Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1920.

WATSON DODGED MANY MEASURES.

Record In Senate Shows He "Missed" 166 Important Roll Calls —Opposed War Ban en Liquor. VOTED AGAINST PREPAREDNESS The record of Senator James E. ' "Watson, who is campaigning for reelection to the senate by alternately declaring that the * United States never declared war on Germany and that “We, should make a separate peace with Germany,” was placed under fire this week by a series of articles sent out for publication by ’ the Indiana Publicity Bureau. Watson is shown to have qcted largely in accord with Senator Harding, whose primary campaign in Indiana was managed by the Watson headquarters and whose nomination was brought about at Chicago through the influence of Watson and other members of the famous “cabal.” On many important measures, particularly those relating to prohibition and patriotic measures, Watson found it convenient to be absent and he is credited with not voting on 165 out of 600 roll calls. !■ Opposed War Prohibition^* For instance the Indiana senator, along with Harding, voted against an amendment regarding .the us§ of liquor in military establishments and both voted to table an amendment offered by Underwood which would have included members of Congress within the provisions of the army prohibition act. He failed to vote when the Reed amendment preventing the sale of intoxicating liquors was passed on. Harding and Watson supported a motion to strike out the provision preventing the use of agricultural products in the manufacture of intoxicating liquors, and both opposed Sheppard’s amendment to have the Reed bone-dry law apply to the District of Columbia. Watson, of course, supported an amendment offered by Harding to make the constitutional prohibition • amendment inoperative unless adopted by the required number of states before 1923 and both of the senators voted for a measure that would require the government to pay damages to property employed in the manufacture of liquor. On patriotic measures the Indiana senator opposed the administration * preparedness bill before war was declared, although since he has had a good deal to say about what he terms was the lack of preparation for war. He also voted against the establishment of a National Council of Defense, the creation of the United States Shipping Board, the * bill to erect a government plant to manufacture armor plate and the wire control bill.

Failed en War Vote. For some reason Watson failed to irote when the United States declared war on Austria-Hungary. He supported a resolution authorizing the President to prescribe rules for the censorship of the press during the war, and reted against an amendment to prevent disclosure of'information regarding military operations, and also opposed that part of the espionage act that placed heary fines upon persons guilty of disloyal and seditious acts and utterances. He was absent when a bill was introduced giving all soldiers, sailors and marines who are permanently helpless SIOO a month and he opposed an amendment providing that no civil service examination should be required of wives of military men applying for positions with the ment during the war. He also failed to vote when Senator Smoot made a motion to proceed to the consideration of a bill increasing the rates of pensions for soldiers and sailors of the Civil war. The senator’s antipathy to labor was evidenced by his vote for the anti-strike clause in the Esch-Cum-mins railroad bill and. his support of the stop-watch system In government plants. He failed to vote on the Adamson eight-hour law along with Harding. He was again “absent” when the child Tabaf law was passed and also did not vote on a bill designed to “protect the lives, health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia and to provide for the fixing of a minimum wage for such workers.”

Opposed Sugar Grant. Watson is having a good deal $o say to the farmers and in particular is criticizing the administration for the high price of sugar. Yet when President Wilson asked congress for authority to purchase the Cuban sugar crop Watson voted against considering the grant. He also opposed government relief ih the shape of small loans to farmers in drought-stricken regions and failed to cast his ballot on a bill Resigned to create a standard form of Investments on farm mortgages. He stood by the Lodge reservations Uie league of nations, but ppposed that meant substantially the / same thing. Since taking the stump \ Watson, along with Harding,/has . “scrapped the league,” and is „ Ing his plea for -re-election on a . rate peace.

TERSE TAGGARTISMS

I liberal but business-like economy. Economy Is itself a great revenue. First see if our revenues are sufficient, if not, then cut off every useless appropriation ’ Sometimes more attention is paid to spending money than to economy. 1 believe the taxpayerii would like a rest. The power to tax means the power to destroy. ">--- We do not want to destroy the earning power of the people by overtaxation. Let us not merely seek to And things on which to place taxes; let us seek diligently for those places where we may economize without injury to the public service. Let the future generation bear its share of the preparedness burden. I do not believe the people can be made prosperous by taxation, be it direct or indirect.

There is much in the budget plan to commend it. I have been a member of the senate but a short time, but be my stay here long or short I shall always be found using my best efforts and judgment in cutting off what I consider useless or extravagant appropriations. —From speeches made by Senator Thomas Taggart in his famous memorable fight in the senatd, 1916, against “pork” raids on the United States treasury.

M’CULLOCH COOL UNDER FIRE

“Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch was one of the coolest men I ever saw under fire,” said C. D. Reitenour of Union City in discussing some of his experiences overseas while serving with the Democratic candidate for governor. Mr. Reitenour, now a student in the Indiana University School of Medicine, was a first-class sergeant in the United States medical corps and was with the doctor from the time the latter entered the service May 23, 1917, until he was mustered out April 17, 1919. “I have seen him perform operations while shells were dropping about the hospital and while enemy aviators hovered overhead,” said Mr. Reitenour. “Dr. McCulloch was in command of operating team No. 19 attached to the Third French army at Compiegne when the Germans crashed through the front. Although ordered to leave he stuck to his post, as long as the stream of wounded men poured in. After he had seen the patients safely on board barges he sent away all of his men with the exception of a few who remained with him. “It was that night that one of the hospitals was destroyed by aerial bombs and Dr. McCulloch had a very close call from a bomb that killed six horses not many feet from him. " “He stood at his pest operating on the wounded soldiers for thirty-six hours at one stretch. It was for evacuating the hospital full of wounded men under fire that won for him the croix de guerre.”

James W. Fesler and those whe supported him in the Republican primary race fer governor charged before the Republican state Teadera that Warren T. McCray was unfit to be governor. If they can substantiate these allegations they owe it to the people of Indiana to make them public. Mrs. Harry S. New, wife of the United States senator from Indiana, referred to the league of nations as a “useless rag” In a political address at Indianapolis. But then Mrs. New had no son overseas, nor one who might be called in the next war. Governor Cox believes that American soldiers performed a better service overseap than a "campaign of bad manners,” as charged by Harding, and has endorsed the American legion four-fold plan for readjusted compensation. , The Republican national advertisement, “Warren G. Harding — Constructive American,” wUI undoubtedly undergo some remodeling now that the senator has admitted that he is “without a single constructive idea." Warren T. McCray, the crown prince of Goodrichism, thus far has not referred in any of his numerous speeches to the charge that he made a fortune on the Chicago board of during tho war.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Why the Senate Oligarchy Should f Be Defeated Nov. 2. Two years ago our president, with a prophetic vision, saw the end of the world war at hand and, realizing the importance of having a congress in sympathy with the executive, appealed to the country to elect a Democratic congress. Our experience for the last two years has shown the wisdom of his request. During the most critical period of our history congress has done nothing but cuss and discuss our president. A senate oligarchy has come into existence whose sole purpose has been to humiliate our president, simply because he was given so much credit and honor in Europe for his efforts to help the world and to prevent another world war. Not one measure for the relief of our country or for the peace of the world has been passed. The president evidently foresaw the birth of this senate oligarchy, hence his feffort to save our country from the unfortunate condition of the last two years. These same senators, who constitute the oligarchy, are the ones who only a short time before had said that the war department had ceased to function and were clamoring for an investigation, when one of ours transports was sunk, and this, at that time, put an end to- their nefarious efforts. These are the senators who predicted that we would have millions of our men killed in France and that the war would last until JL92N>. This probably would have occurred if our great president had not by his speeches and writings turned the sentiment of the world against German junkerism. Even the German people themselves'were converted and desired to accept his plans, hence the war was closed sooner than these senators desired. Now, this senate oligarchy professes to. believe that all nations have been converted to the Prussian theory, that “a treaty is a scrap of paper/' and that if all nations ratify a peace treaty that, it will be a treaty for war. * This senate oligarchy preaches an Americanism which, in its last analysis, is the. same doctrine that Prussianism was for Germany; namely, that we are supermen and that all nations are our enemies. This senate oligarchy should be defeated Nov. 2 lest it do for our beloved country just what Prussianism did for Germany. This senate oligarchy was conceived in iniquity and bor» in sin. When our president asked for a sympathetic congress these senators issued a pamphlet stating that they had stood by him even more consistently than the Democrats. Even at that time these senators, as it now appears, were formulating their plans to :try to humiliate him and to keep tihe business affairs of our country, as well as those of . ® world, unsettled, Just for political purposes. So this senate oligarchy was conceived in deception. It was born in sin- « . , Henry Cabot Lodge, the ring leader of this senate oligarchy, was elected to the leadership by the vote of one man who, according to the verdict of a jury of his peers, should now be in the penitentiary. Men do not gather grapes off thorns or figs off thistles. We can not expect anything to come from this corrupt senate oligarchy. Eventually it will go down in defeat, just as Prussianism did in Germany —the sooner the better. This senate oligarchy should be defeated Nov. 2 for the sake of the patriotic Republicans. It should be defeated even .to save its own members. If It succeeds in bringing on another world war, as it now desires, the name of Henry Cabot Lodge will be linked by the future historian with such names as Attila the Hun and he ' will reecive the odium of posterity he so richly deserves. • . , For the sake of our country, for the sake of the world, let us bury this senate oligarchy so deep on Nov 2 that it will never rise again. —Z. D. MCWHORTER.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES

(By Co. Supt Sterrett) The following teachers from the rural and town schools of Jasper county attended the state teachers association meeting at Indianapolis. Thomas H. Mahon, Anna Hunsicker, Mary E. Hammond, “Ethel I. McMillan, Wheatfleld; Mildred Rush, Mildredf Gifford, Helen Kessinger, Edna Reed, Charles Huffman, NelMe Waymire, Rensselaer; Leta Hershman, Medaryville; A. C. Campbell, Hazel C. Jones, Fair Oaks; Jeannie Sage, Edith Fenwick, Goo.dland. The next regular teachers’ examination will be held at the high school building Saturday, Oct. 30. All teachers In the county who are teaching on permits will be required to take this examination. Teachers who do not hold grades in agriculture or domestic science will need take this examination provided either or both are taught by such teacher. Teachers who do not hold a license grade In" music are also required to taike the -examination in that subject. However if a grade In music has once been made such teachers are ever afterwards exempt in Jasper county. , "Day - Jordan and AUie Morehouse visited the new North .Marion consolidated last »week. Bessie Anderson and Irene Kendall visited at Center in Milroy last week. Gladys Prouty visited No. 6 in Newton Oct. 13. Hazel Lucas was assigned to the Hartman school to visit Oct. 8. Mary Norman visited the Surrey school Oct. 13. Ira /B. WashJjurn will visit the Fairview school in Hanging Grove Nov. 2. Madge Jones was assigned td visit at Burnstowrt in Barkley, tlertrude Misch will visit on election day. Bertha Edwards visited at Newland Oct. 14. Lucy Grafton was assigned to visit

at Fairvlew In Gillam Oct. 17. Adelle Owln visited South Marlon Consolidated last Monday. Leta Hershman visited at West Vernon In Olllam Oet. 17. y Clarence Kelly visits at the May school in Carpenter Oct. 27. Nellie Waymlre wUL visit at South Ma/lon one day next week. The teachers at North Marion have been working exceptionally hard to be • In readiness for the dedication exercises to be held at their school Friday afternoon, Oct. 28. State Superintendent L. N. Hines and Superintendent W. O. Schanlaub will give the main addresses that afternoon. Jessie Zellers gave a box social at the Qant school in *'Union township and made a neat little sum Friday night during the week of the stock show. ' \ The Marlon and Newton township schools were dismissed for the stock show last week. Many other schools were privileged to attend as a number of the teachers attended the association meeting at Indianapolis. Trustee LeFevre of Gillam township came to Rensselaer last Saturday on his way to a hospital In Chicago where Mrs. LeFevre will undergo another operation. Mrs. LeFevre has been In very poor health for a number of years. Trustees Pettit of Walker, HufT of Jordan, Parker of Hanging Grove, Rush of Newton, Davisson of Barkley, Harrington of Union, Postill of Marion were at the stock show Saturday. Bert Llewellyn, a teacher In Wheatfleld township, attended the stock show Saturday. Ex-trustee George Hammerton, who is teaching in the high school at Demotte, brought his family down for the stock show last Saturday.

VASSAR COLLEGE HEAD OUT FOR GOVERNOR COX

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so, however, not only because I can not vote the Republican ticket, but because careful inquiry convinces me that the Democratic candidates are sincere and capable men. “No New Yorker need have any doubt as to Governor Smith. My Republican friends in the highest office of education and public health, the two fields with which I am most familiar, do not hesitate to call him the best governor they have ever known. In these dayb of dangerous bills I like to think that New York will have a governor Wjio will know what to sign and what to veto and who is afraid of nobody. Inquiry About Cox “My inquiry about Governor Cox from friends in Ohio have satisfied me that he is the same kind of friend as A 1 Smith. I have been urged to throw my vote away as a protest upon a third party candidate; a protest vote, however, is Just what the Republicans want. “Why should I make ipy vote count one by merely subtracting it from the Republicans when by cast-

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ing It to the Democratic candidates I can make a difference of two. “Under ordinary circumstances I should think It unwise for the president -of a college to make a statement of this sort. The issues both of state and nation this year are really non-partisan, however, and most of my colleagues have felt it necessary to declare themselves on one side or the other. “I feel Justified, therefore, in ask ing to be counted on the side of state welfare and national honor."

FORMER BERVICE MEM _ . QUIT a. O. P. FOR COX ' s

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vote for Senator Harding are the Rev. Charles Francis Potter, West Side Unitarian churcTi, New York; Edwi'n E. Tupple, field organizer, American Red Cross, Boston; Henry Wharton, president Montrose Pocohontas Coal company, Philadelphia; Oswald W. Knaubt, 37 West 67th street, New York; Joseph Misbach, state progressive committee of lowa, Algona, la;; O. W. Stephenson, state progressive committee of lowa, Fayette, la.; J. W. R. Smith, Abenid, O.; W. E. Perkin, Harvard university; the Rev. Arvin C. Bacon, former army chaplain, A. E. F., pastor Park Avenue Congregational church, Minneapolis, and Ralph Davel, publisher, Tauton, Mass. J. J. Whitehead, Jr., editor of the Putnam (Patriot, a Republican newspaper published at Putnam, has come out with an editorial supporting Cox. “We, the undersigned, who have been members of the Republican party, announce our intention of voting for the Democratic nominee for president. "As ex-soldiers who served many months with the Americans and French we believe that the league of nations is the only sure means of preventing the young manhood of America and of the world being again stifled in a war of blood.’'

DEMOCRATS PLAN HUGE COX MEETING

Indianapolis to Bo Mecca of Voters From Btate Night of Oct. 28. Indianapolis, Oct. 26.—Voters from over Indiana will journey to Indianapolis Thursday, i Oct 28, to hear Governor James M. Cox, Democratic nominee for the presidency, make his final appeal to the voters on the question of the league of nations. According to the plans of the committee in- charge, the rally will be the largest held in the state this campaign. Weather permitting the meeting will be held outdoors in Monument Circle. The space will accommodate several thousand por-

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sons. If the night is rainy the meeting will be held in Tomlinson hall. Fred Hoke, chairman of the committee on arrangements, said that provisions were being made for an enormous crowd. Governor Cox will arrive in Indianapolis early Thursday evening. He will speak the night before In Dayton. The state Democratic committee has been advised that Democrat* from over the state will attend. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Doyfc cratic candidate for governor, will speak previous to the arrival of Gov. Cox. A number of bands have been engaged for the occasion.

WANTS FARMER ON STATE TAX BOARD

Montffeello, Oct. 23— In an addreaa here thiP afternoon Dr. Carleton BL McCulloch, Democratic nominee for governor, declared <• that a fanner should be a member of the state tax board. "Our farmers need remedial legls* latlon,” he said. "Abuses and Injustices stockyards In regard to the grading of cattle, in regard to the charges for feeding and the eatablishment of a bureau of market* in order that the farmer may get first-hand information relative to the disposal of his produce are urgently needed. "A farmer should be a member of the state tax board. He should be heard at the council table when the great transportation strikes and coal strikes are being settled. These todustrlal wars affect him more then any other class of citizen became he has perishable products which must be gotten to the market. "The Democratic party believe* that agriculture should be an occupn tion for profit and not a struggle for existence. It can not agree with Mr. Harding that dollar wheat la a profitable proposition."

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