Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1908 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN AND JOURNAL DAILY AND SMI-WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATBS ’* DAILY, BY OJRRIKR, IO CBKTS A WARK BY MAIL. $3.70 A YBAK SBMI-WBBKLY, IN Asvavcb. YEAR $1.50 Til Friday Issue Is the Rcflular Weekly Edition. IEALEY i CLARK, - PUBLISHERS Catered at the Portoffica at Ransaalaar, Indiana, as Snooed-Claaa Matter.

REPUBLICAN TICKET. ftn 11 i t 111 i i'■i-i-i-H-t For President WILLIAM H. TAFT. 4* + o f as« For Vice-President, 4* at. JAMES S. SHERMAN. 4*' £ 4. aft For Governor, 4* as. JAMES E. WATSON, 4«! 4* 0 + 4* For Lieutenant-Governor, 4* 4* FREMONT GOOD WINE. 4* 4. 0 — 4* 4« For State Senator, 4* 4. ABRAHAM HALLECK. 4» 4* 0— 4* as» For State Representative, 4* 44 JOHN G. BROWN. 4« 4- —o — 4aft For Congress, 10th Congressional aft 4* District, 4* 4> EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER. af* •fa o aft 4* For Judge 30th Judicial Circuit, 4* 4t CHARLES W. HANLEY. af* •ft For Prosecuting Attorney 30th 4* 4* Judicial Circuit, afa •ft FRED W. LONGWELL. 4* 4* —~ 4’l afa For Treasurer, 4* aft JESSE D. ALLMAN. 4* 4* For Recorder, 4* 4a JOHN H. TILTON. 4» 4* For Sheriff, aft 4a LEWIS P. SHIRER. 4. afa For Surveyor, 4* 4a W. FRANK OSBORNE. 4. afa For Coroner, 4* aja WILMS J. WRIGHT. 4* afa For Commissioner Ist Diet., 4* + JOHN F. PETTET. 4* 4* For Commissioner 3rd Dist, 4* 4* CHARLES T. DENHAM. 44a O— j afa MARION TOWNSHIP. as. afa For Trustee, * 4* H. E. PARKINSON. 4. afa For Assessor, 4* 4* GEORGE SCOTT. 4. 4* For Justice of the Peace, 4* afa PHILIP BLUE. 4. 4* " o— 4* 4a BARKLEY TWP. TICKET. 4« 4* For Trustee, 4* 4> WILLIAM FOLGER. 4» 4* For Assessor, afa 4« CHAS. REED. 4. 4* 0 4* 4» WALKER TOWNSHIP. 4. afa For Trustee, afa 4- FRED KARCH. 4. 4* For Assessor, 4* «!* HENRY MEYERS. 4. —inr~r~Oi—ai 4* HANING GROVE TOWNSHIP 4TICKET. 4. 4* For Trustee, 4* 4. GEORGE PARKER. afa For Assessor, 4* 4. J. P. GWIN. 44* — o 4* 4* JORDAN TOWNSHIP TICKET. 44. For Trustee, 44. A. J. McCASHEN. *f> afa For Assessor. 4* 4a JAMES BULMS. 4* aja . . _ —0 4* 4a WHEATFIELD TWP. TICKET. 4* afa For Trustee, 4* 4. M. J. DELEHANTY. 4* 4* For Assessor, 4* afa A S. KEEN. afa 4* 0— 4* 4. KEENER TOWNSHIP. 4* •fa For Trustee, 4* as. TUNIS SNIP. 4* as. For Assessor, 4* 4. C. E. FAIRCHILD. 44. 0 4* 4. UNION TOWNSHIP. 4* 4* For Trustee, 4* 4* JAMES L. BABCOCK. 4* afa For Assessor, 4* <fa GEO. E. McCOLLY. 4* afi 4* 4. GILLAM TOWNSHIP. 4. •I* For Trustee, 4* 4. M. W. COPPEBS. 4* afa For Assessor, < as. 4. JAMES RODGERS. 4* tiailll IUIIHHH4

Bargains in Pasture Land. 280 acres level pasture land 11m alone largo ditch, mostly open land. In blue gram, on mala road, 1-4 mile to school, 1-2 mile to gravel road loading to court house. Will take half in good town property, merchandise, or other land. Price »0. G. F. Moyers, * Opposite Court House SPECIAL NOTICE. We now have at our store a full line of samples tor tailor made suits or shirts made to your measure. We take your measu/e and a perfect fit guaranteed or no sale Duvall A Lundy.

STATE AUDITOR

John C. Billheimer Rightly Aspires to Be His Own Successor. '■ I JOHN C. BILLHEIMER, nominee for his second term as Auditor of State is a lawyer of Washington, Daviess county. He Is a comparatively young man, and one who Udi ■ private and public life has proven over and over his ability and integrity. He has a record as an astute, painstaking and successful lawyer. Since entering political and public life he has gained an acquaintance over the whole State, and has made many friends who testify to his ability, his probity, his genial disposition and his earnestness and faithfulness to all matters ’ in his charge. In the four years he was Deputy Auditor, Mr. Billheimer received and disbursed nearly $35,000,000. When ' Governor Hanly’s bipartisan board of i experts scrutinized every record in I that office, it failed to find a single mistake in the accounts of Mr. Billheimer and the men under him. Every 1 penny of that vast amount was properly entered and accounted for. During the past two years as Auditor, with the added duties given to him by the last Legislature, Mr. Billheimer has conducted the State 1 Auditor's office along the same lines •f honest and competent business 1 management. In fact, the excellent 1 force of experts in their several lines with which he has surrounded himself points to his ability as an organizer well qualified to execute the complicated duties of the State Auditor. lur. Billheimer, in his interpretation and execution of the Insurance laws of the State, proved himself one whc 1 dared guard the people’s Interests,

JOHN C. BILLHEIMER.

regardless of the aroused hostility of the combined insurance companies who opposed him. More than that, he displayed tact, judgment and foresight. Today those who at first were prone to criticise and condemn his efforts unite with the general public in praise for the great public service Mr. Billheimer performed.

Convention Afterthoughts.

Monticello Journal: When the delegates to the Democratic Congressional convention assembled in the circuit court room yesterday, District Chairman James K. Risk addressed the convention on county organization. The call was read by James W, Schooler, secrewas made permanent chairman, and after James W. Schooler had been selected as secretary, the democratic editors present, on motion of John W. Ross, of Lafayette, were made assistant secretaries. Chairman Hahn appointed the following committee on resolutions: George W. Roby, Benton county; George R. Durgan, Tippecanoe; Charles Murphy, White; Frank Babcock, Jasper; Lawrence Becker, Lake. The resolutions endorsed Williams Jennings Bryan and the Denver platform, and Thomas R. Marshall ant the State platform. Judge Darroch was nominated on the first ballot, which stood: Darroch, 50; Honan, 31; Duffy, 17. Judge Darroch was declared the nominee and made a brief speech of acceptance. Benton county voted seven for Duffy. Jasper voted six for Honan and one for Duffy. Lake cast fourteen for Darroch. Laporte cast twenty-two for Darroch. Newton cast five for Darroch. Porter cast five for Darroch, one for Duffy and one for Honan. Tippecanoe cast twenty-one for Honan. Warren cast five for Duffy. White county split its vote, giving four for Darroch, three for Duffy and three for Honan. Sherman Snead, near Vallonia, Jackson county, found a tortoise, on the shell of which was inscribed: L. L. Lyster, 1872.’* Lycurgus L. Lyster, living at Urbana, 111., was born and reared on the farm where the turtle was found, and he cut his name and date on the shell while he was a boy.

BUTTER MAKERS.

Be sure and take your butter to the Home Grocery and enter the butter contest just starting.' You get the highest price and a nice present besides. Ask for butter cards at the store.

BREWERS ARE ACTIVE; HAVE A NEW CHECK

All Checks Sent Out From Breweries Are Stamped “A Check Against Prohibition.”

Indianapolis, July 23. —Stamped in red letters across the face of every check, big and little, that is issued by a leading brewing company of Indianapolis appears this sentence: A CHECK AGAINST PROHIBITION This brewing concern does a large' business, its checks find their way into all parts of the state and into other states. Its new motto — “A Check Against Prohibition” —involving a pun on the word “check,”' attracted much attention yesterday. A comparison of checks showed that the motto is on all of them. It ap-1 pears on checks issued by the brewery’s agents as well as by the home office of the brewery in Indianapolis. There could be no stronger evidence of the fact that the brewery companies are in politics, and are doing all they can to administer a stinging defeat to the republicans in the state campaign. They have buried their differences and are working together, shoulder to shoulder, under that their very existence is threatened and that it is up to them to put forth heroic efforts to “save the business.” It came to light yesterday that the brewers of Indiana are taking a special poll of the state. This poll, It is expected, will be of invaluable assistance to them. It will show the weak places will be buried all of the temperance forces and against those weak places will be burid all of the strength that money and shrewd generalship can command. Nearly all the activity that is now manifested in the Indiana campaign is the activity of the brewers and their agents. T£ere are signs that the brewers will have an immense cam-

STATISTICS SHOW POWER OF BREWER

Indianapolis, July 24. —An interesting and valuable collection of statistics, compiled by the state statistician, and published herewith throws a flood of light on the power dYttfa brewers to control politics in Indiana—a power which they are exerting to the utmost limit of their ability in an effort to defeat the republican state and legislative tickets. The saloon is one of the main cogs in the great brewery machines. The brewers exert a large measure of their political influence through saloon keepers whom they control. The brewer furnishes bond for the saloon keeper, which puts the saloon keeper under obligations to him. After that the saloon keeper is virtually a tool of the*brewer, and when the brewer plays the fiddle the saloon keeper must dance. —t - It has long been a favorite pretension of the brewers that they have no connection with the retail liquor traffic beyond furnishing beer to the saloons, and that they exert no political influence over the salojyi keepers. This, however, is only a pretension.

Mrs. Mary Stubbs Moore, chief of the bureau of statistics, through her agents over the state, has conducted a fair and impartial investigation to ascertain the facts as to how saloon keepers are set up in business. In other words, as to who furnishes the surety that enables them to comply with the license law. The figures obtained are for the half year beginning January Ist and ending July 1, 1907. The information obtained is surprising, to say the least, and the probability it that it understates, rather than overstates, the part that the brewers take in the control and operation of saloons, for it is understood that information, in a good many instances, was not easily obtained. The report shows that during the six months indicated 3,002 saloon licenses were issued In Indiana. Of the saloon keepers taking out licenses, 274 were bonded by breweries, the name of the brewery in each instance appearing on the bond, and 747' were bonded by brewery agents, making a total of 991 saloon keepers who were set up In business during the brief period of six months by breweries. There is an old saying in politics that every saloon keeper is able to Influence votes of ten hangers-on about his place of business, and if that be true the 991 saloon keepers who are bonded by breweries and brewery agents during the six months mentioned would be able to handle

, paign fund to spend in Indiana, The big breweries In other states that have agencies in Indiana are ready to contribute. The hope of the brewers, it [is learned through authoritative sources, is to bury the Hoosier repub- . licans under such an overwhelming defeat that political parties everywhere having learned a lesson from Indiana, will refuse to advocate county option in the future and will steer clear of any advanced expression of teinperance. In this respect the In- ' diana contest is more than local. It has national significance and is being | watched by brewers everywhere. All over Indiana the brewers are appealing to the personal interest of as many men as can be reached in that way. They are trying to make the issue a “bread and butter” proposition, and to show the wage-earn- ; ing population that if it knows “which side its bread is buttered on” it will , join in the brewery fight on the republicans. The merchant who reads on his check the words “A Check Against Prohibition” will not be slow to asI ' sume that he ought to vote the dem- | ocratic ticket if he wants his brewery trade to continue. Every tradesman who furnishes goods to the brewers or to their employes; every cigar manufacturer who sells cigars to saloons; every ice dealer who furnishes ice for saloons; every man who keeps a saloon 'or tends a bar; every manufacturer 'of bottles and every bottle blower I and every one of thousands of others , who are linked commercially and in- ’ dustrially with the liquor traffic will find, if he has not already, an urgent 1 call from the brewers to join in the 1 campaign against county local option.

10,901 votes, including their own, in the Interest of the brewery combineThese statistics furnish an idea of the brewery machine’s far-reaching political ramifications. Every brewer has his thumb, so to speak, on a large number of saloon keepers and every saloon keeper is being urged to do his utmost to defeat Congressman Watson and the republican candidates for the legislature in his baliwick. The brewers are on their mettle as never before. They are supplied with unlimited funds. Not only do they control a large army of men through the keepers and frequenters of saloons, but they are reaching out in every direction in an effort to whip into line every man in the state who derives an income, directly or Indirectly, from the liquor business, through the sale of supplies incidental to the traffic, etc. The latest phase of the brewery activity was reported to.republican state headquarters this week. The brewers are very anxious to carry the house of representatives, aS ttUlt able them to block county local option legislation. To that end they are bringing out democratic candidates for the house and are furnishing the finances with which they are to make their campaigns. The Indiana Issue, official organ of , the Indiana Anti-Saloon league, sounds a rallying cry to all good citizens in districts where legislative nominations yet are to be made, urging them to get busy at once to offset the work of the brewers.

Continental Insurance Company.

The largest and one of the best of American companies writing fire and wind storm insurance on city and farm property. Farmers before renewing your insurance see the Continental’s most liberal contract Any limit you wish on horses and cattle. In case of loss we pay an adjustment without discount, all at the same price that smaller companies will charge you. See that your insurance Is written in the Continental. Call at my office any time and let me show you. The same office that the Continental has been represented in for years, room four, second floor, I. O. O. F. building. Rensselaer, Ind. A. J. HARMON, tf-BW-2d Successor to J. F. Bruner.

Card of Thanks.

I wish to express to the many kind friends who were so generous in their many evidences of friendship during my recent sad bereavement in the death of my wife, my sincerest thanks. A. W. Cleveland. • <

Special pants sale St Rowles & Parker'S. We can fit you and save you money at our big discount clothing sale. Suits 60 cents on the |.

A HOPELESS NOMINATION

What the Last Democratic Nominee for Governor of New York Has to Say of Bryan. From the New York American.— Dem. For the third time W. J. Bryan has been nominated by the Democratic party—or rather by that fragment of former efficiency which is called the Democratic party. We have lost confidence in the Democratic party, as millions of other democrats have done. We can not see in this nomination any hope. We are bound to add, with regret, that we have lost confidence in W. J. Bryan, who, by well-manipulated bossship, has compelled this nomination. It is a fact that the people of the country have absolutely nothing to say in regard to the nomination or the platform. The platform adopted by the Democratic party is nothing but a compromise between the absolute will of Bryan and that willingness on Bryan’s part to dicker with his own principles recently made known to the public. No reliance can be placed on the Democratic platform or *on Bryan’s declarations. The democratic platform declares for one set of principles at one-election and for an entirely different set at the next election, while Bryan is apparently without permanent principle or sincere conviction or even honest attitudp. *A*platform is a promise to perform; and a platform made by the Democratic party and indorsed by Mr. Bryan is not worth the paper it is written on. The democratic party has become a w atl er cock of what its inferior leaders imagine to be the expression of public opinion. It reflects supinely the corporation instinct and 'servility of a Parker and is ready at the next moment to reflect the half-baked illmatured opinions of some Imaginary radical. The Democracy of Bryan and Taggart and others, with its changing principles, its shifting platform and its chameleon candidates, is not the Democracy of Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, who lived by his principles and stood by them.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

[Waranty deeds unless otherwise stated.] John A. Blake et ux to Harry E. Ruger, July 2, w 1-2 sw 3-28-6, 80 acres, Marion, $4,000. Mary A. Gibbon to Georgd* Reusch, June 23, sw se 32-30-7, Newton, $1,200. George D. Richey et alto Charles Jouvenat, July 7, w 1-2 ne 4-31-5, 82.50 acres, Walker, SI,BOO. Michael Bemlcker to Horace Marble July 13, Its 15- 16, bl 2, Its 1-2-3-4-5-6 bl 6, Wheatfield, Graham’s add, SBOO. Harriett W. Ferguson to Jacob Thenis, July 22, 1907, Its 1-2 bl 10, Sunnyside add, S2OO. J. P. Wurz to Georgiana Anderson, June 27, Its 7-10-11 bl 3, Asphaltum, SI.OO. E. G. Warren to Samuel McGinnis, July 23, Its 6 bl 7, DeMotte, McDonald add, Q. C. D. SB.OO. - -Qur- new Him 1 of Fall -samples — tor tailor made suits are now at our store. They are from one of the best tailoring houses in this country. Qome in and let us take your measure for a new Fall suit. Perfect fit guaranteed. Rowles & Parker. If there is a wet spot in Blackford county, the anti-saloon worke s do not know it. Saturday a blanket remonstrance containing the signatures of 299 voters of Jackson township was filed with the county auditor, to replace the old one, which expires in April. At the last election 514 votes were cast in the township for secretary of state, which means that 258 valid signatures are necessary tc prevent the sale of intoxicants in that township. The township has been a “desert” for four years. Several years ago there was a saloon at Priam P. 0., but since then the saloon and the postoffice have been erased from the map. Farmers and business men in and near Hillsdale, this state, have organized an Independent telephone company, to be operated on the mutual plan. They are patrons of the Bell company which operates In the county, with headquarters at Clinton, but an increase in rates from $1.25 to $1.50 a month .caused a revolt. Meanwhile the Bell company has offered to sell the lines and switchboard fit Hillsdale to these farmers at a price to be determined by appraisement, but the offer was declined. The farmers contend that they can build a new plant with less outlay.

Every pair of shoes in our store at a big discount now during our stock reducing sale. Rowles & Parker. Mrs. Joe Wallem, who was badly burned to a gasoline explosion at Hartford City Saturday, is dead after terrible suffering.

The Place to Go. We have lately enlarged our tin and plumbing shop, have employed another experienced man, and are in a better position to do tinwork and plumbing than ever before. We will cheerfully figure and draw out plans for a bath outfit or heating system in your home. All repair work will be promptly attended to. W e will be glad to figure on gutter for your house, or make any tinware to your order.» EGER BROS.

THE PURDIE SPECIAL Following is the schedule, of the special train which we will run from St John and intermediate stations to Lafayette on August 6, on account of the Lake and Jasper county day at the Purdue University: Leave St. John7:3s aja. Leave Cedar Lake™ 7:50 ajn. Leave Creston— 7:55 ajn. Leave Lowell— 8:05 aja. Leave Shelbyß:2o Am. Leave .Thayer , ; 8:34 ajn. Leave Roselawnß:32 a.m. Leave Fair Oaks 8:43 ajn. Leave Parr 8:47 am. Leave Surreyß:s2 ajn. Leave Rensselaer9:ol a.m. Leave Pleasant Ridge 9:07 a.m. Leave McCoysburg 9:13 a m. Arrive Lafayette 10:80 a,m. Returning special train will leave Lafayette at 6:00 p._ m. The rate will be as .follows: Stations, St. John to Lowell- $1.50 Stations, Shelby to Surrey — 1.35 Sta., Rensselaer to McCoysburg— I.OC

Base Ball —>♦ — Monticello VS. Rensselaer ■ —• —r Riverside Athletic Park —■ — ■ £ Rensselaer, Indiana Thursday, July 30 —« — Came Called at 2:30 Admission 25 Cents

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, Jasper county. In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1908.Alfred D. Stephenson as administrator, vs Ann Eliza Stephenson et al Complaint No. 7334. Now comes the Plaintiff, by Foltz & Spitler his attorneys, and files the complaint herein, together with an affidavit that Albert O. Stephenson and Mrs. Stephenson his Wife and Mrs. Stephenson, as widow of said Albert O. Stephenson and all of the unknown heirs, devisee# and legatees of said Albert O. Stephenson, if deceased, are not residenets of the State of Indiana. » Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the second Monday of September A. D. 1908, at the court house in Rensselaer in said County and State, and answer or demur to sail complaint filed by the plaintiff to sell real estate of Robert Stephenson, deceased, the same will be heard and' determined in your absence. Ip witness whereof I hereunto set my' hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Rensselaer this 18th day of July A. D. 1908. C. C. WARNEP C. C. WARNER, July 21-28-Aug4 Clerk.

House Wives Take Notice! Have you used STOVINK? It is not a polish, but a chemical preparation that blackens the top of your stove in such a way that it will stay black' without the work of shining It. Just paint it on. A child can apply it No work. * And not explosive. All dealers twenty-five cento. E. D. Rhoades.