Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1908 — Page 2

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REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For President WILLIAM H. TAFT. 0 For Vice-President, JAMES S. SHERMAN. For Governor, JAMES E. WATSON, o For Lieutenant-Governor, FREMONT GOOD WINE. o— For State Senator, ABRAHAiI HALLECK. o For State Representative, JOHN G. BROWN. For Congress, 10th Congres&ioua District, EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER. o For Judge 30th. Judicial Circuit, W. HANLEY. For Prosecuting Attorney 30th Judicial Circuit, . FRED W. LONGWELL. o For Treasurer, JESSE D. ALLMAN. For Recorder, JOHN H. TILTON. For Sheriff, LEWIS P. SHIRER. For Surveyor, W. FRANK OSBORNE. For Coroner, WILLIS J. WRIGHT. For Commissioner Ist Diet, JOHN F. PETTET. For Commissioner 3rd DisL, CHARLES T. DENHAM. O MARION TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, H. E. PARKINSON. For Assessor, GEORGE SCOTT. . For Justice of the Peace, 1 PHILIP BLUE. o BARKLEY TWP. TICKET. For Trustee, WILLIAM FOLOBR. For Assessor, CHAS. REED. - •——o—— ' WALKER TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, FRED KARCH. For Assessor, HENRY MEYERS. o HANING GROVE TOWNSHIP TICKET. For Trustee, GEORGE PARKER. For Assessor, GWIN. ! - o JORDAN TOWNSHIP TICKET. For Trustee, —- A. J. McCASHEN. For Assessor. JAMES BULLIS. o W’HEATFI ELD TWP. TICKET. For Trustee, M. J. DELEHANTY. For Assessor, A. 8. KEEN. . .. -O . ■■ KEENER TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, TUNIS SNIP. For Assessor, ' C. E. FAIRCHILD. « o UNION TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, JAMES L BABCOCK For Assessor, GOO. E. McCOLLY. OILLAM TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, M. W. COPPEBS. For Aese—or, JAMES RODGERS.

THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.

There is a paramount issue before the people of Indiana this year. It is the temperance question and both party platforms have declared for temperance by proposing to enact laws that will establish local option at the polls. The democratic platform has pledged itself to establish township option, which we however hare by remonstrance. The republican platform has promised county option, which would bring the matter of temperance up to the people of the entire county. Just what the laws would provide can not be known until the bills are Introduced and discussed sad passed by the legislature that is • -x

to be elected this fall and which will convene in January. The republican party will, if elected, pass a county option bill, but it will be so worded that it will not do away with the present remonstrance method of disposing of saloohs in townships and wards. ' The brewers and their emissaries are quick to- discern the effect that legislation if enacted will have on their business and have decided to support the democratic state ticket, because , they see not only a certainty that the temperance movement can not progress with the adoption of a township option plank, but they also see that a township vote would probably result in the re-establishment of many saloons, j They also see more. | They see that to place the saloon i question before the people of an enI tire county would defeat the saloons I in many cities because of the pi evailjmg sentiment for temperance in the I rural districts. So the breweries enI dorse the democratic platform, and ! make plans to carry the state for I Tom Marshall and the democratic ; candidates fro senator and state repJ resentative. The anti-saloon league i is very active and very watchful of ' the temperance Interests and to offset j the action" of the breweries it de- ! clares for the republican platform , and for James E. Watson for governor I and for the republican candidates for | representative and senator unless they j have proof that the nominees aie for brewery domination, which might be the case in some localities. The Jasper County Democrat some weeks ago, had a fit of indignation because the anti-saloon league had decided not to look at things the same way the brewers did, iind the Democrat, with its self-praised moral sponser, threatened to re-instate saloons In Rensselaer by having democrats refuse to longer sign remon- : strances if the anti-saloon league did j not withdraw its support from the J republican party. We are certain i that the temperance sentiment is ‘ deeper rooted in the determination of the good and loyal democrats who j have aided in freeing Rensselaer and ! Remington, DeMotte, Fair Oaks and j Wheatfield and other places of saloons than to permit the Jasper | County Democrat to cause them to | withhold future support in the interest of temperance. There is little outside of temperance dividing the two parties this year,and any democrat who is since.ely a temperance man can afford to study the situation closely and cast his vote as he honestly believes will < result in the curtailment of the retail liquor traffic. As it now stands the breweries and the saloons and the interests that the 1 saloons control are advising the 1 election of the democratic tickets and ! the adoption of the township and ward local option law. And the an--1 ti-saloon league has declared for the ! republican nominess and the adoption of county lpcal option. Is it not 1 easy to judge, Mr. Temperance Man, where you should stand? And now a word about the sincerity of the Democrat editor’s temperance ; views. He threatens to reinstate saloons !in Rensselaer unless the anti-sa-J loon league withdraws its support from the republican ticket. Surely j this editor who claims to have made ■ the sacrifice of living in .the first ward for three years in order to sign ! the remonstrance and defeat the saloons has lost some of his proclaimed 1 fervid temperance enthusiasm. The Democrat has evidently been playing I the double cross In the temperance matter and unrighteously! assumes! ! that it can persuade the democrats to do the same thing. But it is mistaken, inw<YfW~-• -• mw> - - m* And now the paper comes out can- | didly and says that democrats, and he must have been speaking of what I he himself would do, would “resent I 1 the interference and hundieds of them j refuse to sign the remonstrances or j vote against the saloon If the League persists in its advocacy of the elec- | tlon of the republican state ticket.” | The Republican feels more sincere | in its temperance views and no . matter what may happen it will be i found doing #hat it can to rid the community of saloons, and will make no bluffs about voting for their reinstatement if something does not suit us. Aud we believe the loyal temperance democrats everywhere will resent the suggestion that their temperance regard Is so slight that they can be induced by an insincere advocate to cast aside the opportunities at hand to free this city and the other towns of the county from saloons, j The democrats were as active locally ! as the republicans and doubtless as since re in their opposition to the retail liquor traffic and they will be just as deslrouß of continuing the I fight against the traffic of liquor even if it leads them for once to vote the republican ticket And as between the endorsement of the breweries and the anti-saloon league, we. believe they #lll readily see that the latter Is right It has no personal interests, but the brewers have their business at heart The Issue this year Is temperenoe and the republicans will lose lots of*

their heretofore solid republicans, in communities where the saloon Interests are at stake, but they expect to make this up by the support of honest and sincere democrats who want temperance to progress and who will vote right when th£y see right

Charges Against Railroads Are Decidedly Unjust.

I At stated times the daily press gives figures showing the number of * persons “slaughtered” by railroads, and the total is appalling. The average layman reads it, talks about it i for a while and ever afterwards blame 1 the railroad corporations for "'their murderous, “grasping” policies. In the latest tabulated reports, classified, this item is found: , “Trespassers, killed, 5,381; injured, ,5,927; total, 11,308. The total casualties were: Killed, 9,051; injured, i 45,455. Of these 212 were passengers , killed and 4,398 injured. Here we ' see that of the 9,041 killed over 59 per cent of the total are wrongly I charged to the railroad management. | The fact is that the number of tresI passers killed during the year exceeded the number of passengers and i employes combined by 2,283. Deaths and injuries on railroads owing to | the hazardous work are sadly numerous enough without putting this extra charge on the railroad corporations. The International Commerce Commisi sion, from whose reports the above I figures are taken, should find some way to relieve the railroads from this apparently unjust charge of responsibility.

Came Back From Terre Haute.

i Sixteen young lady school teachers, past, present and in embryo, who I have been attending the Terre Haute ! normal school, have arrived or will arrive within the next few days, back to Rensselaer and vicinity. They i have been taking the summer course, : and all come home believing that they have, received great benefit frem tie instruction and that they are now I thoroughly prepared to instruct the , young idea. Those who returned I Friday were Misses Ethel Perkins, Mary Goetz, Cora Dexter, Grace Peyj ton, Hayes Gwin, Pearl Wasson, Mildred Biggs, Mae Pettit, Harr it tt Sayler, Emma Rayher, Feme Parker, Emma Tanner and Flora Frye. The latter lives at Roselawn, but all the | others reside in or near Rensselaer. | Miss Blanche Cook, of Hanging Grove j township, and Misses Tillie Malchow 1 and Carrie Pierce, of Rensselaer, who i constitute the balance of the Rens- : selaer contingent at the Terre Haute school, have stopped enroute home to visit relatives.

Lee Richards a Great Traveler.

Lee Richards is seeing some of the country. __ A little more than a week ago his parents received a - letter from him, and at that time he was in Colorado, Now another letter has been received and he is at Las Vegas, New Mexico. He was not working when the last letter was received but expected to get work on a ranch. When Lee was only 10 or 11 years of age his travels began and he would frequently board a train and go to Monon or Shelby without his parents knowing where he was. Now he keeps them Informed all the time where he is and he writes to them regularly each week. He stated in his last letter that if he does not find work he will probably wend his way back hom^.

The Weil Band.

At the Remington Chautauqua on Afe£uav Tri-ti Wen ana bis band will play afternoon and evening concerts. This sterling organization is the leading attraction of this year’s assembly, and the officers have made Bpeclal preparations to accommodate the record crowd of the summer. The concerts at the Remington Chautauqua will be the only great Instrumental musical event and there is no doubt but that the people of this vicinity will avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing them. Aside from the band selections which will be of a comprehensive character, the concerts will Include soprano solos by Miss Fanny Franhel, a well known opera singer. The Rensselaer cook book published by the ladies, of the Presbyterian churcb, is now on sale at A. F. Long’s drug store. Appointments made selling them can also be supplied. Its embarrassing in the extreme when yon are trying to show off to have Borne other fellow butt in and show you up. Official records of the Pennsylvania! Railroad show that sixty-seven of its eighty-five principal officers started with the company in minor positions. Forty-three are oollege graduates. A Michigan editor complains that hie cat has had chickens as well ae kittens Now she climbs a tree when she crows. Strawa and straw hats show which way the wind blows.

LIEBER’S LIE NAILED

City of Lebanon "Dry” and Pro*porous, but Not "Dead.'* **Mauy signs indicate that the wave of prohibition is receding in Indiana. The merchants and bankers of Lebanon have expressed themselves.” So spoke Albert Lieber, the big brewer and anti-Bryan Democrat who is now foretelling the election of Hon. Thos. R. Marshall as governor this year. He talked much and loudly through his hat to a reporter. He put his foot in it when he became particular and gave one alleged instance of proof of his statements and spoke the second sentence In this article. He has reason |to be sorry he spoke. Facts in Leb- ; anon refute his allegations and other cities have had the same experience as the Boone county capital. Demetrius Tillotson is an eminent citizen , there. He knows the town and Its , condition “before and after taking." , He read what Lieber said and in commenting on it he came hack with this among other good things: “Mr. Lieber seems to base his hopes 1 that the prohibition wave In Indiana is receding on conditions in our own ' city of Lebanon. . We are curious to know who his informant could have ■ been. He says: I “ ‘Merchants and bankers of Lebanon have expressed themselves.’ Yes, ! they have, but it was In a different way from what Mr. Lieber seems to think. The presidents of all our banks signed remonstrances and over 100 of j our business men did likewise and more than a score of those who did not have expressed a willingness to do so in the future. Only a few days ago one of our leading merchants saidr ‘I t did not sign the remonstrance, but the saloons are out now and I will sign to keep them out.’ ‘‘We venture the statement that nothing* has happened in Lebanon in years that has met with the enthusiastic approval of the people to the same degree that has the abolishment of the saloons. It was said that business houses would be vacant, but with sixteen new business rooms built In the last four years, and four vacant rooms when the remonstrances were circulated, and ten saloons gone out of i business, we now have just two business rooms that are not rented in our city. It was said that business would decline and that a ‘dry’ town was a ‘dead’ town, but the almost universal testimony of our merchants Is that in spite of general panic conditions throughout the country business has increased. "Our factories are all running, many homes are happier and a spirit of prosperity pervades the people. We have had some people who have endeavored to make Illegal sales, but most of them came up at this term of court and paid good, healthy fines. "Interurban cars run every ’■our in three different directions to cities that still have saloons, yet In spite of this fact our sheriff’s books show that in April, May and June of this year we have had thirteen arrests for drunk against fifty-one arrests for drunk during the corresponding months of a year ago, when our saloons were open. Some of the thirteen were arrested when they got off the Interurban car. In one month last year we had forty arrests for drunk, and the most we have had In any month since the saloons went out were five.”

NEEDED ON THE STUMP.

Naturally there Is regret among the thousands of men and women who attend the Chautauqua sessions throughout the country each summer over the fact that Congressman Watson has canceled practically all his engagements at the assemblies this year. He is one of the most popular of Chautauqua speakers. But this summer, now that he Is his party’s popular candidate for governor of Indiana, he has duties that call him to devote his time to the campaign. The Republican Btate committee has called on*him to work actively for the party’s success In November. He is the best political campaigner in this state or many states, and it is fitting and necessary that he be conscripted for the strenuous fight about to begin In Indiana. Mr. Watson was happy to honor the call to armß of the state committee and has canceled his other speaking engagements. The Chautauquas will suffer, but the Btate will be the gainer. He had to cut some forty dates outside of Indiana and a few for Chautauquas In this state. He will devote his time to making campaign speeches and will avoid appearing on platforms of associations which charge admission to bear him. He is being assigned to speak about •very day, and on some days two or three times, during the campaign. These are the facts as to the cause that has filled Chautauqua managements’ patrons with sorrow. But they have been twisted and falsified and used as a text for a miserable attack on the Republican gubernatorial candidate by political opponents who hate to know Jim Watson’s power on the platform and before people, and would like to know that he was to talk ail summer on abstract subjects before women and children and old men who attend Chautauquas. All popular lecturers when running for political office have to limit their activities to the campaign stump, where only politics are called for. A little sorehead editor In Jim Watson’s own district started the lie on Its rounds among the Dem ocratlc papers of the state, most of whose men readers really know the facts and their natural cause. That's §g* __ _

THE PASSING OF A VETERAN

Taps S«vnd For One Who Participated Ib Many Battles—Laid to Rest in Beaatifal Riverview William H. Daugherty, sen of Barney and Lucy Daugherty, was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, February 19, 1839 and died July 29, 1908 at the age of 69 yejirs, 5 months and 10 days. When five years of age he moved with his parents to Jasper county, when he moved to White county, ’He enlisted in the Union army, being mustered in as a private in Company K, Forty-eighth regiment Indiana Infantry Volunteers. He re-en-listed as veteran in January, 1864, and was discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 16, 1865. Leaving out all the innumerable incidents thereof, a brief epitome of this soldier’s faithful and loyal service to the union is the following: Engaged in the siege of Corinth in May, 1862. In the battle of luka, September 19, 1862. : In the second battle of Corinth, October 3 and 4, 1862. Battle of Forty Hills, May 3, ’63. Battle of Raymond, May 13, ’63. Battle of Jackson, May 14, ’63. Battle of Champion Hills, May 16, 1863. The long siege of Vicksburg, including the desperate assault of the army of Pemberton therein, May 22, and its surrender July 4, 1863. The long march across the country from Memphis to Chattanooga, Tenn., to the assi|tance of the Army of the Cumberland and participation in the battle of Chattanooga, November 24 and 25, 1863. Then in the summer of 1564, looking after guerrillas and protecting Shermans railroad communication, while the latter was prosecuting his campaign against Atlanta, and in the fall with his army when “Sherman went down to the sea.” Again in the winter, marching with the right wing of Sherman’s army north through the Carolinas, to Goldsboro, N. C.; thence through Virginia after Johnston’s surrender, to Washington, D. C. and after the “Grand Review” being transferred to Louisville, Ky., where he was mustered out after serving three years and nine months. Never was absent from his regiment. A most remarkable record. He participated in some of the most stupenduoiis military undertakings of history. He was a loyal and faithful member of the Grand Army of the Republic and greatly enjoyed fellowship with his comrades in arms. October 31, 1869, he was united in marriage to Miss Ellen WarfeL To them were born two daughters, 0:a and Myrta. From a family of nine children, four brothers survive him —Geo. P. Daugherty, John Daugherty and T. R. Daugherty, all of Rensselaer, and L. L. Daugherty, of Hammond. The last years of Mr. Daugherty’s life were spent in Montlcello. He was quiet in manner, simple in tastes, cheerful at all times, and just iu dealing with his fellow men. He was a good friend, a good neighbor, a good citizen, a good soldier, a good husband, and a good father, 1 with many friends and no enemies. The complication of diseases that culminated In his last and fatal illness was such that he suffered lqnst and-severely lilit**tb~lffie last he was brave and uncomplaining. His funeral was held from his home Friday afternoon, July 31, Elder A. W. Jackman conducting the servicee. Tippecanoe Post, G. A. R. of which he was a member turned out in a body aud escorting his remains to their final resting place, laid them away, using the impressive ritualistic ceremonies of the order. His coffin was

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draped in the colors which he had served for so many yean and for which he offered his llfe and gave some of the beet yean of his early manhood —Montlcello JournaL i

Political Penalties.

Darroch? Darroch? Where has that' name been heard before? Ah, an idea! Darroch was the candidate for Congress in the Tenth district of Indiana on the Democratic ticket in 1906. That’s wherq the name wag used. Some of you remember it. And who is Darroch? A most estimable man, a good lawyer. His wont failing is hi / political affixation. | Politically he doesn’t stand high with any' of the Tippecanoe county democracy except Dan Sims, and Dan admits that James Kirby Risk mads him look like a dirty deuce *in a new deck at Denver. Mr. Risk preferred his friend, Ed Honan, for the thankless Job, but the horoscope was wrong for Honan - and Kirby yesterday, so they must stand for Darroch. It hurts, but what can be done about it? And in the meantime —Judge Crumpacker “jes laffs. ’’—Lafayett% Courier.

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Sheriff's Sale. 0. B. 37, Page 282, Cause 7207. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk* office of the Jasper Circuit Court In a cause wherein William B. Austin is plaintiff and John F. Bruner and Mahala J. Bruner, his wife; Frank B. Ham and Eleanor S. Ham, his wife; Samuel M. Laßue and Alberta Laßue, his wife; Arthur H. Hopkins and Martha E. Hopkins, his wife; j Orrni Kellogg and the Douglass County Bank of Alexandria, Minnesota are defendants and the Douglass County Bank of Douglass Minnesota, filed a cross-complaint against the following named cross-defendants, towit: William B. Austin; Frank B. Ham and Eleanor S. Ham, his wife; Samuel'M. Laßue and Alberta Laßue his wife, Arthur # H. Hopkins and Martha E. Hopkins, his wife and Orin Kellogg and Frank B. Ham filed his cross-complaint and set off, in which proceeding a judgment was rendered in favor of William B. Austin on his , complaint against all of the said defendants and the foreclosuree of thg mortgage and that said certified copy of execution and decree requires me I to make the sum of six-hundred nine and 10-100 dollars ($609.10) with in- ! terest on said amount and costs from j the date of rendition and costs aoj crued and .. to accrue by reason ol the sale. I will expose at public outcry to the highest bidder on Saturday the 29th day of August, 1908, between the hours of ten o’clock a. m. and four o’clock p. m. of said date, at the door of the court house of said Jasper County, Indiana, first the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate, to-wit: Lots nine (9) and ten (10) in block twenty-six (26) in Weston’s second addition to the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. And if such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satis- ! fy said decree, Interest and costs, I ' will at the same time and place exj pose at public sale the fee simple of said real estate or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge .said., decree, interests and costs. Said j sale will be made without any relief | whatever from valuation or appraisement laws and the said sale will be made absolutely on the judgment and decree of the plaintiff, William B. Austin In said action. JOHN O’CONNOR, Sheriff of Jasper County, Ind. Foltz & Spltler, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Aug. 4-11-18.