Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1902 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Official Paper at Jasper CaaatyMM in Bepubllcan.butldlnv on the corner of Washington and Weston street*. IBBURD RVRRY TUESOAY~“ IND FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL IDITOB IND PUBLISHER, r*r*M of Sub«criptio«. One Year.... 51.50 Six Months 75 z Three Months 50 Friday, October, 24, 1902.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

THE STATE TICUT. Secretary of State DANIEL E. STORMS Auditor of RtateJ DAVID E. SHERRICK Treasure* of State NAT U. HILI., Attorney General CHARI.ES W. MILLER Clerk Supreme Court ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction - ' f. A. COTTON. State Statistical! BKNJ. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist W. 8. BLATCHLKY. Judge Supreme Court, Fifth District JOHN H. GILLETT. (Judges Appellate Court FRANK E. ROBY U. Z. WILEY w. j. henlky: l jambs r. black W. E. ROBINSON DISTRICT TICKET. For Congress; CHUM PACKER, Valparaiso, Ind. Foe Judas SBth Judicial Circuit, CHARLES W. HANLEY. mm For Prosecuting Atty 30th Judicial Circuit, JOHN D. SINK, For Joint Representative, JRBBB E, WILSON. COUNTY TICKET. For Auditor, JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. For Treasurer, BAMUBL R. NICHOLS. For Sheriff, ABRAHAM G. HARDY. For Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE. For Oorouer. W. J. WRIGHT. For Commissioner Ist District, ABRAHAM HALLECK. For Oommisaioaer tad District, FRBDWCIGK WAYMIRK For Commissioner 3rd District, CHARLES T. DKNHAM. For County Councilmen, Ist district JOHN HAHN Bn*district HARVEY E. PARKISON 3rd district , *..JOHS MARTINDALE 4th district WALTER V. PORTER ( JOHN F. PETTIT At Larger ERHARDT WEURTHNER I FRANK J. BABOOCK

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Street Assessment Notice. AU persona owinp for street improvement •aseesments, are notified that all snob ae are no* due must be paid on or before the let Monday in November; -or incur a 10 per oent peualtv for delinquency, by operation of the law. * Street aeeeMtnenta being the same ae other taxes in that aeepect. Payable to me at my office. —— JL BL Chahman. City Treasurer. Mackintoshes to Measure. Don't forget that I have the latest goods for Mackintoshs, which are made op to your own measure —Ladies’ or Cents’—call and see The prices are right, too. Mbs. H. J, Babtoo.

’‘lt is said,” remarks a free*trade journal, “that Pierpont Morgan will 'consent' to a reduction of the tariff.” Probably he would. Pierpont Morgan was never anything but a strong Democrat and supporter of Mr. Cleveland so long as tariff reform was the Democratic shibboleth, and he is about the only man in the United States who made any money out of the ruin brought upon the country by the only tariff-reform adminie——3l' tration this generation baa experienced. Very probably he would “consent.”

Some Democratic papers make light of the story that J. Pierpont Morgan is preparing to take charge of the Democratic party. There would be nothing startling about that. It will be remembered that Mr. Morgan was pretty strong with a Democratic president seven or eight years ago. and was thus enabled to drive some pretty thrifty bond deals. The gentleman who was endorsed by the last Indiana Democratic state convention for national chairman recently attended a dinner in New York city, where this same president was the guest of honor and listened approvingly to a speech bv Mr. Cleveland in which he rebuked the Democratic party for having wandered after Mr- Bryan; free silver and other gaudy leaders and issues. The Democratic policy, if the gentlemen now in control of it in Indiana have their way, will not be objectionable in any particular to Mr. Morgan. Mr. Havemayer, Mr. Baer and other magnates who were good democrats so long as the party stuck to the doctrine that the way to destory the trusts was to destroy protection.

Excnrsion to Indianapolis

Sunday Oct. 26, 1902. The Monon Route will run another cheap excursion to Indianapolis on Sunday Oot. 26, 11.00 for the round trip from all points from Hammond to Frankfort. The time of passing of the special train in this vicinity as follows: Shelbj 6:38 a. m. Thayer 6:41 a. m. Rose Lawn 6:46 a. m. Fair Oaks .6:57 a. m. Parr 7T.TT. 7:04 a. m. Surrey 7:09 a. m. Rensselaer 7:19 a- m - Pleasant Ridge.. . 7:28 a. m. McOoysburg .. 7:34 a. m. Lee..... . v-. a. m. Monon 7:52 a. m. Monticello : 8:14 a. m Returning special train will leave Indianapolis at 7:00 p. m.

FOR SALE ATA BARGAIN. or will trade for Loe Angeles City property my property at Wheatfield Indiana. One 5 room house and barn on 3 lots, 1 large hay barn, large implement room, large scale and office on 3 lots. Also one business lot and one residence ot. Address Wm M. Miller. 6410 Elgin Street, Los Angeles Cali Wants To Buy Onions. The highest market price paid for good onions Alf Donnelly,

8.0 Gard ner's Real Estate Agency Call on B U. Gardner if you wish to buy or sell lands, oan suit you. Parties having land to sell please list them with me. Also agent for fine farm and ranch lauds in South Dakota located in good part of the state ranging in price from *7 to SIS per acre. Excursion every two weeks. Prices advancing. Lands for exchange. Office over Makeover’s Bank. B. 0. Gardner.

Bugj ies for Farther Orders I have just received another oar load of the slickest buggies and runabouts that ever struck the town. 1 didn’t buy them to stand here in the building to get dusty and catch cobwebs with. I am going to sell them. So if you are fin the market for a new buggy and consider $5 or 110 worth anything you will come and get my prices before you buy. I have a nousefull to seleot from, which enables mn to please you without much trouble. My terms are oast: time or trade. * ‘ Opposite court house, east side square. D. M. Worland. waitati Tear Booth Wilk CteMMtti

RepiiMim Meetings. Jesse E- Wilson. ——an4 —■ A. HaDeck At DeMotte School House, Friday Oct. 24, 7 o’clock p, m. Jesse E- Wilson and Moses Leopold At Center School House Gillam Tp., Monday, Oct. 27, 7 o’clock p. m. Jesse E. Wilson At Newland Wednesday Oct. 29th, at 7 p. m. B- F. Ferguson and Chas. M- Blue At Kniman Thursday, Oct. 23, 7 o’clock p. m s B. F- Ferguson At Wheatfield Thursday, Oct. 30, 7 e’clock p. m. Estil E- Pierson At Duvall School House Jordan Tp., Monday, Oct. 27th, 7 o’clock p. m. Egypt School House Jordan Tp., Friday, Oct. 31st. - 7 o’clock p. m. Parr, Saturday, Oct. 25, at 7 *p. m. Valina Monday, Nov. 3, at 7 p. m.

Hon- ED- Crumpacker At Rensselaer Wednesday, Oot. 29, 7 o’clock p. m. Williams & A- Halleck At Remington Saturday Oct. 25, at 7:30 p m. Parkison & Williams At Aix, (Brushwood) Friday, Oct 24, at 7 p. m. Parkison & Halleck At McCoysburer, Monday Oct. at.7 p, m. ♦

For Sale Cheap. 120 acres of as good and well located land as Jasper county affords. For particulars call on W. H. Churchill, City, or address M. A. Churchill, Cushing, Minn wt • I If you are in need of a -Sewing machine Call at WHITE’S ' and get the Celebrated SINGER Sewing Machine, | The beet in the world, 'M a, OthMdSufflta always e« hand We clean and repair all machines. OSes Van RaaeMiaer St

ERA OF CHEAPNESS

Is What Democratic Leadership Ardently Desires. SOUP HOUSE PERIOD PREFERRED To the Condition* Now Prevailing in the Industrial World—Democratic Leadership Endeavoring to Convince the Farmers and Wage-Earners of Indiana That They Were Better Off In a Period of Panic and Prostration Than in One of Prosperity and Employment. The state organ of the Indians Democracy 13 engaged in showing the bituminous miners of the state that they are not as prosperous now as they were under the last Democratic administration. It is not a bit worried by the fact that under the last Democratic administration the miners of Indiana were engaged in a struggle for existence, culminating in the worst strike in the state’s history, and that they are now seemingly satisfied with their contract with the operators. The Sentinel's political correspondent says in a letter from Brazil, under date of Oct. 13:

. “It is true that there has been an increase of wages among the miners, but that increase is not to be mentioned in the same breath with the much larger increases in the living expenses. The lowest wages paid here was 61 cents a ton for mining coal. The miners now get 90 cents a ton. Three tons is considered an average day’s work. The miner who received >1.83 a day when wages was at low water mark now gets >2.70 a day, but his >2.70 will not buy nearly as much as his >1.83 formerly bought.” Era of Cheapness Wanted. —The correspondent then mentions certain articles the prices of which have been Increased “by the trusts” in greater proportion than wages, and, peculiarly enough, the articles in the list which have undergone the greatest Increase in price are not trust-made articles at all, unless the farmers have formed an egg and cheese trust lately. 'Doubtless it would be possible to secure a list of commodities which have increased one-third in price duting the past five years, though even this carefully selected catalogue of articles does not establish this contention. Yet it omits such staples as flour, sugar, rice and coal oil, and substitutes bed comforts, shingles and linseed oil. It includes nearly all the products of the farm which go upon the table, the implied argument being one for a return to cheap prices on agricultural products which prevailed during the only “tariff reform” era this generation has experienced.

The Sentinel takes no account of the increase in number of men employed or the increase in number of days during which the mines have been open This is one of the most important elements In the mining situation, and is a factor of special significance in' determining the comparative welfare of the miners of Indiana In 1896 and 1902. Conditions Now and Then. Taking The Sentinel's own figures for it, It is apparent that the miners of Indiana are Immensely better off now than they were six years ago. It is a somewhat significant fact that while in 1896 Democratic leadership had nothing to commend in the Cleveland era, and insisted that what the country wanted was to get away from the conditions created, now that time has dulled the memories of men a bit, it is instituting comparisons between that period and this, which clearly indicates that what it proposes as a means of relief for the country is a return to the soup house era of 18931897. Persons old enough to recall the events of from six to nine years ago will hardly be deceived by even the most ingenious arguments In favor of such a panacea

The Real Trouble.

“The Democratic party has neither a man to lead nor a principle to espouse this year." William C. Whitney, Democratic Secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897.

A Democratic Product

When the Democrats abuse J. P. Morgan they forget that he is a Democratic production. Under the operation of the Wilson tariff President Cleveland, in a time of profound peace, was compelled to issue national bonds to the extent of >262,000,000 in order to meet the current expenses of government (a situation that should be compared with the present healthy condition of the treasury). These government bonds were sold at a discount to a syndicate of bankers organized for the purpose lot handling them abroad, and Morgan is the man who formed the syndicate -nd made an enormous profit JB the deal. _ That was the operation that 6roiightlif>r~ into prominence as a financier of na tlonal notoriety and set him on the road he has since been traveling. He did not handle the Spanish war loan, by the way. for that was sold at a premium to small American investors and was subscribed twice over by persona eager to buy.—Laporte Herald. • ,<p

INDIANA THE HOST ECONOMICALLY MANAGED STATE IN THE UNION

When it comes to the election of members of the legislature on Nov. 4, your vote means one of two things—either you do or you don’t care whether or not the state’s business is carried on in an economical, businesslike manner in which you would want a company in which you were a stockholder to be conducted. Either you will cast your vote in favor of continuing the present debt-destroy-ing, expense-reducing state administration, or you will express a perference for a start in a new direction. This is as certain as the result of an arithmetical process, correctly carried out—if experience teaches anyV>ingHere are the facts: Indiana is today the most economically managed state in the Union. Within the past seven years of Republican control a state debt of seven and a half million dollars has been cut in two, and, with present conditions continued, will soon be wiped out. The tax levy, fixed at 18 cents on the >IOO under the last period of Democratic control of state affairs, has been reduced under the Republican regime to 14 cents. All this has been accomplished in spite of the expenditure of more than >l,600,000 in the permanent improvement of the state penal and charitable institutions, the completion of the soldiers’ monument and the establishment of the state soldiers’ home at Lafayette. Reform laws have been passed which have reduced the burdens of local taxation and have resulted in the turning into the state’s treasury of thousands of dollars in fees which formerly went to private coffers. The per capita cost of the maintenance of the state’s wards in various institutions has been materially decreased. Republican state and legislative candidates stand for a continuance of these conditions, and you have a chance to indorse or repudiate the record.

DIFFERENCE ILLUSTRATED

The anthracite coal strike is settled. For weeks Democratic leadership has attempted to make political capital out of thief movement on the part of workingmen for better wages and conditions. At the same time Republican leadership has been endeavoring to Settle ths strike on terms favorable to the miners, the principal obstacle to such a consummation being the stubbornness of President Baer, who proudly proclaims himself a “Jerry Black Democrat" It Is the old story over again. From Democratic leadership the free and unlimited coinage of superheated language. From Republican leadership a practical policy leading to results which the anthracite mine workers and the people of the whole country are hailing with rejoicing. ACTS VERSUS WORDS, WORK VERSUS WIND, RESULTS VERSUS RHETORIC! WHICH ..LEADERSHIP DO YOU PREFER?

VOTE BUYING BEGUN

Indiana Democratic.. Leaders Enter Upon a Wholesale Scheme of Debauchery. The Spencer Journal prints a sac simile of a campaign document which is of considerable interest. It reads as follows: Spencer, Indiana, Oct 11th, 1902. Received of F„ E. Durcher, two dollars, on condition of this and $3.00 I agree to vote the straight Democrat ticket on November 4th, 'O2, the .Democrat poll clerk to make out my ballot (Signed) ARCHIE CHAVERB. No. 15. The above receipt is said to be in the money referred to, returned it to the representative of. the local Democratic organisation, excepting the signature, aa made by Chavers, whb, after taking the money referred toT returned to the Democratic committeman, announcing that aa he Intended to leave town he could not deliver the goods, and deaired to return the money in exchange for the receipt, which was handed over. This is interesting as indicating what may be expected during the remaining days of the campaign throughout the state. The adoption of the same scheme is reported from many Other counties. The purpose in the plan here revealed is to place "floaters" tn the power of the Democratic organisation. The law punishes the •ale of votes by disfranchisement for from two to twenty years, and the giving of a receipt of this character lays the victim open to liability to indictment by the grand jury. As the election of congressmen is involved, it is pointed out that those engineering this aFhama are liable to ipdictment by federal grand juries.

A Mighty Poor Game.

Getting even is the poorest game ever played In politics.— Madison Courier.

NO BACKWARD STEP

Shoald the Republicans of Indiana Take This Year. IMPORTANT QUESTION INVOLVED Is Whether or Not the State Shall Suffer Prestige in National Affairs— Not Only the Senatorship but the Future of Republicanism In Indiana Involved In the Election of November 4th. The prestige of Indiana in. the greatest of the world's legislative bodies — the United States senate —is involved in the election of members of the legislature on November 4th. This in itself is sufficient reason why the Republicans of Indiana should do their whole duty. Not only is the re-election of Senator Fairbanks involved, but the reapportionment of the state for legislative purposes. Should Democratic leadership secure control of the Indiana legislature, it would beyond question proceed to the enactment of such a gerrymander as that under which Senator Turpie was elected in 1899, when, with a Republican majority of more than 10,000 in the state, a Democratic senator was sent to represent Indiana in the United States senate. In all her history Indiana has had no more faithful or useful representative in the upper branch of the national legislature than Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. Cautious but not cowardly, conservative but yet in touch and in sympathy with the most progressive political thought of the period, industrious, conscientious, thoughtful and forcible, he has impressed himself upon the great body in which he has served his state so well, as one of the leaders among American publicists. Few men in American public life have risen to substantial national prominence within a period so brief. In 1897 Senator Fairbanks was elected senator —the first public office he ever held. The year 1902 finds him in the fore-front among the leaders of that great body of law-njakers, his national reputation as s' statesman reflecting credit upon the commonwealth of Indiana throughout the Union.

Senator Fairbanks came into the responsibilities attendant upon a seat in the greatest legislative body in the world, at a time when the country stood upon the threshhold of a new era in its affairs—an era in which the country has not only attained a prosperity unexampled in the world’s history, but in which the American name has attained a new dignity and the American nation a new place in the family of nations. Potent Factor in Legislation. . In the momentous developments of the past five years, Senator Fairbanks has been, not a passive spectator, but a potent factor. With the historic administration of William McKinley he -was intimately and conspicuously identified. President McKinley was a rare judge of men, and that no man, even in the president's official family, stood higher in the confidence and esteem of the martyred president than did the senior senator from Indiana, Is significant of the character and ability of Mr. Fairbanks. Alike in temperament, similar in their convictions and their attainments, it is not surprising that there existed between President McKinley and Senator Fairbanks so strong a friendship, nor that the president so implicitly relied upon the judgment of his friend. It is a fact not generally known, even by the friends of Senator Fairbanks, that for weeks preceding the declaration of war against Spain, and during the trying months which ensued before the fall of Santiago, the senior senator from Indiana was almost nightly at the White House by invitation of the president, to talk over with him the momentous problems which were arising from day to day. The people of Indiana will not hesitate to express their confidence in a man whom William McKinley so implicitly trusted. Indiana Haa Fared Well. As a representative of the state at Washington Senator Fairbanks has been faithful and untiring In his activity for its welfare. The local interests of Indiana have never been more loyally looked after. Aa an evidence of this efficient activity the results of the first session of the S7th congress, recently.closed, may be cited. Never has Indiana fared so well at a*y single session; and In no slight degree this is due to the great Influence dxerted by Indiana’s senior senator in the upper branch of congress. The ballots cast for members of the legislature this year are not primarily votes for this candidate or that seeking a term In the general assembly. Every such vote, no matter what the 4>ust, In the nature of things, be a ballet for or against Senator Fairbanks. Despite the declaration In the Indiana platform In favor of popular election of senators. It Is impossible to say In whose behalf an adverse vote would count It might rpsult tn the preferment of any one of a dozen comparatively obscure man, but.in any event the effect would be a great diminution of the prestige now enjoyed by Indiana in national affairs. Such a backward step will be impossible if. laying aside petty personal considerations, every Republican will do his duty from <bw up to and including Tuesday, November 4th.