Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — Page 7

POLITICAL COMMENT

Afraid of the Isaac. The Republican party has made the United States of America so prosperous "by means of a protective tariff that the Democrats have been unable to make an anti-tariff fight in the present campaign. The tariff has furnished the necessary revenue for all the expenses of the government and has so protected the American market that all American industries have prospered as never before in the history of the Republic. Starting on home prosperity the American manufacturer has been able to conquer markets in other worlds regardless of tariffs, which they may have imposed. Such a conquering has aroused the whole world to the dangers of what it calls the “American peril.” The American peril referred to Is the much feared American competition. The Democratic party knows these things and appreciates them. And the Democratic party has been unable to make any headway in attacking the great principles of the protective tariff. A few Republicans In Massachusetts and lowa are the only people who are dissatisfied with present conditions. Other people believe in standing pat. Other people do not believe that the American protective system can be maintained with free raw materials and manufactured products. So soon as the producer of

LINCOLN AND GARFIELD TO FIRST VOTERS.

Abraham Lincoln, June 22, 1848: “Young men get together and form a Rough and Ready Club. * * * Let every one play the part he can play brst; some speak, some sing, and all holler. • * * Don’t fail to do this.” James A. Garfield, October 11, 1879: “Let me give you this one word of advice, as you are about to pitch your tent in one of the great political camps. Your life is full and buoyant with hope now, find I beg you, when you pitch your tent, pitch it among the living and not among the dead.”

raw materials ls deserted and protection ls taken away from him he will •ee that protection is also withdrawn from the manufactured product There are people who believe that all the advantage of protection in one direction can be used and enjoyed and all of its penalties .in another avoided. The workingman has at different times been made to believe that he could enjoy his protection and withdraw it froth the owner of the factory. Such was his opinion in 1892, but he soon discovered his mistake. The "new” lowa and Massachusetts doctrines are the oldest ideas of the free trader and the oldest ideas of the Democratic party now partially abandoned by Demoocrats and now partially taken up by Republicans. This talk about “kicking customers off of your front steps” on account of the protective tariff, now occasionally Indulged in by Republicans, is old Democratic doctrine born again, has been so successful ns to practically make Democracy impossible, therefore present • conditions do not warrant Republicans in deserting their faith unless triumph suggests de-' sertlon. —Des Moines Capital. The House and the President. The New York Tribune’s Washington correspondent lias looked up the precedents, and arrives at the conclusion that the political complexion of the House of Representatives elected In a Presidential year is almost always certain to be the same as that of the President elected at the same time. The statistics of this subject for the last quarter of n century are as follows: - In 1880 Garfield had 214 electoral votes and Hancock 155. The House stood 146 Republicans, 138 Democrats. > In 1884 Cleveland had 219 electoral votes and Blaine 182. The House stood 204 Democrats, 120 Republicans. In 1888 Harrison had 233 electoral rotes and Cleveland 108. The House flood 106 Republicans, 159 Democrats. In 1892 Cleveland had 277 electoral rotes and Harrison 145. The Hbuso stood democrats, 126 Republicans. In 1800 McKinley had 271 electoral rotes and Bryan 170. The House stood 200 Republicans, 134 Democrat*. In 1900 McKinley had >292 electoral rotes and Bryan 155. The House stood 108 Republicans, 153 Democrats. But on a close examination of theso figures It will be observed that there •re wide fluctuations In the proportion of rotes cast for I*restdent in the electoral colleges to the majority of the successful party in the House of Representatives. IA 1880 the majority of Republican electors was 50, and the majority of Republican Oongrese-

men only 8. In 18S4, on the other hand, the electoral college majority was only 37, while the Congressional ~ majority was 84. In 1888 the electoral college majority was G 5, while the House majority was only 7. In 1892 the-electoral college majority was 132 and the Congressional majority 94. McKinley hud a much larger majority In 19C0 than 1896, but the reverse was true of the Republican majority in the House, which was 72 as a result of the election of 1896, and only 45 as a result of the election of 1900. Instead of inspiring easy confidence, therefore, the statistics which the Tribune's correspondent presents should stimulate Republicans everywhere to put in their best endeavors in behalf of the election of Republican Congressmen this fall. /Without a strong push in their favor Republican Congressional candidates in many districts which have hertofore been Republican will be In danger of defeat. Local and personal issues have been raised in not a few instances. Congressional elections should not turn on such issues, but sometimes they do. Republicans who are Republicans “clear through” would regard the battle at the polls in November as partly lost if it should result in the selection of a Republican President without a Republican Congress to support him.

Let them see to it that so far as their own districts are concerned there shall be x. .eglect at any point—Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. Not a Party, but a Free Fight. Considering that the so-called Democratic party is not a party at all, but an inharmonious mob composed of all the political riff-raff that can find no abiding place elsewhere, it Is not surprising that the rows and wrangles within its ranks should continually be upon the point of violent explosion. These wrangles were to have been expected when elements so acutely at variance as the trans-Missouri Bryanites and the Wall street Belmontites undertook to sleep unJer the Buuie party coverlid. There is absolutely nothing in common between these two forces. They are fundamentally antagonistic to each other on most of the vital political issues of the day. They hate each other far more cordially than they hate the Repubiicaus. Hence it is that there Is not even a perfunctory agreement upon the formal platform of the party. There was such an agreement in 1896 and 1900; „there is none to-day. Whatever there is of a real platform has been promulgated not by the St. Louis convention but by the head of the Democratic ticket Judge Parker supplied, after a fashion, the omission of nuy reference to tho currency, and he interpreted the Philippine proonuncement to mean “scuttle.” These are the only two Issues upon which there ls even a semblance of authoritative ijemocratle deliverance. The rest are awry. - On the tariff there ls no unity. The platform declures protection to be a robbery, but no Democratic orator says so. On the contrary, all • soothsayers and spellbinders unite in vociferating that the Democratic purpose is revision, not destruction of the tariff schedules. Tho platform ls clearly shown to have been a mere «atch-vote device, which ls now repudiated, since it is a failure in that line. There is no greater harmony respecting the trusts, since, while the bewblskered Bryanites of the granger States may cry “Death to the trusts!” It la absurd to pretend that Messrs. Peabody and Belmont and their comanagers of the party machinery would assail enterprises In which their own Interests are bound up. Whatever the western wing of the party may say, the eastern wing is not going to commit'financial hara-karl in the interest of party harmony. The amount of it ls that the eocalled “reorganization” of the Demo-

cratic party has merely introduced diet cord and distrust into its rasks. No longer a eolierest aggregation ol socialistic, populistic advocates of flat money and repudiation, the party has become a free fight, where the head in sight Ls smitten because every man is every other man’s foe. There is no Democratic harmony, because there is no Democratic party. —Chicago Chronicle. 1

Proceeds of the “Robbery.•* The Democratic convention at St. Louis denounced the protective tariff as a “robbery.” - The people are enjoying the proceeds of this “robbery.” The savings banks deposits of the country, which were about $1,748,000,000 in 1894, have risen to more than $3,000,000,000. The deposits of the savings banks of New York State alone were $55,000,000 more on June 30, 1904, than they were on that date in the preceding year. In New York and New England there are more savings banks deposits than there were in the whole country in 1894. The farmers are selling their products at good prices, and the working people are living better thnn-cver before. If this is “robbery” the community is the receiver of the stolen goods. Nothing of the kind occurred under the Wilson tariff, as the New York Press points out, when idleness and poverty so affected business that there was no temptation even for the robbing industry. If protection Is a “robbery” it is the people who are robbing themselves, and they are placing more in one pocket than they are taking out of the other.—Troy Times. How They Flounder. President Roosevelt’s allusion to the Inconsistency of the Democratic position on the tariff question Is troubling the war horses of that party. They find it hard to answer Roosevelt’s charge that “they promise to leave Republican legislation undisturbed, and at the same time they want the Republicans put out of power on account of that legislation.” When they try to answer they flounder and make a mess of it, almost as bad as the one which the platform has made in denouncing the tariff as robbery and promising relief on the installment plan.—San Francisco Chronicle. Aphorisms of Roosevelt. In our country, with its many-sided hurrying, practical life, the place for cloistered virtue is far smaller than is the place for that essential manliness which, without losing Its fine and lofty side, can yet hold its own in the rough struggle with the forces of the world round about us. The man r or woman who, as a breadwinner and home-maker, or as wife and mother, has done all that he or she can do, patiently and uncomplainingly, Is to be honored; and is to be envied by all those who have never had the good fortune to feel the need and duty of doing such work. It seems to me that it is a good thing from every standpoint to let the colored man know that if he shows in marked degree the qualities of good citizenship—the qualities which in a white man we feel are entitled to reward —then he will not be cut off from all hope of similar reward. The base appeal to the spirit of selfish greed, whether it take the form of plunder of the unfortunate or of oppression of the unfortunate—from these and from all kindred vices this nation must be kept free if it is to -remain in its present position in the foremost of the peoples of mankind. In the employment and dismissal of men in the government service I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him than I can recognize the fact that he is a Protestant, or a Catholic, a Jew or a Gentile, as being for or against him. It is a base and an infamous thing for the man of means to act In a spirit of arrogant and brutal disregard of right toward his fellow who has less means; and it is no less infamous, no less base, to act in a spirit of rancor, envy and hatred against the man of greater means, merely because of his greater means. Political Potpourri. When election day comes around the Democratic party will still be reorganizing. Senator Fairbanks is skipping about the country In a way quite disheartening to Grandpa Davis. The Democratic campaign textbook ls not likely to be in such demand as if it were not an “expurgated edition.” Bourke Cockran insists that the times are out of tune. Maybe that ls the reason why there are so few campaign songs tills -*ear. The Republican national platform may contain a few errors, but it can be said of it with a degree of pride that it was not fdlted by a Western Union telegraph wire.

TWO VIEWS OF GRANDPA DAVIS.

As mu by tks Democratic voter.

As men by the Campaign Finance Committee.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Woman Kills Herself Rather than Go to Asylnm—Window Glass Factories Start Up—Son Kills His Father—Boy’s Terrible Heath. Mrs. Oliver Cullar of Elkhart, aged 38, drank carbolic acid which she had secreted in a dresser while pretending to dress to be°Aaken to an insane hospital, dying in a few miuutes. Two revolvers had been taken from her, and a matron was watching her closely, while Sheriff Robertson of St. Joseph county stood just outside of a half-opened door. She asked the matron to hand some money to her father, the Rev. D. B. Miller of near South Bend, and as the matron turned her head drank the qprrosive, the bottle being knocked from ifer hands by the matron as the latter turned back. Mrs. Cnllar, who separated from her husband five years ago, had declared she would kill herself and three young sous rather than go to an asylum. Murder Is Hone at a Rally. Sheriff Stout has placed Fred House, a farmer, aged 33, in jail, charged with murder. There was a political rally -at Monroeville the otner night. The saloons at the village were wide open. About 3 o-clock House, with a party of friends, went up and down the streets threatening the crowds. John Gressley, a farmer 55 years old, was in front of a saloon. He received a blow on the jaw and fell backward, helpless, against the curb. His skull was fractured and death was instantaneous. House was in bed three miles from Monroeville when arrested. He denies any complicity. Bystanders say he struck the blow. Give Work to 30,000 Men. An air of prosperity seems to pervade the window glass world. Thirty thousand workmen are about to begin work. There will be an ihcrease of almost 500 pots this year over last, giving more than 6,000 workmen steady employment. Within the next fortnight 1,444 pots will be worked. Indiana and Illinois, representing the western district, will furnish the balk of the business, since the American’s plants will be chiefly operated in the East. Of the western industries almost 90 per cent represent either independent or co-operative plants. Finned to Ground by Broken Bone. Ono, the 12-year-old son of Carrie Watson, died of lockjaw at Corydon, resulting from a fractured bone of the arm. Several days ago the boy was attempting to ride a ca.. in a field. The animal was playful and threw him to the ground. He fell on his left arm, the bone of which snapped and, protruding from the flesh, stuck into the ground. He was pinned, unconscious, for several hours, until discovered by accident by a laborer returning home in the evening. Held for Father’s Murder. Silas Radeliff, an aged farmer, is dead at his home near Hardinsburg as the result of being struck over the head with a club. His son Oliver, 29 years old, who lives on an adjoining farm, is in jail in Salem, charged with murder. The quarrel is said to have grown out of a dispute over the ownership of live stock. Young uucliff declares that his father attacked him with a piu and that he was foroed to defend himself. Hunter Is Found Head. Shirley Cummings, 11 years old, who had been missing for several days, was found with a bullet hole through his head in a wood just a few rods from his home near Hartford City. He had been hunting and is supposed to have accidentally shot himself. Miner State Matters. The Indianapolis Bent Wood Works, Indianapolis, was burned with a loss of $60,000, and the C. H. Gillette wood finishing plant in Indianapolis, loss $60,000. Nelson Faught, a veteran of the Mexican war, 84 years old, committed suicide in Pittsboro by shooting himself in 'the temple. He lay all night in the front yard. Six sons of George Lockwood graduated at DePauw University and he has just placed his seventh son in that college. Mr. Lockwood himself is a graduate of DePauw. A unique movement has had it? inception in this State to organize the servant girls into unions with the specific object in view of lessening the hours of labor abd to increase the wage scale. The organization will be taken under the protection of the American Federation of Labor. In Richmond the corner stones of Reid Memorial church and Reid Memorial hospital were laid with impressive ceremonies and in the presence of a large number of people. Both are gifts from Daniel G. Reid of New York, the multimillionaire, who was until seven years ago a resident of Richmond. The structures are to be of solid stogie and their combined cost is estimated at $250,000. After a lapse of twenty-three years to the exact day Miss Julia Michael, a pension ngent at Dowagiae, succeeded in solving the mystery which apparently surrounded the death of Mrs. Matthew Brimingstool of Elkhart. From the tales told by her children Matthew Briming stool was suspected of having killed his wife. Miss Michael has found that Mrs. Brimingstool died a natural death. MisMichael has written the Elkhart police department that she found a brother of Mrs. Brimingstool, who says she died at his house in Cass county, Michigan, Sept. 26, 1881, while she ami her family were visitiug him. Miss Michael's unraveling of what was supposed to have been a murder was brought about during her search for proofs of the death of the first wife of Matthew Birmingstoo! to perfect the application of the second widow for pension. Survivors of the Twenty-third Indiana iufantry held a big reunion at Campbellsburg. Dr. J. H. MePeeters of Lgvonin was elected president and W. 11. Mix of New Albany secretary. William Myers of Hartford City was attacked by a rattlesnake while he was hunting in Wells county. As the reptile coiled to spring upon him he grnbhed ft by the neck and choked it to death. Orville Harald, the Richmond tenor, has dscided to refuse the offer of Mme. Schuman-Heink to give him a musical education in Germany, and Instead will •• on the road aa an srangsliet singer.

Brazil is urging vaccination. Knightstown is still boring for OIL Goshen saloons now clos? on Sunday. Pawpaws poisoned Charles Prewitt of Cartersburg. A good crop of apples is reported in Hamilton county. John Grace, 53, of Raber, was fatally kicked by a horse. Ephraim Grim, near Noblefiville, cleared $45 oil an acre of peas. S. Martel of South Bend was killed by the caving in of a sewer. Ora Schell, 17, and Will Moss, 22, have disappeared from Bryant. William Dornan of Muncie was fined S3O for assaulting Frank Bowers. William Harmon of Brazil was fined sll.lO for striking 0. Vendeventer, 17. Will Stevens of Deming sold 120 bushels of cloverseed from 60 acres for S7BO. The young married w»men of Westville are trying to organize a brass band. Charles Suttles, 38. of Greensburg, committed suicide by the morphine route. Frank A. Felts, 51, of Port Wayne, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Theodore Ott of Kingman died of lockjaw as a result of stepping on a rusty nail. Robert Craig of West Reddiugton, sold a span of mules to a Seymour firm Cor $•225. Steven Curtis of Eden sold jOl bushels of cloverseed for $604. It grew on 28 acres. John Valentine, colored, of Lebanon, was run down by a train and fatally injured.

Clay C. Hunt of New Oastle has been reappointed referee in bankruptcy for district 6. Horace Porterfield is held at Evansville oh the charge of murdering Richard Swanson. ; Twelve “White Elephant” potatoes raised by A. J. Wood of Tipton weighed 17 pounds. What’s in a name? Albert Oates and Susie Millet were married in Evansville by a justice. The Indiana yearly meeting of Friends took steps toward providing for superannuated ministers. The creditors of the Sterling Buggy Company of Rushville will get about 25 cents on the dollar. Farmers are discovering that new gravel is no inducement for aotomoblldsts to use the roads. C. E. Noble, 36, of Fort Wayne, injured by the bursting of a flywheel at Simwnitville, is dead. Mrs. Samuel Baurber of Letts slipped and fell while trying to catch a chicken and broke her right arm. William Garrity, 23, of Evansville, a brakeman, was killed by a Big Four engine at Mount Carmel, 111. - Carnegie library at Salem is now under way. Mr. Carnegie has forwarded $2,500 to apply on his donation. The Indiana Endeavorer is a new publication at Muncie. It is the organ of the Christian Endeavor societies of the State. Columbus street commissioners “repair” their asphalt pavements by filling the holes with gravel. Citizens are kicking. August Green, 50, near South Bend, while temporarily deranged, went into a pig pen, swallowed carbolic acid and died. Osroe, the little son of Duss Hull of Lebanon, was thrown to the ground by a 'horse and has arm was broken in two places. In the Boone Circuit Court William S. Conyer was awarded $5,000 damage* against the Indianapolis street railway company. A slight abrasion between two toes of William Siders, a South Bend contractor, caused abscesses all over his body, resulting in death. Miss Virginia Robertson, 18, of Lafayette, who is deaf and dumb, waa struck by a street car and perhaps fatally injured. Everett Bodkins and David Key, miners, were killed in the Ayreshire mines at Petersburg by the premature explosion of a shot. Beaohard Gartin, a school boy of Greensburg, was struck on the forehead by a cinder thrown by another boy and seriously injured. John R. Glaser has sued the Logansport street railway company for SI,OOO < lam ages for injuries received and damage to his buggy. Veedersburg’s sixteenth annual street fair will be held, Get. 24 to 29. The main feature will be the display of farm products and live stock. Nelson Bradley and wife of Greenfield have just celebrated their sixtieth marriage anniversary, lie is president of the Greenfield Bunking Company. Lafountaine public schools have been closed on account of diphtheria. Miss Edna Spinks died of the disease, and Miss Lucy Snyard cannot recover, it is said. Lightning killed 26 Angora goats belonging to Caleb Cobb of Springville and the next day a train ran into a bunch, killing 17. lie is an extensive dealer in goats. The Indiana Baptist *' Association at Shelbyville adopted a resolution by which it was determined to build an orphanage worth $5,000 on the 185 acres given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Crawford of Plainfield. Bert Jones, colored, who was arrested in Michigan City for robbing a Dowaginc, Mich., store and who fought extradition, escu|H*d from the Michigan City jail by breaking a lock. The escape was not discovered for six hours. German Methodist Episcopal ministers have been assigned as follow#: South Bend, Rev. H. Karnopp; Michigan City, Rev. B. H. Becker; Hammond, Rev. 0. Diesnneyer; La I’orte, Rev. A. J. Leoppert; Crown Point, Itev. D. Mueller. An attempt to destroy the Monroe Methodist church was discovered the other day. Holes which jiad teen bored into the large timbers of the foundation were filled with explosives. The fuse which was made of straw was only partially burned. Mrs. Winnie Beatly of Kokomo, 53 years old, accompanied by her youngest son, has departed for Portland, Ore., to become the wife of C. F. Long, a wealthy ranch owner, whom she has never seen. A mutual friend some months ago started a correspondence betweea then),

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Judge Edgar M. Cullen, the nominee on the Republican ticket for Chief Judge of the New York Court of Ap-

JUDGE E.M. CULLEN

of the Second Judicial District of the Supreme Court. On Dec. 16, 1899, Governor Roosevelt wrote a fetter to Judge Cullen designating him to the Court of Appeals. On Dec. 18 he rehis acceptance, and bn Jan. 1900, he wore for the first time the gown of that court. Judge Cullen is a bachelor. Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman, of South Carolina, who, In a speech, told Chicagoans that the race question Is

the great Issue of the presidential campaign, is one of the most widely known members of the upper house of Con- \ gress. By nature/ he is aggressive" and a fighter, and his attacks on men and measurps at various

times have caused him to be a central figure In the arena of publicity. Senator Tillman was bom fifty-seven years ago on his father’s plantation at Cheated, Edgefield County, S. C. In 1890 the farmers nominated him for Governor. In 1895 he was elected to the United States Senate and at once became famous by his threats about “pitchforking” President Cleveland. George Meredith, the well-known English author, has aroused a storm of protest in Europe and America by ad-

GEORGE MEREDITH.

riage. Mr. Meredith is now in his 73d year. He published his first volume of poems Just half a century ago. He has written several novels, the last appearing in 1895. In late years he has again turned his attention to poetry, but his last volume attracted little attention In the literary world.

Governor Aaron T. Bliss, of Michigan, one of the richest of lumbermen, is an example of what a poor boy may

accompllsh througli his own efforts. As a boy he worked on a farm In Madison County, New York. On the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted as a private In the Tenth New York Cavalry and took part in some of the greatest battles of the war—Bull Run.

Fredericksburg, the Wilderness and South Mountain. In the latter part of the war he was made prisoner, but escaped and after day's and nights of privation made his way through swamp and forest to Sherman's lines. When the war ended he went 4o Saginaw and engaged in the 1 urn leer business. He prospered exceedingly and to-day is one of the richest of Michigan lumbermen. Alva Adams,' who has been nominated for Governor by the Colorado Democrats, Ims been a party

ALVA ADAMS.

14, ISSO. When a very young men he went to Colorado and started In the hardware business. Ills home is at Pueblo,

The last session of Congress provided new medals of honor and according to a recent order of Secretary of War Taft those holding those heretofore issued must turn them in. They will receive new ones in exchange. The first bronae tablet, and the first memorial of any kind to John Paul Jones, haa been erected at Boston. Thompson-Set on la seeking a larger acquaintance of wild anlnala among the recesses of Canada.

peals, tae position recently vacated by Judge A. B. Parker, is a native of Brooklyn. Governor Tlldcn made him a member of his staff in 1876, as engineer in chief, with the rank of brigadier general. In 1880 Mr. Cullen was nominated and was elected judge

SENATOR TILLMAN.

vocatlng, through the columns of a London paper, a limited period of marriage. The contract, be pleads, should be for a definite period of time —“forty years, forty hours or forty minutes”—or whatever period may be agreed upon by the couple seeking mar-

GOVERNOR BLISS.

leader Colorado, for years ajjd Is aspirant for United States senatorahlp. He lias been Governor two terms and in 1807-o—and lie also was a member of the first Colorado Legislature. Mr. Adams was born in lowa County. Wisconsin, May