Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 6, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 May 1904 — Page 4

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McDONALD, Editor , Published ever& Thursday and entered in the postoffice, Ligonier, Ind., as second-clas matter - : : 'PHONE No. 13. i Commenting on c{)n_di_tious following the looting of the Indiana Nation--511 bank, the Elkhart Review'makes some remgrks and offers advice that ~are applicable to every community. - ““‘Society in certain phases, and not by any means limited to what is called the aristocracy,’’ says the Review, ‘‘has tried to copy the customs of the wealthy, or of those who appeared to -be wealthy or of those who appeared to be wealthy; young men just starting into business spend as much time in leisure as do those whose successes have been assured, whose large business is well organized and in the hands of competent agents, and those whom real prosperity has crowned with success, This false standard of living, this readinesg to take unearned leisure, this willingness to sacrifice duty to pleasure will add to the financial instability and will unnecessarily and unwisely jeopardize personal credit as well as public credit. - “It is not necessary to practice penuriousness, to- sacrifice all pleasure, -to abandon society and its enjoyments, to work unceasingly, nor to forego allreasonable pleasures, but it is necessary to bring these conditions down to.a bagis warranted by income, safety to business and good business sense. Let income over-reach outgo always, and be sure that play does not usurp the place-of sensible duty.” = . : : . SR RRR In branding Judge Parkeér as an unfit manfor the presidency and in threatening by implication not to abide by the action of the national.con--vention Mr. Bryan has manifested an arrogance of bossism never before exhibited by a Democrat who had twice been the recipient of the highest honors that a political party can confer. What Mr, Bryan practically says to the Democrats of the country is that they must abdicate their-rights of citizenship and permit him to perform the service that is ordinarily delegated to anational convention.—Detroit Free Press. - Every lie told during a campaign ; every slander iterated and reiterated ; every unwarranted attack made upon private character, tends to _dxs‘gust fair-minded and right-thinking men with what may be called political campaigns. It is this sort of thing that deters good men from becoming candidates or taking an active part in politics. In the interest common decency, therefore, the seal of condemnation should be placed upon every violation of the proprieties of life.—J. B. SToLL iu the South Bend Times, g R R RRR _ ¢ It is to be regretted that there should be so much feeling shown in the municipal campaign. We are all neighbors and ought to be friends.” We all haye an interest in the welfare of the city and interested in the maintenance of good feeling among our citizens. - s : The Logansport Pharos has this to say regarding a matter in which public interest is deeply involved: - The trusts have carried their schemesv tosuch lengths that a general overhauling may be anticipated. They are erganized to rob and they have been robbing without mercy. They have destroyed competition, restricted production and gathered inunjust and excessive profits. The law is clearly agdinst these combinations in restraint of trade, but those in authority have been tardy in enforcing the law. The disclosures in the affairs of the ship building trust, the coal trust and the beef trust have forced the government to take cognizance of these schemes of robbery. Prosecutions are likely to follow because the violations of law are tog open and notorious to bé longer winked at. : ;iRRR R R R i "~ Representative SFohn Sharp Williams of Mississippi. the democratic leader of the house, in a statement given to a correspondent recently says he believes the nomination of Judge Parker at the St. Louis convention is assured. He thinks that with the adoption of a platform combining noth“ing but live issues the Democracy can win with Parker at the head of the ticket. : . e ' ; ‘lt seems clear to me now,’” said Mr. Williams, ‘that Judge Parker will be nominated by such an overwhelming vote that there will be substantially no opposition. Individually I favor his seléction. I favor him because he comes from the right section and the right state. He is the logical candidate, geographically and politically.” I favor him because he ‘ seems to be eminently conservative and a careful and healthy minded man. I favor him because, although he has differed with a majority of the party upon some great questions notably one great (¥xestion, he was still a Demoerat and thought the Democracy with one or twe planks wrong infinitely better to the country than Republicanism. *“Without geoing into details I believe the live issués will be a sane and business like revision and reduction of the tariff; the inforcement of the laws upon the statute books affecting the trusts and interstate commerce; reciprocity in trade relations, especially with Canada; a reduction of governmental expenditures, especially those of a warlike and pingoistic char-

acter; the unveiling and punishment of corruption in the departments; the cessation of the executive usurpation of legislative functions, whether by the president, officers of the cabinet or heads of bureaus or divisions: an unalterable opposition to British colonialism, whether exercised by Great Britain in the eighteenth century or by the United States in the twentieth century.”’ ; ]f . _ BRRERR = g The Hearst people seem to have won out in this district and will control the delegates to the national lconvention. Henry €olerick of Fort Wayne and a Doctor Hines of Auburn will represent the Democrats at least that i\s the proéram of the Hearst shouters.. We will admit thatthis is a surprise to us, wil admit that we are chagrined at the result but will accept the situation as gracefully as possible. We have abiding faith in the Demgeracy of the nation and believe that the national convention will be guided and controlled in the interests of the people. " e , BN R R R o How differently some men look at things and how different things viewed from different positions appear. The man who votes against a party candid?te is always hailed by the other candidate and his friends as a patriot, but on the other hand a voter refuses to aceept the dictumof his party, is called all kinds of names, his motivos are questioned and his action deprecated. : = , _ T ERe R R According to one standard, the Democrats who voted against Tom Kel-, ley in the Third ward and for a Republican are patriots while Democrats who refused to vote for the democratic candidate for mayor are traitors. Tt is, however, a case of the pot calling the kettle black. ~ e ; RS ¥R ' : : ‘ The Republicans will now get together for the fall campaign. Itiswell that some of them do not get too close together or there will be a scrap. . ) e AR R RR _ . - It is intimated that the local campaign fight amiong the Republicans is to be carried inteo the county convention. The regulars propose to see that the kickers stand back and take no part in selecting the county candidates. That will be a little tough upon several local candidates whose backing will come almost exclugively from the down town ring that has done all in its power to defeat Major Mier and several republican candidates for the city council. c sla , ] = o e 2 RE BB R : ; - The death of Hon. E. W. Knepper means a substantial loss to our community. Few men who have made Ligonier their home were ever held in higher esteem than was Dr. Knepper. A man of exqeilent qualities, fine sensibilities and high moral character, he merited the confidence and esteem of those with whom he came in contact. For nearly forfy years he has been a prominent figure in Ligonier. In politics, in professional life and in hig religious pursuits, hig influence was always felt. A man of strong opinions, he was always ready, however, to accord his friends of op- i posite views, courteous consideration. : |

MAYOR GREEN RE-ELECTED.

An Exciting Contest—Party Lines Brok en—A Go-As-You-Please Fight.

. Tuesday last closed one of the most intense political contests ever waged in Ligonier, with the re-election of Mayor Green by a majority 0f44. In the face of the fact that Ligonier is a republican city by at least one hundred majority, Mr. Green’s run is phenominal. Party lines were swept away, and it was littleelge than a personal contest. : In the fight for places on the city council, the Democrats were algo victorious, electing Harlan Gibson in the First,Jacob Sheets in the Second and Albert Weaver in the Third, while Jacob L. Graham, Independent Republican, was elected in the Third. The two republican members who were re-elected were W. K. Mitchell in the Second. and Charles Smalley in the First. The election of William Vondersmith as marshal (Democrat), R.. E. Jeanneret (Republican) clerk and Geo. W. Brown (Republican) treasurer, completed the division of the offices in whichh the Democrats certainly got the best of the bargain. .

Mr. Mier went down in - defeat on account of the treachery of his own party leaders. He was deserted by many members of his party *who owed him allegance and . support. Many men who have received and who have accepted favors at his bands and at the hands of the party knifed him on account of somne retl or fancied difference. Many of Mr. Mier’s democratic friends supportéd him but they could not stem the tide. : i

The re-election of Mayor Greexi'ﬁs a vindication of his policy. He wﬁll be able to follow out his promises, having elected a safe majority of tl"xe city council friendly to his policy. He should now have the support of the whole council and of the people and the fullest opportunity should lPe given for the satisfactory settlement of the questions. The detailed statement of the vote is'as follows: | ; | IMAYOR : I v oo dnd nd 3rd | Green, D..;5 5 .00 019% 108 113- 44 Miar, R,... i, i 78 143 81 e - CLERK Jeanneret, R ..........111 169 98-104 Smith, D:hiir i il ;88 94 | ey TREASURER | 8r0wn,R.......0 ..t la% 156 127-181 Hehoch, Do 00l 43 63 | T MARSHAL : ‘ Cunningham, R.....,.. 83 103 88 | Vondersmith,D........lo9 147 105~ BT . UOU'N(‘,ILMES-_—-FIRS'I‘ WARD " W. ' WaPeneey R coiiid sail il binse o 18l C.L.Smalleysß.....oi i, aind iIB Harlan Gibson; D. .o sy sv oo 118 Abe Weimer,; Diy iaan @ s S 0 COUNOILMEN—SECOND WARD .- | w. K. Mitchel, R...ii- .. cie i=i J.H.Hoffman, R s oiiie s s dacobSheets, D .....oiil o iBL L, A:Banta, D. w 0 i o (R 0 COUNCILMEN—THIRD WARD | J. 1. Graham, Ind. ;i oae i o i b Pat H.Carney,; R il - priig ol oo bR H. M. Goodspeed,; R, il ev, . 24 Albert Weaver, l)lgﬁ Thos.F. Kelley, Dt i Al 400 The' democratic managers are jubilant. : ' o It was a demperatic. victory. If not, why not. ; An immense yote was polled, larger than was expected. | Mayor Forgarty, Democrat, was elected at South Bend. e The Democrats have no Kkick a coming over the election last Tuesday. s I The fellows who voted the straiglit democratic ticket are the ones most in evidence. , i Mayor Green is to be congratulate{d upon his vietory. It was a handsome indorsement. | i e i et Y L L | Mayor Charles Green, Democ;ralt, was re-elected mayor at Klkbart while the rest of the ticket 18 Republican. ' - At Garrett E. B. Tumma b'wzis re-elected mayer by over 400 majority. Thumma must be making a popular mayor. _ { Columbia City is also in the democratic column. Mayor Harrison and the whole democratic ticket. being elected. ; . | | <o e e P Goshen Republicans made a clean sweep Tuesday electing Alfred»Lovrry, mayor, and a big majority of the city council. ' | Auburn also went democratic la,q:st. Tuesday. The Democrats electing nearly all of their ticket including Jim McClellan for mayor. el e ; Few men have ever been more basely deserted than was Mr. Mier. He and his friends will be asked to forget and forgive the fellows who took part in his downfall. g

Billy %)ndérsmith made a phenomenalrin as marshal. The people know that he is a good officer. He has been tried in the position and his work has been satisfactory. |

‘We hope that the democratic ardor will not fall off. A little of the energy that was displayed Tuesday wonld go a good ways towards electing a democratic county ticket. |

- At Kendallville arter one of the most spirited contests in the history of the city Mayor James Graves was re-elected by a safe majority. Elroy Shaluck, Democrat, was elected niarshal. : |

Jacob L. Graham is one of the pest political workers that ever went into a fight. It was not his fault thatﬂ]e was not elected unanimously. is election by the big vote that he received was a high compliment to him and he doubtless appreciates it.

The slogan “don’t vote for a Joew’! was worked to a finish as will be seen by a comparison of the vete. Itis too bad that such things should enter into our local campaigns. No town has two better citizens, more loyal to our interestsand welfare of the city than Major Mier and Sol Henoch, Advertised Letters. - . The following letters remain in the postoffice uncalled for: Mrs. Flora Merryman, Mrs. Lillian Norris, Harley. Morrell, Warren Neff. Claimants for any of the above letters will please call for advertised list. J. L. DUNNING, P. M,

Hon. E; W. Knepper Dead. Ligonier has lost another good citizen, Dr. Edwin W. Knepper died last Friday morning after an -extended illness at the age of 70 years, 10 months -and 26 days. - For many months Dr. Knepper has been failing in health and his friends realized that he had nearly reached his span of life. A’stroke of paralysis late last year and a hard fall last February were shocks from which Dr. Knepper never recovered, continuing to fail until his disolution.

Hon. Edwin W. Knepper was born at Edenburg, Portage county, Ohio, on June 3, 1833, the son of Jacob and Mary (Morgan) Knepper.. The childhood of Dr. Knepper was spent here but later with his father and family took his residence in William county, Ohio, near Bryan. Here hereceived the rudiments of his education in the public schools; he later took a full course at Cornell academy, thena highly successful and excellent school. He commenced his profesgional studies with Dr. H. Cooney of Bryan, Ohio, and began the practice of his profession at ¥Kdon, Ohio, in 1864. Two .years later he came to f;igo;nier, taking up his residence ere in May 1866. S Dr. Knepper was married in Ohio February 7, 18567, to Miss Margaret J. McQuilkin, anative of Carrol county, Ohio, who was born Aug. 5, 18356. Six children were the fruits of this union, four having died, however, leaving Edwin W. Knepper, Jr.,; and Miss Mabel Knepper, the support of a widowed mother. i

Few men were ever stronger party men than Dr. Knepper. He was a staunch Republican, having taken part in the formation of the party and 4n 1856, voting for its first presidential candidate, John .(C. Fremont. In 1897, Dr. Knepper was nominated for joint representative for the counties of Noble, DeKalb and Elkhart after an e&citing contest defeating Hon é B. Harris, now consul at Nagaiski, Japan. by the fraction of a vote. Dr. Knepper was elected and in the senatorial contest that followed took a prominent part in favor of the election of Hon. C. W. Fairbanks. He was a valuable member of the legislature but inre-districting the state the district was so changed that he could not,be retutrned. He also held other places of political trust, having been elected a member of the town board, school board, etc.,all of which places he filled with honor and integrity. i »

- In professional life, Dr. Knepper was a man of broad views and careful conservatism. He was a popular physician and took a prominent part 4n the professional organization that has grown up in the last fifty years. He was a member of the Amerféan Medical asgociation and of the Indi‘ana Medical society. He was one of the organizers of the Noble county -Medical spciety and twice served as president of the organization.

In his social life he was alsoactive. He held membership in the Excelsor Lodge, I. 0. 0. "F., No 257 and in Washington Encampment, No. 89 in which order he took a prominent and leading part. For over twenty years he was the district deputy for both the orders. He was also a member of Ligonier Lodge, No. 123, Knights of Pythias. He was a consistent and active member of the Presbyterian chureh and since its organization in Ligonier had been a member of the official board #nd a liberal contributor.

The funeral last Sunday was largely attended, many Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias taking partin the services. The funeral germon was delivered by Rev. Thos. G. Pearce, D. D.,and was an able effort. At the cemetery the Odd Fellows paid their respects in the burial service. The doctors of Ligonier and vicinity acted as honorary pall-bearers and escort. T . A Strange Coincidence. Judge A. A. Chapin of Ft. Wayne, formerly of Kendallville, recently having occasion to use two old law books that were out of print stepped into a Chicago second-hand store and strange to say he found the identical books for which he was searching. Stranger still on opening them he found the signatures of Daniel F. Palmer and Leland H. Stocker, who were Angola lawyers many years ago, and with whom Mr. Chapin was well acquainted.—New Era. , The enumeration of school children at South Bend shows a gain of over 1100 over the enumeration of 1903.

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. Obituary. Mr. O. C. Hartzell was born at Salem, Ohio, November 27,1852; he departed this life April 27, 1904, aged 51 years and 6 months. ‘ For many years Mr. Hartzell had been a citizen of Ligonier. He was well and favorably known by ,our‘ people, and all speak well of him. His long, fedious illness revealed his very excellent character. His watchers and nurses wondered at his patience. He waa pleasant to all about him, and kindly greeted all who called upon him. Even when his throat became so seriously affected that it was difficult for him to speak, yet his countenance would light up with a pleasant smile of greeting when his friends came to see him. '

A short time before his going away Mr. Hartzell thought much about the life to come. It was not his disposition to have much to say about himself, yet those nearest to him well understood his feelings about spiritual things during the last few weeks of his life. He said tothose who watchdd over him, that he was ready and willing to go. Mr. Hartzell joined the subordinate lodge of Odd Fellows March 2, 1889, and the Encampment June 13, 1891. He was also a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge, having joined Feb. 26, 1891. Healways kept up his membershipin these organizations, and was a living exponent of the principles which they teach. *

There remains to mourn his loss the wife one son, Kenneth aged nine years (another son preceeded the father to the better land), a sister, Mrs. M. A. Briggs of Wauseon, Ohio, and a large circle of friends. K%

A Decision of Local Interest,

The supreme court has declared that it is for the township trustees to determine (subject to an appeal to the county superintendent) what ‘Bchools shall be maintained in his township and which of the school houses shall be closed for lack of pupils, conveyances being furnished to carry the children of the district to another school. 1t is saidthatin the administration of school affairs many questions of expediency arise in which the action of a school officer is not subject to revision by the courts, provided only that he acts in good faith. The controversy between the trustee of Newville township, in DeKalb county,and the patrons of a school which he had discontinued was decided in favor of the trustee. The trustee closed the school because the daily attendance had fallen to eleven pupils, and some of the children were voluntarily aftending a two-room school a mile and a half away. He refused to re-establish it on the petition of a majority of the voters in echool district and the court says that there is no provision of law requiring a trustee to re-open a school upon petition after he has closed it.

Pretty Near Absolute Failure

- It isestimated by the most conservative persons in a position to talk ?that the wheat crop ot 1904 in LaPort county will not reach six percent, which is less than the seed ‘wheat sown last fall, says the LaPorte Herald. There is less than half a dozen fields in the county which the farmers have not already or will not shortly plow or drag for other crops. From every cpunt§ in the state where wheat is raised come the same reports of the failure of the crop, but none is quite so bad as the report of LaPorte county. No Intention to Butt In, X Editor McDonald of the Ligonier BANNER seems inclined to assist in the candidacy of Mr. Krueger for mayor of this city, and whether by invitation or merely personal inclination is' not expressed or known. —Kendallville Sun. Now, Mr. Conlogue, we digclaim personal intention of butting in in the campaign at Kendallville, and will assure the editor also that we were not invited to participate. Mr. Krueger, the candidate for mayor, is an old friend and there is nothing that we enjoy better than saying good things about a friend. § House for Rent. I will rent my dwelling on Fort Wayne street at reasonable rates Call at Mrs. Cornelia McConnell. MRS. MARY GARDNER. : : Lost. Ladies.bead money purse containing about $4 and ladies handkerchief. Two one dollar bills.balance in silver. Return to Mrs. A. Gants and receive reward.

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