Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 51, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 September 1904 — Page 1

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THE U. B. CONFERENCE

Its Session in Plymouth Was Among Best Ever Held The annual session of the St. Joseph Conference of the United Brethren Church closed Sunday evening. . ' , The session was one of the best ever held. Bishop Kephart was in excellent health and spirits, atxd the preachers seemed to catch inspiration from him so that business was dispatched rapidly and satisfactorily. . Prom the opening session Wednesday morning until the closing Sunday evening there was always 'something doing that was interesting and profitable. A spirit of aggressiveness was apparent on every hand. Reports showed excellent work for the past year and a determination to do good work the coming jear. Many new churches have been built, others are now in course of construction the membership of the church has been largely increased, schools and colleges are multiplying, there is an increased circulation of church literature and in everything the conference seems determined to keep in line with the church which has oeen doing excellent work everywhere. The next conference will be held at Huntington in September 1905. When Bishop Kephart read the appointments Sunday, several preachers and some congregations were dissappointed, but most of them will probably believe it was all for the best before the close of the conference year. The appointments are ..as follows. WARSAW DISTRICT F. Thomas, Presiding Elder. Warsaw, J. W. Lower; Warsaw Circuit, W. H. Bast; Bourbon, D. C. Kessinger; Clunette, S. O. Fink; Donaldson. J. W. .Martin; Indian Village, M S. .Hill; Bremen Circuit, M. . Y. Hibbs; Plymouth, I. S. Cleaver; Burket, 0. J. Miner; Silver Lake. ftH. E. Butler; Tyner, W. Simons; r Walkerton, S. H. Yager; Roches ter, O. B. Wells; Prairie Grove, T. J. Smith; North Judson, S. P. Kolster. ELKHART DISTRICT J. Simons, Presiding Elder. Elkhart, J. E. Grimes; Adamsville, J. W. DeLong; Bremen, L. O. Oyler; Brimtield, A. F. McCloe; Fawn River, To be supplied; Nappanee, J. C. Albright; "Waterloo, J. W. Eby; Pleasant Lake, J. D. Coverstone; Angola, M. M. LeCount; Butler, O. F. Landis; Ligonier, D. Robinson; -Solomons Creek, W. H. Kittenhouse; Albion, C. V. Mull; Newville, J. -S. Miller; Syracuse, O. Givens; South Bend, to be supplied. PERU DISTRICT . J. W. Lake, Presiding Elder. Peru, C. M Byerley; Colburn, S. O.Goodrich; Young America, J. W. Hindbaugh; Frankfort, W. J. Parker; Frankfort Circuit, C. A.Sickafoose; Fulton; R. D. Biven; Galveston, .W. H. Fetro; Grass Creek, S. Snyder; La Fayette, J. L. Ickes; Logansport, .J. T. Keesey; Rich Valley, B. F. Thomas; Erie, L. W. Love; Macy, J. Q. Kline; Dayton, R. W. Wil.gus; Laketon J. A. Keck; R. J. ParretandE. C. Avis. Evangelists at-large; W. M. Bell Gen. Missionary Sec. N. Castle, Bishop Western Dist. FORT WAYNE DISTRICT A. M. Cummins, Presiding Elder. Ft. Wayne, G. F. Byrer; Decatur, G. E. Luke; Momxevllle, J. L. Powers; Ossian, C. A.Spitler; 'Tocsin, J. W. Bookert; Roanoke, A. F. Hnepps; Pleasant." W. A. Thomas; Huntington, C. H. Bell; Churubusco, L. A. Stangle; Columbia City, L. L. Shaffer; South Whitley, J. A. Fanner; Gobelsville, Rev Hammond; North Man chester. J. L. Gosbert; Columbia City, Circuit, G. Hutchinson; Liberty Mills, G. L. Mattox. CONFERENCE NOTES Bishop Kephart is a large man of commanding presence and and bears a striking resemblance to the late Mark Hanna. He does not mind cracking a joke at the expense of a pastor when a good occasion presents itself, and nmch of the success of the conference was duo to his exexccllcnt executive ability. . The singing was under the direction of Rev. E. H. Pontious end tho Arion Quartet and was C3 ccd as hzr ever been heard in this city. ? C. S. Parker, vrho hco been a member of this quartet end is kcoT7n by clmcet every bey in

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signed as a missionary evangelist. The great addresses of the conference were those of Missionary Secretarr Bell of Dayton, Ohio, and the sermon by Bishop Kephart, but the short sermon delivered py Rev. G. F. Byrer of Fort Wayne, to a small audi ence at the Methodist church Sunday morning was one of the gems of the occasion and will n3ver be forgotten by those who heard it. The arrangements for feeding the conference were perfect and no hotel could have set a better table than did the ladies of the U. B. church of Plymouth in the Brinks block. The conference was a success in every particular and Plymouth people enjoyed the presence of ministers and laymen and their wives. Rev. I. Cleaver, who has been assigned to Plymouth for the ensuing year, is a preacher of much experience, is about sixty years of age and a veteran of the civil war. He comes here from Lafayette. ' WHY VOTE FOR CHAOS?

On Every Important Question Democrats Arc Divided. On what ground does the democratic party aak the people to trust it again? On its record, in or out of power? Can it point to anything achieved during Cleveland's two terms of which it is proud, or to any thing it attempted which it is not glad, for the sake of the country, that it did not achieve? And if we ignore the democratic past, and consider only democratic promise, are the leaders of the party agreed as to what that promise means? Will any two of them interpret the platform or the candidate's utterances the same way? will they declare definitely and finally that, if given . power, they would reverse any policy inaugurated by republicans and now prevailing? The democratic platform is silent as to democratic intention toward the gold standard. The candidate says it is established; but Mr. Cleveland knows from bitter experience the differience in mirnnsA tJiat. ran AYict. hot.wpon , . - " ' a democratic president and a uemocratic congress. How about the tariff? How many democrats still insist that the custom houses should be thrown into the sea? That was the advice of a famous. democrat in congress a tew years ago, Is the party 'sane" on that question now? The democratic platform insists on cutting the tariff down to a revenue basis; the democrat ic candidate insists on a revision acceptable to the republican Senate; other democrats want another penod of tariff smashing agittation. So it goes. Regarding trusts the platform clamors for more stringent laws; the candidate says there is law enough; on the Philippines both platform and candidate try to gather in all the anti imperialist sentiment they can, but neither one says anything that indicates a definite purpose. On every other important question the democratic party is equally divided and uncertain. Its supremacy at Washington' would mean a reign of chaos and confusion compared with which the Cleveland nightmare from 1893 to 1896 would be regarded as peaceful and prosperous times. Credit Section. . Roossvclt Stends for Deeds. The Detroit Free Press, a democratic paper says: No matter who is elected president the government is bound to go on along the present line and the practical question, therefore, is whether Mr. Roosevelt will continue to be an executive in whom the people will take more pride and in whom they will have more confidence than they would in Judge Parker. They know Mr. Roosevelt. Concealment and duplicity are not among his faults. He is a certainty. The people do not know Judge Parker. He is to ihe president what a dusty lawbook is to the best sejling no At the month. Definite and honorable promises are as nothing when compared to the con clusiveness of acts. Deeds, not words, " said Mr. Roosevelt, and in that trite expression is ' con tamed the difference between the hopes of tho republicans and tho hopes of the democracy. It is no fault of Judge Paiker that this is so. It is tho handicap the minority, must always face. It would be more Vzr.u. paeeinj ctrazo if tho voters of tho u nit cd Sitatca failed to give tho pre

THE CANNING FACTORY

Plymouth's Latest Great Industry a Complete Success. Very little has been said about Plymouth's canning factory and it is probable that one half the people of Marshall county do not know that this city has one of the best factories of the kind in this part of the state. The factory was only completed this summer and the season has not been good for raising corn or tomatoes, but almost thirty thousand cans of corn have been put and eighty thousand small cans and forty thousand large cans are now in the factory ready to be filled with corn and tomatoes. The factory now employs about 40 persons and will employ a great many more next year during the busy season. The machinery is all up to date and of the latest improved patterns and best adapted for the work that can be found anywhere. The plant is owned by people of Plymouth and the surrounding country, and the manager is a man of large experience in the canning business. No factory of its capacity is capable of doing better or faster work. Most of the corn is now canned and attention from now until the close of the season will be given principally to tomatoes. These bring quite a profit to the producer as does also the corn that is raised for canning. We believe that this is destined to become one of the great industries of Plymouth and we wish every farmer and every man who has a patch of land that will raise corn, tomatoes or other vegetables would go to the factory before the season closes, see the work that is done, learn particulars and grow something for the factory next year. There is money in it for the producers. Diversified farming pays. People have learned that creameries and pickle factories are worth something to communities and a little investigation will convince the most skeptical that a canning factory is worth as much as any thing else. Go and see the factory at work, raise something for it next year, help yourself and give employment to more men and women to consume other farm products. A load of corn with the husks on brings the producer about nine dollars and he can haul cobs and husks home with him and have them to feed to his stock if he wishes to do so. No crop is more profitable than tomatoes in an ordinary season and there are other vegetables almost as profitable. A little attention given to these things may result in largely increasing the wealth of this community and everybody should assist in making the canning factory a big institution. This is not an advertisement. It is written after a personal investigation by the proprietor of this paper and it is what he believes to be true, but farmers and others interested should investigate and decide for themselves. Since writing the above, Mr. Marvim, the manager, received a letter from the J. M. Paver Company, Chicago, very large wholesale dealers in canned goods. The letter was written Tuesday evening and says: We want to congratulate you upon the work that you are doing at your factory. The samples of corn and tomatoes, four cans each, arrived this morning, and we cut one can each for examination. The tomatoes are strictly standard in every respect, and should pass muster in our opinion with the most skeptical buyer. The corn is very nice indeed. The cans are well filled. We do not think that we will have any trouble in selling this thousand cases for you and do not believe that it is wise to be in a hurry in disposing of it as the present markets is rather weak. We are particularly well pleased with the corn and tomatoes and are free to say to you that we will be able to sell what you pack and make you a nice profit on same." Plans Great Stcrc. John Chess Ellsworth, proprietor of the Ellsworth dry goods hous3 in Soutl Bend, has purchased of John C. Wagner the latter's property on Michigan strcot in that city, and will erect a building six stories high, to accommodate an immense mercantile) establishment. Tho prico paid was C75,009 or about $1,035 r, front fc

A Whirlwind Campaign.

Independent political observers and the republican party managers will watch now with considerable interest to , see what the democrats will do. They have been informed that Mr. Taggart's visit to his home city and state would signalize the opening of a "whirlwind campaign" f for Indiana's electoral vote, and they are eager to see the first evidence of increased velocity in the democratic wind. 'Whirlwind" camgaigns have been rare in the oosier state. There have been many desperately contended elections in Indiana, but no campaign that could be described as . a 'whirlwind" consequently there is a pardonable curiosity as to the contest in store for Indianans. Many of the republican leaders feel that there is absolutely no occasion for alarm over the prospect of anything the democrats may or can' do and they have good reasons for such confidence, but there are others who are disposed to overrate rather te,an underrate their opponents aid they are saying that they really expect the democrats to put up a stiff fight and to make a formidable showing. It is difficult to see how the democrats can expect to elect their state ticket or carry the state for Parker; but, remembering 1892, it is well not to bank too heavilv on what Indiana will do at the polls, and the republicans who are inclined to give the democrats credit for being able to put up as strong a fight as they claim will not have to eat crow after November 8, no matter how the state goes. Trusts and Common Law. The democratic party falsely asserts 4 'that the common law, as developed, affords a complete legal remedy against monoplies." President Roosevelt fully and plainly answers that falsehood by saying "there is no common law in the-United - States. Its rules can be enforced only by state courts and officers.. No federal court or officer could take any action whatever under them. It was this fact coupled with the inability of the states to control trusts and monopolies, which led to the passage of the federal statutes known as the Sherman anti-trust act and the interstate commerce act, and it is only through the exercise of the powers conferred by these acts, and by the statue of the last congress supplementing them that the national government acquires any jurisdiction over this subject." One Month's Embezzlements. A fidelity and casualty company of New York has collected facts and figures showing that in the month of July, 1904, defalcation occur ed in the United States amounting to 81,080,261. Of this total 5185,000 was lost by banks and $821,000 by firms and corporations. The rest : is divided, among building and loans associations, benevolent societies, court trusts, federal, state and municipal! governments, and insurance and transportation companies. Most at the amounts going to make up this total are small. The United States is large, and even with this showing of embezzlements the percentage of dishonest men in positions of trust is small; but a misappropriation of a million dollars m a month is a startling showing und leads orie to inquire what is at the bottom of it. First Voters Read This. Roosevelt and Fairbanks are both younfi: men. as are a majori ty of the leaders of the republi can party. If you believe in progress, if you want to seo our country the richest and its peothe most contented and prosperous on the faco of the earth, if you believe in throwing open the doors of opportunity to young men, if you do not believe that smoke-stacks aro a proper place for cob-web3 and birds', nests, if you would rather hear the whirr of revolving wheels than the murmur of discontent, if you believe in happiness instead of unhappiness. if you believe in courage and honesty, if you believe in frankness instead of secrecy, if you believe in deeds rather than promises, if you believe in reason rather than ignorance, then fast your first presidential vots.Kfor Roocovclt zil FcirbanL-3.

ARKANSAS LETTER

George R. Chaney Writes Inter estingly From the Southwest. Siloam Springs, Ark., Sept. 17, 1904. Editor Tribune. Dear Sir: You and I, are not personally acquainted, but I lived and practiced law in Plymouth for nearly ten years, and read the Tribune every week. In it I very often see the names of such well known and remembered people as Judges Capron and Hess, C. H; Reeve and J. W. Parks, Drs. Borton and Burket, H. G. Thayer, H. Humrichouser, and many others, with whom I was well acquainted, and the sight of these old and familiar names arouses within me a fervent desire to ee the old familiar faces" once more, on this side the rushing river. -; V I saw Messrs Thayer, ;Humrichouser and Maj. Kendall (who is now dead) at the National Republican Convention in Chicago, in 1888, but the others, not since 18880. I was stricken with paralysis tour years ago this month, which disabled me from practing lawV so I sold most of what I had in Red Cloud Neb., and came , höre to this delightful and salubrious climate for my health. . Here, within this little city of 3,500 people, we have 22" springs of the finest and purest water that flows from the ground, two of which are medicated, one iron, and one arsenic; and my health is improving but very slowly indeed. .. I see in your last issue of the 15th mst two items referring to the Arkansas election of Sept. 5. Yes this eleciioV reduced the democratic majority about 30,000. The state has been declining since 1896. In 1900. Davis got a majority of about 60,000 for governor. In 1902 his majority was only a little over 47.000, and this year, it lacked a little of 30. 000, which is a decrease in three elections, of about half. He only carried i his county, which has over 8,000 votes, by 48. This city is republican by about 200, He lost it by 198, but local politics cut but little figure in a community. I am a stalwart republican and always have been. I lived in Plymouth, when it, and . Marshall county were largely democratic, and 1 have never lived, where I would rather live than there. It is a good country and the people are as kind, generous and as intelligent as any on earth. I lived at Red Cloud Neb., over 20 years, and it never had less than 150 republican majority, yet viewed from the point of location alone, Plymouth, is the most desirable place to live. I have not lived here long enough to give much of an idea of the people in general, but the surroundings are fine indeed. We have the finest and best college, in the Southwest, the best fruit country on earth, and the finest climate and water to be found any where. It is certainly an ideal place tb live, ' v This part Of the country was over looked in the grand . rush for free homes in the North and West from 1870 to 1880, but the tide has turned and hundreds, yes, I may say thousands, are now coming from the North and West to this part of Arkansas. It is a mild, healthy climate, and the average man can do as well here as he can tny where. i Hoping, .some day, to meet the good people of Plymouth again, and renew" old acquaintance, 1 am most respectfully yours. . . Geo. R. Chaney. Letter- From' Washington State. : Barneston, Wash., 7- v Sept, 15, 1904. Editor Tribune: ; It may be a surprise to some of my old school mates and friends to hear of me after many '. wanderings on land and to foreign countries..- Since I left old Indiana at the age of twelve years where my parents resided on a farm . near Teegarden, I have 7anderd in :uany states and have visited Japan, China, and among the many Islands of the Paciffic Ocean; I have met many strange people and many beautiful places but none could cause meto forget ray boyhood days spent in the good old snuny state of Indiana. After all these wanderings I have settled down and i got married and hold a good position as foreman of the Lucas Lumber Co. of this place. Right here I wish to give the boys apiceoof good advice. If you have a home, bo wise kcop it; no. matter what -you hear

about the west, about the big wages. The greater part of it is untrue. Though I was but a school boy I well remember how people talked of the big wages, the homesteads, - and of getting rich quick in the west. But let me tell you those days are over, we have good wages but you pay well for what you get. Washington has a beautiful climate in the summer, but the winters are bad on account of the rain. If you have money to go into business this is as good a state as. there is to invest it. But if you have a farm in Northern Indiana do not- part with it for all the west. - I will be glad to answer any inquiries from friends or others and can find positions for any wishing to come to this section

,of country. I should like to hear from my old schoolmates especially Raymond and' Frank McCombs. Yours Respectfully. Homer E. Leash. Judge Parker not a Speaker. The reason for the refusal of Judge Parker to make a western tour, or the refusal of his managers to permit him to do so, whichever it may have been, becomes clear in the light of reluctant democratic acknowledgement that the candidate can not make public speeches. It is said, though this statement does not come from democratic sources, that he has been a total failure as a speaker on the few occasions when he has attempted to address a large audience. One thing that accounts for this oratorical. disability . Is u voice that is unsüited for the platform another that he has no stage presence. He is also said to be obviously ill at ease before his hearers and to have no power of extemporaneous speech whatever, being obliged to depend upon manuscript. This deficiency is a great drawback to any American in public life, and is, moreover, quite unusual, and among presidential candidates almost unknown, at least in the- -last half century. Lincoln was an orator, and so was his opponent, Douglas. McClellan, the democratic candidate in 1864. was not skilled as a speaker, but could make a fair address. Grant was called a silent man, but proved that, when necessary, he could make an effective speech. Seymour and Greely, his opposing candidates were both at home on the platform. Tilden and Hayes were both ready talkers. All the later republican candidates, Garfield, Harrison, Blaine, McKinley and Roosevelt, have been especially gifted in an oratorical way. Gen. Hancock could talk from the platform, though not with especial ease. Mr. Cleveland is a forcible, though not magnetic, speaker, and Mr. Bryan has a genuine talent for oratory. Indianapolis Star. Theodore Roosevelt. - There may be many parties. We haye but one country. Surely a due sense of proportion -and the fitness of things will lead us to subordinate our pride of party to the more important sentiment of patriotism. Party managers spme times listen too closely to the voice oi expediency. Their consuming anxiety is with the question, 4,Whom can we elect?" not whom should we elect?" Individual voters may profitably take a broader view of things. The weal of woe or a mighty nation may depend upon the ballots cast in this republic. Theodore Roosevelt is not an unknown quantity. Nothing but partisanship can deny him the possession of superb qualities as a chief magistrate. He has no secrets from the people; he hates intrigue. He is not fearful of his shadow; his courage is proverbial. He does not play the arts of a trimmer; his sense of duty is without partiality. Inertia and lack of initiative have no place in his physical or mental makeup; he is the president of a people who brings things to pass. Ask any one who to-day best typifie3 the spirit of true Amaricanism. Can there be a dcubt that the answer will be. Theodore Roosevelt? South Bend Tnbune. The south is getting rich hand over fist and was never so prosperous since Hernando DeSoto discovered it. Yet the people down there are not happy. They look through dark glasses and see a "nigger" behind every bale of cotton as well as under every woodpile. "Everv pros pect pleases and only man is vile."

THE PANAMA CANAL

Something About the Country Where It Is Situated. We are to hear much about Panama hereafter, and we ought to know , something of it. Our consul-general at Panama, in a report just published, gives much interesting information. Panama is divided into seven departments, Panama, Colon, Bocas del Toro, Cniriqui, Los Santos, Veragua and Cocle. Each has a gov-ernor-alcalde-with other nece -sary officials. There are several ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific, chief, of which are Colon on the former and Panama on the latter. There is but one railroad; it joins these two towns, is forty-seven miles long, cost $7,000,000, and earned, gross, last year, 1,267,570. Thirty-four-thirty-fiftbs of the stock formerly owned by the French canal company has passed to the United States Government, The consul-general says: "there are no dirt (he means "earth") roads leading into the interior, and not twenty-five miles of road in the whole republic over which a carriage could pass." The area of the republic is 31,500 square miles. (The area of Indiana is 33,809 square miles. ) The extreme length is about 400 miles; the width varies from thirty-five to 160 miles. The population is about 300,000, of various nationalities. The country's resources are little known, but H is believed that the forests have valuable hardwood and the hills valuable minerals. As to health conditions, it is not a paradise, but neither is the death pool that it is repre sented to be. The death rate for the first six months of this year was 54 to the 1,000. The temperature at Colon and Panama, about the same, ranges from 65 to 98 degrees, averaging, perhaps, 80. The rainfall is from 82 to 155 inches, averaging 125. In the hill sectiony it is cooler, and there is less rain. Trade and industry have been in an impoverished condition. But there is prospect of the introduction of machinery and modern methods and an end has been made of monopolies which have heretofore prevailed in salt, matches, tobacco and things of that kind. There is a sort of boom consequent on the new prospects. The length of the canal will be forty-seven miles, and it is expected to cost not hss, in round numbers, than 200,000,000. Should it be a sea-level canal, the cost will perhaps be a fourth more. A large part of the work will be done by improved machinery, the latest patterns being used. It is probable that not more than 12,000 workmen will be actually engaged in work at any one time. The Nine OXIock Club. "Jack" Frost, of Portland, Chairman of the republican organization in Jay County, has a campaign idea that has the com-"' ; mendation of all the politicians who" have heard oit. , He is or- . ganizing among theVrepublicans of his county , a "NineO'Clock Club," the members ' of - which - pledge, themselves to go- to the. polls before 9 o'clock on election J day, and tq-iduce as many re- - publicans as 'possible to do like-" wise. Buttons bearing simply the inscripton, 49 o, clock," will be procured, -" and that will be made one of the , campaign slogans. 1 I know that if we can get 75 percent of the republican vote in Jay county out before noon on election day there'll be no question about our carrying the county said Mr. Frcst in speaking of his innovation. I believe, too, that if we can get 75 per cent of the republican votes in Indiana into the ballot boxes before noon there'll be no doubt about our carrying the state."" "Get the vote out early" is always the first and last instruction to the party workers from the organization leaders, but a happier scheme than this of Mr. Frost has never been proposed. Vts Once Wealthy. Napoleon Shipley, a former postmaster at Washington D. C, and for years one of the most successful and largest oil speculators of the country, died Thursday at the city poor farm, near Pittsburg Pa. aged 85 years. Although the possessor of a large fortune it was lost through oad investments, over 200,000 being sunk in a single oil venture. :

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