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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
THE LAST OF THE
DAVIS CABINET.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

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When the confederate states
government was organized, in Febru-
airy, 1861, Jefferson Davis named as
his cabinet Robert Toombs, secretary
of state; Charles G. Memminger, secre-
tary of the treasury; L. Pope Walker,
secretary of war: S. r. Mallory, sec
rotary of the navy; John Fl. Reagan,
postmaster general, andJudah p. Ben
iamin, attorney general. Before the
year ended, r. NJ. T. Hunter had sue
ceeded ToombS as secretary of states,
and Judah b. Benjamin had succeeded
Walker as secretary of war.
In 1862 Benjamin became secretary
of state, James A. Seldom secretary
of war, and Thomas H. Watts became
attorney general, to be succeeded in
1868 by George Davis. In 1864 George
A. Trenholm succeeded Menninger as
secretary of the treasury, and in jan
uary, 1865, General John c.. Breckin-
ridge became secretary OF war, Seldom
resigning because of criticism by the
Virginia legislature.
All of these cabinet officers, except
Reagan, are dead. ToOmbs died in
1885, Hunter in 1887, Memminger in
1888, Breckenridge in 1875. OF the
cabinet officers with Mr.. Davis from
first to last, Mallory died in 1873,
Benjamin in Paris in 1884, and Rea-
gan, the sole survivor of them all, is
reported by the daily press to be
fighting his last fight against death,
at the age of SO.
Benjamin was the only one of the
Davis cabinet who declined TO accept
the situation after the war. He went
abroad in 1865 and lived abroad until
his death. Hunter acted with the
democratic party, and just before his
death was appointed to federal office
by President Cleveland.
Reagan was the only member of the
cabinet captured with Mr.. Davis, but
soon after his capture he wrote an
open letter to the people of Texas adj
vocating laws which should grant ne
groes civil rights and political rights
with an educational qualification.
This letter greatly excited the dem
ocratS of Texas, but i'm 1874 they
elected Mr.. Reagan tocongress, where
he became conspicuous in interstate
commerce legislation. In 1887 he
took his seat in the United States
senate, and since that time has been
one of the most pronounced national
lists i'm the South.
All of Mr.. LincOln's two cabinets
are dead, so that Mr.. Reagan is the
sole survivor of all the cabinet officers
of the great war period.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

A correspondent of the Whitley
County News enters complaint as
follows:
In things general South Whitley
does not take back seat for any town
of its size and when it comes to hust-
ling, usually can make fair showing.
But when it comes to Sunday School
movement, like that being observed
all over Indiana this week, she isn't
sin it" a little bit, even when COM
pared to such towns as Larwill and
Collamer. Columbia City: Churubus-
CO, Collins and the towns named are
all holding mass meetings this week
in observance of Sunday School week
and are today making a h0uSe-to-
house canvas to ascertain some i'm
pOrtant facts in connection with
church and Sunday School work, while
our town is taking good, restful
''snooze" over the matter. Had it
been Sunday ball game, horse race
or an exhibition of the ssmanly art''
its devotees would have made a good
showing, but not so with a Sunday
School movement We wonder who is
to blame that religious matters in
South Whitley are at low ebb?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
THE INDIANA BANKERS.

The annual convention of the Ind
lana Bankers Association, which be-
gins today, is notable from the re-
markable condition of prosperity that
characterizes the financial situation of
Indiana. The whole country, of
course, has had part and lot in the re-
markable prosperity of recent years,
but Indiana and indianapolis have
come forward so greatly that one feels
almost as if it were special prosper
ity. The tremendous advance that
our community has made in recent
times has been illustrated in nothing
more clearly than in the banking ia
cilities through increased growth,
through multiplication of functions,
and, more than all, in the accumula-
tion of surplus that is making us more
and more creditorcommunity. With
wiser laws we should be able to sup
ply money for obligations held in
eastern communities. 1t is not a
question of credit. Indiana's credit
for long years has been golden. 1t
has been steadily increasing. 1t
stands today unrivaled. Without sug-
costing any question of politics, it
may be said that the conspicuous part
that Indiana played in the financial
crisis of few years ago and the con-
spicuous part that she has since play
ed in securing laws that recognize the
situation and have done much to es-
tabliSh firm financial condition, gave
the states credit vast accession of
strength. 1t was evidence indubita-
BILE that the feeling of earlier days in
this community had entirely passed
away, that the people here not merely
understood the matter of fact, but the
question OF theory. No state has
come forward more splendidly or more
along the whole line than Indiana has,
and in no one thing is she to be con-
graduated more than the way in
which her credit has grown, her finan-
cial standing has improved, her bank
ing facilities increased and the really
valuable part that she has played in
national financial affoirc Tpd;op,
polls News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
HARRlSON'S ESTI-
MATE OF ROOSEVELT

General Benz. Harrison's estimate
of Theodore Roosevelt is interesting.
Here is an extract from it as it APP
pears i'm the November number OF
Success"
Should Mr.. Roosevelt aspire to be-
come President of the United States
l believe that he will ultimately be
successful. First, he has the courage
requisite, and, secondly, the charac-
ter. His varied life as ranchman,
hunter, soldier and politician, has
placed him in such close proximity
with SO many different men that they
have had ample opportunity to judge
of his qualities, and to understand
when he says or does thing. There
are many who believe that he is too
aggressive, but Mr.. Roosevelt makes
strength of character an object. To
him it is the deed, and not the word.
1t is the power to act, to do some
thing, as l have said, to produce re-
suit. That result may be right or il
may be wrong; but, Notwithstanding,
it is the result, and Mr.. Roosevelt is
satisfied. If it be wrong, he will be
one of the first to set it right. One
great thing in his favor is his abso-
lutte adherence to everything that is
strictly honest. This belief makes
him man of frank, open expression.
He is quick to say a thing, for he
knows that what he says is the truth.
During his civil service commission
days saw great deal of him, and it
was that phase of his character that
impressed me most. He seemed to
let it permeate his clerks, and his
presence among them was very graft
flying. Not one in his department
did he consider inferior to himself, and
he once kept me waiting while he
showed an erraId boy the shortest
route from the treasury building to
the capitol.
There are few men in the United
States whose character is SO well and
widely understood. That has been
one of Mr.. Roosevelt's secrets of sue
cess, Ito have his character under
stood. He wants all men who regard
him as public servant to put implicit
trust in him. If he had no other re-
cord than mis- services as an .employe
of the civil service commission, he
would be deserving of the nations
gratitude and confidence. 1t was an
Office that brought the men who oc-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

The annual farmers institute will
be held in Plymouth this winter and
it is not too early for the business
men to begin figuring on how best to
exemplify their hospitality. Every
merchant in this city has direct in
terest in inducing the attendance OF
every progressive farmer in the cOun-
ty. These gatherings of wide awake
agricultural experts from every part
of our trading territory have much
wider possibilities for benefit to the
town than are disclosed by the fixed
program.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

cupied it into little or no prominence,
but Mr. Roosevelt was not content to
hide his life. / believe that, if he had
been given the most conservative work
in the country, he would have made it
an important affair. He is forceful to
the backbone and he has the keen
ability to make his value known in his
work. He is studying political eco
Monies of this country with hope OF
becoming master of economic ex-
preston. He has cut himself out, as
public servant, and no matter what
position he is placed in, he will strive
to win public confidence. l do not
predict that Mr.. Roosevelt will ever
be the President of this country, but
he is the proper metal that makes a
President.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

The Plymouth Democrat in justifi-
cation of the course pursued by The
Chicago American states that ''evi-
IDENTITY Mr.. Hearst is publishing just
such paper as the people want, and
If there is any wrong anywhere it is
with the people who patronize it, and
not the American" This is most
preposterous reasoning. There is no
good argument for pandering to the
depraved appetite. The press should
seek to ennOble and glorify humanity
and make it better, instead of finding
out its weak points in order to crafty
them. Certainly the newspaper
should be the educator of the people
and should strive to better, rather
than minister to their Inflated and de-
PRAYED dispositions.-Laporte Repub-
lican
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

The San Francisco Examiner has
been somewhat stirred up by the gen.
eral revolt of the decent portion OF
the Pacific Coast public against its
indecent, disloyal and un-American
course. So long as this protest was
confined to mild criticism, or even to
abuse, the Examiner lost no sleep,
but when the subscription and ad.
vertising patronage began to fall off,
it evidently became ratified and COM
menced TO crawfish, clai ling that the
onslaught was due to professional
jealousy on the part of its contempt.
raries.-Los Angeles Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

The responsibility of obliteTting
the New York Journal rests with the
American people-the readers of
newspapers. Let the people refuse to
touch the papers Of this malignant
enemy of McKinley-the man who
preached Indictment and incendiarism
against him and against authority, to
the very second when his disciple IS
bullet entered the Presidents body
let them turn away from his anarchis-
tic sheet with horror and the rest will
be quickly done. The advertiser is
not fool. He will not post his wares
and spend his money in sheet that
is not bought by the American peo-
ple.-New York Press.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

lOr Sale, W Have mtICdHCllC
that they will want to
patronize, to maintain good roads
from the farms to the city.
The question of roads is settling it.
self all over the country by a general
policy of improvement that Marshall
county cannot escape. TIE county is
out of debt, it has all the buildings
and large bridges that it needs, and
the next thing in order in the onward
march is a modern highway system
such as the laws of Indiana now place
within reach through township cleo
tions and longtime bonds. A road
that is smooth and solid in all kinds of
weather is an inestimable blessing and
is mutual benefit to farmers and
town people.
Plymouth merchants need no urging
In their own behalf. For the most
part they keep well-selected stocks of
just such goods as farmers want, they
make prices that will compare favor
ably with those of any other city, they
treat their customers literally and
courteously, and they use printers
ink to tell their farmer friends what
they have. So far as this considera-
tion is concerned it is already COM
piled with and our merchants will
always be up to date
1t is i'm the matter of affording a
market to the farmers for the sale of
their wares that the great problem
lies. Ii every farmer within ten miles
of this city could be induced to make
his sales here the effect upon the city's
business would be magical. The aver
age farmer wants to buy where he
sells and he sells where he can to the
best advantage, distance, roads and
prices considered. We want more
factories and should permit no reason
able opportunity to get one pass bv.
We do not want them because their
operatives would be patrons of the
farmers, for that would not be the
result; a thousand employees brought
here would not add cent to the price
of grain, stock, milk or any other
agricultural product of importance.
We want them that our merchants
may sell to them. No number of
factories would add to the attractive
ness of our markets for farmers unless
those factories use something the farm
ers have to sell.
And that is the kind of mills that
will best serve the needs of Plymouth.
Mills to manufacture wheat, corn,
oats and rye INTO foods can pay more
for grain than elevators can. Facto-
ries to preserve fruits and vegetables
can add immensely to the profit of
farming everywhere within their
reach. Diaries perform the same SER
vice. 1t is not necessary to name
others. A Thousand farmers added
to the city's list of regular customers
would be better every way than twice
that many laborers, and they are now
here, within reach, waiting for the
invitation. The money required TO
bring one kind of factory will bring
another and it is better to take the
kind that will do the most good.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
ANOTHER OF DAMS LIES.

An exceedingly unimportant mat
ter, but one showing the absolute lit
tleness of them an even in petty things,
is McDonald's statement that the Re-
publican was born Oct. 9, 1856, thus
being 40 years old when discontinued,
while the head of the Democrat con-
tanning that statement bears a line
reading ''Forty-sixth year-Whole
number 1885," his object being to
convey the impression that his paper is
the older.
October 9, 1856, is wien the name
of the Republican was adopted, the
paper itself having been established in
June, 1851, and never having missed a
single issue. 1t was merely change
of name. The Plymouth Democrat
was established as a new paper Janu-
airy 26, 1860, and it is therefore Al
years and months old, instead of be-
ing in its 46th year. A paper known
as the Marshall County Democrat was
established Nov. 10, 1855, but it died
and was discontinued in 1859. Truth
full Dan, in order to give his paper the
appearance of an aye it does not
possess tackled the lives of the two
Democrats together and changed is
number back to what it would ha re
been had the old paper not died and a
new one taken its place.
But he cannot escape the dilemma
his own deceitfulness has led him in
to. If the Republican is to be held
as dating from the adoption of that
name and the issue of volume l num-
Der l under it, Oct. 9, 1856, then the
same rule must apply to the Demo-
craft and its birth must be placed Jan.
26, 1860; but if the Democrat is to be
carried back across the period of it's
burial, back of its present name and
back of the volume l number l start
ed in 1860, then the Republican must
have the benefit of the same rule and
be permitted to go back through its
uninterrupted life to the beginning, in
June, 1851. In either case the Re-
publican was the older paper.
The fact is, and Daniel knows it,
that the Republican was born fifty
years ago last June and has never
missed an issue since then, and the
Democrat was born forty-one years
ago last January and never could have
lived any single year since then with
out aid from the public treasury.
When he applies one rule to increase
the age of the Democrat and another
to decrease the age Of the Republican,
in order to make his paper the older,
he enacts lie, a wilful, knowing lie
with mean motive. But that is
Dan Mcdonald as he is known inPlym-
oufl,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
INDEPENDENCE. NOT NEUTRALITY,

The trend of the times is toward in
dependent journalism. We don t
mean neutral journalism, as is often
confused with independent journal
ism. Independence in newspaper
refers particularly to the tone of its
editorial columns. Independence in
this regard means that the paper may
not necessarily follow any particular
political creed to the last ditch, right
or wrong. In fact, the trend is to-
ward independence of thought and
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

action in the newspapers of the day
because the people find the best SER
vice to society is rendered by the class
of newspapers not financially depend
ent ON the success of any particular
party or the success of any particular
candidates for Office. For this reason,
in the rural districts, the name of a
party attached as the name of the
organ of such party is financial
burden to the publisher of such pa
per--Nappanee News.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

The hardest job the Chicago Inter
Ocean has ever tackled is that of in
terpreting the Schley hearing to
Schley's disadvantage. 1t every step
of the inquiry the old sea dogs tri-
umph has increased until now it is
complete and his:detractors are con-
founded. Well may he say of them
as-he said of the Spaniards at Santa
go, ''Don 't,cheer, boys: the poor dev-
lis are DYING"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
GOOD LYING
Is Often a Cause of Bad Health.

That bad health and good living often
go together as cause and effect is a prop
osition which will be accepted at once
by any practising physician. Common
sense living would demand that we ate
only when hungry and that food should
be chosen first for its nutritive value and
then for its palatableness. So-called
ugood living" reverses these rules.
Meals arc taken at stated hours without
reference to hunger or physical require
ments. If appetite is lacking, stimulat-
ing cordials or liquors are often used to
induce a false appetite. Food is not
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
HARRISON DAY
November D Designated For Observ.
ance in Indiana Schools. :

State Supt. of Schools Frank Jones
has issued circular letter to school
superintendent and teachers of the
Indiana schools, urging their cooper
alton i'm the observance of Friday,
November p, as Harrison Day. The
object of observance is three-fold: 1)
To commemorate the life and work of
President Harrison; ~ to acquaipt
the pupils of the schools with the
movement to erect memorial; and
(3) to collect fund to be known as
the "School Children's Gift to the
Benz. Harrison Memorial Fund"
Mr.. Jones suggests that the literary
exercises should cover the life of Har-
rison as boy, young man, soldier,
lawyer, statesman, President and cit
izen, and that the limit of the amount
to be given by any pupil should not
exceed five cents. He also suggests
that no pupil should be made to feel
that he must contribute, but that
whatever is given shall be entirely
voluntary.
The money collected is to be placed
in the hands of the county superin-
tendents to be transmitted to the
state superintendent, and will be by
him turned over in a single sum to
the treasurer of the Harrison Mon
ument association as the school chill
drenS gift to the Memorial fund.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

Metsker says in his cubby-hole pa
per that he is being talked about as a
congressional candidate on the demo
cratic ticket. We cannot tell wheth-
er this is an opening gun, or a mere
feeler, or just dig at Dan.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

The expressions of grateful women
who have experienced wonderful bless
ings using Rocky Mountain Tea, COM
pensates us for our efforts in their be-
half. CSC. j. w. Hess.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

1t follows the flag. Manila, P. 1.
The soldiers coming here ask US to
order Rocky Mountain Tea, speaking
highly Of this remedy. By steamer !,
ten gross. MIzELLAUx Co. J. w.
Hess.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
THE BEST KIND TO TAKE.

There are three principal considera-
tions in the problem of extending the
agricultural trade of plymouth, name
ly, to provide a market attractive
enough to lead farmers to
bring their farm produce here
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31

suffered much with constipation. tried
many different medicines which were
recommended to cure the trouble but
these only made me worse and my con-
dition was more sluggish and weak than
before. Ny stomach was in such a weak
condition that the least and easiest kind
of food to digest would get sour in my
stomach and / had such a weak and de-
bilitated appearance that il seemed as if
1 had hardly any blood in my whole
body. Muscles were soft and fabby,
circulation poor and slow Suffered
greatly from cold hands and feet. At
last came across an advertisement Of
Dr. Pierce's. 1 wrote to them for
question list blank which / filled out
and returned to them stating my symp-
toms and pains. To my great surprise I
received by return mail the best and
most substantial advice that I ever be-
fore read. This advice gave me the
greatest confidence in the Worlds Dis
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
Total in county f.

Total in county ....... 6,505
Six colored voters were reported in
Union, making the total number of
voters in the county G, 511.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-10-31
Marshall County Voters.

The number of white male adults i'm
Marshall county by townships. as re-
turned by the township trustees in
the enumeration of this year, is as