Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 37, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 11 November 1908 — Page 4

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THE NAPPAME MWS Nappanee, Elkhart County, Ind. Entered at the Post-office, at Nappanee Ind., as second-class matter. A Paper For The People. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy, one year $ 1 50 One copy,, six months.... ... ... 75 One copy, three months ...... 40 By Gordon N. Murray'. How easy it was to have guessed it. A wonderful foresight have all—especially those on the right side of the guess. Latest advices indicate that the electorial vote of Maryland will be divided between Bryan mid Taft, six to two, respectively. —YrmrCrrcle David Swartz, the old Republican wheel-horse, who was so badly knifed in the Locke township caucus, is not feeling so badly, perhaps. ’ . i John W. Kern, recent Democratic candidate for vice-president, will be a candidate for the United States senate to succeed Senator Heraenway. There are others. V ' r -—A - If “good" kickers are now essential on the gridiron”, as an item of news states, the gridiron ought to be well supplied—if the requirements are not too exacting. When this election is over Editor Barnhart can look hack and say that he has been decently and courteously treated by his opponents:—Elkhart Review. The Review can now “add: An'cTaTso by the voters, more especially in Elkhart county. That was a spectacle for the gods, when last week some men who pjesistantly refused to sign a blanket remonstrance against the saloon argued that the proper thing for the Prohibi tionists to do was to vote for Watson for governor because he was against the saloons. This was one of the limits of campaign absurdities. —Flinch cards at the News Bookstore.

Which party would the joke be on should the next State legislature favor the people with the privilege of voting upon that constitutional amendment, instead of repealing the county option law as was charged that the Democrats would if they carried the legislature? Presumably, Geo. W. Ellis, the excounty superintendent of schools, who is now out of the prison north on parole, wishes, that the voters of Elkhart county would have put in a protest several years ago instead of last Tuesday. He might have been saved the disgrace of going to prison. The usual proclamation of the President for a day of thanksgiving should not be taken as having any reference to the “Roosevelt policies”, notwithstanding it may be taken with, a certain degree of suspicion by some of the “also ran” candidates formore than the ordinary conventionality. When a newspaper man has been in the harness a number of 'years he naturally becomes shy .of “political forecasts”. There are too many elements of uncertainty about what the voters will do when they cast their ballots. For this reason no “forecasts” appeared in these columns as original matter. The folly of attempting to apply the local option law in most counties was shown by the result.of Tuesday’s election. Even in Elkhart- county it hart Review. There is not the least doubt in the world but that it will be tried just thesame. The county option men will be given the chance of their lives to demonstrate their sincerity, no doubt. Wouldn’t Elkhart and Goshen look and feel queer with “dry” clothes on? What Would You Do? In case of a burn or scald what would ’you" do to relieve the pain? Such injuries are liable to occur in any family and everyone should be prepared for them. Chamberlain’s Salve applied on a soft cloth will relieve the pain almost instantly, andtmtess the injury is a very severe one, will cause the parts to heal without leaving a scar. For sale by J. S Walters, —Tablets at the News Bookstore.

Tjik Milford Mail has adopted the policy of charging advertising rates for obituary notices and cards of thajiks. The News did so a number of years ago. It is. the only method of preventing a local paper becoming a graveyard, .by tilling the Columns with long obituaries to the exclusion of news. The News has, at the same time, made an effort to obtain death notices when the items would be news to readers of the paper, so that pobody would be discriminated against when sorrow comes to the home of a friend or a relative. I Those press letters of Auditor Batchelor in commendation of the “frenzied finance” of Elkhart county must have set rather hard on the taxpayers. Asa Republican campaign asset the auditor’s office was not a howling success. Tpe News extends congratulations to the taxpayers of Elkhart county for the beginning of an awakening to their own interests on lines pointed out in these columns for the past several years. Nappanee, as a town, has so profited by substituting business for politics that it needs no argument on these lines in county matters. . i--•■■ - The wide differences in the votes for the national candidates and state candidates, and those affairs still more closely identified with the people in county and township, is a matter which indicates a wholesome state of rcynd on the part of the voters. It is simply a warning to party leaders that the people may be depended upon sooner or later to attempt to drive them iDto- support of official abuses, and questionable methods of taking care of political bosses. In other words, the voters are getting wise to the fact that the most unprofitable thing for them as taxpayers is the use of the people’s business as a political asset. President of the Chicago board of education is not impressed with the physical culture craze that has taken possession of some educational institutions. President Schneider says: “Public school teachers are not required to teach boys to play ‘shinny* and I don’t see why they should have to instruct pupils in baseball and football.” He is not opposed to sport, but simply opposed to the employment of a teacher of sports. A large pile of wood and a sawbuck and saw is the best physical culture that a boy could possibly obtain. However, Since the old woodpile has been distanced some other mechanical exercise might be substituted with profit to the boy. Recent press information from .New York has it that there are current rumors that William Randolph Hearst is completing arrangements to add another to his string of newspapers by establishing a daily journal in Atlanta. It is alleged that John Temple Graves, who was the Vice Presidential candidate on the Independence par.ty ticket, will have editorial charge of the new sheet. Mr. Graves was editor of the Atlanta -Georgian before he went to New York to accept a*13,000 position with Mr. Hearst’s, morning metropolitan paper, The American. He is said to be anxious to return to the Georgia capital, and the new paper will give hirrfah opportunity to do so without severing his relations with Mr. Hearst. There are as many opinions nearly as there are individuals giving them as to why Mr. Bryan was so much weaker than the various Democratic governors elected in Republican states. Asa matter of fact it would have required Republican voters to have elected Mr. Bryan president, and the great mass of Republican voters are opposed to a “reformer”—and some Democrats. Roosevelt “reforms”, had they all been put into action by the great Republican party instead of being checked, would have encompassed the defeat of his party at the late election. There js a vast difference between what the President has sought for seven years and what he was allowed at the hands of his party. If anybody has an idea that Mr. Taft will carry out many of tlie soicalled “Roosevelt policies”—even to making a big noise,- so to .speak—that notion will her dispelled perhaps, by the' history of the first congress after he becomes president. On the face of ; things, it looks as though Mr. Taft 1 will be a conservative iri whom, the

standpatters will have a friend. The next administration, it may be, will take the people’s endorsement of the present administration as standing for that which was accomplished and not for what it was said ought to be done. Reform measures of any kind come slow and far between in this country. THE LOCAL SITUATION, The Nappanee Republicans and Democrats never worked harder to get out the vote of their respective parties as they did on the last election day. In several precincts every vote was polled, a thing not before known in twenty years. In the townships, of Union and Locke the vote was nearer the total voting population than it was ever known to have* been in many years. It is the first time that the local Democrats ever had a real working organization and then put the machinery in motion at the right; time. They were encouraged by the independent vote, and their system of work encouraged those who never -had taken any pains to know what was being done. They now know what organization means when the. vote is counted. The local Republicans, who for years, had led in effective political work, while united in bringing out the day work, had lost their influence over the independent Voters by, allowing the management to depreciate into ring rule, under which many men who had been voting with them independently refused to follow further in local'matters ' under the present leadership which had become a part of the court house* ring at the, county seat which has defended everything, however rotten. While doing this, there was added the process of “reading men out of the party”—men who had influence with the voters who stand for clean official conduct and righteousness in home affairs. The local Democrats won a great victory for their efforts and were not let down so hard by tl\§ loss of the national ticket. The Republicans, on the other hand, have the national victory to even up with their county, district, and State losses. THAT COUNTY OPTION NIGHTMARE. Before many months there is going to be an opportunity for the people of Elkhart county to discover whether the county option business was worked in the recent campaign to get votes or whether it was really a sincere moral issue. The News has doubted the latter from the time the proposition for a consitutional amendment was turned down by the Republican senate on a strictly party vote. Now comes the Elkhart Review, and says this on the question of trying the flew county option law; ‘‘This is a most unwise and impolitic movement.” To quote further: “An election on this question in Elkhart county any time, within the next six months fVould result in a ‘wet - county by a -majority to be ttpunted in the hundreds if not in the thousands.” Well, what of it? Have not the advocates of the county option law told the people all along, that the law would still be avail - able wlgm -4 county was voted wet? Then, what difference would it make to Nappanee, Wakarusa, Millersburg, Middlv.burv, and all the rest of the county outside of Elkhart and Goshen if the vote should go "wet?” Oh yes, but there is .the unnecessary expense of an election! Yes, that’s so, too. But the advocates of the law knew this when they made it an issue in the late campaign: They also knew that it gave the people of this county opportunity to protect the people in its two cities from the liquor business if they could not do it themselves. * ■ - - ~r v This is the real fundamental principle of the countyi-option law, thslt the city temperance people have the advantage of the vote in the rural district to control the cities where the saloon is dominant.' Another thing was apparent: That such a law would be made for all.classes of people. To refuse to apply the law is an evidence that it is no goodpor that Elkhart and Goshen people believe in the Democratic doctrine of township and, ward option—that the rest of The county should not say to them: Thou shalt not! Which is it? , News Bookstore. —We carry a complete line of school tablets ranging in price from one to S cents, at the News Bookstore.

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THE ADVANCE MAKES ANOTHER , HOWL. Our Main street contemporary, the Advance, who has been so anxious (?) to 1 avoid any further controversy with the News as to twice publicly announce its determination on this particular point, and as many times, or oftener, gone back on its statements, is still dissatisfied with what the News says. Now the Advance springs the “open letter” on an unsuspecting Here it is: Nappanee, lnd., Oct. 30, ’OB. Editor V G. N. Murray, Nappanee News. Sir: In the last issue of your publication you state that the Republicans have been ordering copies of the Advance sent to persons not bona tide subscribers. Your statement is a deliberate falsehood. Not one paper has thu6 been sent out of this office. I shall ..expect you to correct this statement, or rather mis-statement, in the next issue of your paper. 1 ask only fairness. Yours truly, I. D. Landis, Publisher Nappanee Advance. In order that the News readers may arrive at an understanding .of the matter and learn the methods of what the Advance is pleased to call “fairness,” we reproduce in this same connection just what the Neivs did say. Here it is: The Democratic central committee of Elkhart county, is paying the Elkhart Truth to send copies of that paper broadcast over the country vance. Our Main street contemporary takes some exceptions to the procedure. At the same time the Advance is being sent out in the same manner by the Republicans. The only difference the Nw r s can see, is, that the Truth has not “blown” about its circulation.— News, Oct. 28. r NoW the News submits: Is there the least connection between what the News said and the charge brought by the Advance? ; First, the News found no, fault with the Advance for doing what is legitimate—not only legitimate, but what is and has always been customary with -party newspapers for -thirty years;' scr far as the editor of the News lias been acquainted with the newspaper business. No newspaper dping-this believes that the postal saws were violated. The News does hot belie ve so, anyhow, notwithstanding thedifficulty publishers have in interpreting the postal laws, wherein anybody is liable to be in error. Second, the News did not say that the Advance tos being sent “to persons not bonar flde subscribers,” ,No such language was used as is plainly shown in this article.. Why? This is the point we wish to bring to the reader more particularly. To have made such a statement would have been to accuse the Advance of violating the postal laws, see?) The Advance editor simply enters a false statement in his “open letter’? for his premise (presumably lij,s method of fairness) in order to come back at the News with a charge and that tins paper should retract an alleged falsehood. Third, the News is not making any retractions or apologies for what it did not say.- If, however, the Advance will have the honesty to quote just .what the' News did /say—and which is given in this article- and enter a

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simple denial in any language necessary to make it most emphatic, (which the Advance will hardly do), the News will gladly make the correction arid give its source of information and reasons for having made the statement that it did. The “open letter” is based on a falsehood of I. I). Landis, the Advance editor, and is therefore worth no more than the space it occupied, so far as bringing any correction of the statement made by the News. Furthermore, the News never lias been guilty of misquoting a contemporary, because'its rule is to produce the language and make its comments therefrom. The Advance resorts to a trick that is a dirty one in journalism, of merely giving its own interpretation of a contemporary’s statement and using interpolations, instead of allowing the intelligence of readers to'put their own construction on the quotation and the comments. THE WEIGHT OF RESPONSIBILITY Indianapolis News. Mr. Bryan and the Democratic party can find satisfaction in the thought that they will not be responsible for government during tlie next four years. President Roosevelt expressed the opinion that it would be hazardous tp intrust them with power. Now the Republican party must assume the great undertaking of restoring prosperity, getting control of the trusts and monopolies, and bringing confidence back to that part of the population which has felt that power has slipped from the hands of the many to the few. The Republican party has before demonstrated that it is capable of administering goVernmerrLahd meeting crises. It will now again be put to the test. We do not believe that Mr. Bryan will envy it the task. To accomplish this it will 4ieefl ta.relegato. to the- rear those -party leaders and all others who have forgotten the people. ■ MR. MURRAY’S ONLY FORECAST. Gordon Murray, editor of the Nappanee News, was in Plymouth today. He says that there are a great many Republicans in that vicinity who have declared an intention of voting for Bryan this year. They have a club of thirty Republicans in Nappanee,; which is called the “Tom Marshall” club. To Mr. Murray, the election of the Democratic stAte ticket looks like a cinch.—Plymouth.Democrat. It now develops that Nappanee has a real political forecaster. He is no other than our friend, Gordon Murray.—Nappanee Advance of Oct. 14. Compared with the political forecasts of the Advance the News man did fairly well, it would seem. A Paying Investment. Mr. John White, of 38 Highland Ave., Houlton, Maine, says: “Have been troubled with a cough every winter and spring. Last winter I tried many advertised remedies, but the cough continued until I bought a 50c. bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery: before that was half gone, the cough was all gone. This winter the same happy result has followed; a few doses once snore banished the annual cough.. I am now convinced that Dr. King’s New Discovery is the best of all cough and luqg remedies.” Sold under guaranty at J. S. Walters’ drug store: 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. —Birthday cards. News Bookstore