Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1908 — Page 2

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REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For President I WILLIAM H. TAFT. . —o— — For Vice-President, > JAMES S. SHERMAN. > —o ■ For Governor, JAMES E. WATSON, , —_oL For Lieutenant-Governor, FREMONT GOODWINE. ——o- . i For State Senator, > ABRAHAM HALLECK. • o— — > For State Representative, I JOHN G. BROWN. i .. o J > For Congress, 10th Congressional I District, i EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER. i o i For Judge 30th Judicial Circuit, CHARLES W. HANLEY. For Prosecuting Attorney 30th Judicial Circuit, FRED W. LONGWELL. , ; o— — > For Treasurer, JESSE D. ALLMAN. I For Recorder. > JOHN 11. TILTON. For Sheriff, • LEWIS P. SHIRER. ‘ For Surveyor, W. FRANK OSBORNE. I For Coroner, WILLIS J. WRIGHT. . For Commissioner Ist Diet, JOHN F. PETTET. For Commissioner 3rd Dist, CHARLES T. DENHAM. o ' MARION TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, < H. E. PARKINSON. For Assessor, < GEORGE SCOTT. For Justice of the Peace, I PHILIP BLUE. o BARKLEY TWP. TICKET. For Trustee, WILLIAM FOLGER. For Assessor, CHAS. REED. oWALKER TOWNSHIP. /For Trustee, FRED KARCH. For Assessor, HENRY MEYERS. I ... - Q., , I HANING GROVE TOWNSHIP > TICKET. i For Trustee, GEORGE PARKER. For Assessor, J. P.‘ GWIN. o JORDAN TOWNSHIP TICKET. ! —— i- For Trustee, A J. McCASHEN. For Assessor. I JAMES BULLIS. I —o • WHEATFIELD TWP. TICKET. I For Trustee, M. J. DELEHANTY. i For Assessor, i A. S. KEEN. i o KEENER TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, TUNIS SNIP. For Assessor, > C. E. FAIRCHILD. i o UNION TOWNSHIP. I For Trustee, JAMES L. BABCOCK. For Assessor, GEO. E. MeCOLLY. I GILLAM TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, M. W. COPPEBS. For Assessor, I JAMES RODGERS.

A PAYING INVESTMENT.

John White, of 38 Highland Ave., Houston, Maine, days: "Have been troubled with a cough every winter and spring. Last winter I tried many advertised remedies, but the cough continued until I bought a 50c. bottle of Dr. King’s new Discovery. Before that was half gone, the cough was all gone. This winter the same happy re suit has followed a few doses once more banished the annual cough. I am now convinced that Dr. King's New Discovery Is the best of all cough and lung remedies." Sold under guarantee at A. F. Long’s. drag store Ma and |LOO. Trial bottle free.

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INDEPENDENT VIEW

Springfield Republican Compares Candidates and Endorses Taft. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican Is the greatest independent newspaper in the country. It endorses candidates that have proved true and made good and supports measures that are for the welfare of the republic. In a twocolumn announcement it compares the records and fitness of the candidates and concludes as follows: The Republican accepts Judge Taft as the best exponent of the national purpose to enlarge within the republic the dominance of genuine democracy, and believes that he will look to that end with ffked resolution and purpose unchanged by the blandishments of the reactionaries. The national conventions of the year—all of them — have registered the determination of the American people to make special privilege subordinate to the public welfare. To that doctrine Judge Taft is pledged, no less than Mr. Bryan o'r Mr. Hisgen. Beyond these two, Judge Taft seems fitted by experience and temperament to make the popular will effective, so far as it lies within the power of the Executive to do this. “Experience and temperament” and especially the former. In point of administrative experience in statesmanship, and of demonstrated large ability in such statesmanship, there is absolutely no comparison between Mr. : Taft and Mr. Bryan.

Why? Because in that field Mr. Bryan’s ability is an entirely unknown and conjectured quantity. Mr. Bryan is an orator and a theorist. He may possibly be a statesman; but whether he is that or not nobody knows. He has never been in the slightest degree tried out in that capacity.. Would it be the part of wisdom to put Mr. Bryan in the presidency on the bare assumption that he might prove to have executive ability if given a chance to show what he can do ? Would it be compatible with American common sense to take any such chances? We are not denying Mr. Bryan’s good intentions; his amicable personality; the sweetness of his smile; his purity of character; his mental and lingual gifts. What we say is that in the field of practical administration, of executive responsibility, in a word, of statesmanship, he has never been tried in any large executive capacity whatever.

There is a homely old proverb about the folly of “buying a pig in a poke.” It fits to a “T” this proposed folly of taking Mr. Bryan’s statesmanship entirely on trust and for granted by making him president.

As for Mr. Taft as an administrator and statesman in high office, there the record speaks eloquently for itself. It forms the best and most conclusive eulogy of the Republican candidate for president.

ONE DEMOCRAT DECLARES HIMSELF.

Over in Muncie, the Democratic candidate for file legislature from Delaware county has notified his party’s committee that if elected he will vote with the Republicans for county local option while maintaining his standing as a Democrat on'other questions. Mr. Higman says he is willing to retire from the ticket if the committee so desire. He wished to give fair notice long before election of what he would do if elected, and that is admirable. The committee is in a piokler Higman is popular and a candidate strong in his constituency,. If elected, he will do as he says. If asked to retire from the running, the effect will be a walkover for the Republicans in Delaware county and in neighboring counties. Higman is no Prohibitionist, but a Democrat. Like thousands of other Democrats in Indiana, he will not wear the brewery collar. We wish we could quote some of our friends on the Pro hlbltion legislative ticket as declaring, like him, that they will vote for county local option, the best temperance measure devised as practicable in this decade.

CARELESS OF HIS FACTS.

“It is passing strange that in a republic like this there should be occasion for the discussion of this question”—Shall the people rule? That is what John Kern said In his speeob in Indianapolis last week. There Is no reason for discussing It It Is a campaign catch-phrase of Bryan. The people do rule, as Bryan knows very well to hie woe.

Kern is right in saying that "if the will of the people once known Is not given effect, theq the people do not rule,’’ but he falls to give any specific Instance where the general will of the people has been overriden by the oon-

great. Be says that ad people called for removal of the tariff duty On paper and wood pulp and called In Vain. Thia Is nonsense. He eays the paper trust has levied “millions of tribute on newspapers and their readers." That is campaign platform blather. Newspaper proprietors have had to pay much higher prices for their white paper the past year tnan they used to. The reading public paid no more for its daily or weekly paper and is not bothering itself about the paper and wood-pulp tariff. That tariff, amounting to $6 a ton, was placed on the material by the Democratic congress of which Bryan was a member. It was the WilsonGorman tariff of mournful memory, but the Republicans left the paper tax untouched. The paper trust advanced prices last year and the tariff had nothing to do with their action any more than the tax on imported cattle affects the price of beef to consumer. Kern is careless of his facts.

THE GUARANTY NOTION.

In Bryan’s novelty store this season the guaranty of bank deposits Is displayed on the front counter In the best light to attract the political shoppers, those of the Western country especially. It looks well to them and they seem willing to try it out there, taking its wearing quality on faith. It is not all that it seems, and we doubt If It will wash. Wildcat bankers may boost it and encourage its sale. They think It would be a boon to them as an aid in speculation; it would. The goods were woven on the loom of socialism, and we are sure that Indiana’s Democratic candidate for governor is pained to look on the broad stripe of paternalism that runs the length of the web. But it is Bryan’s favorite. Bryan’s speech delivered in Topeka on Thursday evening gives proof that the smooth speaker has not cast off his old demagogic trickery. He is our aptlst and most plausible Autolycus of the day, prince of peddlers of political notions. In an Oklahoma bank failure the depositors were paid their money promptly. He has a picture on the other side. A bank? No. He calls it one, % but it was only an Italian “banker,” trusted with the cash of many of his poor compatriots in Cleveland, who skipped and left his deluded “depositors” holding their empty banks. And that common thievery he holds up as proof of the need of guaranteeing deposits in banks! Can he never be fair in argument? Is it an instinct with' him to fool most of his hearers and readers most of the time? Some big banks of New York that closed their dtsors last winter long ago paid all depositors calling for their cash and are open and running again. Bryan did not mention this fact in Topeka. In choosing Kansas for the opening display of his latest novelty, he chose shrewdly. In the new state south of it there is a state guaranty law and banks in Kansas are finding that their smaller depositors, attracted by the glare, are withdrawing their cash and sending it over the border to Oklahoma This is natural and nd'pfddf of th e solid efficacy of the new nostrum. Let the Kansas banks raise their interest rate one point above Oklahom’s and back the cash will come. We are getting to be quite a big country and temporary sectional Interests should not be confounded with permanent national needs. The Republican party calls for the establishment of postal sayings. banks. They are designed mainly to induce the foreign-born population to save money and make something by saving it With the banking habit acquired, it is expected that they will gain confidence in our national and state banks and do as their American neighbors do. The postal savings bauk is not meant to compete with or usurp the place of the savings bank as now known and appreciated. It is put forward as a kindergarten aid to education of the people who save in the use of the regular banks. But, hollow ah Bryan’s copied cry for guaranty of bank deposits is, it will have its hurrah. If the plan were realized, interest rates would fall promptly and the speculative spirits of bankers who fish In streams without the pale of present banking laws would rise. The honest banker would have to pay, which means that depositors in honestly conducted banks would have to pay.

Talklng of "tariff reform,” a Democratic newspaper of Indianapolis says it would approve the project more ardently if it could think that it would reduce the prloe of beef and all farm products. The statement Is very Democratic. Of the farmers it says: “Hanged If we like to see them got all the money, while the rest of ns are living on ’wind pudding."*

TRAVELING MAN’S EXPERIENCE.

“I must tell you my experience on an east bound O. R. fc N. R. R. train from Pendleton to LeGrande, Ore., writes Sam A Garber, a well known traveling man. “I was in the smoking department with some other traveling men when one of them went out into the coach and came back and said, “There is a woman sicx unto death in the car. I at once got up and went out, found her very ill with cramp colic; her hands and arms were drawn up so you could not straighten them, and with a deathlike look on her face. Two or three ladies were working with her and giving her whiskey. I went to my suit case and got my bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy (I never travel without it), ran to the water tank, put a double dose of the medicine in the glass, poured some water into it and stirred it with a pencil; then I had quite a time to get the ladies to let me give it to her, but I succeeded. I could at once see the effect and I worked with her, rubbing her hands, and in twenty minutes I gave her another dose. By this time we were almost into Le Grande, where I was to leave the train. I gave the bottle to the husband to be used In case another dose should be needed, but by the time the train ran Into Le Grande she was all right, and I received the thanks of every passenger in the car.” For sale by B. F. Feinlig. c

Though the gentleman who shot at Dreyfuslsm and hit the major in the wrist was acquitted, he at least ought to have been reprimanded for his poor alm.

FOR A SPRAINED ANKLE.

A sprained ankle may be cured in about one-third the time usually required, by applying Chamberlain’s Liniment freely, and giving it absolute rest Sold by B. F. Fendig. c

Do not be discouraged by numerous past failures. The weather bureau is bound to hit it sooner or later; so take some cheer from Its repeated prediction that there are to be abundant rains where they are needed this week. •

Bees Laxative Cough Syrup always brings quick relief to coughs, colds, hoarseness, whooping-cough and all bronchial and throat trouble. Mothers especially recommend it for children. Pleasant to take, gently laxative. Sold by B. F. Fendig. nv

Perhaps by deferring the Cuban election until November 14th, eleven days after our own, Governor Magoon is giving the Cubans a chance to see how not to do it.

GOOD FOR BILIOUSNESS.

"I took two of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets last night, and I feel fifty per cent better than I have for weeks, says J. J. Firestone, of Allegan, Mich. “They are certainly a fine article for biliousness.” For sale by B. F. Fendlg. Samples free. c

Romance is the thing we fall from when we come to the abyss between what it costs to live and what salary we draw.

DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is recommended as the, beat thing to use for piles. It is, of course good for anything where a salve Is needed. Beware of imitations. Sold by B. F. Fendig.

Kansas City, having abandoned its Sunday closing movement, the place once more seems homelike to the old residents.

Kodol will, in a very short time, enable the stomach to do the work it should do, and the work it should do is to digest all the food you eat When the stomach can’t do it Kodol does it for it and in the meantime the stomach is getting stronger and able to take up its regular natural work again. Kodol digests all you eat. It makes the stomach sweet and it is pleasant to take. It is sold here by B. F. Fendig.

As it is generally understood, the "extreme radicals” and the "bigoted conservatives” are the fellows who do not think as we do.

When you have a cold you may be sure that it has been caused indirectly by constipation and Consequently you must first of all take something to move the boweln This is what has made Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup so successful and so generally demanded. It does not constipate like most of the old fashioned cough cures, but on the other hand it gently moves the bowels and at the same time heals irritation and allays Inflammation of the throat Sold by B. F. Fendig.

And now the Australians want to entertain a British fleet as big as ours. Seems as if those people just like to burn electric lights, etc.,' all night If you are a sufferer from piles, Man Zan Pile Remedy will bring relief with the first application. Guaranteed. Price 50c. Sold by B F. Fendig. / - nv.

MAHOGANY IN NEGRO CABINS.

But Collectors In Georgia Now Have to Take to the Swamps to Find It Several at the curio shops in Savannah are kept by colored men. They have attained considerable sagacity in the purchase of antiquities, especially of old mahogany furniture, and they talk as glibly of Sheraton, Chippendale and Colonial styles, inljy and veneer, as their white competitors. “Where do you reckon I find most of the old mahogany?” asked one of these dealers pausing in. the work of preparing a Queen Anne bedstead for the polish. "In the negro cabins. Not the shanties in or near Savannah, nor those on the main traveled roads. All that furniture was picked up long ago. - “Now we have to take to the swamps to find it. I frequently leave my wife in charge of the shop while I go off on a collecting trip for several days. 1 walk across the woods and fields, and find a little old shanty somewhere off in a pine clearing, where the children may have but one garment apiece and sleep every night in a mahogany bed. . ■ “Once I happened at such a cabin

juAt in time to keep a clawfoot bedstead from destruction. It was a chilly evening in spring, there was no firewood at hand, and the man of the house was just taking one of the posts of a splendid Colonial bed. which was in disuse in a shed, to the chopping block. A moment later it would have been on top Of the crackling, fat, pine kindlings in the smoky fireplace. “Ttle darkies know nothing of the value of mahogany. It came to them from their friends or the plantation owners who put it away for newer pieces of walnut and maple. It went out of fashion and bo into the attics or the quarters, though the servants came into possession of most of it when the old homes were broken up after the war. “Any of the generation of negroes would rather have an up-to-date dresser of pine wood brightly varnished or a white iron bedstead. I have sometimes exchanged new furniture with them for the old pieces which collectors prize. That is always very satisfactory to the darkey, although a dollar or two of ready money will buy anything in his house. "That is why the negro can secure the real old stuff down here better than a white man. He understands the manners of the cabin and can live with the people. Even if a white man succeeds in finding them in the marshes, the darkies would be distrustful and not likely to show him hospitality. “It amuses me to see collectors from the North come down here, hire a carriage or a machine and dash out on the country roads after old furniture and other curios. All that territory has been covered long ago. “Indeed, although Savannah is full of old mahognay, silver and porcelain, there is very little of it for sale, and what there is owners know how to value. I count, however, that I mak< about 700 per cent, on the pieces that I pick up in the negro cabins in the interior.”

The King's Speech.

A Lord Chancellor has been known to deliver the King’s speech much more effectively than hte sovereign could have done. On the other hand, George 111, on one occasion, told Lord Chancellor Eldon that he (the King) had made something out of nothing by the way he spoke it The speech that made the most noise, perhaps, was that provided for the 23d of June, 1831. The House of Lords was so full that the then Marquis of- Larsdowne “was afraid your Majesty won’t be able to see the Commons.” “Never mind,” the King of that day said, “they shall hear me, anyhow.” And he “thundered out the speech so that not a word of It was lost” The scramble from the Commons to the Lords to hear- the Royal -speech has become an established feature of the opening. So great was the crush on the occasion when Queen Victoria opened Parliament that Joseph Hume neither saw her Majesty nor heard her voice, although he was within touch of tat speaker. “I was knocked against a corner,” he said, “my, head being knocked against a post, and I might have been much injured if a stout member had not come to my assistance.” Dickens, who was present on a similar occasion a few years later, sadd that the speaker answered the .Royal summons like a schoolmaster with a mob of unmannerly boys at his heels; “He is propelled to the bar of the' House with the frantic fear of being knocked down and trampled upon by the rush of M. P.’s.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

Great Men Have Been Erect.

The first object of physical methods should be to straighten and expand the body. The world may, In a broad, general way, be divided Into two great classes —the erect and the Inerect, the strong and the weak. The epoch makers, the Cromwells, Luther, Napoleons, Wellingtons, Washingtons and WebSters have been men marked by a straight spine and a broad, high, deep Chest The mastered millions, the defeated ones, have been inerect—Out* Ing; —r— —------

An exchange says Limburger Is a sure cure for smallpox. Oh, well, smallpox isn't so bad. —Memphis Appeal.

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