Star-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 September 1908 — Page 4

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VolKM-ecl of issues in other days has nothing to do with the present. The

of some of the people of the county toward Mr. Hostetter. Men on both

ite 1 i tlirans forgot that McKinley f sides of the township and county op-

AdvertUtng Rates Upon Application candidate.

had been a free silver man when they elected him on a gold standard ticket. Bryan has declared that - he intends to stand upon the Denwioratmplatform, and any attack upon the man and his personality will but reveal the weakness, to say nothing of the smallness, of the Republican

GHEENCASTLE HERALD Established 1906 The live dully paper of Putnam County—sent to any address In ihe United States for $3.00 a year—Payable strictly In advance.

A Plain Lie.

The stuff of whicli James E. Walls made appears more clearly

Entered as second class mull matter at the Grecncastle. Ind. PostotBee.

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FOR PRESIDENT, William J. Bryan of Nebraska. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, . . Joint \V. Krrn of Indiana.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

GOVERNOR,

Thomas R. M trsha.ll, Columbia Cit> | j a ]- 0 tl p f] 10 a( jvocacy, for political

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each day. That a man whose record has shown him for years Interested in things the opposite of moral, leading him to keep silent in congress when the interstate liquor shipment bill was smothered, leading him to fight the pure food law and the meat inspection bills, and to work f'tr the "criminal currency bill” as LaFollottP calls it, and we are informed, to vote for the canteen in srldiers’ homos, should now - pose as the only moral force in the state was I in itself suspicions. That he should

LIEUTENANT GOVERNC R, "rank J. Hall, Rushvllle. JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT, 15. Laity, Logansport. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Walter J. Lotz, Muncie. SECRETARY OF STATE. James K. Cox, Columbus. AUDITOR OF STATE, Marion Bailey, LUton. TREASURER OF STATE, John Isenbarger, N. Manchester. APPELLATE JUDGE, E. W. Felt, Greenfield. REPORTER SUPREME COURT,

j ends, of a plank in file platform which he denounced in convention, shows something lacking in his regard for principle. That a profess- , ional politician, for many years careless of all else except the wini ning of the election, ghould now | spend his time in attempting to slander and defame many honest men who differ from him in opinion, was expected. Rut. ttie last utterance of j this man passes beyond what even ! the most credulous suspected of him ! and reveals him in the light of a

tion question seem to feel that Mr. Hostetter has no mind of his own and that he is incapable of coming to a conclusion without advice and threats on their part. Each side has conceived that it would make his position clearer to him to threaten him with loss of votes if he did not do as the threatener desired. Each side forgets that the other side is also sending threatening letters and vowing vengeance at the polls. It Is true of any legislation of moment to the public. A man in the position of Mr. Hostetter, who would attempt to make up his mind by consulting the advice of friends and the threats of enemies, would not only be worlbless to the situation but would fail in the political field. The idea that having made up one's own mind upon a question that any one who disagrees with that opinion is dishonest and immoral has always been the position of the bigot. Mr. Hostetter has doubtless given much more attention to the question under discussion than any of his wouldbe advisers on either side. Further, he is honest. Ho has taken his stand on the temperance question, and j made his appeal to the county on his record. He is now honestly trying to make up his mind on the present question amidst the confusing mass of facts that are being brought forward. He has no time to play politics. Even if he were inclined to do so it would require more tiian human foresight to decide which vote would win or lose him more next November. \Ve are confident that Mr. | Hostetter will make up his mind

common falsifier having no regard , ... . ■,o, iruth. hi, l„t .pooch Mr , io.L, I J," „ f:

Euri New, North Vernon. STATE STATISTICIAN. 1*. J. Kcllcher, Indianapolis STATE SUPERINTENDENT. Robert J. Aley, Bloomington. PUTNAM COUNTY TICKET

Watson declares that the Democrats,

REPRESENT ‘.TIVE, D. It. Hostetler, TREASURER, Jumper Miller SHERIFF, Frank Stroube. COMMISSIONER. THIRD DIST, E<1 Houck. CORONER, R. J. (Jill sple, SURVEYOR. Aiec Lane. COMMISSIONER. 2nd DIST, George E. I Lain s.

if victorious this fall, will ro-gery-mander the state, in order to repeal the option bill, if passed. This is a plain, unvarnished lie, not even having the excuse of being political. Many temperance Democrats have doubted the wisdom of the county local option law, and have preferred their own method of controlling the liquor traffic. Not one of them, however. has been in favor of attempting to repeal such a law should it

he

(and without bias. He will vote as he believes right and will stand upon that vote at the polls. It is the only position for an honest man and a man of sufficient mind to fitly discharge the duties of the office he

holds.

Governor Manly's calling of a special session of the legislature for

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in the matter of aiUrcd Suits for W omen and nis~ ses we are showing the new models approved for this fall, and in the new weavesand colors,the ideas embodied are decidedly new and quite different

from recent styles.

Showing Tailored Suits,

f at $ 10 to $30 with a big /Uj j

I range of styles at prices between, we shall be pleased t i> ^ how

b3 *" them to you, have you try them on and see how becoming they are, how perfectly they fit and how extremely good they are for the price.

the avowed purpose of passing county local option and the real purpose of making himself a United States

passed'. All are willing to give I senator ls S ettin * bumps. Two it a fair chance to accomplish what Re Publican members of the house it is claimed will be accomplished. are ron3lderinK the ' be .B innin * of ln '- That a wet element in both parties Peachment proceedings because of would stand for repeal Is doubtless governor's refusal to sign a bill

JOINT DISTRICT TICKET

FOR CONGRESS Ralph Moss FOR PROSECUTOR James !' Hughes. FOR JOINT SENATOR F. C. Tilde n.

Their Measure of Intelligence. If the Republican newspapers are to be believed. Mr. Taft, on his coming campaign trip, is to avoid the discussion of the issues before the

true. But that this is only a minority in each party has long been proved. No temperance Democrat, and they are much more numerous than Republican tomepranoe politicians. has ever hinted at any attempt to repeal the bill if passed. Some have not believed it wise. Prohibitionists have not thought it wise. Rut each is willing that it be tried, and all temperance men hope it will succeed. In tills rase Mr. Watsor has over-shot the mark. Not even a radical will believe such a statement. An honest man will consider its source. **

passed over his veto. Another Republican will introduce a bill to prevent the governor from getting pay for lectures given while in the executive chair, thus spoiling one of Hanly's strongest stunts. Evidently! all is not love in the Republican i

party.

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What Good Democrats Over the State Are Saying About Things

Political in Indiana And Else where.

The Truth of th e Matter. In the course of i

| and on that to act. They are, we editorial t!lin 'L serious-minded about it and

,,, , „ will not tolerate the calamity idea

headed "The Country Will b e Warn- that half the pcop]e of th , g country

sell it? And what did he ar t for it! Let Mr. Cannon answer these questions. The people of Indiana, to whom he is to speak in the interest of his “whip." Mr. Watson, and hi! friends Taft and Sherman, want to know how a member of congress on 000 a year can save $",0,000 s year. But he won’t tell.—Jasper Herald.

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ed,” the St. Louis Globe-Dcnioerat says it will be the duty of Taft. Can-

are unfit to administer public affairs. And if in the face of this panic—

non. Hughes, Shaw and other Repub- thls nf , p „ bllran panic _ Repub i iean

Wave Bloody Shirt.

That the Republican party will abandon all discussion of its party platform and confine its attention to

people and »o devote himself to an | " campaign of slander directed attack upon Mr. Bryan. There are | gainst Bryan is now a demonstrative wavs, of looking upon this move-! fact. It is the last dispairlng ment, neither of which reflects any ! acknowledgement of the fear of the

honor upon either Mr. Taft or the

Republican party. In the first place It looks vry much as if the Republiacn party and Mr. Taft in particular had lost what little faith they ever had n their platform. One after

Republican party that defeat on the iesues is sure. The autocratic stand taken by the trust’s convention in Chicago when the delegates struck from the platform all the things desired by the people, has already been

another thev have seen the various ; ^buked. and so openly that even the plain of .hat platform repudiated : !pad ^s of the party hear that rebuke - , by tl • peopl and even by their own | To a ' oid 'be issues they themselves Thev have been forced to^'e raised, they will now descend

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back down on the publicity que - tion, on the injunction plank, on bank guarantee and so many other planks that their platform Is about to fall to pieces. Mr. Taft has contradicted himself and the platform so often that he is afraid to speak on it further for fear of still worse complications and confusion. From this point of view his reported resolve to attack Bryan personally looks like an acknowledgement of defeat. On the other hand this resort to personal attack would indicate that the estimate placed upon the intelligence of the average Republican by the National Committee is not high. It Is an attempt to carry out the old “bloody shirt” idea and to scare the people into voting their way by means of a bug-a-boo. They wish to make it appear that Dryan is dangerous to this country, while as a matter of fact all those that read at all know that Bryan stf mis only for those things that are absolutely needed In the civic life of the nation. True, he believes that soma of the trusts and corporations have been rather too near the seat of power of the Republican party at V> ashiegton. True he believes that these trusts should he controlled and the people freed from their greed, but this Is not anarchy, except In the eyes of the trusts. What Bryan v; ■ v - .'ji ; a ' •«•. ••

Fate has been unkind to Taft. Just as he had made friends with Foraker, and had assured the people that Foraker started him upon his political career by appointing him Judge of the Federal Court in Cinrinnti, Foraker’s reputation was shattered into atoms by an exposure of his relations with the Standard Oil Company. It was unkind to show that Taft owed his start and rise in the world to such a man. It was unkind for fate to wait till Taft himself had told this story in order to show the closeness of the renewed friendship, and then have sueh things revealed. But then fate seems against Taft this year on every side.

liean lender* to take special pains . Icreniiahs , 0 np and flown the iand

when they go on the stump to point out the disaster which would come

predicting the kind of thing that the St. Louis paper offers, thev will be

on the country if by any mischance J Kreeted by fho peop , e with

Bryan should be elected. We do

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to a campaign of common slander They will wave the “bloody shirt” and revive again the political methods dear to the hearts of Reublieans of twenty years ago. methods all believed buried in the corruption of the past. Never before, even in that past, did the head of a presidential ticket take the stump in a campaign of personal abuse. It is. perhaps, no more fair to bring from the past dead issues, and to attempt to make Bryan stand on them, than it would be to declare that the religion of America was In danger because Taft does not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. The issues of today are not the issues of twelve years ago. Many of those problems have been solved as Mr. Bryan wished them solved. Changed conditions have changed others. Mr. Bryan, as candidate for the executive chair of the United States, Is standing, not upon any theories of his own but upon the platform of the Democratic party. Bryan has said so, and his honesty has never been questioned. This new move is a last desperate chance, the hyena cry of fear of defeat, the

wail of mistake.

Hostetler's Position. One of the most

remarkable

things in connection with the present temperance controversy Is the attitude

And now we have the spectacle of a president of the United States becoming practically the ' campaign manager of the candidate for the presidency of the United States. We have been an admirer of Mr. Roosevelt, but we can not admire him in this stooping to mix in the squabble simply heeause his protege Is about to lose the fight. It does not look well.

The Indianapolis Star has discovered a conspiracy, it is a number of pretended traveling men who are going about the country lying about Watson. Their salaries are said to be paid by the brewers, and they do not sell any thing, just lie about Watson. Really the Star’s Invention editor must be working overtime.

The attempt of the Indianapolis Star to brand the Indianapolis News as a Brewery organ will be enough to quite discredit its editorial page. Something reasonable In campaign lies may be believed by radicals and partisans, but not so large a one as that*

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Charles B. Sheeks and Verna B. Burnside. Clarence Parker and Lottie Kellar.

Remldles. Take nothing «1m from the druggist. Remember It is Hanoi, you want. 3.V and $1.00 per bottle at the drug sto. . lyH

not, of course, know what would follow such a program, but we believe that any such calamity howling as that would meet with such a rebuke that there would have to

and jeers, Indianapolis News.

Let Cannon Tell How He Did It. Joseph G. Cannon, usually “Uncle Joe,” is the boss of the house of rep-

be instant and complete shift again ^ es< s ' , * |f a S en ' ° - 'he pr -- daof the issues-which Is about all i °7 ,nterestP ' and the father " f the that the Republicans have been do-' n ' u,llMI9 f! ' steni of n,lcs which deing since the Republican convention. n , ' " a ' n ' ie ' u congress The country is in no mood to stand :'" K ^ Matson has been one calamity howlers. Think of the ° f h s t001 " the of Uie proposition-leaders of the Republi-i hoil t a, ‘- i ra,,non " as ,nfl " entla l se " ean party,*the party that has had ' 1111 ;' * lc noniinat ' on oi Guerman uninterrupted control for twelve ° ' l<r l' rf ' i, ' n t Sherman being years, getting up in the midst of n a SO nn agPnt of t,ie trusts and n copanie that has been pinching now for A or 'Cf " >th Cannon in smothering nearly a. year and telling the people ' ~ ‘° n ad ' PISe '° them. Cannon that if they elect the Democrats dis- 11 ''' n ^'t :i1 charge of the conaster will overtake them! gresslonal campaign, which is to

looa after members of congress. He

V hat is it that has overtaken ,

, aa * a separate fund and a separate

them now? What are we suffering i

treasurer, to whom the trusts cm

from? Who is respon ible for it? j ‘

contribute their money without fear

\ nice program, indeed, a calamity of pu bliclt y .

program would be What the K -. .

Cannon Is to speak for Watson

^ t „* U ' I 1 lnd tbe Republican party at Indian-

apolis on the 21th of this month. He presided over the Illinois Republican

That liis party is turning from him is seen in the editorial comment of i iie Indianapolis Siar on Governor Hanly’s attitude toward law. It says: No act of the special session will redound more signally to the credit of the Legislature than Its deterrainjation to refuse Governor Hanly's de- ; mand for repeal of the act in aid of Vincennes University, The merits of 'be appropriation itself a r e not non I ,n i ss 'ie. The question involved is approval or reprobation of the Governor's course. In no other episode has Governor lianly so clearly demonstrated the limitations of his efficiency as a pub- ! ' !<> man - Those limitations arise out I of his assumption of all wisdom and : virtue in his own person. Just a!

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publican leaders want to

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, , state convention, held in Peoria nn th" Democrats should he elected, hut *1 lnt , , . . 1 r " on , . , , i tl,f! 10tl1 'a his speech to the Illiwhat ha* happened while the conn- nr . to . 1111 try has been in the exclusive control , n . n , '" ,s ,|n ! Brian was « th, parly «„d what Map!'"" "* h » that party proper t„ ,1, briny by tbe »<«

relief. It is a time for an aecount-

'wind and Ink." The next day

ing of steward:-hip, not (lie bringing frankly stVuVn V n' 8 ” MF ' nrynn of railing suppositions. ^ t d 'h' 1 ' h e was worth

probably $125,000. And h e told how

The people understand this cam- he had earned it

paign perfectly. They know pre- And then Mr.' Bryan referred to ciselv what the Democrats propose, the fact that Cannon had held public There has rarely been a Platform office for forty years, thirty-flye years more incisive 'ban the one adopted of the time as a member of congress at Denver, and no one could be Vs Cannon is reputed to b e wealthy' clearer or less equivocal than the Mr. Bryan asked him to he as frank candidates have been. On the other as he had been and tell the public hand. It is true, as Mr. Bryan says, l ow he got his money-“What he pertinently, in his comment on the had sold, whom he sold it to and

President’s letter of indorsement of what he got for It "

Mr Taft, no one knows just what But Cannon won’t tell tii Republican doctrine is. Mr. Taft wealth is given as $•> 000 000 As a has amended the Chicago platform member of congress at $5 000 a vear several times, and there are signs of, he has drawn about $175 000 ‘ He another movement in that direction, has lived on his salary and lived But the Republicans have been In wol l- He has not stinted himself power for twelve years, and here we has smoked good cigars and drunk are today with a year-old panic on P°od whisky—and plenty of both us, and the end not yet. What the And yet out of his $175,000 of salchances for reform of any kind are j ftr y he has managed to save two under the Republicans we believe the million dollars, or more than $50 - people understand. And right aU n °0 a year. It is quite remarkable, that point they are going to meditate 1 What did he sell? To whom did he

V.e take pleasure in announ readiness for the fall and winter SHOE business. Everything tliat'i good and desirable in the l - "'-ai line is here, ready for your cht ’ i U ? With this store it's always good” rather than “how c’ p." Our aim has always been r ' fut nish such satisfactory Foi twear • 1i would induce our patrons it' ^ us—come here themseivea duce their friends to conic " :! on this platform that we have bull up our large Shoe Businem and up on this platform th t we - ‘ ; ’C 0,11 hopes for the future. We believe an investigation convince you that this store gb* you the best all around Sh : 3' :l faction—best Sheer.—best stylesand best prices, w 13t d m w t 13'"'

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