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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

Big Band Instrument Manufacturer Ad-
mits That Bryan VIII BE Elected.
The Hon. C.. G. Conn, ex-congress-
man, and the largest manufacturer of
band instruments in the world, one of
the gold democrats of four years ago
who would not be driven to the fold,
under the head of at Looks Like a
Bryan Victory" predicts democratic
success in the folio wing article in his
newspaper. the Elkhsrt Truth:
Late advices indicate that unless
there is radical change of sentim ent
Bryan will be elected and the silver
party placed in control of both houses
of congress. Croker's manipulation of
the enormous labor vote at present en-
plOyed on city contracts, together with
Tammsny influence, will swell the
democratic majority in Greater New
York to at least 10000, which is more
republican majority in the country dis
tricts. The workingmsn vote in Indi-
ana and some of the western states
will increase Bryans electoral vote and
overturn the sound money party in the
senate and house of representatives.
This information comes from reliable
republican sources, and while it may
not eventually prove correct, there is
every reason to think that 1t is an in
telligent forecast of the present politi-
cal situation"
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
Political Meetings Held.

The democrats of TippecanOe town
ship organized Bryan and Stevenson
club at Tippecanoe Wednesday, with
membership of eighty-fve. Elijah
Msrtindsle made the address, There
were about l25 voters present. Chas
Walker was chosen chairman and j. J
Vangundy, secretary.
Atty. John Parks addressed the re.
publicsns at Tippecanoe township at
Tippecsnoe Wednesday. He spoke at
held their meeting et the town hall
About forty heard Mr.. Parks.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

With the election seven weeks off,
the democratic managers in this state
are making definite claims, which, sum
married.. are:
That Bryan will carry the state and
the state ticket will be elected by from
$1,000 TO $4,000 plurality.
That three democratic congressman
will be added to the four now repre-
senting the Second, Third, Fourth and
Twelfth districts.
That the Indiana House of Repre-
sentatives will be democratic by a ma
jority of twelve, giving the democrats
the Speaker.
The three districts in which the dem.
ocrats expect to elect congressman are
understood to be the First, Fifth and
Ninth.
Neither Chairman Hernly nor any.
one else connected with the manage.
ment of the republican state campaign
will make any predictions except to
express confidence that the state will
give q large republican plurality
Chairman Hernley has declined posi-
lively to give any interviews bearing
on the result in this state.
The members OF the prohibition state
mmittee, meeting here today, pre-
dict that their party will poll 10000
votes. The prohibionists are wseing q
more vigorous campaign than ever be-
fore. They have plenty of money and
are flooding the stste with literature
They claim that President McKinley's
canteen policy is driving many republi
cans to the prohibition ranks.
Eugene V. Debbs and Job Hartman
candidates for president and vice presi
dent on the socialist ticket, are prepar-
Ing to make tour of the state. They
place their Indiana vote at 10000. In
dicatlons are that the mid-rosd populist
vote will be very small The fact that
less than dozen mId-Ioaders turned
out to greet Wharton Barker, candidate
| for president, is considered an indica
tlon that the party is weaF.
The silver republicans and fusion
popuiists are working with only toler.
able smoothness with the democratic
state committee. Representatives OF
the two "allied organizations" estimate
their combined vote at 10000. This is
considered too high by conservative
politicians.
This week the gold democratic state
organization will be revived, a new
state chairman installed and head.
quarters opened. The work of sending
out large quantities of literature will
begin at once. AT the same time the
gold democratic national headquarters
will be established in this city.
The campaign will be waged vigor-
ously from now on. Both parties are
arranging to conduct meetings in all
parts of the state, and both are draw
ing heavily on the national committee
for orators.
For the republicans, Senator'S Fair.
banks and Beveridge and Gov. Mount
will be heard in all parts of the state
Chairman Martin of the democratic
committee is not publishing his list
of speakers, but it includes a long
string of "spell-binders" from William
j. Bryan and John w. Kern down the
list
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
ST. JOSEPH u. Ii. CONFERENCE.

Fifty Sixth Session Concludes its Labors.-
Assignments For the Coming Year.
The o6th annual session of the ST.
Joseph conference of the United Breth-
rem church concluded it's lsbors in
Columbia City Sunday evening. The
conference was largely attended by
ministers and lsymen and all the ses-
sions were full of interest.
Warsaw District-R. Z. Burton, pre-
siding elder.
Albion-A. NJ. Cummins.
BourbOn-R. w. Hutchison.
Chicago, Weaver Memorisl-E. G.
Avis.
Clunette-J. A. Farmer,
Fsirgrove-G l.. Msttox.
Indian Village-W. Ill. Fetro.
Ligonier-J. A. Groves
North Unlon-W. III. Rittenhouse.
Plymouth-R. J. Parrett.
Rochester Showley
Solomon's Creek-E. Ii. Pontious.
Syracuse-E. ). Eby.
Warssw-G. +. Bryer.
Warsaw Circuit-H. f. Butler
Bishop Central Dlstrict-N. Castle,
ID. ID.
Missionary Secretary-W. NJ. Bell, ID.
ID.
Superintendent japan Missions "A.
T. Howard.
Missionary, China Inland, h. f.
Richer.
Branch Mission Secretary. a.
Cummins.
Evangslists- Il. Butler, J. f.
Hartness, A. w. Snepp, j. l.. Powers,
Z. l.. Richsrt, j. w. Cummins' VIM.
Simons.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

The following democratic meetings
have been arranged by the county cen
traI committee for next week:
Clay W. Metsker, candidate for repre-
sentative, will speak at Bourbon on
Tuesday evening September 25th,
and at Lspsz on Wednesday evening
September 26th.
Atty Elijah Martindsle will speak at
Linkvllle on Friday evening Septem Der
2Sth.
Atty. Leo Lauer will speak at Hib-
bard on Thursday evening, September
27th.
Atty. 5. y. Stevens will speak at Tee
garden on Saturday evening, September
29th.
Arthur O'keefe Will be present at
each of these meetings with his poly
phone and will reproduce portions of
Bryan's speeches as well as those of
other we'll known statesmen. The
pOlyphone also will produce a number
of good musical selections.
Everybody, regardless of former
political affiliations, are urged to be
present at these meetings.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

psign for more than an hour. Three
small boys there have organized drum
corps and they did splendid work at the
meeting last evening. The polyphone
was also an attraction which all sppre-
cisted. Exactly sixty-fve signed as
members of the Democratic club of the
Inwood precinct. There were many
present from Bourbon township, but
they were ineligible to membership 10
q Center township club and will be en-.
rolled in the Bourbon club orgsnizs-
ton.
1t was the unanimous opinion that
General Apathy is not in charge of the
democratic forces at InwoOd. Reports
from democratic meetings at other pls-
ces are equally encouraging.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

Atty. j. ID. McClaren, of this city,
who bolted Bryan in SO and supported
the Palmer and Buckner ticket, has in
formed the publisher OF the Independ-
ent that he will vote for Bryan and
Stevenson this fall. Mr.. McClaren
has never believed in 16 to 1, but this
year he considers the great issue be
tween the two parties to be more CON-
msnding than any economic question.
The policy of the administration is to
depart from established principles set
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
ESTIMATED INDIANA VOTE.

According To Election Commissioners. il
i 65O.24S.
The total estimated vote in Indiana
this fall, based on the report of county
auditors sfterwsrd verified by the
county clerks, is 65O,24S, according to
figures prepared by the state board of
election commissioners which is getting
ready to print the ballots.
There will be furnished total of
| ,4o9, ,920 ballots this fsll-twice as many
as the estimated vote, plus 1000 ad-
ditiOnal for each county, OF $4,000, and
plus few ballots in each precinct TO
make the assignment in round num-
bers.
There are ,0l6 townships in Indiana,
gain of one over 1898; and 1902 pre-
cincts, gain of forty three over 1898.
There is one new township in Gibson
county. Three pencils, three copies of
the election laws and three sample bal
lot posters will be sent TO every precinct
in the state.
The estimated vote in 1898 was 400
greater than in 1900, attributed TO the
fact that the estimate of that year was
based on the vote of 1896, a presidential
year, while the vote this fall is based on
the election of 1898. The total number
of ballots printed in 1898 was 1,512,I2O
-22,2O0 greater than will be printed
this year.
The total vote for secretary of state
in 1898 was 573,391. The total vote for
the first electOr on sll tickets in 1896
was 637, 123.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
Decides to Vote for Bryan.

Charles 5. May, formerly lieutenant
governor of Michigan, has formally an
nounced his intention to vote the
straight democratic ticket this year. In
q letter to Chairman Chsmpsu, of the
Democratic state committee, he says
that nothing IN the history of politics
has ever astonished him so much az
the present position of the Republican
party.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
DrummOnd at COrydOn.

A dispatch from Corydon, Ind, says
A rousing democratic meeting was
held here Saturday. Congressman w
Il. Zenor and representative elect
Andrew J Lopp, addressed the meet
ing. The Hon. Charles T. Drummond
was billed to be here, but failed to
reach CorydOn in time for the after,
noon meeting. He addressed large
sssemblsge of democrats at the night
meeting.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
High school Notes.

The different classes of the high
school elected the following officers
Monday morning:
Junior class-FOrd Reynolds, leader
Rosa Lauer, deputy leader; and Charles
Miller senator.
Middle class-Roy Corbsley, leader
Ralph Leonard, deputy leader and Law.
renee Hall, senator.
Senior clsss-Frsnk Leonard, leader
Bertha Hoover, deputy leader; Honor
Parks and Cora Hallock, senators.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
Starner Faces Serious Charge.

VIM. Stsrner, of Bremen, was brought
$3.50 bond, was landed in Jail charged
with SOdOmy. He will await the de-
cree of the circuit court. This is
a penitentary offense and if convicted
his sentence cannot be less than two
years.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

The democrats of Union township
met at the Hibbard school-house Sstur-
day and nominated Plstt Dickson for
supervisor. NJ. NJ. Lowry was chosen
chairman of the meeting and NJ. AL
bert, secretary.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
j. .W.HESS.
Public Sale.

There will be q big public sale on
John w. Wolford's farm, east of Ty-
ner, on Tuesday, Sept. 9th Ten head
horses, 30 head cattle, 55 sheep, 80 head
shoats aud brood sows, 4 farm wagons,
4 set of double harness and mony other
articles. Monroe Steiner will be the
auctioneer and Henry Jerrell, clerk.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

A rich lady, cured of her deafnes g
and noises in the head by Dr. Nichol-
sons Artificial Ear Drums, gave $40
200 to his institute, so that the deaf peo.
pie unable to procure the ear drums
may have them free. Address No, g.
S97, The Nicholson Institute, 78C
Eighth avenue, New York. w6-22
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

The Chicago American has made q
poll of Chicago and announces that the
city will give Mr. Bryan "A, 720 majority
over Mr.. Mckinley.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
Big Rally at Inwood.

More than two hundred people greet.
ed Attorney Samuel Parker at inwood
Tuesday and listened intently while
he discussed the issues of the cam
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

FIGHT FOR VICTORY AT POLLS
BEGINS IN EARNEST.

Democratic Leaders Announce Their
"We-Firmly- -Relieve"-The Republican
Chairman Silent Prohibitionists at
Work i'm Earnest.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

Gas City, which had population of
$50 ten years ago, is shown by the CEN
sus to have q present population of 81
ga.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
A Swedish EdItor Join. nryan.

William Jeanson, one of the publish
ers of the Swedish American Journal, 8
republican paper in South Bend, has
declared for Bryan, and will be one of
the national speakers among the
Swedes, in Illinois, Iowa and Minneso-
ia, and probably in Michigan.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21

The w. q. L. u. will meet with Mrs.
Fannie Cleveland Sept. "a at 7:3O p.
m. All members OF the union are re-
quested to be present.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
A TOWNSHIP CLUB.
DEMOCRATS OF CENTER TOWN
SHIP PERFECT A GENERAL
TOWNSHIP CLUB.

Officers of Club Chosen Delegates Select
ed tO Attend the Convention of Demo
cratic Clubs at indianapolis Other
Matters of Interest Discussed.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-21
PETER DISHER.
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-27
THE NEED OF RAIN.

The good people Of Minnesota should
remember today to pray for rain-much
rain. What Is needed by the agricultu-
ralists of the state is not an occasional
scattering shower, but a steady down.
pour, which will soak alike the just and
the unjust. We need rain that will PEN
citrate and permeate the six inches Of
dry soil in which the vegetation Is itf
serious danger of parching and dying.
The spring sown crops will suffer se1i-
GUS injury soon if there is not a pient-
ful rain. and the continued dryness is
favorable to the breeding of all manner
of destructive insects which threaten the
crops
The danger from drouth is as yet only
threatening. but another week or ten
days continuance of it will do irreparabe
injury to the agricultural interests this
year. Copious rains within the next
week will save the situation and insure
for the state the most bountiful crops
it has had for many years.
There is danger in the timbered re-
gions of the state on account of the lack
of rain. The pine woods are approaching
the dryness of finder. The undergrowth
IS parched and withered and the grass
is yellow as in the fall of the year. For
est fires have occurred already, and
more serious cOnfiagrat;ons are bound to
follow if rain does not fall very shortly.
Rain has threatened to fall upon the
city of St. Paul scores of times within
the past month, but envious winds have
blown the threatening clouds away each
time. There have been but two showers
in St. Paul this spring. and the condition
of lawns, bOulevards and gardens is one
of distressing dryness. If the effects of
drouth are so perceptibie In a city where
sprinkling carts and garden hose are
available and largely mitigate the trouble,
some idea of the condition Of the fields
and woods in the country districts, where
no ameliorating water supply is avail
able, can be formed. Dust in the fields
and the gardens and dust ankle-deep in
the roads. Farmers are becoming anx-
ious and if prayer can remove the cause
of their anxiety the city church-goers
should not forget them today.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-27

shares under the federal law is graded
in two ways according to the degree of
kinship of the legatee and according to
the value of the legacy. The initial rate
is determined by the degree of knship.
A legacy to a husband or wife is exempt.
Eegacies to others must pay tax. which
rises as the degree of kinship is more re-
mote, until property passing to strangers
in blood pays per cent. To this initial
rate, a progressive rate, according to the
value of the legacy passing, is applied.
Property valued under $4,000 is exempt;
between $4,000 and SIS. 900 is regulated by
kinship The rate rises with the amount
until property exceeding 100000 is re-
CURED to pay the rate fixed by kinship
multiplied by three.
The right of the federal government to
tax inheritances is thus established. and
to tax them along progressive lines. such
as are outlined above. The fact that the
state regulates the power to grant inheri-
tances and exercises the power to tax
the property represented by such proYi-
sions does not prevent the general gov
eminent from exercising similar power,
and it can impose whatever tax it thinks
proper short of a confiscatory one on the
property left by deceased persons.
1t ought to be said that the construc-
ton put by the court on the language of
the act, whereby it declares only that
the several and separate devises exceed
ing $4,000 are affected by the provisions
of the tax law. is very reasonable
and mercifuI one. It exempts from taxa
ton all provisions made for those who re-
ceive less than $4,000. Should million
aire. for instance, devise his estate in
requests Of $4,000 or less each. no matter
to whom the whole estate would escape
taxation under the inheritance tax law.
Should he. on the other hand, bequeath
his property in bulk to any one person.
It would be made to pay the largest al
lowauce.
The decision in these cases will proba-
bly, have the effect of arousing public in
terest in this subject and bringing
forward legislation more or less radical
throughout the several states looking.
in certain states at least. to the IMPOSE
ton of the limit of taxation on large
estates descending by devise or inhert-
lance.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-27
THE PRESBYTERIAN CREED AND
MODERN SCIENCE.

The Rev. DR.. John H. Boyd. a Presbyte-
rian minister, of Evanston, ILL.,. in re-
cent sermon, made the statement as part
Of his defense of the Presbyterian creed
that predestination is evolution, and orig
inal sin is heTedity. He contended that
the doctrines of Calyinism are upheld by
science, and the difference is only one Of
terms. He might have alleged that the
atomic theory Is simply restatement of
the doctrine of Brahminism by the mod
err scientist.
But Mr.. Boyd overlool1s one of the chief
factors profoundly affecting both evolu-
ton and heredity, and that is environ
ment. The influence Of heredity can be
greatly modified by environment, and ev-
olution is, in the opinion Of many sci
entists, largely dependent on environ
ment.
1t has never been advanced that envi-
ronment could have the slightest possible
effect uDCn predestination or original sin.
or that it could in any way have any
effect. To be predestined is to be beyond
the effects of environment. No change
or modification is possible for the pre-
destined, for if there was, then there
would be no such thing as predestina-
ton for them. 1t would be something csc.
The statement that predestination and ev-
olution are synonymous terms is MT
sound ard will not hold water.
Original sin implies that the child is
born with an evil faint derived from It's
original parents, and the doctrine holds
that every child born is so afflicted. But
the theory of heredi;y differs Ia this vital
particular from the doctrine Of original
sin-that heredity does not necessarily
mean the transmission of evil. 1t teaches
that both good and evil traits or tenden-
Cies may be transmitted from parents to
children, and that they are tendencies
only, which may be eradicated or cult
waited by culture or environment. Original
sin cannot be said to be a tendency. It
is an accomplished fact. and has reach
ed its full development at the birth of the
child. 1t may be atoned in a spiritual
way, but cannot be eradicated, and will
certainly fall upon the chlldren's children
according to the doctrine, and 50 on with
out end. There is no escape from 1t. ami
it is persistently and essentially of evil.
From the evils of heredlty there is an es-
cape. because they are physical and su.-
ceptible of change by external influences.
Predestination and original sin are spir-
itual propositions only. while evolution
and heredity are purely physical Just
as the atomic theory deals only with ma
terial and the doctrines of Brahmlnism
with the purely spiritual Dr. Boyd's
statement cannot be accepted other than
as an ingenious attempt to reconcile the
PRESBYTERIAN creed with modern ideas
and thought, in which attempt he is not
over successful.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-27
DOES MAN ONLY REASON AND
WOMAN ONLY LOVE-.

Tom Smith of Harlan, To-, has achieved
fame. much to his own surprise, and to
achieve it he climbed upon the unwilling
shoulders of Prof. Oscar Chrisman. of
Emporia, Kan.
1t was at the Mothers convention at
Des Moines, and Prof. Chrisman had read
a weedy, wordy essay on men and women
and love- in which he made the idiotic
remark that iiweman alone loves; man
reasons" The audience of 5000 fe-
males. nine-tenths Of whom were mothers
more or less. promptly Kissed the profess
sor at this stage of his remarks, and they
Kissed at him at intervals until the con-
clusion of his essay when he retired in
that he had not reasoned out the effect
of his remarks before he delivered them
to such an audience
Then Tom Smith, Of Harlan, To-, who up
to that time had been sitting peacefully
and subdued beside his much better half,
cast reason to the winds, and, amid en-
thusiastic applause. tempered by remon-
strative tugs at his coat tails by his more
reasonable wife, he delivered an impas-
stoned roast of the professor and gushed
over the lovable disposition of the male
sex and the Feasonableness of females
generally. Three theu sand motheriy faces
when he sat down. breathless and slightly
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-27
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.

1t has become the fashion to denounce
Unfortunately that peculiar belief
termed Christian Science and those who
believe in or practice it; and the many
intelligent persons who attack or ridicule
it are unsparing in their criticism of both
the faith, if it is a faith, and the be-
levers. That inimitaRble humorist, Mark
Twain, devoted an exceedingly facetious
article to IT IN the recent issue of a month
ly magazine. in which he held up Chris
tian Science, Its teachers and believers to
scorn and contempt.
Other individuals of smaller caIiber and
not gifted with Mr.. Twain's sense of hu-
NOR have seriously and energeticalIy de-
neunced Christian Science as an unmiti-
gated and dangerous fraud. its teachers
as arrant humbugs and its believers aa
poor deludcd crea lures. These critics have
had no good word to say Of this singular
phase of mental disturbance, nor one
charitable word to spare for those who
have accepted 1t. In fact their criticism
has degenerated into bitter and injudicious
attack devoid of fairness or argument.
The opponents of Christian Science have