Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 March 1902 — Page 2

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Established October 10. 1901. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. feie plume No. ZS7, OFFICE In Bissell Block. Corner Center and La porte StreetU?BT181N(i ÜATEÖ will be mad knows on application. Entered the Povtoffice t.1 Piyoicuth. Ind.. as second clt 3 mt'.ter. SUBSCRIPTION: Or Year In Aivanc $1.30; Sis JWanths 75 cents;Three Months 40 cehts.deItared al any pt stoffice. Plymouth, Ind., March 27, 1902. , - When Senators Allison and Spooner go against a party measure it is a safe guess that it is a good one to throw into the waste basket. People are beginning to ask what hasj become of the Neely trial. But those who read carefully know that the trial ended several days ago so far as the evidence is concerned and the Judges are now going over the evidence before giving their decision. Harry S. New is mentioned as the possible successor of Towell Clayton, ambassador to Mexico, in the event that a change is made. It is understood Mr. New indicated to his friends some time ago that he would like to have the position. The salary is worth while and the station is a pleasant one. When the Plymouth Tribune protested against snip conventions the South Bend Tribune and Elkhart Review ridiculed us, but now that the "chickens are coming home to roost" these papers are terribly scared. They are beginning to learn that an 'ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Secretary Boot has issued an order ashijrninjr General Funston to command the department of Colorado; General Mac Arthur to the department of the lakes: General Kobbe to the department of the Dakotas. The assignment of General Funston is a promotion which he earned by his gallantry in the Philippines. Prof. Herring, of Notre Dame seems to be the only democrat willing to take the nomination for congress in this district, a district that three times gave B. F. Shively a majority of over 2,000 and gave C. G. Conn a majority of 2,700. Democrats evidently believe that the votes of this district are wiser than they were a few years ago. Bumors of all kinds are in circulation as to the possible outcome of the break between the administration and Gen. Miles, arising from the rejection of the latter's plan pacifying the Philippines, the most significant one being that the president intends to place Gen. Miles on the retired list and thus end the controversy. lie has a right to do this, as Gen. Miles has passed the age of sj?ty-.vo years. The evils Chat attend primary elections are apparent at Indianapolis. While, perhaps, for large cities they rpnlr in r-purinor n. rpIpfiQf frnm rfnor domination fcr a time, they fall into the hands of men who are willing to ' put up money to control them. For the rural districts we are still fain to believe that delegate conventions are safest and best, and certainly far less expensive. Elkhart Review. William J. Bryan sent a telegram to Washington Thursday saying that he wa misinformed as to the scope of the Crumpacker resolution to investigate suffrage in some of the southern states when he sent a "hot" message of condemnation Tuesday. "My answer had reference to an investigation of election methods, not to the election laws," said he in his latest telegram. "The courts must decide all constitutional questions. The committee's action could not effect such matters." The news from Cnina Is not cheering. The rebellion may not be serious, but with the country in such a condition as that which now exists, anything may be dangerous. The rebels seem to have worl some consideraole successes, and it is said that the imperial troops are deserting to them for the higher pay that they offer. With foreign powers so much involved in the Chinese situation, one can not help wondering whether the rebellion may not have been deliberately incited by some one of them looking for an excuse to intervene and get hold of some of the Chinese territory. '

Congress passed three measures of importance Friday. The senate adopted the bill to repeaf the war revenue taxes and the bill for protection of the President, and the house passed the river aud harbor appropriation, carrying $60,638,267.

It is more than probable that the ship subsidy bill which passed the senate will be slightly amended and will pass the house. Stripped of its objectional features it is in accord with the republican platform, and it has always been a republican habit to fulfill the pledges made in the platforms of national conventions. John Dillon, the Irish Nationalist, was suspended In the House of Commons Thursday for calling Colonial Secretary Chamberlain a damned liar, while discussing South African affairs. Dillon refused to withdraw the offensive language, and a scene was created which has not been witnessed in the staid English parlaiment for years. An attorney representing the interstate commerce commission has arrived in Chicago to institute proceedings against the railroad officials and shippers who have been violating the interstate-commerce and theSherman anti-trust laws. The suits will be riled as soon as the papers can be prepared. The progress of the litigation will be watched with interest by small shippers everywhere who have been sufferers from the special privileges granted to large ones. DAN'S FAREWELL MOONSHINE. "In severing our connection with the Democrat, of which we were one of the founders in 1855 and local editor until 1859, and after an almost continuous service as editor and publisher embracing a period of nearly the past thirty years,', etc. During all these years we have written more than thirteen thousand columns of reading matter, such as it was." Dan's obituary. Daniel McDonald's History of Marshall County, which was written when the author thought he was forever rid of the Democrat and had no reason to lie, says that the paper was founded in Nov., 1855 by Thomas McDonald and II. B. Dickson; Dan had nothing to do with it until 1857, and in that time it had experienced several changes of management. Dan then became "local editor," as he terms it, or in other words, "devil." In November of that same year the elder McDonald, having again acquired the ownership and seeing no chance to make the thing pay, gave the paper to his three sons as a free gift and they struggled with it until August, 1859, when they failed and Wm. J. Burns took charge; but during this time Dan was never the editor, M. A. O. Packard having served in that capacity except when relieved by Piatt. Dan never had any further connection with the paper until he bought a half interest in Aug., 1875. Piatt owning the other half and continuing as editor. Oct. 1, 1877, Dan became the sole owner and then for the first time he p.cpired editorial honors and powersconsiderable less than thirty years ago. In less than two years he sold out completely, to II. A. Peed, not resuming until in March, 1881, when his termcf "almost continuous service" began and lasted exactly twentyone years, a record that scores of editors in this state have equalled. If he had written thirteen thousand columns in thirty years, as he claims, that would be eight columns each week without interruption, which is more original matter than the Democrat ever publishes all together in any one Issue, and 'four times as much "äs the retiring editor ever wrote "out of his own head" in any week. His absurd estimate of work performed would be equivalent to eleven columns each week, continuously, during the time he actually edited the paper and worked on it: Counting news, editorials, communications, and all, that paper averages about six columns of

original matter a week. If Dan haslone, accusing other army officers of

written äs much as he claims he has he must have mercilessly rejected about eighty per cent of his own manuscript, "such as it was." The trouble with Daniel is that he wants all the credit for everything all the McDonalds have done and a little more. Thomas founded the Democrat and Piatt and John helped him to use up a good deal of the thirty years that Dan now claims, while all of them together never wrote thirteen thousand columns of reading matter for the paper.

OF COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE. Besides her soil, whose productions place her in the first rank among agricultural states, Indiana possesses an abundance of natural resources the extent and value 6f which have come to be realized in a commercial way only within a lew years. A workable coal area of 7.000 square miles, an oil field yielding nearly 6,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum annually, vast qurrnes of the finest building stone on the continent, shale and clay in unlimited quantities and marl and limestone sufficient to supply Portland cement for the entire country, and mineral waters destined to become more valuable than the noted waters of Europe are among the matchless resources of the state that will bring and are now bringing, capital and population from other states and nations. The admirable series of official reports issued by State Geologist Blatchley, covering these mines of material wealth and treating exhaustively of the birds, fishes, fossils and flora of the state, have contributed directly and largely to Attract investments within our borders and they are not excelled in character and importance by any similar reports of other states. Newspaper reports from the capital state that the current report of this department is held up by the state

printing board and will not be published until next vear. The reason given is that there is not money enough to print it, and this in the face of the fact that the appropriation is larger by $10,000 than before. It is safe to say that, the statues excepted, there is no publication issued by the state that is of as great importance to the people at largi as these reports of the department of natural resources and there is no state publication that is more eagerly awaited by the business interests. Promptness of distribution is of the utmost importance and instead of postponing these reports they should be issued in bulletin lorm as rapidly as the parts are Completed and the legislature should make provision for that plan of publication. The volume now held up has to do with the mineral waters, petroleum products, coal statistics and other wealth-producing assets in the state and it contains information of much value. A great part of that vahje depends upon the immediate accessibility of the information and will be lost by delay. It is far more urgent that men having capital to invest should be put in the possession of exact and complete information concerning the opportunities afforded by this state than that large quantities of worthless lists of notaries, annual catalogues of back numler state officials from the first incumbents down, out-of-date messages of governors, and such trash, should be supplied "with compliments" to persons who do not need or want them. If the printing Doard has prodigally exhausted its increased appropriation for the present year it should now anticipate the action of the noxt general assembly enough to get Prof. Blatchley s report into the hands of the people, for it wiil beyond question, produce very material benefits. MILES AND THE ARMY BILL The attack of General Miles on the army bill is an attack on the President's recommendation and not on the policies of Secretary Root. The secretary simply obeyed the President in drafting the bill in harmony with his recommendations. It is a delicate question as to how far the lieutenant general may go in opposing the recommendations "of the President, but neither the President nor Secretary Root raises that point . They concede that Miles had a right to oppose the bill before the committee, but the President objects to his way of attacking the war department and bringing his opposition down to a personal conspiring to rob him of his rank and position. The manner in which Miles opposed the bill was in line with his other acts of insubordination and another proof of his demoralizing influence of the army. He made trouble at the beginning of the war with Spain, during the war, and after the war, his insubordination culminating in the beef scandal, which was without a shadow of excuse, but cost the government heavily in its export trade. The general began to embarrass

President Roosevelt by meddling in the Schley case; then he fcoodly reqnested the President to abdicate in his fabor and let him dictate the Philippine policy of the government. The President and Secretary Root declined . that request, and sought to shieldMiles by keeping the correspondence secret; but Miles told the story of again haying been turned down. Favorable action has been taken by the House committee on the judiciary on the bill to limit theiaeaning of the word "conspiracy" and the use of restraining orders and injunctions in certain cases. A similar bill was reported recently by the senate committee on the judiciary and is now on the senate calandar. It provides that any "agreement, combination or contract by or between two or more persons to do or procure to be done, or not to do or procure not to be done, any act in contemplation or furtherance of any trade dispute between employers and employes, engaged in interstate commerce, shall not be deemed criminal or punishable as conspiracy if the act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime. No such agreement, combination or contract is to be considered in restraint of trade or commerce and no restraining order or mjuction is to be issued in relation thereto."

The Plymouth Tribune talks about Hon. C. G. Conn carrying this district for congress by 2,700 majority. That was a different 13th district carried by Mr. Conn, Elkhart, Fulton andPulaski counties having since been added while Laporte county was dropped off by the gerrymanderer. The old 13th district was debatable with a democratic tendency. The present district was created to be surely republican and it has been so since its creation. South Bend Times. Is it possible that the editor of the Times does riot know that Elkhart county has been in this district for thirtv vears and that Mr. Conn is a resident of the city of Elkhart? The dropping of Laporte county for Pulaski and Fulton made the district at least 500 votes better for the democrats than it was with Laporte in the district. A democratic club in Chattanooga, Tenn., dined in honor of W. J. Bryan's birthday, passed resolutions endorsing the Chicago and Kansas City platforms and favoring the nomination Of Bryan in 1904. This leads a democratic paper to say that there are many democrats that do not at all appreciate the seriousness of their party's situation. They must know that no political party can survive constant defeat. During the last few years the drift has been to the republican party, not only because it has been right on the paramount question, but also because the ordinary man gets tired of being on the losing side. The Turkish government has flatly refused the demand of t'ie United States for the repayment of the sum of money 872,700 paid to the brigands as a ransom for Miss Ellen M. Stone and her companion, Mrae. Tsilka. A member of Gen. Kitchener's staff says the war will last two years longer. The prediction is calculated to give Mr. Hull a severe twinge in the pocket nerve. Retirement of Hon. Dan McDonald. Northern Indiana loses the services of one of the oldest, best-known and most capable editorial writers in the retirement of Hon. Dan McDonald from the Plymouth Democrat. For almost fifty years the editor; of The LaPorte Republican and the editor of the Plymouth Democrat have been close personal friends. In our social and editorial intercourse political bias had no bar that separated us. Always the same genial, kind and honorable gentleman, Dan McDonald had our fullest confidence and kindest regards. In bJs retirement there are only Gen. Reub Williams of the Warsaw Indianian and the writer hereof, wlo began newspaper work in the north end of the state as early as lSÖG forty-six years ago. Soon these remaining two will inevitably have to give way to other and younger hands. Mr. McDonald, we understand, has sold his office to Mr. Metsker the present member of the legislature from Marshall county, with whom we haye no acquaintance. Whether he intends to engage in any. other line of work we are uninformed. Laporte Republican You will never wish to take another dose of pills if you.once try Chsroberlain's Stomach & Liver Tablets.. They are easier to take aud more pleasant in effect. They cleansejthe stomach and regulato the liver and boweia. For Bale by J. W, Hees, Druggist.

Not Tainted With Dishonor. Thesew York Times, in referring to the report of the early retirement of Pension Commissioner Evans, savs that "in face of the innumerable evidences of fraud, showing that the pension roll was deeply tainted with dishonor and odious mendicancy, the Grand Army of the republic ceaselessly clamors for more pensions." This statement shows that that excellent newspaper has forgotten that President Cleveland entered upon his second term with the idea that there were innumerable evidences of fraud on the pension roll, and that, with that belief, he caused a number of examiners to go through the rolls and pick out those names which should be

stricken therefrom. Several thousand pensioners were suspended, most of them under the act of 1890, because of improper rating. If the matter should be looked up now it will be found that nearly all of those picked cases were restored to the roll by the officials who instituted the investigation. A division of the pension bureau is employed all the time in seeking frauds connected with the granting of pensions. The officer in charge of that division made a report to Commissioner Evans for the year which ended June 30, 1901, which shows that 300 persons were indicted for various frauds in connection with the granting of pensions, of which 250 were tried within the year, resulting in 22(i convictions: Considering that there are nearly a miliion names on the pension rolls, and thousands more striving to be so placed, the result of the constant efforts-ot a corps of skilled investigators from vear to vear does not warrant thechargethat "the pension roll is deeply tainted with dishonor." Indianapolis Journal. Noted Priest Dead. Rev. Nicholas J. Stoffel, C. S. C, for many years pastor of St. Joseph's church at East LaSalle avenue and Hill street South Bend, also professor of Greek at Notre Dame University, died Thursdav morning after an ill- J ness of some weeks. He was taken with inflammatory rheumatism and later developed a very severe case, of Bright's disease. Father Stoffel, who was one of the most learned of men, was the author of a number of works. Among them is "An Epitome of the Life of Christ," written in Greek and the only one of its kind in the world. This book gave gave him a reputation in Europe. He also produced translations of "Antigone" and "Oeditus Tyrannus," two Greek tables, which added to his reputation as a scholar as did the Greek play which he wrote and which was presented by Notre Dame students At the time of his death he was engaged on another Greek work. We Are Lonesome Today. On the 12th day of March the Tri bune spread consternation in the ranks of the genuine democrats of this city and countv bv announcing that the mm O Plymouth Democrat was sold and after March 20, there would be no Plymouth Democrat except in name. Many people thought we were mistaken, and while we knew that what we had written was true, we really feel lonesome today without the old Democrat. It has been officially announced by McDonald and Metsker that the old paper is dead and the only excuse we shall hereafter have for a Democratic paper in Marshall county, will be made up from columns of the Daily Independent and a patent inside furnished by somebody in Chicago. Will Sink Oil Wells. John McGuire has been -given the contract for the sinking of the oil wells at Wanatah. The wells will be sunk to a depth of 300 feet, providing satisfactory results are not obtained at a lesser depth. Previous experiments have demonstrated that Trenton rockis less than that distance from the surface, beyond which strata it is useless to go. Oil and gas experts have great faith that one or both of the products are to be found there, which opinion is held by the state geologist. The discov ery of either product would result in a great boom for Wanatah.' Crumpacker in Line. Representative Crumpacker, who served as a member of the steering committee of the beet sugar members authorizes the statement that he will no longer oppose relief for Cuba. "I now feel that it is my duty to stand by the ways and means committee," said he. "I opposed the reciprocity plan because my constituents were against it, but now that the caucus has reached a decision, I feel that it is my duty to support the bill that will be brought in, and from now on shall follow the lead of the ways and means committee. "I can not say what the other socalled insurgents will do. I have communicated to the other members of the steering committee my intention, and have advised that the fight be carried no further. The expressions of grateful women who have experienced wonderful blessings using Rocky Mountain Tea, compensates us for our efforts in their be half. 35c. J. W. Iless:

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