Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET

For Clerk, For Sheriff, For Auditor, LUCIUS STRONG. I or Treasurer. WILLIAM M. HOOVER. For Recorder, DAVID W. SHIELDS. For Coroner, Fur Surveyor Foi Commissioner—Second District, GEORGE H. BROWN, Jr.

“Fourth(lie.) There is no Democratic candidate for the office (of Senator) their convention having declared in effect that Mr. Thompson was good enough forthem;’’ etc. —Our dark-eyed brother of the Message." Witn some, ‘politics is business,’ and we should like to know wheth er or not a “special bid” is underlying the above falsehood. •Jasper county delegates to the Democratic Congressional convenvention at Delphi last Wednesday, having thought of the probable preferences of the Sentinel,” etc. —Message. Ah, dear brother Horace, the Jasper county delegates—two thir Is at least—had in view the result, an acceptable dark horse, are well pleased, and do not seek your sanction. Our Horace says of the Repubpublican Senatorial Convention: “No special bid was made by the convention for the influence or vote of Gen. Vilas’ subordinate at Goodland.” Bro. Kitt will please make all due allowance for the eccentricities of Fraud Hayes’ representative to Turk Island, and P. M. Gen. ex-rebel Key’s subordinate at Rensselaer, for his reference to “special bids.” He has declared that politics was business —not sentiment—with him, and we suppose, therefore, is a sort of political contractor, holding “special bids” in high esteem. He opposed Thompson’s nomination but is now engaged in his support.--But we can’t say that “special bids” controlled his “influence or vote” before and since the convention. - •’•». —— ■ - The Message, (Republican) produces the point that in 1877-8-9 with a smaller tax-duplicate, a Dem< cratic auditor (H. A. Barkand a board of commission-

oers mixed in polites, the tax-lev-ies for county revenue were only $4,4.50 and $5 per sl,oco valuation and £IO,OOO to $12,000 were invested in public improvemnts; that with a Republican auditor and i card of commissioners the levy for 1884-5-6 was sl2, $8.50 and $7.50 per sl,ooo, and for public improvements a special tax is levied. These things may be changed by the election of Lute Strong Auditor, and George H. Brown, jr. ? Commissioner. It is not the part of wisdom to question the motives or the political reliability of Bro. James, but rather select Lute Strong for Auditor and George H Brown jr., for Commissioner. Let us have change. Our friend, S. P. T., alias Mental Vigor, contributes a couple of articles to the Republican this week. One, a short sketch of his life; t a* other an attack on his competitor over the signature of ‘ Tax Payer,’; wherein hedemands that “th books be opened.” Let the book 8 be opened away back to and including the years when Mr. T. was the official head of the schools of the county.