Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1907 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN. Office in The Republican Building corner of Washingkxi and WesKu etreets, Reneeei&er, Indiana. ISSUED EVKPY TUESHAY_AND FRIDAY t BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ‘ MARSHALL & HEALEY. • - . PVBLKHERS.

Notice of Sale of Real Estate. The undersigned, executrix of the last will of William C. Pierce, deceased, hereby givei- notice that by virtue of the power by said will conferred she will at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M.of the first day of March, 1907, at the Law Office of Baughman & Williams, Rensselaer, Indiana, and from day to day thereafter until sold, offer for sale at private sale, all the interest of said decedent in and to the following described real estate to wit: Lot One in Block Nine in Leopold’s Addition to. the.. City., of .Rensselaer, Indiana. Lot Two in Block Nine in Leopold's Addition to the Cityof Rensselaer; Indiana; A part of the southwest quarter of •Section Six in Township Twenty-eight North in Range Six west, in Jasper County, Indiana, more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of said southwest quarter and running thence west a distance of forty-eight rods, and thence sputh a. distance of forty rods, and thence east a distance of fortjeight rods, and thence north a distance of forty rods, to the place of beginning, containing twelve acres more rw : lwtw ---* -—■ I—J .... _ ... Said sale, will be made subject to the approval! of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, Indiana, for not less than the full appraised value of said real estate, and upon the following terms and conditions: At least onethird of the purchase money cash in ■hand, the balance in two equal installments, payable in not to exceed nine and eighteen months, evidenced by notes of the purchaser, bearing six per cent interest from date, waiving relief, providing attorney fees and scoured by a mortgage on the real estate sold. MARY A. HOWE, Jan. 29-Feb. 5-12 Executrix

Farm For Rent. A good farm. well located and" in good condition, for rent. Ai’stin & Hopkins. Fresh bread and cakes daily at Grant & Kowen.

Stock and Grain Farms — " ■ - • * s Newton County Ind 2,800 ACRES Lying 3 1-2 miles north of Horocco, Divided into 9 farms and 9 sets of buildings. Thisjs thejbest land’in’northern Newton county; soil black sandy laom with clay sub-soil, is thoroly A stone road runs thru the land. The Chicago, and the town of Enos is located near the center of the tract.*C. &’E. I. not thru it. The Salisbury dredge ditch runs thru the land, outlet for the’tilejdrainagejon the same. » This’land miles southwest of Chicago. Morocco is 3 % miles south, and Elmer, on the C. & E. 1., is’i \ j miles’west of the land will be sold in a body for • A —— - $35 PER ACRE, CASH, Or will be subdivided into farms to suit buyers at from $35 TO $45 PER ACRE, Write or call upon 1 - William Cummings, Agent. Fred S^ c °- Kentland, Ind. Chicago, 111. OWNERB< . ■ agjfcaaiKiawt ...*»»■ • - ■ ■

Public Sale. • I A« Tam going to South Dakota I 4Hi >ell without reset re all wy horses and farm machinery, on what is known as the Thornton farin, one mile south ot Surrey and five in lies northwest of Rensselaer, on , » 1 . FRIDAY, FEB. 1. 1907 The following' property: to wit: 8 Head of Good Horses Consisting of bay mare, 4 years old, vreight 1,400; bay driving mare J years old and a tine road mare, family mare 8 years old; sate for all .amily purposes; sori ell mare, 10 years old. wt 1.500 bred to F. O. Kenton's ja k; t»ay mare, 11 years old weight 1,-Op,,bn fl to Kenton’s jack; bay mare, 5 years old, wt 1000; 2 tear old d'raft 'Tilley;* one coining 2-year old draft gelding, good one; ~ 3 Head of Good Cows. Consisting of 1 part Jersey cow. giving a good quantity of milk now; extra good Swiss cow will be fresh iu February; 1 will be fresh in spring. Five lull blood Poland China brood Sows, bred to fine male, these sows are as goud as the best. Farming Implements. 2 Champion bimlers in good condition. 1 nearly new Champion mower. Champion hay ~rake, 2 .Janesville gang plows, none 1 etter; 5 cultivators, 2 nearly new: I. & Case riding cu 11ivators, Janesville disk cultivators, Janesville disk cultivators, 2 walking cultivator, 1 Deer corn planter with festilizer at tachment and 120 rods of wire as good as new. 1 cutaway disk nearly new. one 4 horse harrow, a good one; 1 end gate seeder and cart 1 potato plo v. 1 Halleck riding weeder, 2 farm wagons, 1 a 3 inch Shutler wagon with large 2 inch wagon with box; 1 good top buggy, 1 rubber tire road wagon, a good one; I spring wagon, 1 old buggy. 1 swell cart, 1 corn sheller. 1 extension painting ladder, 2 hay

CLARA A. Ph TERS x* —■>. Doctor of Optics, Bachelor of Ophthalmology, '' Master of Ophthalmology aO Office with Mrs. Goff. Eyes Examined Free. Spectacles Scientifically Fitted.

ladders. 1 grind stoiiC and a umuof small tools, 1 good Saddle. 3 seP* of single harness, a lot ot yellow dent seed corn. Household and Kitchen Furniture 1 Kimball organ, 1 iron bed stead 2 wood bed steads, 1 couch, 2 sates. 1 stand, 1 writing disk. 1 1 wood heating stove, 2 chuins, one 18 gallon copper kettle; 4 indk cans, 1 milk tank, several stone ars. 4 chicken crates 80 full blook Plymouth rock chickens. Terms-r-10 months credit without interest on approved security or 6 per cent off tor cash on sums over $5. Silm* under *5 cash. If not paid when dne 8 per cent .interest from date. 4 I. A. BESSE,’ Fred Phillips, Auct. C G. Spitler. Clerk.

Notice? of Letting of Contract for Stone Road Improvement. Petition of John M. Ott, et al, for Stone Road Improvement jn Carpenter township, Jasper County, Indiana Cause No. 4873 of the Commissioners’ Court in Jasper County. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, the 12th day of February, 190", the Boa rd of Cominiss loners of Jas - per County, will, at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, at the office of the Auditor of said county, receive sealed proposals for the construction of the Carpenter Township System of Macadamized Roads, petitioned for by John M. Ott, et al, all bids to be for the completion of the entire system as a unit, according to the report of the Viewers and Engineer, and the plans, specifications, plats and profiles now on file in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County. All bids shall be on file not later than twelve o’clock, noon on said 12th day of February, 1907, and each bid to be accompanied’* by a bond in a penalty of not less than double the amount of the bid, and conditioned as the law provides, with surety to the approval of the Board of Commissioners of said County of Jasper. The Board of Commissioners reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. Jan 18-25-Feb 1

A CLOSE ALLIANCE

Brewers and Democratic Machine Working Together to Defeat Temperance Legislation. SHOWN BY A PQLL OF THE HOUSE It is Already Apparent That the Minority Party Will Seek to Block Any Movement Toward Curbing the Power of the Saloon in This State— Brewers Openly Working Through Taggart Machine Men Democrats Also Lining Up Against Insurance and Other Proposed Reforms—-Some Interesting Notes on the Work of the General Assembly. I Special Correspondence.] Indianapolis, Jan. 23.—The hrewefy and other liquor interests of the state evidently have.received much encouragement from their old allies among the Democratic leaders. It has been no secret here Tor some time that they were working through the Taggart machine men for-the purpose of blockIng any legislation on the temperance question that the people are demanding. Superintendent Humphreys of the Anti-Saloon League has been aware for several weeks that the brewers had a close alliance with the Democratic machine and that the latter was making it very difficult for him to get any support among the Democratic members of the legislature. A preliminary poll of the Democratic members of the house shows that nearly all of them are against the enactment of any further temperance legislation. There are a few Democratic members who were elected on the Republican reform platform who have refused to listen to the appeals of the brewers and their Democratic lieutenants, but they are not strong enough to have much influence over their associates.

If the high license bills are defeated ft will be due to the following the brewers have dmong the Democrats in the house. There are a few Republicans there who are against high license, but the senate, which is strongly Republican, will pass a high license law. The fact that the Democrats are supporting the liquor interests is nothing new or strange, as they have been lined up that way for many years and the law-and-order element need not be surprised at their attitude now, as it merely proves what was asserted by the Republican campaigners last year that no reforms could be expected from the Democrats. The following statement by Representative John Sweeney of Tell City, a Democratic leader, shows how he and his associates view the high license question: “A high license law is the rich man’s measure. Its most enthusiastic advocates admit that it will not decrease the consumption of intoxicating liquors. Then the result will be that it will concentrate the business in the hands of a fewer number of men in each community—men who would be able to pay the increased license—and they would be better equipped to fight any future legislation that might be directed against them. The poor saloon keeper would be discriminated against in favor of the richer one. My people do not want high license. Nelther do they have any use for a ‘lid’ policy.” There is no question from this statement and from what other Democratic members are saying, that they are »ot for any “lid” policy, which'irwans now that they are not for strictwaw enforcement. If the temperance bills are defeated it will not be hard to place the responsibility. Against Woman’s Suffrage. The legislature has been considering a number of bills having a tendency toward woman’s suffrage and has indicated that It is not ready to give women the same rights as men. A bill introduced by Representative Kelley of Knox, permitting the election of women to public office, was indefinitely postponed in the house. A similar measure introduced by Senator Fremont Goodwine of Williamsport is now pending before the senate. An Interesting feature of gossip attached to the bill was that its enactment would remove all doubt as to whether or not Miss Mary Stubbs of Indianapolis. who was appointed state statistician to succeed her father, the late Joseph Stubbs, would be eligible as a candidate for nomination for the place before the Republican state convention next year. It has been rumored that she would enter the race for the place. Another bill providing for the appointment of women on boards of control or trustees of the various state benevolent and penal institutions is attracting much attention. It is sweeping in its character, as it provides for the abolition of the present boards and for the appointment of boards of four members for each institution and that one member of each board may be a, woman. The bill also makes a cut In the salary of the board members from |SOO to 9300 a year, but allows the members 9125 for expenses. Most of the Institution superintendents are fighting it on the ground that they don’t believe that a woman should be appointed on the boards of any of the Institutions except the girls' industrial school. All of the members of that board are women. It Is understood that the bill was framed by Secretary Butler of the board of state charities and that Governor Han-

ly put his *O, K.’ to it before it was introduced. One feature that is regarded favorably by many is that it provides that the institution superintendents shall make all the appointments for the institutions and; that the employes shall take nb part in politics. There is a provision in the bill against employes contributing or being asked to contribute to campaign funds. Danger to Insurance Bills. ■lt is reported here that the Democratic members of the housd are lining up against the insurance reforms advocated in the administration bills introduced by Senator Farber .and Representative Babcock at the request of the governor, who considers the matter one of the most important that will comp before the session. The Democrats made a lot of bluster during the campaign about reform in the affairs of the life insurance companies, but now that they have an opportunity to do something for the people along that line are dodging It by introducing some measures that thej r know will not be considered and which have no chance of being enacted into laws. Representative Elliott of Connersville, chairman of the house insurance committee, will see that there is every opportunity for a general discussion of it. The Insurance companies have a very powerful lobby at work against the bill and are hopeful-of having it amended so as to defeat the plans of the administration. It is the belief of members of the house committee that the insurance men will seek to overawe the two committees by turning out in large numbers. Ministers and Capital Punishment. A vigorous fight is being waged for and against capital punishment. Both branches of the legislature have reported for passage bills to have capital punishment abolished. One of the most interesting,* features in connection with the bill is the attitude of the ministers. Some are for and some against it. Rev. Albert Hurlstone of Indianapolis, one of the leading Methodist ministers of the state, is against the bill and has offered an interesting contribution on the subject by quoting the Bible to show that capital punishment was ordained by it. “In the light of Holy Scriture it Is folly for the advocate of the abolition of capital punishment to talk about the execution of criminals as ‘legalized murder.’ Tlfts is simply a misuse of terms to create a morbid sentiment. The frequency of murder in our day shows that there is more need for a stringent application of 7 the death penalty than ever before,” said he. “We are informed that the growth of civilization may be traced and tested by its estimates of human life. This js true, and, be it further said, that in no part of the civilized world today is human life so sacred as in those countries which enforce the death penalty for murder in the first degree. Of this England is a notable example. And, on the other hand, it is equally triie that nowhere is human life so cheap as in those countries which have abolished capital punishment either In theory or practice. If the members of the senate and house of representatives desire, to conserve the best interests of the state of Indiana and render life therein sacked and prevent an increase of murders they will net allow themselves to be persuaded to abolish the death penalty; but will rather use their personal influence to see that it is more rigidly enforced. The experience of other states should be a warning to us.” Higher Tax Advocated. Representative Madden, "Democratic member from Warrick county, has introduced a bill to raise the state school tax to 16 cents on the SIOO. It is the only measure of the kind presented thus far. It probably will not be passed, as the Republicans are against raising the tax levy for any purpose. They believe that by the continuation of the good business principles that their party has applied that the state’s affairs can be well administered under the present revenues. •

Large Appropriations Demanded. The legislative visitation committee appointed by Governor Hanly, consisting of Senator Goodwine and Representative Condo, Republicans, and Representative White, Democrat, have about completed the most arduous task in connection with the legislature. They have examined every department of the state government and have about completed a report setting out In minute detail the wants of the various institutions and what they thinks should be appropriated. The following table shows the specific appropriations requested by various institutions: Purdueß 304,000 Indiana University 337,872 Institution for the 81ind.... 53,280 Institution for the Deaf 780,000 State Normal 191,465 Central Hospital for Insane. 32,500 Northern Hospital for Insane 2,500 Eastern Hospital for Insane 77,800 Southern Hospital for Insane 123,000 Southeastern Hospital for In- • sane 876,358 Epileptic Village 396,208 School for Feeble-Minded... 75,700 Soldiers’ Home 179.500 Soldiers* and Sailors’ Orphans’ Homs..,. 14,172 Boys* School 44,500 Girls’ School 4.. 128,026 Indiana Reformatory 6,500 Indiana State Prison 53,857 Total *...83,753,239 The total is unusually high owing to the demands of four institutions that are now being completed. The committee will not make any recommendations that will exhaust the state revenues and fores the legislature to

raise the tax levy as economy is to be the watchword of the Republicans throughout the session. As to Anti-Lobby Bills. , The delay in the enactment of the proposed anti-lobbyist, bills has not caused any great amount of embarrassment. So far most of the opposition has come from the Democrats in the house who were against the proposal that the Elliott anti-lobbyist bill, copied after the New York law on the subject, should be passed under suspension of. rules. Their action practically confirms a report that certain corporate Interests had many personal representatives among them and that they are looking to the Democrats as usual for help. Up to this time they have had no reason to feel discouraged over the generous manner in which most of the Democrats have received them. One prominent attorney and politician who has the reputation of having been a vetfy successful lobbyist, declared that the proposed anti-lobby law will not make the least difference in his plans. “Men who have large interests at stake don’t infest the corridors of the state or attempt to talk to the members on the floor of the house or the senate,” said he. “Very little lobbying of a serious or important nature is carried on at the state house. ’lt is in private that the men who are representing large interests talk to the members and the ‘proposed. _ ’law cannot reach them for it applies, as I understand it, merely to the class that tries to get busy on the floor of the house or senate. “The plan would have a more serious effect among those who are representing minor interests, who take advantage of every opportunity to get a word with the .legislators. Many-of the large corporations employ clerks to spend their time at the state house during the session to copy the bills as they are introduced or to keep them informed as to the trend of legislation affecting them, but they are not lobbyists and I doubt if the proposed bill will reach them. If it does it will not be a serious matter, as I take it that not many corporations will onject to having it known that they have clerks on the scene whose business it is to copy bills affecting their interests.” He recalled in the last two sessions but few of the “big guns*- among the lobbyists were seen about the state house. A few years ago he said it was not unusual for corporation attorneys to spend most of their time around the house or senate, often working openly on the floor during the session, but that practice, he said, is a thing of the past and no man representing a large interest, will attempt to work around the legislative chambers if he hopes to accomplish anything for his cause. He declared that so far as he knew that the corporations who send their attorneys will have no objection whatever to having them register in the secretary of state’s office as they would not visit the state house except to appear before some committee at which the proceedings were of a public nature. Governor Hanly has the backing of the better element of the people in his determination to have a law enacted that will go a long ways towards preventing corrupt practices around the legislative chambers.

A New Game Law. Senator Evan Stotsenburg of New Albany is the author of a bill to permit people to hunt on their own lands without obtaining a license from the state game and fish commissioner. There has been much complaint against the present fish and game law because of the restrictions imposed. Men have been prohibited from hunting on their own property without going through with a long red-tape procedure. It is said that Deputy Fish and Game Commissioner Earle is in favor of the Stotsenburg bill. Another bill embodying the ideas of Fish and Game Commissioner Sweeney and his deputy, Mr. Earle, has been introduced by Representative Cox’of Ripley county. The bill makes it unlawful to hunt game in Indiana with machine guns and shortens the open season for quail ten days, ending, it Dec. 20 instead of Jan. 1. It provides a penalty of |lO fine for each offense. The bag in the case of quail and water fowl is restricted to fifteen birds. The bill prohibits the hunting of ducks from April 1 to Sept. 1, the hunting of wild doves from Dec. 30 to Aug. 15 and from Oct. 1 to Nov. 10, and makes it lawful to hunt rabbits with ferrets at all times. Squirrels are protected from Dec. 20 to June 1 and from Oct. 1 to Nov. 10. The bill makes it unlawful to destroy the nests of song birds and protects woodchucks from Dec. 20 of one year to July 1 of the succeeding year. It also gives resident fanners and their tenants in a township the right to hunt on their farms .without a license. No other character of legislation arouses more Interest or discussion among the members than the game laws. The members are now receiving hundreds of letters and petitions relative to various features of the law. To Reform Court Systems. Senator Henry P. Pearson of Bedford is attempting to bring about a nunfiter of radical reforms in the system of court procedure in Indiana. Several days ago lie ffrtroduced a bill to provide that three-fourths of the members of a jury in the trial of a civil case might bring in a verdict A similar bill has been introduced in two or three former legislatures, but have always been defeated. The corporate interests maintain that such a method of dispensing justice would be unfair to them. w>>