Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — Page 1

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GOVERNOR COX IN LAFAYETTE

Next President to Speak in That City Next Tuesday Evening. Governor James M. Cox of Ohio, Democratic nominee for president, will speak in Lafayette next Tuesday evening, Oct. 12, at 7:30 o’clock from a platform erected on the east side of the court house. Governor Cox will also speak at several other points in Indiana Wednesday—Delphi, 9:25 a. m.; Logansport, 11 a. m.; Peru, 12.42 p. m.; Wabash, 2:23 m.; Huntington, 4:08 p. m., and Ft. Thayne, 6:16 p. m— bdt these speeches will be but 25 minutes each, and th? Lafayette speech will be the better one to hear by people of Jasper county and of this section of the state, as it is an easy matter ib drive, to Lafayette, hear the speech and get back home by 12 or 1 o’clock at night. Quite* a number of local Democrats have already expressed their intention of driving down, to La-, fayette to *see and hear Mr. Cox next Tuesday evening.

WHY MR. MCCRAY’S SILENCE

On His Connections With the Sawers Grain Company of Chicago? Why is it that “Fanner” McCray never says a word in his speeches before farmer audiences regarding the well-known sact —in this part of the state, at least —that he 13 a banker and stock broker, or “board of trade" man, but Instead bombastically and erroneously proclaims himself a farmer? Is he ashamed of being a banker? Surely there is nothing dishonorable in this 'balling. Of course, as to his vice-presidency and controlling spirit in the Sawers Grain Co., a Chicago board of trade concern, .many people have little use for that sort of business and he may ? »a exercising very good Judgment in '.•Arming to keep his connection with “such a concern from the real hon-est-to-God farmer. Up in this part of the state it -is well known that be IS connected with the* above “board of trade” concern, and his assessment sheets on file in the auditor’s office in Kentland, in answer to the question, stocks owned in. other corporations? says: “The Sawers Grain Co., assessed in Illinois/’ ‘ But the people are entitled to know a candidate’s connections with such concerns, and if Mr. McCray Is the straightforward, honest man his political friends claim he is, he will frankly tell them the- truth, that he is the vice-president and a heavy stockholder in sajd grain company, and that the business of said company is dealing in “futures” on the board of trade.

GOODBYE, MOIKE —SO LONG! * Republican papers of this district are saying, with great gusto, that Viko Duffy of Fowler made a speech at -a Republican meeting held at Brook last Friday In which he announced that he had left the Demodratic party and gone over to the Republicans. Good! t Moike has been a source of considerable annoyance to the Democrats for the last quarter of a century and no doubt the Republicans vrill find him the same way. We do not remember of a Democratic campaign but what Moike has had hia hand out for an -office and he was just as regularly turned down. For the past 15 or 20 years he has thought that he was, the only Democrat that could be elected to congress from this district, but the delegates always saw it differently, much to Moike’s disgust, and he never got a look-in for the nomination/ Goodbye, Moike, may your new associates recognise your peculiar qualities of statesmanship and your unexampled ability as a vote getter, and that your great desire of many, many long years- to break into office and go down to Washington, D. C., may be gratified through your new found friends, whom you have repeatedly denounced —when wanting something from the Democrats—ll 4 'rms that did great credit to the 1 . language.

A HER FIRST VOTE TO BE FOR COX

. South Bend, Oct. 6.—Mrs. Anna A- Hvan, age 90, is supposed to be oldest woman in St Joseph Snty who h registered for the ■ Jmfng election. She has been a resident of the United States since 1845, inyrhlch year she came from County ClanMlreland. She willvote for James M. Cox for president

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COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

intsnstlngPirainphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL Legal News Epitomized — Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us - From ths Various County Offices. The appellate court has denied appellant’s petition for a rehearing in the Robert Catherwood vs. Cornelia H. Catherwood case, appealed from the Jasper circuit court and recently affirmed. Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 6, Ivan \Vesley Snow of Rensselaer, aged 21 Oct 1 last, laborer, and Lavina Mae Stanton of Newland, aged 18 Oct. 16 last, housekeeper. First marriage for each. Sheriff T. D. Woodworth went to Gary Thursday and brought back with him Frank whom he arrested on an affidavit filed by his wife for non-support of their child. It is understood that the young man agreed to make provision for the support of the child and was allowed to return to his work. T. B. Cunningham of Kentland, Democratic nominee for circuit judge, was in the city on business yesterday. “Ted” is a good lawyer and is well liked by everyone who 1 knoWs him. If elected judge of this circuit everyone having litiga-| tion in court will get a Square deaf so far as it is in his power to give it to them. I Miss Madeline Fancher died at the home of Mrs. Joseph Myers on south Front street at about 11:80 o’clock Tuesday night, after an extended illness"* from tuberculosis. Miss Fancher was without any near relatives 'and had been cared for by the county for the past year or more, having lived in a canvas house < which was first put up on the county hospital grounds but later removed to the Mrs: Myers home. The funeral services were held at the Wil- j 11am Warren residence in Fair, Oaks । at 10 o’clock Thursday morning and burial made in the Fair Oaks cemetery. Her age was 23 years.

Following is the registration of Sept. 4 and Oct. 4, complete in Jasper county: — September 4 Men W. Tl. Barkley, East 51 22 73 Barkley, South 63 44 107 Barkley, West 60 29 89 Carpenter, East 146 161 307 Carpenter, West 117 78 195 Carpefiter, South ...... 137 137 274 Gillam 66 54 120 Hanging Grove v...... 74 59 133 Jordan - 94 53 147 Kankakee — *9l 46 137 Keener 123 76 199 Marion, No. 1 187 192 379 Mlarlon, No. 2 249 241 490 Marion, No. 3 153 116 269 Marion, No. 4 183 181 364 Milroy 26 30 56 Newton 69 56 126 Union; North 73 42 115 Union, South 88 55 143 Walker : 78 42 120 Wheatfield 141 109 250 Totals ....2269 1823 4003 October 4 Men W. Tl. Barkley, East ..... 59 36 95 Barkley, South 32 22 54 Barkley, West ..... 30 35 65 Carpenter, East 49 57 106 Carpenter, West 61 57 118 Carpenter, South ...... 27 39 66 Gillam - ........ 65 56 121 Hanging Grove 34 34 68 Jordan — 69 59 128 Kankakee M-— 44 50 96 Keener 124 83 207 Marlon, No. 1 96 94 190 Marion, No. 2 110 107 217 Marlon, No. 3 64 69 133 Marlon, No. 4 65 .54 119 Milroy 46 28 74 Newton 71 55 126 Union, North ...._— 'B2 50 132 Union, South 67 59 126 Walker 75 64 139 Wheatfield — 115 87 202 Totals .— 1385 1195 2582 Grand totals ... 3654 3018 6672

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE I

The public Is cordially Invited to .attend a Christian Science lecture by Dr. John M. Tutt, C. S. 8., of Kansas City, Mo., at the Primo theater, Wheatfield, Monday evening, Oct. 11, at 8:15 o’clock. —Advt. Remember The Democrat office when you are in need of sale bills. We are experts in this line.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1920.-.

McCRAY CORRECTS WAR BOND RECORD

Diecover* “Mistake” in Aseessment Sheet After Year Has Elapsed Boosts Total by Adding 0. Kentland, Oct 6. —Discovery of mutilated records containing the tax returns of Warren T. McCray, Republican nominee for governor, in the county auditor’s office here Is causing considerable comment on the candidate’s war activities. On April 3, 1919, the assessor of Jefferson township, in which Mr. McCray’s residence is located, took the schedule of his personal property and credited him with" having 11,860 worth of government bonds. This return was deposited with the county auditor as a permanent record. More than a year later an article, said to have been inspired by James W. Fesler, McCray’s opponent in the Republican primary, appeared in the Chicago Herald and Examiner and disclosed that his personal prop erty return showed only $1,806 worth of government bonds.. This story was published on April 25, 1920, during jthe heat of the bitter primary campaign. Another Cipher I* Added Shortly after the facts of the expose became generally known some

RETURN PASTORS OF COUNTY

North-West Indiana M. E. Conference Held at Lebanon Last Week. Following is a list of the assignments aiade by the NuithWesi Indiana M. ,E. conference, held at Lebanon last'week, for this, the Lafayette district: Frank M. Daugherty, superintendent; Ambia and Talbot, T. A. Grif 1 fin; Barkley and Lee, J. A. Dean; Battle Ground, Richard Pengpiy; Boswell, C. B. Stanforth; Brook, J. J. Wilson; Brookston and Chalmers, A. E. Bagby; Buck Creek, H. C. Riley; Burnettsville, to be supplied; Dayton, R. W.' Fish; Delphi, R. O. KimberUn; Fowler, William Brandon; Francesville, J. E. Sidebottom; Goodland, V. B/ Servies; Idaville, J. P. Alford; Kentland, C. L. Harper; Kewanna, G, S. Reedy; Lafayette, Congress street, A. B. Babbs; St. iPaul’s, S. C. Rogers; Trinity, T. F. Williams; West Lafayette, A. H. Kenna; Leiter’s Ford, C. V. Roush; Lowell, C. A. Brown; Medaryville, F. J. Beisel; Monon, F. H. Longwell; Monticello, T. J. Bassett; Montmorenci and Mount Zion, W. J. Stewart; Morocco, W. L. Hargrave; Otterbein, J. B. McNary; Oxford, C. W. Shoemaker; Rauh, C. F. Cranmer; Remington, A. L. Miller; Rensselaer, E. W. Reynolds, Earl Heimberger;- Richland Center; C. A. Kenyon; Rochester, George F. Craig; Roselawn and Fair Oaks, C. H. Todd; Royal Center, H. L. Mcßride; to be supplied; Star City, O. A. Rogers; Stidham, to be supplied; West Point and Roberts, L. E. Watson; Winamac, J. A. Porter; Wolcott, A. D. Wagner; Yeoman, Paul A. Reisen.

BAY LITTLE GOOD WILL RESULT

Operators Assert Most of Coal Output Has Already Been Sold. Terre Haute, Oct. 7. —Coal production in Indiana will not be greatly affected by wholesale and retail prices fixed by the state coal and food commission at Indianapolis yesterday, it is believed by mine operators officials of the United Mine Workers of Ameirca. Regardless of whether or not the schedule fixed by the commission Is too low, it, Is pointed out that most of the Hoosier shaft® have practically all of their output sold under contracts, made prior to the state action and therefore not affected by it Wholesale and retail dealers, however, will be affected largely, and conferences with attorneys in this city were under way today to determine on a course of action. It Is possible that court action will be filed to test the validity of the commission’s ruling.

'Prices for Indiana coal operators shall charge for coal at their mines, for delivery in Indiana were fixed by the state special coal and food commission Wednesday, and in '-orders covering the subject the commission specified that retailers shall be entitled to not exceeding 32.25 a ton to cover all retailers’ charges, costs, expenses and profits and that wholesalers shall not charge to exceed 15, cents a ton for handling coal. • The mine price plus the selling charge, plus freight, plus retailers’ charge is to be the cost of the coal to the consumer.

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GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilegraphlc Reports From Many . Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* In the Nearby Cities and Town* — Matter* of Minor Mention From Many Localities. DAVIES REFUSES TO GET OFF Republican State Ticket, and Many Member* of Party Are Sore. Indianapolis, Oct 6. —Ora Davies, candidate on the Republican ticket for treasurer of state, at a recent meeting with members of the Republican state committee flatly refused to off the ticket, according to information obtained Tuesday. The committee at that time declined to accept from Mr. Davies his assessed quota of SLBOO for Republican campaign purposes. Whether the committee since that time has accepted the money is not known. In view of the fact that Mr. Davies, for what some believe is the last time, refused to get off the ticket, it might be that the committee will accept the contribution, it has been ascertained. z The affair is reported to hal% virtually ended the attempts to get Davies off the ticket, for it -is realized, some of the politicians on the inside say, that no one except Davies can withdraw hie name. The nomination of Davies at the state Republican convention last spring was-the result-of a deal, the purpose of which was to give absolute control ot the Republican state organization to Senator Watson',' and to aid in banging about the defeat ot Leonard Wood for the presidential nomination. The state board qf accounts once found Davies short in hfs accounts when he was Howard county treasurer, but despite this fact and the fact that there was general knowledge of the shortage among Republicans, he was nominated for the state treasurership. So much stir was caused by the manipulation which landed the nomination for Davies that many Republicans have tried to get him to withdraw. His friends, however, have taken the attitude that the voters of Indiana are so anxious to keep the Republicans in power in Indiana that there* will be a Republican landslide great enough to carry Davies into office despite the protests. The method of making assessments to be paid by candidates is to take. 12 per cent of what the candidate will receive in two years *lf elected. For instance, the salary of the state treasurer Is $7,560 a year. Two years would be, $15,006 and 12 per cent of this would be SI,BOO, the amount Davies was expected to pay toward campaign expenses, that le, If the committee finally decided to accept the contribution.

REAL BARGAIN IN SEPARATORS

As we are going to quit the cream separator business, we offer two real bargains. We have on hand two 600-pound capacity Climax separators, which originally sold for 3115 each. We will close these two separators out at |BO each. There will be another agent for these separators who will carry a full line of repairs. He will also sell the same separator at 3115. You can save 335 by getting one of these before Nov. 1 of THE JASPER COUNTY CREAMERY.— Advt.

NICE MODERN HOME IN RENS* SELAER with about 12 acres of flue productive land, all in cultivation and pasture, only five blocks from court house, modern eight-room house, basement, bath, electric lights, lots of fruit, good large bam, stable for horses and cattle; hen house, etc. Lies on main stone road with cement walks all the way to heart of city. This is one of the best and most nicely located properties In Rensselaer and can be had at a bargain if taken soon. k See me at once if you want a home of this kind, as It will be snapped up in a hurry at the price asked. —C. W, DUVALL, phone 147. _ -

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FOREIGN MISSIONS WAS TOPIC

Presbyterian Church Speaker Urges League of Nation* Idea. Crawfordsville, Oct. 7. — Foreign missions were discussed last night at the 95th meeting of the Synod of Indiana of the Presbyterian church, now in session in this city. Dr. Robert E. Speer of New York city, general secretary of the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church, made the address in the auditorium of Crawfordsville high school. x. Dr. Speer made a strong plea for support of foreign missions and advanced the thought that it is through this missionary work that the salvation of the world will be accompMsbed. He advocated a league of nations for world peace and told in his address of the manner in which, through foreign missions, the cause of humanity throughout the world Is being advanced.

LARGE CROWD HEAR SPEAKERS

For Democratic Cause at Opera House Wednesday Night. A good sized audience greeted Miss Julie E. Landers, national Democratic committeewoman, and Hon. Fred E. Barnett, candidate for congress from this district, at the new Ellis opera house Wednesday evening. The opening address was made by Miss Landers and dealt very largely with the' league of nations issue. She showed a familiarity with and understanding of the political issues of the campaign. She said the women came home from the two conventions, the one in Chicago and the one in San Francisco, in two very different moods. The women went to both conventions asking for the same things and those who returned from San Francisco were very much better pleased than those returning from Chicago, The speaker discussed many of the qu'dbtlons concerning the league of nations and held that it is strictly a Christian issue. She said that every church body that had met in recent months passed resolutions favoring the league of nations. She said she believed the Christian people would go teethe polls on Nov. 2 and cast their yote for the men who favor the league of nations. She showed Senator Watson’s inconsistencies in criticising the expenditure of money for the war when he Voted for the appropriations. The speaker proved herself one of the ablest women speakers on political issues. Following Miss Landers’s address, the Hon. Fred E. Barnett was introduced. In his address he discussed mainly the state Issues. He pointed out the weakness of the Goodrich tax law. He criticised very severely the Goodrich plan of centralizing power in Indianapolis, thus taking the power away from the people which rightly belongs to them. He said that under two Democratic governors, Marshall and Ralston, the state debt was lifted, and that, too, without raising taxes. The state penal and charitable Institutions were adequately cared for and the state roads were kept up under these two administrations. The speaker held that the taxpayers have a right to object to the present high taxes when they are getting so little in return for them. He said the taxes were not only going to jump but the taxpayer will jump when he goes to pay them next spring. In closing he asked that the voters support Cox and Roosevelt, men who are not -afraid to let the people know where they stand. He promised that if elected he would support Governor Cox in every right moVe. It is evident from the attendance and Interest shown that people are studying the Issues of the campaign.

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Vol. XXIII. No. 56

105,683,108 IS U. S. POPULATION

Actual Figures Are Given Ort By the Census Bureau. IS INCREASE OF 13,710,842 Does Not Include 12,260,000 In Outlying Possessions, , Alaska, Nor Those In Foreign Service. Washington, Oct. 8. —The total population of continental United States, is 105,683,108, an Increase of 13,710,842, or 14.9 per cent. . This figure does not include approximately 12,250,00 people living in th® country's outlying possessions. The population of Alaska and the total classed under the military and naval service abroad are yet to be announced. There are today in the United! States 6,459,998 farms, an increase of 08,496 over the number in 1910, or at gain of 1.5 Percentage Increase Is Down. , The relative .growth of the natlom from 1900 to 1910 was 21 per cent, butt this rate Is expected to be cut to at least 15 per cent, this year chiefly, census bureau officials say, through page of immigration during the warand by the heavy emigration during; that period. One of the striking developments of this year's census was the relative growth of cities and industrial centers, as compared with the farming regions. Rural growth In the last ten year® was only a third as great as it was it® the previous decade, while the citie® nearly maintained their 1900-1910 rat® of growth. ■ Forty Weeks’ Work. The census b”*-.*n to date has spent 40 weeks in Supervising the entHneffttion and tabulation of the country’® millions. A similar period elapsed before |he country’s population wa® made public in 1910. - ' This year, however, all minor civil divisions and Incorporated places of each state have been made public with the announcement df the United States total, while in 1910 the censu® bureau's objective was to arrive at the total as soon as possible, leaving five states and their county civil division® to be announced later. The work of the thirteenth census did not begin until April 5 and ended December 1910. Population by States. The present individual populations of the various states and the figure®' for the previous census are us. follows: ' "VL ■ •’ 1620. wia v State. Population. Population. New York 10,384,144 9,113,616 Pennsylvania 8,720,169 7.606,U1 Illinois . 6,486,098 6,638.6*11 Ohio 6,760,368 4,787,1X1 Texas 4,661,027 8,896.643 Massachusetts 8,861,616 8,666,41 S Michigan • 3,667,222 2,810,178 California 3,426,636 2,877,64® Missouri 3,408,647 8,298.83® New Jersey 8,166:374 B,6ff.m Indiana 2,930,644 2,700,87® Georgia 2,898,966 2,600,121 Wisconsin 2,681,839 2,333,86® North Carolina ....a.. 2,666,486 2,206,287] Kentucky 2,416,013 2,289,905. lowa 2,403,630 3,234,771 Alabama 2,347,296 2,138,08® Tennessee 2,337,469 2,184,78® Minnesota 2,386.371 2,076,70® Virginia M .. 2,306,361 2,061,61> Oklahoma 2,027,464 1,667.166, Louisiana 1,797,798 1,666,8881 Mississippi 1,789,182 1,797,11® Kansas 1,769,186 1,690,949> Arkansas 1,750,996 1,674,44® South Carolina 1,683,662 1.616,40® West Virginia 1,463,610 1,221,11® Nebraska 1,396,503 1,192,21® Maryland 1,449,610 1,296,84 ft Connecticut 1,880,386 1,114,76 ft Washington 1,366,316 1.141,990 Florida 966,296 762,61® Colorado 930,376 799,024 i Oregon 783,286 672,76 ft Maine' a . 767,996 742,871’ North Dakota 646,730 677,06 ft South Dakota 686,839 683,888 Rhode Island 604,879 643,61®. Montana 647,698 376,063' Utah 449,446 878,361 New Hampshire 448.083 430,67® Disk of Columbia 437,671 381,06® Idaho 481,828 826,69® New Mexico *. 360,247 827,801 Vermont 862,421 866,96 ft Arizona 333,278 204,254 Delaware 228,008 202,822 Wyoming 194,402 146,966 "Nevada 77,407 8L876

MAY SINK RUSSIAN WARSHIPS

Great Britain Senda Ultimatum ta Rede, Is Report. London, Oct. B.— A British ultimatum to Russia, threatening to sink Russian warships and submarines on sight if they appear in the vicinity of Nlkolaleff on the Black iea, has been handed to Leonid Krassln, the Bolshevist emissary In London, according to Information he gave Col. Arthur Lynch. The note, according to Kmeslp, was from -Earl Curzon, the British* secretary foreign affairs. Themessage in some Quartans as a decoration of war.

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