Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Republican candidate-for-county-asses • aor Milla also seems to have given up his defence of high local taxes. Evidently the attempt on the part of the Republican to make the new tax law odious has proven abortive. It has nothing to iav this week. Will the county board at its meeting next month so adjust local levies that no more taxes than actually necessary shall be collected from the people ot Jasper county. Pointedly but most correctly put: "If all the opposi rs of a protective tariff wo’d unite this year we should have an end of the robbery. "’hy waste votes on the alliance and prohibition candidates when you know t-.-ey are half votes for protection ?•

NO CAUSE FOR SURPRISE. Albany (N. 1( Argus: The disclosure that 1 homos C. Platt has a contract for the labor of all the convicts of Tennessee for SIOO,OOO a year ought to ercite no surprise. All the employers of convict labor are protco. ionists. In its report of the proceedings of special session Commissioners' Court, the Rensselaer Republican, July 7, 1892, has the following: *The con tact with Fleener & Perkins feacimied and those gentlemen forbidden to make any further examination of the connty records.” J he above shows that not only was tho contract rescinded, but the experts were “forbidden to make any further examination of the county records.” This order of the Board has the sound of abruptness, and the reasons for it have been called for. The motives therefor may be very proper, and the reasons given without any impropriety. The demand and no response is calculated to create the impres. sion that there is something “rotten in Denmark. It won’t do forrthe members of the Board to cast themselves upon the'r dignity and press to the front their personal standing with the people. Jas. G. Blaine has a highs‘ending with his party' while his unburned letters show that he was capable of making on offerlto sell his mlings as speaker. Schuyler Colfax stood high until, in an evil moment, he committed political suicide. A satisfactory response will dis rm suspicion that there may be something wrong in thia matter. ,

The Republican says that the Senate committee reports that " The McKinley tariff law has reduced the cost of living 2.4 percent., raised the rate of wages .34 per sent.; reduced the annual revenue, $50,000,000; raised the trade balance to $203,000,000. And adds that Senators Carlisle and Harris concurred in the report. This is all bosh. Mr. Catlisle. in his speech in the Senate, tore into shredt the report of ihe republican committee. The new tax law is not so much to 1 lame for increased local levies. Mr. Mills and the Republican now blame th* Township Trustees.