Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1882 — DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

i or Cierk- Nathaniel S. Bates. ;• Auditor -Ezra 0. N’owels. 1' r Treasurer — • For Sheriff—John W. Duvai.l. For Recorder--John T. Ford. For Coroner— Sylvester Healey. ; or Surveyor—Charles W. Lowman. CommissionersFf ls t, District— George Stalbaum. Second District—David Gray. Third District Edward W. Culp. - , he Republican, referring to Doc. Nichols, says "‘she’ really received but .10.“ * *

Valparaiso Messenger: Hon. Ered i rick Hoover, of Jasper county, has been nominated for State Senator by the Democrats of Jasper, Newton and Benton counties. Mr. Hoover is one <f the FO’idest Democrats in the StateDear “Uncle Dick,” while his atnnn uersis is engaged in preparing hi 8 Nile epistles for the Republican, ca j rs and paces about him in high gi.-r. For the time being he forgets inability to carry out the programme laid down by the “ring” b sses.

1-eMotte voted to take the tax off .■mb cheeks, patent medicines and jcrtumery, every cent of w hie goes direct into the National Treasury. • i'.c voted, too, to continue the tax of ”7 per cent, on trace chains, every penny of which is taken from the farmers and placed in the coffers of monopolists- none going into the treasury. Certain Republican county candidates in extreme anxiety for Mr. Robinson circulated reports against Mr. Nowels which were easily set at rest, and a few rails dropped from the fences of the falsehood peddlers. The fond anticipation that the reports would not reach Mr. N. were doomed to cruel disappoiatment," the parties very promptly and properly reportjag to. Mr. Nowels.

Mr. DeMotte, the republican candi- <’ fbr Congress in this district, vot, ■d, to increase the tax on woolen ; iiodS'from 35 to 85 cents on the d011.,j. 1.,j. Referring to this biil, the Chicago Tribune, republican authority, M he enormity of this vote is strikir g. even in this day of erase for in<>eused taxation. The present tax on men’s and women’s woolen or ver ted underclothes, including women's and children’s stockings, is thiity-iive cents on each dollar’s worth, but these 130 Representatives vot -<1 to increase this tax to eighty live cents on the dollar. At present the woman taking $2 to astorejo buy hosiery has to take seventy cents additionil to pay the tax on the goods; but if this bill for„which these 130 Representatives voted becomes a law she will have to take with her $l7O io |; y the tax on $2 worth of boseiry. ” And the Cincinnati Gazette, also republican authority, says: “The duty which they intend to fix is equal to 85 per cent. They proved that they needed it in order to be able to sustain their manufacture, therefore it follows that they add it all to the price of their goods. The same rate is levied on the packages and shipping expenses, and the dealer has io have a commission and profit on the duty the same as on the other cost, all of which makes it easily amount to 100 per cent-, which is addt d to the priee of home goods. Thus every farmer, laborer, lumberer, every worker us iron, wood, woof, eotton, every man, woman and child, who wears knit stockings, undershirts, drawers, or any other knit goods must pay double price for them. One of thu arguments for this was the duty on wool and woolens; but a large part of the knit goods pre all cotton, and t* e American knit goods that profess wool are more than half cotton. Yet tb y claim 85 per cent, because of wool But the value of the product ot all knit goods for 1880 was only $27,618,727 not a fiftieth part of the farming industry alone, which is taxed at so high a rate on its wear of these goods. The capital invested is not a twentieth part of that invested in the iron industry, all of whose laborers have to pay this bonus on these articles for themselves and fam fies.” Radical papers attempt to relieve him with the statement that the vote was given to correct an jrror in the law. They neglect to state, however, that the error consisted in the fact that the lawjwas inoperative, and Mr. DeMotte voted to give It full force and effect.