the railroad bill. It is the only affirmative thing the g. o. p. has done in a special session of more than six months and a regular session of four months —and that bit of legislation is of very doubtful value. In comparison with the Important ■work left undone, and even untouched, this single enactment' will not be very imposing. Pretty soon the people will begin to inquire into the accomplishments of the Republican congress, and that will be one investigation that the g. o. p. won’t welcome.
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PRETENDED FRIENDS OF THE NAVY
While a committee of the Republican senate la “Upping" an admiral who at first appeared likely to produce a “scandal” for the purposes of the g. o. p.’s presidential campaign—but at the expense of the navy’s glory and the country’s honor —the Republican congress is incurring the guilt either of neglect or refusal to provide adequate pay and decent conditions for the officers and enlisted men of the navy. Many of the personnel are leaving the service and the morale of the whole institution is suffering. It is growing difficult to induce others to take their places. Even a newspaper like the Washington Post, which has been a champion of many Republican leaders and policies, has condemned the failure of congress to Uke action on the bill to Increase the pay of the enlisted m|en. “Without any desire to be sensational,” says a special writer for the Post, “it is only the solemn truth to state that the navy today is not ready for any sort of emergency, and could not be made ready for many 'months. . . . It is undermanned.” The writer makes it plain that the fault is with congress, which, he says, "must determine to maintain a first-class navy in first-class fighting trim, or it must determine to abolish the navy altogether.” Meantime a committee of senatois is listening attentively nearly every day to the tale of an omniscient admiral, who is modestly admitting that everything that was right and successful in the naval warfare against Germany was original with him, and that everything that was wrong or resultless was of the other fellow’s invention. The Republicans seem to believe that in some fashion this disparagement of the American navy will enhance their chances at the next election. The most solemn and important duty the Republican senate could have performed was that of bringing peace. The senate has made Its action nothing less than a farce. History will depict these senators in the character they have deserved —that is, as politicians entrusted with the work of statesmen.
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DDIMPCQO Thursday and Friday rnlllbLOO April 8 and 9 NELL SHIPMAN in ‘Back to God’s Country’ From the story “Wapi, the Walrus” by James Oliver Curwood h jßlb ■ W SwWill PraHOk X t. A A He had seen Dalores come dripping from the stream and tiptoed forward to seize her. Suddenly from a chasm in the rocks a great bear arose, growling fiercely, and the girl snuggled behind it Never a film like this. Winter scenes and Wapi's great fight for Dalores’ life actually photographed up in the Arctic Circle, (North of 53°) 16 varieties of wild animals. An actual battle between a powerful, savage Dane wolf dog and an entire team of Malmutes is something you never have seen. A nMTCCTAM Adults, 30c-war tax 3c, - - total 33c AVKLIO3IUIN “Children, 15c, war tax 20, - total 170 A FIRST NATIONAL. ATTRACTION
FOR SALE For Sale—Two bronze turkey gobblers.—MßS. JOSEPHINE BULLIS, Remington, R-3. alO For Sale—7-room residence, well located, close to churches and school. Terms. FLOYD MEYERS. For Sale at Bargains—All kinds of second-hand automobiles. Come in and look them over, tn me white-front garage.—KUBOSKE & WALTER. ts For Sale— 1 3-4 horse International gas engine, good as new, used only about 10 days.—KUBOSKE & WALTER Garage. ts For Sale—Pure-bred Barred Plymouth Rock eggs, $1 per setting; $6 per 100.— MRS. NICK SCHMITTER, phone 922-D. al4 For Sale—4 geldings and 2 mares 4 years old; 2 cultivators; 1 mower; 1 disc, 10-foot; 1 spader, 8-foot. Would trade for wind pump or tractor disc. —JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l, phone Mt. Ayr 92-D. alO For Sale—A Mogul" tractor, 8-16, with Oliver chilled plow. Also some good brood sows, some with pigs, others to farrow shortly.—RAY D THOMPSON. For Sale—Windsor player piano, nearly new, with 25 rolls, cabinet and bench. First check for $450 gets this fine Instrument or will accept bankable note. Address BOX 24, Wheatfield, Ind., R-l. alO For Sale—l9lß Ford Touring car, In good running order; tires all new. —J. M. ALLEN, phone 950-F, Fair Oaks, Ind. alO Eggs for Setting—Pure-bred Buff Orpingtons, $1 per 15 if taken from my place; $1.50 if to be shipped via parcel (post.—JAMES E. GILMORE, Rensselaer, R-2. jnl For Sale—lOO-acre farm, well drained, most all level, black soil; 5-room house, good barn. Corn cribs, good well, fine orchard land all In cultivation. Can Wve good terms on this. Price SBO per acre.—CHAS. J. DEAN * SON. ts For Sale—Some real bargains In well Improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains In Improved farms of all sizes farther out from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499, home- — HARVEY DAVISSON. ts For Sale—96 acres of the best land near Niles, Mich.; fine stream,
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very good buildings, including bank barn. This is In fine shape and not a pound of sand on the place. Adjoining properties held at S2OO. Will sell for $l4O, Including wheat and clover crop. Possession any time or will let A-l tenant remain. Positively will not trade. Owner H. S. EVANS, 826 Webster Bldg., Chicago. als FOR For Rent—s-room house In Parr, small barn and truck patch therewith. Call 939-D or write me at Parr.—CLYDE GUNYON. ts For Rent—The lower floor of the I. O. O. F. building at Gifford; is suitable for a store and has been previously used as such. Enquire CHARLES BRITT, Gifford, phone 923-B. ts Pasture for Rent by the Acre—9o acres east of Pleasant Ridge, and two pastures of 90 acres each and one of 200 acres at Fair Oaks. — Call ERNEST BEAVER, 938-1. ts WANTED Trucking Wanted—l have a new ton truck and solicit business in this line. If you have moving or any other trucking to do, call 473. —FRANK HAMER. if Wanted—To hire threshing machine to thresh 900 to 1,000 acres, 1% to 3% miles northwest of Mt. Ayr. —John S. Fry, Grover Makeever and Alex Elijah, committee, R. F. D., Fair Oaks. a 8 Wanted—The Lincoln Mutual Casualty Co., Springfield, 111., desires a local agent to sell a complete line of AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE. Liberal commissions. Write giving particulars and references. —C. E. PERKINS, Dist. Mgr., 1639 Prairie Ave., South Bend, Ind. a2B
LOST Lost —Tuesday, between Rensselaer and Mt. Ayr, a 32x4 automobile tire chain— HARRY GALLAGHER, phone 944-B. . alO Lost—Package containing two photographs tied In newspaper, some place between my home and Rensselaer. Finder please leave at The Democrat office. —ARCH LINTON, Remington, R-4. F I NANCIAL Farm Lnsw Money to loan on farm property 1* any cams ap to $lO, •••.—>. P. HONAN. « Money to Loan—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Odd Fellowa’ Building, Rensselaer. ts —■ Money to Doan—l have an unlimited supply of money to loan on good farm lands at 5H% and usual commission or 6 % without) commission, as desired. Leans will be made for 5 years, 7 years, 10 years or 20 years. See mo about these various plans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts