Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1908 — Page 2

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About That “Alliance.”

Democratic papers in this State are accusing the Anti-Saloon League of forming an Alliance with the republican party. (They make no criticism of the brewers’ alliance with their own party.) According to’ the charge made, the Anti-Saloon League has gone over bodily into the' republican camp, and is working for the republican nominees throughout the state, but E. S. Shumaker, state superintendent of the Indiana AntiSaloon League, declares that this charge is untrue. “We are not bound to any political party,” he says: “The Anti-SaloOn league avoids alliance of any kind ’with any party. We study the individual candidates and choose from among them those we shall support. The fact is that the League saw red county local option and worked for it long before either state convention was held. The constitution of the League guarantees that in no case shall the League espouse the cause of any political party, as such, but will remain nonpartisan and will seek only the election of candidates who are in .accord with the' legislative policy of the League. Right new we are favoring the election of republican candidates for the legislature in some counties, while in numerous other counties we are working for democratic candidates. Then there are some counties where we are doing nothing at all, because the candidates on both tickets are unfavorable to our policy, and it makes no difference which side wins. For over four years the Indiana League has been seeking the enactment of a county unit law for the exclusion of saloons. When our attorney, R. C. Minton, drafted the original Moore remonstrane law in 1905, it had in it county, ward and township features. The committee on public morals, however, eliminated ti e county feature, so as to make the measure • correspond with the governor’s i ecommendations, and in the amended form the Moore bill was passed and Gov rnor Hanly signed it.

“In the legislative session of 1907, our attorney prepared and had introduced a county remonstrance bill. On account of the great battles cwaged about the blind tiger bill, which the Anti-Saloon League insisted should first be passed, and the 31,000 license bill, the county i emonstrance bill never had a chance to pass. Soon after the adjournment of the legislature in 1907 the AntlSajoon League decided to start a movement to make Indiana dry by 1912 and that the county local option law would be the best means of bringing about this condition. “On November 26, 1907, the trustees of the League jnet and decided to begin an active campaign for the enactment of a county unit local option law. This was over four months prior to the meeting of the state conventions. For four years the League had been advocating a county unit exclusion law, and for over a year had been advocating county local option as the best plan for bringing this about . . . . “During tints the wssteese of the League had been enlisting public sentiment on this question* so that both political parties felt that they must take cognizance of this sentiment We could not have prevented their taking notice of it officially had we done our best to prevent it “It is useless to there are candidates running for the legislature on both party tickets this year who are not in harmony with the utterances of their party platforms. Some republican candidates refuse to stand by their platform utterances on this subject, while some democrats are most heartily in favor of a county unit local option, law. “Under such circumstances the only thing the Anti-Saloon League can do is to sound each candidate In the different parties 'and to ascertain from him what he will do concerning a county local option law if eleccd. If the candidates of both parties aye unqualifiedly in favor of such a measure and will Support it, then the league will remain neutral. If one candidate favors it while the candilate of the other party is opposed or *efuses to commit himself, the duty >t the League in the premises will be lear. Butin qo case will a candidate >e Indorsed unless he stands squarely fn favor of a county local Option lew while his opponent does not”

WON THE ONE HUNDRED FIFTY.

Political Prize Essay Contest Conducted By Republican National Committee Proves Interesting.

Some time ago the National Republican -committee offered a prize for the best essay on “Why the Republican Party Should Be Succe-sful in November.” Many thousand papers were submitted. The one prepared by Frank Hend.icks, of New York, proves the winner. It is as follows: The Republican party was founded upon the principle that this government was established to protect for all times the rights and opportunities of every individual from abridgment. That principle it has successfully maintained. Through the CiVil War it consecrated a reunited country to free and equal American citizenship. It has kept the channels of Interstate Commerce open for ell and, through the National Banking System, the refunding of the National Debt, resumption of specie payments, the Gold Standard and the Emergency Currency Law, has sustained the life current of national integrity. As trustee of the National wealth, it has investigated mineral regions, surveyed soils, developed waterways, including the Panama Canal, irrigated deserts, conserved watersheds, and husbanded the public lands.' Protecting American labor by regulating immigration and by taking at the Custom House, to pay American taxes, foreign capital’s advantage from- low wages, it has preserved to American industres the, home market of eighty millions of the world’s greatest consumers so laid the surest basis of American competition in foreign markets. Uniting capital and labor, thus, in a common prosperity and common source of increased reward, it has created opportunities, improved conditions of employment, brought about a higher standard of living, and more widespread distribution of wealth and well-being, and made expansion moral as well as material.

Intrusted with insular possession?, it has brought them peace and progress, and provided for the extension and protection of American trade, for the National defense, and for the honorable discharge of the responsibilities of the world greatness. Maintaining peace at home, with foreign nations and among them, it ha* given American rights | and American opportuni-ies new meaning throughout tie nation and' throughout the world. Promising progiess and prosperity,, it has been politically sincere. It has never had a candidate cf a section, prejudice, or class, nor a platform of negation, scheme of repudiation, program of seuttle, or doctrine, of despair. It has never lent itself to a demand for to 1 e fol-j lowed by reaction and retrogression, I it has stood firm for evolution by constant, steady and enduring progress. Finding trusts, giant-born, flourishing under supposed conflict _ of State and National law, the double prohibition of existence serving but to foster their development, It has' never, in an attempt to destroy trusts, J withdrawn, in State or Nation, the protection of law from property, but has, through Executive invesiigat'on and resort to the courts, resolving the copflict which had silenced law and given trusts existence. It has never proposed to advance American workingmen and American institutions by banishing American industries and building up those of other lands, and scorned to insult labor with an Illusory promise of immunity

Taft and Sherman Lithographs.

Taft and Sherman pictures may he had by applying either at the Re- j publican office or to the office of County Chairman Leopold. They are fine Uthographs and every republican in Jasper county should avail himself of the opportunity to get pictures of the party standa: d bearers. The Republican will later be supplied with pictures of James E. Watson, but the demand cn the state committee for these Uthographs has so far exceeded the supply, but we have the promise of a large number later on, and they should be pac ed in the homes of republicans and progressive temperance advocates irrespective of political affiliation.?.

Try the new ”Gem” flour and you will want no other. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. One of the best shows that will i play RenSselaer this season is Sis' Perkins, Tuesday, Sept. Ist

from law. Yet it passed the Pure Fppd Daw and the Employers’ Liability Law, secured equal accommodations oh railroads, ai led agriculture, created the Civil Service, established Free Rural Mail Delivery, reduced foreign postage, and increasing pensions. Continuing naturally markedout progress, it will keep its pledges of Tariff readjustment, Currency Reform and development of the Merchant Marine, and make the United States 'the financial centre as it has made it the industrial centre of the world. In the evolution by which party government has become the extraconstitutional method of securing responsibility to the people, the Republican Party hag become their tradl tonal representative and the Democratic Party the organized aspiration of individuals for power without responsibility. Fairly tried, from 1893 to 1895, the two Democratic Houses and the Democratic! President were a “wild team”- and a helpless driver. Democracy agitates local differences, Republicanism organizes the National idea. In 1863 the people were committed to the cause of human liberty; the “Liberty and Union” expanded for the first time into the reality of the American nation. In 1879 money was committed to a specie basis; specie was at once, until 1893, no longer sought, and government bonds went to a premium at the reduced rate of interest. In 1896 business men were again committed to confidence; before a single statute was enacted prosperity set in and in ten years bank deposits almost trebled—a permanent gain which the

recent panic, a “state of mind” now completely dispelled, scarcely touched. In 1906 business was committed to fair methods; without compulsion violations largely ceased. The Republican party, at each period, sounded the public conscience, felt the National pulse, framed its policies in response, and realized in law the dominant American idea. Its constructive past assures its constructive future. It is today as it always has been, “The Party fit to Govern.” The party of statesmanship, it has been the training school of statesmen. Its policies have been forged in the heat of public discussion, temered In the deliberation and shaped in the conflict of many trained hands, and drawn and finally wrought for the country’s welfare. Dominating its members through principles, it assures unity in government; its staunchest partisans have . made the greatest contributions to national progress. The roster of tts leadertT is the national roll of honor of public service. Republicanism stands today for progressive policies in safe hands. By solving the constructive prob’ems of world power in the last two adminWilliam H. Taft taught the world our capacity and us his own. In all constructive legislation for twenty years James S. Sherman has been a leader. In tie records of the republican candidates as well as in the platform are written the story of the nation’s progress and the reliance of the future. A Democratic President or a Den> ocraXic House would turn ba'k those pages; thereafter Bfyanism’ would record “destruction.” This the Republican senate could not prevent/ Under Taft and Sherman and a Republican congress the great progress of the past will be held and the greater of the future will be assured.

Rensselaer Horses Again at the Front

The Padgitt horses were right in It again at Crawfordsville Thursday, and Bourbon Jay and Black Joe each won firsts in S3OO purses, and Turk McGlorla was second. Six of the Padgitt string of horses started during the week and five won and one was tecond. At Valparaiso Rensselaer Boy, the horse Judge Hanley sold last year, came second; and Ike Glazebrook’s Dan Patch colt, Happy New Year, came second. It was the first start the Glazebrook colt ever made and justifies the expectation that its fine bleeding had encouraged.

There will be dancing every evening at the Armory during the home coming festival. On Thursday evening of that week the crack piano and drum duet from Lassen’s Cedar Lake pavilion will be here to play the dance, which is to be strictly an Invitation affair.

Obituary of the Austin Hopkins.

William Austin Hopkins was the youngest of five sons of Mathew and Martha Hopkins, all of whom are deceased. He was born at Homer, Ohio, Aug. 2d, 1830, and died at , Rensselaer, Aug/ 26th, 1908, at the, advanced age of 78 years and 24 days. His father died when the son Austin, was but a few months old, and his mother when he was only nine years of age. He was reared by an uncle, his father’s broth- ' er, and when he reached his major- , ity he removed to Hancock county, ' Ohio. Here he was united in marriage to Miss Francis Elizabeth Cooks, March 1, 1854. In 1863 they came to Indiana and , settled on a farm in Jasper county. I In 1870 they moved to Gotland, i where the family continued to reside j for fifteen years, when in 1885, they moved to Garden City, Kansas. But ( in 1896 they returned to Indiana and settled in Rensselaer, where he continued to reside until his death.' t Five children have been born to t)iem, one son and four daughters, two of whom died in childhood in Ohio. One daughter, Miss Flora Lu- 1 ella Cook, died in Goodland, ’Sept. 14, 1885. The two remaining daughers surviving are Mrs. Will A. Thompson, | of , Sullivan, Ind., and Miss Gertrude Hopkins, of Rensselaer. Mr. ‘ Hopkins united with the Methodist church in boyhood in Ohio, ' and in early manhood in Ohio he united with the Masonic order. He maintained his membership in both the church and lodge until his death. Mr. Hopkins wag .a man esteem d by all who knew him in every community in which he has resided; quiet and unobtrusive in life, upright and honorable in all his dealings; his life was an open book and in it nothing was recorded that reflected in any way on the character of the man. His life's influence has counted for the better things in the h< me, the church and the community. He has’ gone from us, but we shall cherish his memory and’ see him again when the mists have cleared away.

Broke His Leg.

Lowell Tribune. Tuesday afternoon John Hack had the misfortune to have both bones of his left leg brokeh midway between the knee and ankle. Mr. Hack has the contract of cleaning out the Beaver Dam ditch east of St. John, and time of the accident was handling the scraper In seme manner one of the horses fell, catering his leg between it and the bank of the ditch, and in his lunging caused the fracture of Mr. Hack’s leg. After being extracted from his port ion he lay on the ditch bank for some time until a doctor at Crown Point could be summoned. Dr. Houk camqwith his auto and took him to hte office, where he and Dr. Blackstone reduced the fracture, after which Dr. Houk brought him home, arriving here about 7 p. m. We called to see Mm next morning and found him as comfortable- as could be Expected and taking it philosophically. His daughter, Mrs. Lynch, came dowA Tuesday night to assist tn taking care- of him.

Head of Bank Department.

—.- Kentland Enterpriser --- . « ===== Lawrence A. Wiles of Goodtand has been appointed, head, of the bank department in the State Auditor's office by Mr. Billheimer, State Auditor. The appointment fills the vacancy caused by the death of R. B. Oglesbee. The appointment comes as a nice compliment to Mr. Wiles. _ When the Goodland Bank went to the wall last fall Mr. Billheimer conducted an investigation under the state laws, ajid his attention, was attracted to the work of Mr. Wiles, who bad been cashier of the bank for twenty years. He found the books of the bank exceptionally well kept and that his services had been above reproach. The State Auditor gives these as his reasons for offering the place to Mr. Wiles. The office pays 32,500 a year, and Mr. Wiles entered on his duties Monday.

John Brannan Hurt.

Monon News. John Brannan met with a painful accident Saturday. He is brakeman on the freight which come from MichiI gun City, reaching here at about noon I Coming through Medaryville, he atI tempted to hang onto the side of the car ’qfhlle the train was passing iLe coal dumpa The - space between .the dumps and the moving train being too small to admit the body of a man, he was knocked from the i train after being squeezed a little way Into the opening. Fortunately and almost miraculously he escaped the wheels of the moving train. He was picked up unconscious aud brought home on No. 9. [it was feared there were internal lnlurtcs, but developed that there was nothing worse than a severe bruising and skinning, and Mr. Brannan’s period of convalescence will be comparatively short. T >- x ...

FROM OVER INDIANA

is believed to be the oldest circuit rider in ' years old,' and during his ministry 1 has traveled over large portions of f Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. = x ss John Brown, a tramp, arrested for ! vagrancy in Evanston, was found to | have 3695 in currency sewed in the ( lining of his vest. Brown said he : hailed from St Louis. He was begging on the street =X= - " Harry B. Darling, of Laporte, temporary secretary of the Indiana Fedi eratlon of Democratic clubs, has is- ' sued the official call for the state ' convention, which will be held in 1 Indianapolis Wednesday, Sept. 9, to perfect a permanent orgauMatkn. i = * “/ V The next meeting of/the Lexmgton conference of Methpdist Epidcopal [ churches will be held in North W>r- ' non next August The meeting cabmd at Shelbyville Sunday with serftefes [ at all the churches conducted by Itlie 1 visiting ministers./

I On the eve off his departureffiHbm London on a tour abroad | Ham Booth issued a long msmie-to I pleading for the equality of.Aiomen , with men and Exhorting i ber of his army to embrace wfe view and train his children to Three hundrd priests Mb Chicago went into Annual retrgraat Notre Dame university at 8:30 jgfclock last night. The d motions were in charge , of Father Ph: Hips, a mdJber of the i passionate on er from : Chicago. The i services will thke place ihfthe Church lof the Sacred peart. /■/ ! Fifteen hundred dollars will be the / amount cleared by tike Newcastla I Fair association, on thfe year’s fair. I The fair was by far th<most successful ever given tin Henw county. The profit will be appliea to the outstanding debt of the issociation, on which very litt e has Been paid. :i X =1 Women of Goshen are kept in content fright by a peepftg Tom, who for three nightsl has eluflkd th e vigilance of the police. Ti e r :sid nce streets are now patrolled by bicyc e police. Mrs. Jjfese Ben y and t! e Misses Clara affi Elizabe h Zollingtr are in a critiAtl state from fright after seeing a strange face peering in the widow. -1 =a x = Nt> v word haw been re eived from Bert Kelly, president and propritor of the Business college, who left tha£ city Aug. 7. Before leaving it has been discovered that he consulted a physician about pains in his head. Mrs. Kelly is nearly distracted and scarcely nkows what to do. She ha» decided to sell the college equipment = > = The second ward remonstrance care at Greenfield, which was decided in favor of the saloon* recently by the Hancock county commissioners, has been appealed to the circuit court by the remonstratars, who have already filed their appeal bond. The appeal bond is signed by twentyeight of the wealthiest and meet influental citizens o£ Graenfald. It is said to be the strongest bond ever filed In a civil cage in Hancock county.

TN nearly every business ■ there are many “teaks, 0 many reformabte policies ajnd ioo costly systems; but retrenchment - should take place in a hundred directions before it reaches the advertising campaign, and by the time it gets half way to that point it will cease to be so necessary? Often in business there is the wrong kind of economy. ~~ * —2!!!!- 1 ! SUL Here’s One That you can put on the top of a stove and will not burn rub off. You can get your stove red hot every day . so/ one month and STOVINK will keep it black. It is the only preparation known that will stay on red hot Iron. Give your stove one coat of STOVINK, no shining necessary, and it will stay black and in a fine condition for from 30 to 60 days. There is absolutely nothing else like it, and we guarantee every bottle. At your dealer, 25c. B. D. RHOADES. They all say it Is the beet they ever used—the new "Gem” flour. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

In the matter of the estate of Thomas H. Grant, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court September Term, 1908. ■ -< Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Thomae H. Grant, deceased, and all persons interested in said. estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 21st day of September, 1908, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of John A. Grant, executor of said decedent and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said. Court, on said day and make proof of their heir- ? ship, or claim to any part of said estate. —JOHN A. GRANT, Executor. James A. Burnham, Attorney# for Estate. a.25-s.l-8

NOTICE) OF DITCH LETTING. Notice s hereby gven that on Saturday, Sept. 12th, 1908, at 2 o’clock p. m., at the office of the County Surveyor in the court house In Rensselaer, Indiana, I will let the contract for the construction of the James E. Lamson et al ditch known as ditch cause No. 96 in .the BMuft oourt of Jasper county, > Indiana; all according to plans- and specifications on file with me in the office of Surveyor of Jasper County. The successful bidder entering into a contract will be required to give bond as provided by law. < W. WAYMIRE, Superintendent nf Construction. Aug. 24-31. NOTICE OF SALE. £ - Notice is hereby giten that Ollie M. Garriott and Barney D. Comer, as surety on his bond, has failed and refused to comply with the order of the Board of Commissioners and judgment of the Jasper Circuit Court in completing his contract for the Humes ditch, and which contract has been forfeited by the undersigned. Therefore, Notice is given of the resale of the entire line of ditch from its source-to its outlet, will take place at the Surveyor's office in the court house, in the City of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, jOn Monday, September 21, 1908, at two o’clock sharp, in tie afternoon. I reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Bidders will have to comply with the statute in such cases made and provided. This line of ditch has already been partially constructed, the tile is in the ground and partially covered, and the contract will be let Cor the placing of said tile down to the established grade line and a» per order*' of Court. In case of broken tile' the contractor will have to furnish tile of that grade and quality as per order of Court. Hence examination should be made as to the tile now in the ditchDated this 20th day of August, 1908. T FRT TF. AT.THTD , aug.24-31. Superintendent ■'.—■-Miy "rrft-r-NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES.* In the matter qf the estate pf John S. Ramey, deceased. Ln the 'Jasper Circuit Court September Term, 1908. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of John S. Ramey, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 21st day of September, 1908, being the day fixed and. endorsed on the final settlement account of Henry Grow, administrator of said decedent and show cause if any, why -final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. ■ ) . HENRY GROW, Administrator. James A. Burnham. Attorney for /Estate. a.25-a.l-8 ( NOTICE OF DITCH LETTING. ~ Notice Is hereby given that oh Saturday, Sept 12, 1908, at one o’clock p. m., at the office of the County Surveyor in the court house In Rensselaer, Indiana, I will let the contract for the construction of the Mhrgaret J. Lewis ditch, known as ditch cause No. 7012, in the Commissioners Court of Jasper county, Indiana. All according to plans and specifications on file with me in the office pf the County Surveyor in the court house In Rensselaer, Indiana, The successful bidder entering into a contract will, be required to give bond as provided by law. 'DANIEL W. WAYMIRE. Superintendent of Construction. Aug. 25- 8.1 ....... : BEE S LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP RKUIKVM OOUffiHg ANQ QQLOk