Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — Page 4

jISPER COUNTY DEMOGRRL f. t. BIBCOCK, IDiTOR AID NBLIWR. **“— 11 ' 1 ——’—■ L ' Holered at the Poet-office at Rensselaer, Ind. 'as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: OSS YEAR n.oo SIX MONTHS 50c THREE M0NTH5.........;..;-'........................25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application OFFICE on Van Rensselaer Street, First Door North of Ellis A Murray’s Store.

State Ticket.

For Secretary of State. SAMUEL RALSTON, of Boone County. For Auditor of State, JOHN W. MINOR, of Boone County, For Treasurer of State, HUGH DOUGHERTY, of Wells County, For Attorney General, JOHN G, M'NUTT, of Vigo County. For Clerk of Supreme Court, HENRY WARRUM, of Marion County. ''’ For Superintendent Public Instruction, W. B. SINCLAIR, of Starke County. For State Statistician, JAMES S. GUTHRIE, of Brown County. For State Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT, of Hendricks County. For Judges Supreme Court. 2d District, LEONARD J. HACKNEY, of Shelby County. Third District, JAMES M'CABE, of Warren County. Fifth District, TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, of St. Joseph County. For Judges of Appellate Court, First District, EDWIN TAYLOR, of Vanderburgh County. Second District, C. J. KOLLMEYER, of Bartholomew County. Third District; EDGAR A. BROWN, of Marion County. Fourth District, WILLIAM S. DIVEN, of Madison County. Fifth District, JOHANNES KOPELKE, of Lake County. For Congress, JOHN ROSS, of Tippecanoe County. For Representative, DAiIDH. YEOMAN, of Jasper County. The County Ticket. For County Clerk. JOHN F. MAJOR, of Carpenter Tp. For County Auditor, GEORGE O. STEMBEL, of WlieatiieUl Tp. For County Treasurer, MARION I. ADAMS, of Marion Tp, For County Sheriff. WILLIAM C. HUSTON, of Milroy Tp. For County Surveyor, DAVID E. GARRIOT, of Union Tp. For County Coroner, DR. P. J. POTHUISJE, of Carpenter Tp. Commissioner Ist District, FRANK M. HERSHMAN, of Walker Tp. Commissioner 2nd District, LUCIUS STRONG, of Rensselaer.

Abe and Chizum worked the people to a queen’s taste in making them believe there was a big thing in those tax-dodging cases. Nothing has been done in those so-called tax-dodging suits and never will be, but Chizum and Abe owe their nominations to their little play for popularity. As a side entertainment to Crumpacker's campaign this year, he might hire a good, deep-chested vocalist to travel with him and sing “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Hawaii.—Morocco Courier. If any proposition was ever made to the commissioners tending to add to the cost of the new court house, and was not promptly accepted, we have thus far failed to find any record of the fact in our examination of the minutes of their proceedings. The introduction of cable and electric cars nearly destroyed the market for horses and mules, but along comes a war to make things even. The Government has purchased fifteen thousand mules and four thousand horses since the opening of hostilities, and is ■yearning for more. To carry fayor with the fanners of the county and district Mr. Halleck and Prosecutor Chizum instituted what were known as the taxdodger suits, and they no doubt owe their nomination in part at least to that fact, Why is it, now, that the cases are not brought to trial? Two terms of court have passed since the suits were begun but nothing has been done in the matter. Will the people listen to any protestations they make in the future? '« ’

If the county commissioners wish to get in another little strike for popularity on that walk and coping matter it might be well enough to have several pieces of the coping re-jointed. Many of the ends are badly broken and would hardly pass muster with any but our own board of commissioners. Better look the matter up, Abe.

The Ninth district congressional convention met in’ Frankfort, Wednesday and nominated Joseph B. Cheadle on the first ballot by a vote of 82 to 35. Tipton and Montgomery counties voted solidly for John B. McCardleof Montgomery, the other counties, Carroll, Fountain, Boone, Clinton and Hamilton, under the unit rule voting unanimously for Cheadle. Mr. Cheadle had previously been nominated by the populists, thus fusion is complete in the Ninth. The original contract for shingling the new court house called for No. 1 stock, Bangor Union slate, it seems, but No. 1 Brownsville slate was afterwards contracted for in lieu of the former, at an additional expense of $2,100. There is comparatively little difference in the cost of slate roofing, and it is now almost or quite as cheap to put on slate as ordinary wood shingles. Still the changing from one grade of slate to another cost $2,100.00. Heinzman Bros., it would seem, were determined to get all they could out of that corner stone for the new court house. We find later on that they presented a bill of $96.00 for “preparations in laying corner stone.” This “claim” was carried over for several meetings of the Board, and finally dismissed, the commissioners and contractors having evidently come to the conclusion that it might create a little talk to pull the county for more than $5lO for a one hundred dollar corner stone.

In record 10, page 460, of the proceedings of the Board of Commissioners, we find that the proposition of Heinzman Bros., to fireproof iron columns for $l,lOO was accepted. We suppose this refers to the columns supporting the tower, and if it was necessary to cover them with fire-proofing the original contract should have included it. The building, we believe, is practically fire-proof. The records are kept in fire-proof vaults and there is nothing of an inflamable nature near the aforesaid iron columns. Even the $14,100 bill of furniture if all in one pile would not make a very extensive fire, not enough to melt the iron columns supporting the tower. The taxpayers of Jasper county, though, will no doubt be very much gratified to learn that there is no danger of those iron columns catching fire and burning up, even if it did cost about one dollar per capita to protect them. Those who shouted for war in the secret hope that it would result in a betterment of business conditions—covering their selfishness with the cloak of patriotism and humanitariumism, of course—

-have lived to learn that wars do not, or at least this war has not, promoted business generally. Except in a few lines there is the same stagnation and indecision. Manufacturers are waiting for something to turn up. Just what that something will be nobody knows. With plenty of money in the banks and in the federal treasury it would seem that nothing stands in the way of of a general prosperity, if our Republican friends are right in their conclusions. But the cast-iron fact is that prosperity is nowhere in sight. And it is not going to be sighted until the financial department of this government is run less in the interests of the money brokers and trusts, and until along with unfettered trade we have a restoration of the 1 bimettallic system under which this nation enjoyed a period of greatest development and most equal diffusion of wealth. —Lafayette Journal.

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“Prophesy That Shafter’s Men Will Be Fighting the Cuban’s Next. Americans Hold Their ‘Allies’ in Bitter Contempt for Their Cowardice and Utter Refusal to Work, While Garcia’s Men Openly Display Resentment Because They Were not Allowed to Sack Santiago.” The above headlines appeared a day or two ago in one of the most prominent daily papers published in the United States. Can it be these are the same Cubans the newspapers were going wild over but a short time since?

Notwithstanding the high price of nails the manufacturers at Anderson propose a cut of 33 1-3 per cent, in wages. Of course, they have a strike on hand. Since 1893 the cut has reached 200 per cent. The presidential campaign promises of the republican managers led these same workmen to anticipate an advance instead of a reduction in wages if Mr. McKinley were elected. Another election is due this fall. What do the republican campaign manipulators propose to the wage-earners to secure their support?—lndianapolis Sentinel.

The county commissioners have instructed the County Attorney to begin action against the petitioners in the proposed Waukarusha and Iroquois ditches to recover costs made in same. The costs in the Waukarusha are, we understood, about $3,500, and in the Iroquois $4,000. Suit has already begin in the latter case. These ditch cases were started several years ago and it seems to have been principally owing to the commissioners’ mistakes, and not the petitioners, that the ditches were not made. Now .but a small per cent, of the petitioners are here who are in financial condition to enforce collections from, therefore in the event of the county being successful in its suit —which is extremely doubtful—it will fall up? on a few to pay the whole expense.

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our regular correspondent.) The administration is not toting square with the people in the matter of giving out news concerning the extent of the yellow fever in our army at Santiago. This is a blunder almost as great as that which allowed the Spanish to send the yellow fever refugees out of Santiago into our lines, previous to their surrender. As long as the people found ’ out before the news began to be sq rigorously censored that several hundred cases of yellow fever existed in our army, it is unwise to keep them in igbrance as to the continued spread of the disease. Almost every section of the country is represented in our army at Santiago, and it is a shame not to allow the people to know just which regiments the yellow fever is in and what success is attending the efforts that are being made to stamp it out. It is altogether probable that yellow fever also exists among the twenty-five thousand Spanish troops who surrendered to Gen. Shafter. If so, w’e will have to take-care of them, as the condition of surrender, under which we are to send them back to Spain, binds us not to allow any of those infected with yellow fever to go upon the ships. * * * It is now stated that Commodore Watson’s fleet is at once to start to Spain, but there are still those who refuse to believe it before it actually goes, and others who believe that if actually started, it will go with no other intention than to scare Spain into asking for peace. Cablegrams from Madrid and other European points, say that Spain has already asked for terms of peace, but it is officially denied in Washington. * * • It is semi-officially said that no movement on land against Havana will be started until fall, owing to the fear of yellow fever, and officially stated that the movement against Porto Rico is to be started at once. “At once” has not, however, meant immediately in the administration lexicon, in connection with war movements. Representative James Hamilton Lewis, who began his Congressional career by being called a dude, but who has long ago won, by his common sense and all around ability, the respect of Congress and of

the eastern public—the people of Washington, the state he represents in the House, recognized those qualities long before they sent him to Congress—has tendered his services to the government as a field officer in the volunteer army. He has been connected with the Washington State militia, of which he is now Inspector General, for about eleven years. Unless the outlook for peace grows promising enough to stop army appointments, it is likely that Mr Lewis will get a commission. * “The war has been a very lucky thing for the republicans of HL, for if it had not occurred they would have been ingloriously defeated.” That is what Mr. P. E. Furman, a well known democrat of that state, says, and the same thing will apply equally as well to the other states, for it is as plain as the nose on your face that the republicans are going to make their campaign on the war, although they deserve no more credit for the action of Congress in voting all the money the administration asked for to conduct the war than do the democrats and the populists, who voted for all the war appropriations. As to the policy of the party in his state, Mr. Furman says: “The Illinois democrats stand steadfast by Bryan and free silver, both of which they indorsed at their state convention, the other day.” * • * The man who claims that any one party monopolizes all the patriotism in this country thus proclaims his own ignorance. It seems to be pretty generally understood in Washington that the republican Congressional Committee intends to make the implication, if not the direct claim, that republican patriotism in Congress was the whole thing, the basis of its campaign documents this year —an implication as false as it would be possible to make. As a matter of fact, if any one party in Congress deserves more praise than the other for unselfish patriotism, it is the democrats. Although they knew that the administration being republican, and a majority of the House being republican, the successful conduct of the war would necessarily be beneficial to the republican party, not a single democrat hesitated either in advocacy of the war or in providing the money to carry it on successfully. If the action of the democrats, and the populists in

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