Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1908 — Page 4

THE “BREWERY COMBINE”

SluniMdnt Instance of the Force of the Liquor Octopus in the Fourth District. A LOYAL DEMOCRAT’S OPINION ' !*• When Joseph M. Cravens. Was Crowd* ed Out by the Taggart Crowd, in Furtherance of Machine's Scheme of Brewery Domination In This State, Individual Freedom Shrieked. Many Democratic newspapers of Indiana recently have been quoting lavfohly from the Indianapolis News, but foe following Is an editorial from the News that they will not find a place for. Joseph M. Cravens of Madison was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for congress from ths Fourth district. He is a man of great independence of character and is of such personal strength and popularity that he has been able to draw votes though from his Republican neighbors *t home to elect him to office when he has run in that Republican county. At this time he Is a member of the tower house of the legislature. Mr. Cravens refused, however, to be ruled by the Taggart crowd in control of the Democratic state organization, and When he sought the nomination of his party for congress, the state organization plainly told him that there was nothing for him. Seeing the futility •t his position and realizing that the Taggart crowd was too powerful in the Fourth district for him to hope to eontest the matter with them against him, Mr. Cravens withdrew from the race. In so doing he made a formal statement of his position. It was upon this statement by Mr. Cravens that the News made the following editorial oomment:

We hope that our Democratic friends lead with care the statement of Joseph M. Cravens of Madison, which was printed in the News yesterday. If they did, we are sure that they must have j folt humiliated to think that their party had fallen so low as to allow Itself to be controlled by the Taggart-Bell-Crawford Fairbanks-Albert Lieber conspiracy. It is openly charged that there was a deal between the combination and Congressman Dixon of the Fourth district, by which Dixon helped to turn the state committee over to the combine in return for the corntone’s support of Dixon for the rehomlnatlon. At any rate, the brewery ggowd does control the committee, and It is for Dixon’s renomination, having warned Cravens off the track. Here Is what Mr. Cravens says of the matfort —T———-.. ■ "A peculiar and unfortunate condition exists in this district and in the state of Indiana. The party machinery has been in the hands of one and the same set of men for many years, and the Democratic masses have lost confi deuce in them. It has been claimed, and never disproved, that they were closely allied with certain special interests, notably the .. liquor interests. I am making no , charges against these men, for I have the kindliest feelings for them personally, but I do know ’ that the Influence of jttte state, jqrganization within the. district, as well as every brewery and saloon Influence that reaches the district, are earnestly and unitedly opposed to my candidacy at this time, and have served notice on me that I shall not be nominated. • • • We cannot hope to carry the state of Indiana unless we take a bold and unmistakable stand upon certain questions. We must rid the party of even the least appearance of brewery domination.”

Incidentally It may ba remarked that though Mr. Cravens la for local option ho la clear of his opinion that "there Mould be no weakening of the present laws on the liquor question,” but that, “On the contrary, they should be made stronger, and if local option will interfere with them, do away with the local option idea.” Such, then, la the case submitted Mr. Cravens, an orthodox and loyal Democrat He could not run for conS>wm simply because the gang would feet permit it, and he felt that to make d fight would so weaken the party as !• make Its defeat In the Fourth district altogether probable. How far, We ask, Is this dictation to go? The Taggarts, Bells, Crawford Fairbankses and Albert Liebers have been twite used to telling us whom we Mould elect to the legislatures, what men we should choose as mayors and

Whom we should send to city councils. Now they are picking out congressional candidates for yra. Next they will demand to be heard In the matter of electing senators and presidents, and when they get these they will be able to control the appointment of judges. Really, we think our Democratic brethren ought to wake up to the peril that confronts their party, the supposed party of the people. Can a party that Is controlled by Taggart and his associates, controlled absolutely by the liquor Interests, controlled, Indeed, by any group of men, be really the party of the people? This Is the question that Is raised by Mr. Cravens’s experience and by that of every man who has antagonized the liquor crowd that has for years sought, and still seeks, to use the Democratic party simply as an agent to accomplish its selfish and corrupt purposes. These men have no interest whatever in the party except as they are able to make it work their will. The only issue in which they are interested Is the liquor issue, and on that they are opposed to the will of the people. Anything that these men —Taggart, Bell, Crawford Fairbanks

and Albert Lieber —advocate in the way of liquor legislation will be a mighty good thing for the people and the Democratic party to leave alone. "The party machinery in this state has,” as Mr. Cravens says, “been in the hands of one and the same set of men for many years, and the Democratic masses have lost confidence in them.” We should say that that is a mild and conservative statement of the case. The fight now on Is between the Democratic party and a little ring of sefish politicians and brewers and asloon men who want to use it to widen the market for liquor. It Is for the Democratic voters of Indiana to say who shall win.

ONE TRUTHFUL WORD

Hearst says there is no Democratic party any more. He is right in saying "there is only a Bryan party, and the followers of that party don’t know when they go to bed at night what they will be called upon to believe when they awake in the morning.” The Iroquois Club of San Francisco has asked Hearst to resign from its membership, and he expresses pleasure on receipt of the request. Then he talks to his fellow-members of that Democratic organization, which his father, the late Senator Hearst, founded; and was once its most prominent, member. He says: “You imply that I am not a Democrat, and I strongly suspect that I am not, according to Democratic standards of today. You imply further that you are Democrats, and I cannot help wondering what kind of Democrats you think you art. Are you 1892 Democrats or 189§J#emocrats or 1900 Democrats or 1904 Democrats or are you 1808 Democrats? Are you Cleveland Democrats, believing in tariff reform that we did not get, and the suppression of labor unions, that we did get? “Are you Parker Democrats, supporting the trusts if they contribute and opposing them if they don’t? Are you Bryan Democrats, believing in free silver sometimes and government in, the initiative and referendum sometimes? If you are Bryan Democrats, do you also believe in a Bryan platform that contains none of these things?”

WE HAVE GROWN.

The Republican party of today is not the Republican party of Lincoln’s day, says Thomas Riley Marshall, the Democratic candidate for governor. What a sapient remark, how erudite! Is Tom Marshall the same man today he was flve-and-forty years Ago? Parties grow like men. The grown man is not what he was in youth or adolescence. We boast of our growth as a party. We revere its leaders of the long ago. We follow their principles, act on their maxims and adapt them to our changed needs, but our methods of today must needs be different from theirs as our problems are different.

The Democratic party of today Is riot the party of Jefferson, not by a long sight, and the relterant references to that good gentleman and bls beliefs by Bryan or Kern or Marshall make us smile. Far Indeed from Jefferaonlsm la Bryanism, which even shows no trace of kinship with the telling Democracy of Samuel J. Tilden and Grover i Cleveland. The Republican party, however, Is doing things today just as It did In Lincoln’s day, In Grant’s, 1 tn Harrison’s, in McKinley’s, and all actions are Inspired with earnest ! Intent to do the people's will. That is how the people rule. Can Tom Mar-

IF BRYAN WERE PRESIDENT

Bryan's appearance in Indiana last week renewed the excuse of some of his faint-hearted supporters this year that his election could not hurt the country because any fad he might futther in the White House would be blocked by the Republican senate. This excuse is not plausible. And surely the people will not approve of presenting him with the presidency and its $200,000 salary, excluding perquisites, on the pretext that he could do no harm. But that apart. Bryan as president could do much harm, passively as well as actively. His election would affect general industry injuriously. Creating distrust, it would keep idle the mills now idle and tend to shut down factories all over the country now running. Bryan is still a disturbing factor, political and commercial. Business would not be crippled for years by his election. Business can get in harmony with its environment, even when that is restrictive, but for at least one-fourth and maybe one-half of his term it would be crippled by the lack of confidence in the Immediate future. While it halted the whole land would suffer, farmers as well as factory workers. But that is not the only argument against even the "new Bryan.” True, the Republican senate would block any vicious or unworthy legislation emanating from a presidential message. If such blocking were entirely successful, one can realize quickly that national legislation, except the routine and comparatively trivial, would be barred for four years. That is not a pleasing prospect. The homilies and hysterical harangues that Bryan would empty on congress for popular consumption would not satisfy a people yearning for a continuance of the federal policies of the past five years. His discourses and diatribes— Bryan can be a scold as well as a preacher would disturb trade and giVe , ’W a bad name, lessening our credit, among the nations. Our gold reserve would dwindle to the vanishing point, and Instead of maintaining the gold standard, by which we live and move and have our being, national and international, Bryan would surely quote the word "coin” In the statute and pay interest on the nation’s bonded indebtedness In the probable emergency in silver. That would be a disaster the land would not recover from In many years. It Is not impossible, eyen if no sign of it appears on the national horizon today. Prevention la a vlrtue. The evll can be prevented on election day. But there is more. Bryan really has become a high federalist He may and would deny that, naturally, but he halls the crescent power of the chief magistracy and would extend It and use it to such limit as he could. By the president’s direction near a billion dollars a year has now to be spent in the national government That needs a sagacious financier. Without an income tax no "tariff for revenue only" can be made that would be less than the import taxation necessary now. Last year’s and this year’s export trade is far above any known in our history before. Our national deficit of the past fiscal year is the result of decreases in our import and internal world is at ebb this year, governed by laws that are not political in the partisan sense. That income tax is a constant panacea of Bryan. During the coming four years four vacancies on the supreme oourt bench will have to be filled. Do the people think of that and, thinking, do they realize how Bryan, if president, would fill them? There are also legislatures to elect this fall that will have United States senators to name. Indiana is interested here. This state of ours has a special local issue this year and all others should be secondary to it in the minds of Indiana voters. If the Republican party be successful, as it should be, our representation in the United States senate will not be divided and James Alexander Hemenway will be one of the body to guard the nation against Bryan’s vagaries. That is, if Bryan be elected president He won’t be, but it Is not uninteresting,to think that he might and probably would do in the office, and that is why the thoughts here are presented*

NOTiCE TO VOTERS. Do not’move from one township to another after September 4th, or you will lose your vote. Nor from one preolnct to another after October 3rd, or you will loee your vote.

Commissioners Allowances.

Following are the allowances made by the Board bf Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, at the regular September term, 1908: J. N. Leatherman, sal Co. Aud_ss7s.oo J. N. Leatherman, ex Aud ot_ 1.75 Elliott-Fisher Co, ex Aud of__ 1.20 C. C. Warner, sal Co Clerkß7s.oo Jasper Co Tel Co, phone Clerk’s office Rem. Typew. Co., typew Clerk’s officeloo.oo Burt-Terry-Wllson Co., sup. Clerk 25.00 Same, same2o.oo John W. Tilton, sal Recorder_42s.oo Healey & Clark, sup. Recorder 3.25 Abraham Halleck, sal Co. Attorney -100.00 John Q. Lewis, sal Co. Afsessor_lso.oo Myrt B. Price, Sur. per diem. 21.50 Nettie Price, Sur. per diemso.oo Ernest Lamson, per diem Co. Supt. F. E. Babcock, sup. Co. Supt__ 3.25 Ernest Lamson, same „ 72.00 E. R. Hopkins, jan. Teachers’ ex. B.oo* John O’Connor, Sheriff’s 5a1—.35000 W. H. Eger Estate, sup and 1 Jail G. E. Murray Co., sup Co. jail .72 John O’Connor, boarding prls. 4.40 Same notices to trustees 8.50 Same, same to Viewers— 14.15 C. G. Spitler, ex Com. Court— 2.50 Dan. E. Fairchild, same 4.00 W. H. Timmons, same 1.50 Chas. Morlan, jan. court house. 45.00 Eger Bros., sup. C. H 17.86 City of Rensselaer, sup. C. H.„ .55 Same, lights jail 15.66 Same, water O. H. ... 10.32 A. J. Warren Brush Co., sup.,

C. H. 4.C0 P. W. Clarke, ex C. H 3.50. West Dininfecting Co., ex C. H. 8.75 Chas. Morlan, ex C. H 1.30 J. L. Griggs, mowing C. H. lawn 8.00 O. S. Baker, ex Co. lot .75 Jesse Nichols, sal Supt. Co. F.-175.00 John Parkinson, sup Co. Farm— 12.60 Eger Bros, same 12.68 G. B. Porter, same29.9o E. D. Rhoades, sameß.6o J. C. Gwin, samelo.79 H. F. King, same 6.70 J. A. Larsh, same 3.60 Maines & Hamilton, same 22.60 Roth Bros., samel9.oo Bessie Markin, labor Co. F.__ 2.00 Estle Markin, same 7.08 J. E. Cooper, same-26.00 Lester Brown, same—— 6 88 Grace Grant, samelo.oo Bernice Brown, same 2.50 Guy Ropp, same 2.50 Samuel Hoshaw, same 1.25 Jasper Co. Tel. Co., ’p. same— 600 Bert Overton, rep. Co. F. 5.00 Hiram Day, same Ernest Morlan, ex. same2B.24 James W. McEwen, pub. prtg. 4.00 F. E. Babcock, same 21.55 Healey & Clark, same 22.60 John L. Hall, bounty, fox— 8.00 Roy Harrington, same, wolflo 00 Pan-American Bridge Co., bridge

Wheatfield tp. -990.00 Winamac Bridge jDo., new b—695.00 Same, bridge repair ————l4 00 Indiana Childrens Home Society expense children 3150 J. D. Allman, treas.Asst.Evers d 34.00 M. B. Price, SuptAsst.Norman d 40.00 J. A. Hanaway, rep. G.RJst dis 7.50 Chas. Lokotsky, same 7.50 Charles Gilmore, same 2.25 Luther Frame, same 4.50 Lee Story, same 375 William Shlrer, same;l7.oo John Shirer, same 14.50 Omer Waymire, rep G.R.2d dis 26.35 Ward Yeagley, same 22.00 Clint Brown, same Wm. H. Daugherty, same2B.2s O. H. Yeoman, same 12.25 Ezra Wplfe, same ' .4.WMilton Michaels, same 27.25 Willard Tanner, same 28.25 Harry Magee, same 121.50 Judson L. Adams, same26.oo Arthur Waymire, same 31.50 A. Woodworth, same 46.50 Al Fletcher, same 3L50 C. H. Dayton, same 7.00 Horace Daniels, same 22.50 Ray Adams, same 24.00 Charles Cain, same 73.50 Tilman Watson, same 3.00 Henry Luers, same 4.00 W. B. Walters, same 21.50 Clint Brown, same 7.40 B. F. Goldsberry, same Roy Stiller, same 8.00 John Smallfelt, same 8.00 Edwin Goldsberry, same 3.00 Mat Zimmer, same 9.00 Frank Murray,, same 1.50 Harry Cochran, same - 6.60 Chas. E. Bartee, same G.R.Bd d 14.04 W. H. Cheadle, trus., rep r I g r 92 83 Casparis Stone Co., re G.R.3d d 15.108.90 D. T. Crease, sames4.os W. S. Day, Const Knowlton SR 96.00 J. L. S. Gray, same 70.00 L. A. Bostwick, same— 15.00 Fay Clarke, Ibr Knowlton S. R. 4.50 Lonzo Haley, same— 4.50 J. D. Allman, treas, int. same 8. R. bonds Jacob A. Hensler, Const OttS R. 75.00 Leslie Alter, const Iroquois d— 16 50 Myrt B. Price, same-- 3.50 J. D. Allman, treas, Hazlet d. b. 96.60 Same, int. Iroquois ditch —— 55 00 JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper Counfy.

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Classified Column. WANTED. . WANTED—To buy or hire a small steam dredge. Address Israelite House of David, Benton Harbor, Mich. Nov.s FOR SALE. FOR SALE—One coal and one wood heating stove. Call at Republican office. : —* r——; ; n... FOR SALE—One good as new refreshment tent, hinged counters, frame, poles, everything complete. Sell cheap. Telephone 132 or see Fred A. King. s.lO-lwpd FOR SALE—One hard-coal burner. Call here. ' *. FOR SALE—2S acres of land, five miles northwest of Rensselaer, in Newton topnship. This is a choice piece of land, Improved, located near head of Iroquois dredge, and a barain at $75 per acre cash price. For full particulars write to Mrs. J. G. Gibbon, Lewisville, Alberta, Canada. 7Sep.tf. ..

FOR SALE —200 bushels of blue stem seed wheat at $1 a bushel. Phone 5181 Chas. W. Reed, R. D. Na L

FOR SALE —125 cords of wood. First class, 4 foot length. Delivered any place in the city. C. Kellner, phone 64.

FOR SALE —Pure bred Shorthorn bulls; one excellent 2-year old and two yearlings. Jesse Eldredge, Phone tq. ; tl

FOR SALE—Excellent farm of 820 acres for sale, 3 miles from Park River, Walsh county, N. Dak., a city of 1,600 inhabitants. 280 acres of this farm under cultivation, nearly as level as a floor, deep, heavy black loam soil, the very best that can be found in the entire Red River Valley of N. Dak. Small set of buillT Ings,excellent community, near school, rural delivery, and rural telephone, price $30.00 per acre, suitable terms. Have other farms also for sale and rent. Address, J. P. Johnson, Park River, N. Dak.

FOUND. F O U N D —Box of Eastman’s photo plates. Inquire here. F 6 U N D—Bicycle, near Christian church, about a month ago. Same may be had by applying at Republican office and paying expenses. ■LOST, - LOST—A child’s signet ring, with the letter V. engraved thereon. Return to Mrs. Frank Kresler. LOST—Wednesday of last week, a gold band bracelet. Reward. Leave at this office or notify John Richmond, phone 520 A. LOST—Home coming week, a ladies’ black cape, probably in or near town. Finder bring to this office. 5.16 LOST—Girl’s light cloth jacket, beween depot and town. Return to lire. Korah Daniels or to the Republican office. LOST —Gold watch, large size. Re■vard. D. M. Worland. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms near school house.-K. L, Clark. —- -- FOR RENT —Farms; possession given in fall or spring. S. P. Thompson, phone 37. ts

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62 acres on free mail route, school on the place, three miles of good town with all kinds of business. Bank, churches and high school. 50 acres in cultivation, 12 acres timber. Will sell as a whole or will divide into smaller pieces and sell on easy payments at the low price of S2O, Horses or cattle taken as first payment 40 acres of unimproved land on main road, two miles to station, half mile to school, mostly timberland. Will take cattle or horses as part payment and will sell any part da* sired at the low price of sls per acre. 80 acres, 12 miles of court bouse, 60 acres black land in cultivation, 25 acres pasture, fair holdings, young —orchaid, g6od well, gravel road and in good neighborhood. Only $35. Terms S7OO down, remainder good time at 5 per Cent Will accept live stock as first payment 14 acre tract suitable for chicken farm, near station on main road in Dearborn County, Indiana. 40 miles of Cincinnati. Will trade. Good lots or small property consdered. We have mortgage notes and good clear property to trade for land. For quick results list your bargains with us. Also have a bargain in 280 acres described in another column in this paper. Office opposite State Bank. G. F. MEYERS.

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