Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Page 4

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Democratic 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 BAR RETT, 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, DAVID H. YEOMAN, of Jasper County. Prosecuting Attorney. 30th Judicial District, IRA W. YEOMAN. The County Ticket. , 1 For County Clerk, JOHN F. MAJOR, of Carpenter Tp. For County Auditor, GEORGE O. STEMBEL, of Wheatfleld 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. POTHUIBJE, of Carpenter Tp. Commissioner Ist District, FRANK M. HERSHMAN, of Walker Tp. Commissioner 2nd District, LUCIUS STRONG, of Rensselaer.

The democratic campaign will open about Sept. 15.

“Placing a jewel in a hog’s snout,”—Journal. A very inelegant expression, Bro. Clark. Never uselt again.

Tli'- democratic representative convention for the district compost ! of Benton and Newton cou es will meet at Goodland, Sept. 2.

If the higher the tariff is on an article the cheaper it is to the consumer, as some of our republican contemporaries contend, why not double the present tariff rate ?

The democratic candidates for county Commissioners are pledged to reduce expenditures and lower taxation. Have you any such hopes in the event of the republican candidates being elected?

Indiana had no chance to distinguish herself in the war with Spain, her soldiers all having been kept away from the scene of active hostilities. Indianians will keep a rock in their pocket to shy at the head of Secretary of War Alger every time it bobs up in the politcal future of the country.

Aooording to the annual report of the county auditor, juat published, the amount of cash paid out during the year for maintenance of the county firm is $3,581.45, and the amount paid for township aid is $2404.30, making a grand total of of $5,685.75 paid far poor aid in the oounty, whieh is about fifty cents per capita. This is in «>:ce'is,of everything raised upon the ounty farm.

It’is noticable that the Journal does not defend Crumpacker, it simply contents itself with attack* ing Mr. Ross. i

The Democrat states that the three democratic trustees of Jasper county “never received anything like S3OO per year for their services.”—Journal. Neither have they individually. But how does that S4BO service account strike you,Bro.Clark? Don't be so anxious to get around the question.

“With true democratic inwardness demands that by-gones be ‘by-gones.’ ” —Journal. The Journal man ought to be willing to subscribe to that part of democracy, then, with a hearty good will. We are so sorry to learn that all those republicans were such unprincipled rascals, confound them. And to get it from republican authority, too!

Record 10, page 268, states that the county revenues had been exhausted on account of payments on new court house account, and a temporary loan of $4,000 was made. The interest paid on this loan was $320.25. But this d not be included in the cost of the court house, oh, no. And neither is it in that so-called “official statement.”

Record 10, page 495, states that “W. H. Roney, work on new court house,” was allowed $.70.25, and at page 531 it states that same party was allowed $337.75 for flag pole. Roney is the man who contracted to erect flag pole, and we understand had no other connection with the new court house whatever. Now, was this $70.25 for extras on the flag pole? If so, it brings up its total cost to the county—indluding the 2 per cent, to the architect, which we suppose he received—to $416.16.

Jasper county has an excellent poor farm of 360 acres, well tiled, stocked and equipped for getting the most from the farm, and yet, with the average number of inmates not exceeding fifteen, the cost of maintenance for the year ending June Ist, was $3,581.45 in excess of everything produced thereon. Suppose the county was to hire the inmates’ board at the best hotel in Rensselanr, at say $4 per week, it would save several hundred dollars in the transaction

and have the receipts of the farm in addition. The capacious maw of the county farm has long been a source of surprise to the taxpayers who have given the matter any attention, and they have come to the conclusion that there is a very loose screw somewhere. The farm should be self-supporting, or nearly so at least.

The vacant rooms on the court room floor of the court house would be a convenient and safe home for a public library, reading-room and museum. The county, city, township and citizens, by combining, could perfect and maintain a creditable matter of that nature. A donation of fifty dollars is all that is necessary to start the project. The city can then take stock, the county and township contribute, and donations be received. This is a matter worthy of consideration and activity—Journal. Not much. If Rensselaer wants a public library let her build one and pay for it herself. Such an institution would benefit very few if any outside of Rensselaer, and the city owes it to herself to offset the already prevailing opinion that she has received too many favors at county expense, and should nip this plan in the bud. Let our city stand on her own merits, and no longer do anything that will cause the masses of the people of Jasper county to suspicion she is trying to “work” the county. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tope. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand'

W. B. Austin.

THE JOURNAL'S CHOLERA MORBUS.

“#4OO toConant Furniture Co., not included in statement published.”—Democrat. This item is included in said statement, —J oumal. Ferhaps. “$l4O to A. T. Perkins.”—Democrat. 4 This is for piping water into the court house yard, which would have been done had no new court house been built, and is no more a part of,the new court house cost than the cost of carrying water into the door yard of a resident is a part of the cost of his residence built 20 years ago. —Journal. As well say the coping, around the yard should not be included, or the cement walks, screen doors, window screens, flag pole, and many other items of expense. “Cleaning court house.”—Democrat. We suppose every time the building receives a thorough cleaning during the next century or two it must be charged to the cost of building the court house. — Journal. The building had to be cleaned before it was fit for occupancy, we suppose, and this item most certainly should be included in its complete cost. The taxpayers will no doubt hope that it will not require another cleaning for 100 years. It’s awful expensive cleaning up county buildings, you see. The latest exhibit of brilliancy on the part of the Democrat is to charge to the cost of the court house all the bills presented and which the board have refused to allow, and which will only be paid if the claimants can secure a judgment in a higher court, which they do not seem anxious to attempt. — Journal. So sorry, Bro. Clark, we got that wrong. But we were innocent enough to take the records for authority, and they state —as will be seen in another column —that the claims were “continued,” not dismissed, therefore the commissioners have not refused officially to pay them. These claims will probably be continued until after election, when the county will have them to pay in full. An eminent lecturer once said that “to argue with a man who renounced reason wag like giving medicine to the dead.” Bro. Clark will please excuse us from further argument; we have no time to waste on dead people.

WHO GETS THE PROFITS?

Indianapolis Sentinel. There is one phase of the annexation fever that 4b e masses of the country will not fully appreciate until the future brings its developments, and that is the business schemes of influential men who are advocating territorial expansion. While it is evident that none of our new acquisitions from Spain will afford desirable homes for Americans who might wish to emigrate, it is very probable that they will open fields for large investments of American capital that will be very profitable. The Springfield Republican, which is located nearer the field of syndicate operations than we are, says: Several enterprises of the sort have already sought incorporation under the liberal laws of New Jersey and West Virginia. Several close friends of V(ce-Preeident Hobart, with others, have organized a company to put a steamship line in operation from New York to San Juan. Samuel M. Jarvis of Jarvis-Conklin mortgage company fame, has gone to Santiago with a complete outfit for a bank, representing the North American trust company of New York. Men have already sailed for Ponce with hotel, bank and other outfits. Senator “Steve” Elkins, Chris Magee of Pittsburg, Senators McMillan of Michigan, Hanna of Ohio and Proctor of Vermont, and others, are mentioned as “interested” in the new fields of capitalistic venture. A whole host of Secretary Alger’s, associates, attorneys and friends are mentioned in the same way, and there is a long story going the rounds of how Den. Shatter was pushed forward in the heme that as hero of the Cuban war he might secure the governor-general-ship of the island and help the Alger crowd to the bonanzas lying about. Gen. Shafter has been a partner of Alger’s in western mine and timber developments, and is said to be very ricn. Gen. Duffield, who was lately made a briga-dier-general and fell short of expectations at Santiago, is Mr. Aly ger’a counsel in his business ventures.

It is a notable fact that these gentleman belong to the class who have been insisting for some years past that the “home market” was the greatest thing in the world, and that what we needed was to confine ourselves to it. Moreover, they belong to the class that has been advocating that we needed foreign capital in this country, and that we ought to make great concessions to bondholders to induce them to invest in our securities. But they seize this opportunity to take capital out of the country and put it in an outside market without regard to their former professions. There is a worse possibility than this. We have become somewhat familiar in this country with scandals connected with government contracts and concessions of various kinds. What is to expected in these outlying territories, which are to be put temporarily under military government, and later on under an arbitrary colonial government, when a swarm of these American speculators, with official influence, swoop down on them? It will be worse than, the plague of carpetbaggers in the South after the civil war, because these fields are farther away. In all probability it will be more like the plundering on the Indian reservations, for these new citizens of the United States speak a foreign language and are so dislimilar to us in their habits and customs that it wqpld be very difficult to arouse public sympathy for them in case they were mistreated. It will be very surprising if the industrial development of our new possessions does not breed scandals that honest Americans will have to blush for.

THE PRICE OF HAY.

It seems everything is not as rosy in the effite east as our republican friends of the American Protective Tariff League and the Republican Literary Bureau, at Washington—where editorials are written for republican editors of country papers, including the Rensselaer Journal of course. Listen to this tale of woe from a Schoharie county, N. Y., paper: There are reports that new hay is worth two and three dollars per ton. George Letts says that at Altamont a lot of hay in which he has interest is worth only $1 per ton, and the same value on rye straw. Mr. Letts offered a lot of standing grass, stout and fine in quality, all of 10i acres, for $5, and offered to trim about fences without charge. He has failed to get a buyer at that price, and probably will let the crop stand. Probably next year the farmer will be obliged to pay to have a crop of grass cleared from the land. Hay is one of the principal crops of the farms hereabouts, and the diastrous price is a great hardship. If a man owns a farm, lives on it, and with his family, labors hard and economizes, he can make a living. But if he has a mortgage or other debts, both ends can not be made to meet. Something is going wrong with the farmer.

The New Court House.

Continued from last week. (Record 11, Page 92) B. F. Biggs Pump Co., work on new court house, $13.50. (P 93) Thompson, Sigler and Sayler, Srt bill on court house coping, D 0.25. (P 95 L. Strong, rent for court room, $7.25. <• A. Leopold, rent for room for metallic furniture, $18.25. N. Warner & Son, merchandise for new court house, $51.13. Johnston temperature Controlling Co., bal. on town clock, $1,800.25. Continued. Same, billifor heating system, $1,050.25. Same, work and material for heat regulation, $500.25. Dismissed. Chestnut & King, work on new court house, $83.50. E. 8. Kays, work on new court house, $1.06. R. W. Spriggs, work and material for new court house, $2.10. Donnelly Bros., same, $13.25. (P 971 W. G. Andrews « Co., railroad fare for men, $81.25. Continued. J. W. Paxton St Co., merchan- | disc for new court house, $96.03. Fenton Metallic Furniture Co.,

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interest, car fare, insurance, etc., on court house furniture, $182.85. Continued. Grindle & Weatherhog, architects’ commission, $1,405.38. Continued. (P 106) Heinzman Bros., extras on new court house, $1,764 25 Same for same, 241 45 Same for same, 304 92 All of the above claims were continued. (P 120) Fred Way mire, freight paid for new court house, $1.77. Chestnut & King, screens for court house, $63.55. City of Rensselaer, electrical supplies, $119.81. (P HD Chestnut & King, making screen doors and screens, $66.00. (P 131) Hiram Day, Cement, $66.91. King & Chestnut, work for court room, $4.25. W. J. Miller, work on court house, $61.20. The best is generally the cheapest, but the best is not always the lowest in price. It is well known that the limestone belt of Indiana produces the best winter wheat, and that the Plan Sifter process makes the best flour. J. A. McFarland now sells flour from the Plansifter Mills at the lowest price, both patent and and straight grade. Sample 25 lb sacks at 60 and 55 cents.

Vicinity Notes.

The oats crop north of town is said to exceed all previous years, and the grain being of exceptional good quality.—Morocco Courier. Kerlin, Son & Ryan shipped from their stock yards in Sedalia 800 head of hogs on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. This shipment, which perhaps is the largest shipment ever by a Carroll county firm, required ten cars.—Carroll Cor , ty Citizen. The town board has fully decided down : old arc lamps, with the except) •> of those around the square, and replace them with 50-candle-power incandescent lamps, thus making a saving in coal and carbons of abont $25 per month. Some of the material has been received for the change.— Oxford Tribune. About the most humorous thing we have seen is the attempt of the Lafayette Courier to bolster up Crumpacker’s cause by saying the fault-finding comes from papers of opposite politics, when, as a matter of fact, about all the endorsement Mr. Crumpacker is receiving for his vote on the Hawaiian question is from democrat and mugwump papers and democratic conventions.—Lowell Tribune.

Good correspondence stationery, cheap at The Democrat office. Advertised Letters. Mr. Levi Beelman, Miss Eva Barker, Chas. Bati, Miss Grace SperfelL Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list will please say they are advertised. G. M. Robinson, P. M. J Dr. J. W. Horton, Graduate of the Haskell school of prosthetic denistry, is established m the new brick, first door west of post office. All operations performed according to the latest methods. ffiß“pfpeeial attention given to the painless extraction of teeth by the vise of gas and local innethetic? ,< % ' * •**

A Spry Old Indian.

Geronimo, the most noted Indian in America, chief of the Apaches, is 90 years ola. He is as straight as an arrow and his eye is piercing and keen. When at the post at Fort Sill he plays monte, but when he can get permission to leave the reservation his time is spent in hunting, of which he is very fond.

To Try Government Ownership.

There are 2,840 miles of railroad* in Switzerland to be taken over by the government in accordance with the recent popular vote taken throughout the country. The cost will be about $200,000,000.

An Old Custom.

In old Rome it was the custom to wrap a monk’s cowl about a dead body; to insure the safe passage of the sold to paradise.

Subsribe for THE DEMOCRAT.

Seal Estate Transfers, vj WiUiam B. Austin to James Matherson Aug. IS, pt. se, 24.29-7, 5437. George K. Hollingsworth et al. to George Carlisle. Aug. 16, unH nw nw, 6-30-7. S2OO, q. e. d. Charles W. Murray to 'J. Albert Overton, July 19, It. 7, Kannal's sub. div. outlot 6, Rensselaer, 5330. Marie Antrim to George Carlisle, Aug. 16, It S. bl 3, DeMotte, and It 17, Brunner's add, DeMotte, SI. Jesse I. Tyler to W. B. Austin. Aug. 16, ne ne. 27-32-7, 20 acres, S3OO,

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