Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1889 — A LAW FOR PRIMARIES. [ARTICLE]

A LAW FOR PRIMARIES.

Candidates for city offices who are contocting all sorts of schemes bv which they may obtain a nomination, might be profited by studying the law enacted by the last Legisla ture, intended to maintain political purity. The act provides that “any person, being a candidate for nomination to any office of profit or trust, under the constitution or laws of this State or of the United States, before any convention held by any political party, or at any primary election, who loans, pays, or gives, or prom ises to loan, pay or give any money or thing of value to any delegate or elector, or any other person, for the purpose of receiving the vote influence ence of such delegate, elector or person for his nomination, and whoevedhires or otherwise employs for consideration any person to work for the nomination of any person to any office, or to work for the selection of any delegate to be chosen at any party convention or primary election, shall, upon conviction thereof, be finod in any sum, not more than SSOO, and disfranchised, and rendered incapable of holding any office 01 trust or profit within this State for any determinate period, and if nom inated shall be ineligible to hold such office”. The law also provides that, “Whoever, being a candidate for any office, or gives, directly or indirectly, or offers’ or promises to loan, or give any money or other thing oi value to any elector for the purpose of influencing or retaining the vote of such elector, or to induce such elector to work or labor for the election of such candidate, or to reira;n from working or laboring for the election of any other candidate, or to any person, to secure or to retain tne influence or vote of such elector in his behalf as such candidate, or to be used by such person in any way to influence the vote of any elector, or of electors generally, for himself or any candidate or ticket, and whoever hires or otherwise employs for consideration any person to work at the polls on election day for the election of any candidate to be voted for at such election shall be fined in any sum not more than SI,OOO nor less than S3OO. and shall be disfaanchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of profit or trust within the State for any determinate period.”

The latest trust formed is a combination of bankers and moneyed men in New York to compel the United States treasurer to purchase bonds at their own price. Incase of a refusal they threaten to force a momentary crises. As it is only a ‘ private affair” the public has hothing to do with the matter, at least that is Premier Blaine’s idea of ‘‘trusts.”

Bob—l say, Sam, why did you jilt her? Sam—Oh, hang it, she lisped! “Yell, that is a charming defect in a pretty girl.” “If you heard her say thweet Tham instead of sweet Sam you wouldn’t wonder.” “Why,l never had any difficulty that way. She always used to call me darling Bob.”— [Boston Herald.

“Can you lend me $5?” “Can’t do it.” “Why not?” “I never lent you any money, so 1 don’t know whether you will pay me or not.” “Well,’ great Scott! isn’t it worth $5 to find out what kind of a man I am? I might strike you for SIOO some day.”—[Harper’s Bazar. Three school boys of Sompoe, Cal, thought they’d have fun this vacation playing goldmining. So they began on a worn out claim on the beech near Point Sal, and in twentyfour days, working not more than eight hours a day, made $240. If von want a nice Comb Case boy a box of Baking Pow er, at

Priest & Paxton’s

One of the “sweet graduates” in a neighboring town,says the Sumter County, Florida, Times, read an essay on Physiology. in which she said: “The human body is divided into three parts—the head, the chist and the stomick. The head contains the eyes and brains, if any. The chist contains the lungs and a piece of the liver. The stomick is devoted to the bowels, of which there are five, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y.”

Nearly everything that the farmer buys nowds controlled by the trusts, but when te goes to sell his wheatand cattle the trusts operate just the other way Trusts are “private affairs,” though, according to Blaine, and neither the president nor congress nas any right to interfere.