Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1908 — Page 6

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN Mill AHD SEII-WEEKLT Tk* FrMty issue Is the Reanler Weekly Edition. SUBSORIFTION HAT IS DAILY, BYT CARRIER, lO CENTS A WEEK BY HAIL, $3,76 A YEAR BBMI-WHKKI.Y? in Aiiv.k i, YEAR $1.60 HEALEY & CLARK, ■ PUBLISHERS Eatartd at the Pottoffice at Ranaaalaar, Indiana j aa Second-Clats Matter.

Offical Vote Announced.

The total popular vote of the various presidential candidates at the last national election was made known Tuesday in an official form by the filing of the last of the official votes, that of Michigan. The totals show the following votes cast: Taft (republican) 7,637,676 Bryan (democrat) 6,393,182 Debs (socialist) 447,651 Chafln (prohib) 241,2,8 Hisgen (ind) 83,186 j . Watson (pop) 33,871 1 Gillhaus (soc labor) 15,421 Total for all -.14,852,239 President Roosevelt is the subject of a scathing article in the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer’s paper, replying to the president’s chastizement of Pulitzer in a special message to congress relating to the alleged Panama canal scandal. The president charges Pulitzer with having wontonly made false charges against the administration, against Chas. P. Taft and Douglas Robinson, in relation to the canal deal, and threatens prosecuion if there is any way to get at the offending newspaper through the federal department of justice. Pulitzer assumes that Roosevelt is trying to muzzle the World and refuses to be quieted. We believe the World to be guilty of bolstering up a sentiment of doubt in the honesty of the president, and having no proof to substantiate it, -of having published many slanderous statements, in the way of rumors, with an effort to damage the president. It is a case of yellow journalism, where there was no basis for the charges but where designing writers have persistently done all in their power to create doubt with the people. And no honest man, whether president of the United States or private citizen could pass the charges unnoticed. Probably the most effective thing the president can do Is to authorize the most searching investigation by congress of the Panama canal purchase. It is impossible to quell the destructive determination of the World or to procure from papeis of that character fair and impartial treatment. Pulitzer hides behind the claim that the president would only curtail false, slanderous and liberous articles published for sensational purposes, when the publisher could ascertain their falsity by investigation. Cassius H. Barnard, living a mile from Westville, was struck in the right eye Tuesday morning by a piece of wood from a board which Ije was splitting, preparatory to killing hoga The injury, which is quite a serious one, necessitated his being take n to the Holy Family hospital at Laporte. Mike Finn was refused a liquor license at Huntington, because it was shown that he conducted a disorderly house. J. E. Nor ton was refused because he had his application published in a daily instead of a weekly publication as is required by law.

Gophers Good Eating.

Experts of the Department of Agriculture have discovered that tie pocket gopher, the depredations cf which cost the farmers and fruit growers of this country $12,000,000 annually, is good eating. The flesh, when properly prepared for the table, is said to be delicious, rivaling quail in flavor. With the price of beef and all foodstuffs balconing in value, there is a fortune in store for the man who converts the Americans lpto a nation of gopher eaters. .The opportunity is ripe, and gopher s'eaks, cutlets and spare ribs may yet solve the housekeeper’s problem.

MARKED FOR DEATH. “Three years ago I was marked for deuth. A grave-yard cough was tearing my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed to help me, and hope had fled, when my husband got Dr. King’s New Discovery,” says Mrs. A. C. Williams, of Ilac, Ky. "The first dose helped me and Improvement kept on until I had gained 58 pounds in weight and my health was fully restored.” This medicine holds the world’s healing record for coughs and oolds and lung and throat diseases. It prevents pneumonia. Sold under guar* antes at A. F. Long’s drug store. 60c. and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. ■ e saddest thiug about the life tit, ministers to no one is that it er knows what it has missed.

PROMISES MUST ALL BE FULFILLED

Platform Pledges Must be Carried Out Says Roy Blue In An After-Election Discussion of Politics.

Inasmuch as Judge Thompson, Logan Wood, and others have established a precedent in setting out their views on questions of politics, I present the following observations for the consideration of the readers of the Republican. The election being over, undue enthusiasm for party success has greatly subsided; and partisanship or political bias has lost much of its keeness. For that reason this is the very best time for political discussion. Men can now look at political questions from the standpoint of loyal citizens, looking to the welfare of all the people; rather than as Republicans or Democrats, anxious alone for party success. Among the questions of the campaign just past some are worthy of our consideration now. It seems to me, that if the voters would give attention to politics between campaigns the need of large contributions, fireworks and oratorical brain-storms would be reduced to a minimum and the necessity of saving the country every four years would cease to be important Instead we wait until a few weeks before election, when party traditions and partisan prejudice obscure our thinking—then we are the prey of ill-designing politicans, of biased campaign literature and of unprincipled newspapers. It is indeed hard to keep the head clear and the judgment firm under such conditions. For a number of years, the question of the election of United States senators by a direct vote has been discussed. Some state legislatures, I think, have passed resolutions in its favor and various other steps have been taken looking to such a change. I think it safe to state, that before the campaign opened, had the proposition been put to the people ninety per cent of the voters would have given it favorable indorsement. It is a thing we have all wanted. It is the American way. The present method of election is undemocratic — a survival of the extreme centralized plan of government proposed by Alexander Hamilton before the constitutional convention in 1787. It is the product of a compromise between the democratic and undemocratic elements in that convention. The dem- | ocratic element insisted on the election of all national law makers by direct vote and the followers of Hamilton urged the opposite—hence the compromise that gave us direct vote as to members of the House and indirect as to senators. We were glad to get the compromise at that time. The Republican convention had the above question before it last June and turned it down. The reason is too evident for discussion. The splendid nominee of that convention felt it his duty to say something about the missing plank in his speech of acceptance. “Personally I favor it but it is hardly an issue in this campaign.” Why mention it? Simply for the reason that he knew that it was the will of the people that senators should stand before the voters for election and to whom they would be responsible. I understand that the first step to achieve this / great reform would be a constitutional amend ment; but if the people want it they ought to have it, else that principal of “government of and by and for the people” is a dead one.

That Sale. i During the campaign just closed our friends, in different parts of the country, sent us a number of auction sale post cards gotten up by the Democrats and offering for sale all the effects of the Q. O. P. on the 4th of March next. We were asked to answer these cards through the Yellow Jacket, but knowing what the Republicans would do for the Donkey party on the 3rd of November, we smiled and laid them away. Today we again come across one of those same cards, which readß as follows: PUBLIC SALE. Our’lease with Uncle Sum having practically expired and having decided to quit business and retire to private life, we, the undersigned, will offer at public sale our residence at the Capitol in Washington, D. C., commencing on the 4th day of November, 1808, the following d scribed property, to-wit: One elephant, about forty-five years old; one financial panic, old enough to wean and s.reJ by the gold bugs and damned by ( everybody; one Republican platform

A republican, however, can say, “there were greater things at stake.” Admitting that, the very fact that the republican convention Ignored the people’s wish in that respect and only adopted a plank favoring tariff revision and postal savings banks, after being driven to it for eight years; and taking no advanced stand upon any other question (unless It was that of injunctions which didn't amount to anything) shows the tendency of our party to go counter to the will of the people. Already we are speaking of the progressive element in the republican party, with which we associate the names of LaFollette, Beveridge, Cummins, Curtis and many others. Opposed are “standpatters”—Cannon, Sherman, the Standard Oil Senators, etc. Congressman Crumpacker was reelected and the people knew he favored a real revision of the tariff. Charles B. Landis (on the fence but inclined to be a “standpatter”) was defeated. Are these “signs of the times?” Mr. Crumpacker had a conference with the President the other day in which he told Mr. Rossevelt that the people were really in earnest about tariff revision and that he favored revision “down—not up.” Presidentelect Taft says the platform pledges must be kept; but there ston must be kept; but there stands Uncle Joe in the House and he says “he’ll show ’em,” and over the other way stands a conservative senate —(Elkins, Foraker, Aldrich, Depew, Platt, Hale, Burrows.) Previous to the Chicago convention it was the boast of party leaders that Roosevelt might dictate the nominee but that he could not write the platform. All- of which meant that a check should be placed on the reform tendencies of this administration; and that the rebuke should be sufficiently forcible to deter the coming adminht-ation from a like course. Ex-Governor Durbin, now mentioned as republican state chairman to succeed Goodrich, had a ve y sensible article in a recent publication of the Indianapolis Star in which he said that the party was placing itself in the position of being forced to take the right course; and cites the defeat of republican congressional candidates, as a result of this attitude. That warning ought to be a sufficient index as to what may happen, in four years, to the national ticket if the party persists in its “Fabian" policy. A party cannot perpetuate itself wholly on past achievements; it must measure up to the demands growing out of our complex industrial life. I am not blind to the great 'strides towards better things under the leadership of Roosevelt; but all the e gains were made with almost if not as strong, opposition from his own party as from the democrats., The republican party has been the party of construction for nearly fifty years; it has been the aggressive party. If it expects to retain leadership it must be, even more aggressive because the people are demanding remedial legislation as a proper function of government as opposed to the government that merely plays the big policeman and protects Its people from foreign invasion.

as good as new, but somewhat mossworn; one big stick slightly Impaired by overwork; one Republican machine, the same being somewhat out of repair; old dinner pails and other articles too numerous to mention. Everybody, regardless of party affiliations, or previous political servitude, is Invited to attend this sale. It is expected that mpst of the articles herein mentioned will be bid in by tli stand-patters, but everything will be sold on the square; there will be no by-bidders. Possession of articles will be given March 4, 1909. Roast crow will be served to the crowds by the Young Men’s Republican Club. The sale will positively take place on the date mentioned above, regardless of the weather. . COL. ROCKEFELER, COL MORGAN, COL. HARRIMAN, Managers O. O. P. JOHN R. WALSH, Clerk. The above sale being declared illegal and out of order by the great majority of the American people on the 3rd Inst, the Yellow Jacket sub-

mits the following notice of sale, and we trust that our readers will kindly notify their Democratic friends of the new sale and thereby assist in causing the property to fetch as much money as possible: TAKE YE NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that beginning on November 4th, and continue ing from day to day, we will offer for public auction the most gigantic pile of political junk ever presented to the public. The sale will be held at the Fairview Farm, near Lincoln, Neb., where the following describe goods and chattels must go, to-wlt: One jack-ass, Bomewhat weatherbeaten and back very sore, grass fed in Nebraska and tail twisted in Ohio, eyes defective, a large lump on left jaw, and one hind leg out of skew, otherwise a first-rate ass. One Democratic forecasting machine, including something over one hunderd barrels of hot air. This machine was recently used by Chairman Mack in predicting 325 electoral votes for Mr. Bryan, good as new. Sixteen thousand seven hundred and forty-nine political speeches, all have been used a little, but good for future service provided a little kerosene oil is used to knock off the rust. One steel range, a regular chicken frier, only used one season. Purchaser will apply to Josephus Daniels, of North Carolina, for full particulars as to its grates and dampers. Burns coal or oil—Prairie gas oil preferred. One dozen “paramount issues," offered simply as relics. Two dozen bottles of “preparation” for killing the trusts. Never been used. Cork-screws thrown in free. One thousand pounds of good feathers, the same being those picked from the chickens which were served to colored friends who visited Fairview. One million small round pictures of Bryan at 50 cents on the dollar. Mr. Kern, from the Hoosier State, will have a cargo of pearls from the upper Wabash and White rivers, and many brilliant ones from Salt river. One Tammany Hall tiger, somewhat tamed and eyes failing, though not blind. No blind tigers offered in this sale. All such will be reserved for future use. One complete platform of decayed material made in Denver and damned ever^vhere. One Democratic record from 1E93 cratic speakers and roughly used by to 1897, shot full of holes by Demoeverybody. A couple of fine Jersey heifers will be given free to the party taking this record off our premises. A couple of hundred second-rate political prophets from various Sta'e3 whose foresight was so badly twisted and warped by the recent Republican landslide that they stand in need of repairs. Terms: Cash down, as the menagers are compelled to set out on a long voyage up Salt River P. D. Q. WM. J. BRYAN, COL. WATTERSON, BOBBY GLENN, Auctioneers. Col. Kern will attend to* the smelling salts, and Governor Haskell will act as clerk.

Personal experience with a tube of Man Zan Pile Remedy will convince vou It Is Immediate relief for all forms of Piles. Guaranteed 50c. Sold by B. F. Fendig. The ills that follow our lusts we usually charge up to our luck. A pill in time that will save nine is Rings Little Liver Pills. For biliousness, sick headache, constipation. They do not gripe. Price 25c. Sold by B. F. Fendig. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup stops thd cough by allaying inflammation of the throat and lungs, and It drives the cold from the system oy gently moving the bowels. Children like it for it tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. Sold by all druggists.

ROY BLUE.

Owner Bert Annis of the South Bend Central League team has closed arrangements with the Chicago American League team for an exhibition game in South Bend for April 9th. It is the Intention of Annis to secure at least blx of the big league teams for anti-season games. Colds contracted at thfs season of the year are quickly relieved with Bees Laxative Cough Syrup. Its laxative quality rids the system of the cold. Pleasant to take. Best for children for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough. Sold by B. F. Fendig. Clifford Sheets, aged 26 years, wns Instantly killed Tuesday morning at the Berrien Springs power house oi the Indiana & Michigan Electric company. It is presumed he slipped and fell into the fly wheel of & generator while wiping the machinery. Hls head was torn from hls body and mangled beyond recognition” Nearly everybody knows DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are the best pills made. They are small, pleasant, sore Little Liver pilla Sold by all drugista.

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DITCH NOTICE. State of Indiana, White County, ss: White Circuit Court, February Term, 1909. In the matter of the petition of Christian Stoller et al for drainage. Notice of filing, pendency and docketing of petition. To Charles Spinard, George Turner, Arthur St. Pierre, Timothy Ponton, Samuel St. Pierre, Calvin Sharkey, William Watson, Mary E. McDuffie, Emerson Gordon, John P. Brown, William Wooding, James Higgins, David J. Pettit, Almira J. Snyder, Esther Galbreath, Frederick DeMmnck, Marie DeMuynck, Peter N. Garber, John A. Hlnchman, Sarah Hamilton, Emma Compton, Susan Enfield, William R. Warn*, Nettle Warne, Acanthe Sexton, Lewis W. Sexton, Maurice Frey, Louisa Herstein, John Abersoll, Enoch G. Boicourt. Samuel B. Hirstein, Eunice Ciary, Jam s E. Robathan, Howard B. Neff, Abram Smith, Joshua L. Burch, Fred rick Schwarzentraub, Benjamin B. Farmy, Mary Waymire, Agnes isalla, William Salla, John Furrer, M. J. Smith, Edward O. Klopfenstlne, O. M. Klopfenstine, Harry C. Johnson, Gertie D. Swartz, Anna Boon, Walter J. Ball, Samuil S. Farney, John F. Lehman, James A. Gilbert, Anson Dobbins, Otis E. Dart, George Hertlein, Daniel Burch, Zacariali T. Johnson, Ella M. Engli, Isaac F. Nordyke, Adolph Maler, Eleanor Blssonnette, Eb n H. Wolcott, Sarah E. Mitte rling, Alfr d Blssonm tt , Carrie M. Clark, William H. Clark, William A. Winters, Margaret Bals r, Myrtle M. Shields. William J. Shields, Bernice O. Gauthier, Sefoi Lanle, __ H. L. Hoover, Minnie Hoover, Eliza Nordyke, Paul J. Shultz, Fred Grim's, Oliver M. Coffing, Quincy Hugh s, Thoron Holdrdge, George F. William W. Wolfe, Lewis W. Sexton. Milton M. Bunnell, Town of Wolcott,White County, Indiana; Trustees Baptist Church, Wolcott, Indiana; Rt. Rev. Joseph Rademacher, Snrc.h Kend til, William H. Watson, Daniel W. Irion, William P. Walker, Aphla Hackl y, Manfred B. Beard, Laura M. Jackson, William H. Cook, Elzina O. Boicourt, William Hlnchman, H nry St. Peter, Thomas H. Barber, Seth J. Kellogg, Thomas H. Kellogg, Trustee of Princeton township, White county, Indiana; Charts E. Schlademnn, George L. Bchlademan, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, Leopold St. Pierre, Eddie St. Pierre, Samuel Lanle. Guss Lanle, Jacob Dicmer, Mary F. Baker, Alfred Mathews, John B Mos r, Anthony Taylor, Edward Jackson, D. K. Jackson, Esther Jackson, Jerry Emond, Phllomine Emond, Cyrus K. Snyder, James P. Foltz, Truman Holdridge, Emma Holdrldge, Lucy Holdridg , Choniah C. Wright and John M. Sp ncer. You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned petitioners hfive filed in the White Circuit Court of Indiana their petition for the drainage of lands owned by them in White County, Indiana, fully described in said petition, by means of the following | descrlb d ditches, which they ask to be established and constructed: Ist. Beginning at a point on the north line of the railroad rigtit-of-vtyiy or the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company about sixty 1 (60) rods west of the east line of Sec- i tion twenty-eight (2S), Township twen- 1 ty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in Jasper County, Indiana, from thence follow big a variable course In a gmeral oustorly direction over the best and most practicable route for said ditch, to a point about thirty(3o) rods south of the northwest corn*r of the east half (%) of the southeast quarter ((4) of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, In White County.' Indiana, and there to connect with the head of a public ditch known as the E. L. Dibell ditch, and thence in a general northeasterly direction following as nearly as practicable the route of the said E. L. Dibell ditch to a point about ninety (90) rods south and about eigh-ty-five (86) rods east of the northwest corner of r Section nineteen (18), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range | five (6) west, In White County, Indiana, . to the mouth of a tile ditch ' known as the Pugh ditch, to this point petitioners respectfully ask that said 1 proposed ditch be constructed of drain tile of sufficient capacity, than from this last mentioned point by & construction of an open ditch of sufficient capacity, following the route of the said B. L. Dib 11 ditch In a g neral easterly direction through Sections nineteen (19), twenty (20). twonty-one (21) twenty-two (22) .and to a point mar the southeast corner of the northwest quarter (14) of the northwest quarter (14) of Section tw<«ty-three (23), Township twenty-seven (27) north. Range five (6) west. In White County, Indiana, and "there to terminate and empty In a largo dredgo ditch known as the Ell Hoagland ct al (or Motion) ditch, into which said proposed ditch will empty and will have a good and sufficient outlet. 2nd. Also by the construction of Branch No. 1 to the main propos'd ditch to bo constructed of drain tile of sufficient capacity, b> ginning at a point twenty-five (26) feet south and sixtythree (68) rods and eleven (11) feet west of the northeast oomer of the northeast quartir (14) of Section twen-ty-seven (27), Township twenty-sev< n (27) north. Range six (6) west. In white County, Indiana, Ounce following the oourse of Branch No. 1 of the said E. L. Dibell ditch In a gon rat northerly direction to a point about eighty (8!))

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rods west and thirty (30) rods north of the southeast corner of the northeast quarter (14) of Section twenty-two (22), in last mentioned Township and Range, thence in a general southeasterly direction to a point about thirty (80) rods east and about eighty (80) rods north of the southwest corner of Section twenty-four (24), Township twen-ty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, and there to terminate in the main proposed ditch where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet. 3rd. Also by the construction of Branch No. 1 of Branch No. 1 to said main proposed ditch, to be constructed of tile of sufficient capacity, beginning thirty (30) rods south and ten (10) rods east of the northwest corner of the northwest quarter (14) of the northeast quarter (14) of Section twentythree (23), Township twenty-seven (£i) north, Range six (6) west, In White County, Indiana, thence in a general southeasterly direction a distance of eleven hundred and ten (1110) feet and there to terminate in Branch No. 1 of said proposed ditch where the same will lave a good and sufficient outlet. 4th. Aiso by the construction of Branch No. 2 of said main proposed ditch, to be constructed of tile of sufficient capacity, beginning at a point about twenty (20) feet east and eighty (80) rods north of the southwest corner of Section twenty-eight (28), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range five (6> west, In White County, Indiana, thence in a general northeastely direction following the best and most practicable route to a point about eighty (80) rods south and eighty (80) rods west of the northeast corner of Section twen-ty-one (21), Township twenty-seven (27) north. Range five (6) west, in White County, Indiana, and there t rtn*nate In the main proposed ditch where the outlet W U haVe a good and Buffi cient And It Is alleged in said petition that certain lands owned by you in Jasper County, Indiana, and In White County, Indiana, and fully described in said petition will be affected by the drainage prayed for In said petition. lou are further notified that said petition is now pending In said White Circuit Court of Indiana, and that the same has been set for hearing and docketing, and will be heard and docketed In said Court on the Bth day of February, 1909. Dated this 14th day of December, 1908. CHRISTIAN STOLLER, JOSEPH' EMOND, AUGUST EMONr>, VICTOR LeBEAU, MARY E. McDUFiriE, FREDERICK GRANT POLLOCK. HENDRICK SWYGidAN, vr n . . . _ Petitioners. M - W-26 d ' Attorney for Petitioners. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. undersigned administrator of the t ßta t e George S. Guild, deceased, hereby gives notice that by virtue of of the Pulaski Circuit Court he will at ffc? hour of eight o’clock a. m.. _, the v 39 th T da y of January, 1908, at Medaryvllle. Indiana, and from day to day thereafter until sold, offer for sale at sale, all the interest of said decedent tn and to the following described real estate, to-wlt: The northeast quarter ((4) or Section thirteen (18). Township thirty.. (80) north, Range five ! >??■. w * Bt < an d the southwest quarter L*> .of the southeast quarter 04) of Section twelve (12), Township thirty (30) C^tV.^nXnl 1 : 0 (5) W6Bt - ln Said sales will be made subject to the approval of suld Court, for not less than the full appraised value of said real estate, and upon the following terms and conditions: At least one-third of the purchase money cash ln hand, the balance ln two equal Installments, payable In not to exceed 18 and 86 by notes of the purchaser "Bearing < per oent Interest from date, waiving relief, providing attorneys’ fees and secured by mortgage on the real estate sold. Said •ale Is to be made subject to a mortgage of 18,000.00 with interest thereon. CHARLES H. GUILD, d.lB-25-j.1,8. Administrator. NURSERY STOCK For Sale by the Halleck Nursery Co., Fair Oaks, Ind. j Largo stock of apples in all atsoa, troco « to 7 feat high, SIB per 100; to trees at tho 100 rata. Wo aieo koop a good stock of pear*, poacbo* Plums, cherries, grapes, cunraata. gooseberries and small fruit of all kinds, shade trees, Dowering shrubs and plants, roeos, eta Come and see us or write tor price Ust. CHAR HALLBCK. feb.lsw. Manager.