Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — Democratic State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Democratic State Ticket.

> For Secretary of State. SAMUEL RALSTON, of Booiie County. For Auditor of State. JOHN W. MINOR, of Boone County, For Treasurer of State. HUGH DOUGHERTY, of Wells County, For Attorney General, JOHN b.M'NTTT. of Vipo County. ForClerkof Supreme Court, HENRY AVAKRUM, of Marion County. For Superintendent Public Instruction, W, H. SINCLAIR, of Starke County. For State Statistician, J AMESS. GUTHRIE, of Brown County. i For State Geologist. SDAVAKD BAR RETT, of Hendricks County. For J mitres Supreme Court, 2d District, LEONARD J. HACKNEY, of.'slip! by County. Tliird District, JAMES M'CAHE, of Warren County. Fifth District, TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, of St. Joseph County. For J udpes 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. RIVEN, of Madison County. . Fiftli District. JOHANNES KOPELKE, of Lake County. For Congress, JOHN ROSS, of Tippecanoe County. For Representative, DAVID H. YEOMAN, of Jasper County. . Prosecuting Attorney. :toth Judicial District, IRA vv. yeoman: The County Ticket. For County Clerk, JOHN F. MAJOR, of Carpenter Tp. For County Auditor. GEORGE O. STEM BEL. of Wheattield Tp. For County Treasurer, MARION I. ADAMS, of Marion Tp, For County Sheriff, WILLIAM C. HUSTON, of Milroy Tp. For County Surveyor. DAVID li. GARRIOT, of Union Tp. For County . Coroner, DR. P. J. POTHUISJE, of Carpenter Tp. Commissioner Ist District. FRANK M. HERSHMAN. of Walker Tp. '('btniliissioner 2nd District, LUCIUS STRONG, of Rensselaer. The removal of those four pages ,* from the commissioners' record looks had, to say the least.

High taxes and lavish expenditures \A'ill not till empty houses or make the farmers prosperous.

The Democrat would like to have the county auditor and commissioners explain why pages 471/ 472, 47.4 and 475, of Commissioners’ Record No. 10. have been cut out of the book?

Why should Jasper county pay $550 per year for water for the court house Avhen the Monon railroad company gets ten incandescent lights and water for its engines for the same money? The Monon will use several hundred times as much water as the court house.

The \ alparaiso Messenger aptly remarks that the manner in which the township reports are now printed in Indiana is very unsatisfactory to the people. The legislature at its next session should prescribe a form aud fix a price for its publication. It takes art expert to comprehend them.

A fusion convention of democrats, republicans and populists was held at Decatur, Ind., last Monday and nominated a county ticket. They dp not desire to be called {“politicians,” and claim they only want to purify politics in county affairs. They expect most of their support from the farmers, who already believe they are being robbed by what they term the'“court house gang.” A thorough examination of all the county records will be made in the event of the ticket being elected.

Did that gas-pip© flag pole really cost Jasper county $416.16?

Will the Journal kindly tell us what that $70.25 was paid the “flag pole” man for?

And now we are to have a cotton thread trust, with a capitalization of $18,000,000, which proposes to absorb all the thread mills of this country.

George F. Marvin of White county, was nominated for prosecuting attorney at the democratic judicial convention held at Delphi last Saturday.

The Journal man in toto calls us a liar. This is very amusing, coming from a man who has publicly acknowledged himself a liar and signed a statement to that feet.

The pages so neatly cut from Record 10 were right in among where the commissiofiers were doing so much wholesale contracting for extras. Why was it thought best to remove them from the book?

Owing to the party being called away on urgent business who had promised us an article on the Iroquois and Waukaruslm ditches, we are unable, of course, to publish same in this issue, as announced last week.

In looking over the statement of the cost of that new court house, published in another column please bear in mind that the contract Avas let for the building complete for $89,180. Its actual cost will be almost twice that sum.

The writer lias been engaged in the newspaper business for&everal years, but he has never yet sunk so low or deemed it necessary to our own advantage to try to injure the business of a rival by seeking to prejudice people against him in the despieiable manner adopted by the Rensselaer Journal. Such methods are beneath the contempt of all men not totally lost to all sence of honor.

The republican state convention did not nominate any candidates for appellate judges. The republicans hold that the present judges hold over. The democrats have nominated candidates and will bring mandate proceedings to have the names of the candidates placed on the official ballots. The position of the democrats is that the law extending the terms of the incumbents passed by the last legislature was unconstitutional and that an election should beheld this full. The question, it is asserted, will reach the supreme court.

The Journal has done lots of harping about a “certain democratic official” of years gone by whom it by inference alleges committed some dark crime. We would ask the Journal if Jasper county ever lost a penny by a democratic official, if she has ever had to keep men in office to get even with them in a financial way, or if any democratic official ever mutilated the records of the county? If the Journal wishes to get down to this plane of polities perhaps it would be a good idea to examine its own skirts before making allegations of corruption in others.

Laporte Argus: Both parties are badly divided on the question of extending the territory of the United States and it is likely to be made very much of a party issue. If it is there will be a good deal of shifting of party alliances for party ties are resting very loosely now on a large number of American voters of all parties and all classes. Nobody now believes the country will go straight to the demnition bow-wows if the other fellows carry the elections this fall. Probably there has not been a time since 1852 when there was less political rancor in the country than there is at this time and this feeling seems likely to last for seA r eral yenrs. The mass of people seem inclined to pay more ’attention to business and less to politics, and probably tliis is a good thing for all concerned.

The democrats of Ohio at their state convention held Wednesday, favored an income tax law and declared for the “free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, independent of any and all otfyjr nations.” They also declared their allegiance to W. J. Bryan and'favored his renomination for president in 1900.

The Democrat man is at least very impartial in his attacks on the county managament and on the city of Rensselaer generally. The hatred of our city manifested while running his Remington paper seems to have been the genuine article and to have poisoned his blood past recovery.—Journal. In rejily to the above we will say that the Democrat editor now and ever has had nothing but the best of feeling for Rensselaer, and it was this feeling which prompted us to say last week, in referring to the Journal’s scheme to get a public library for Rensselaer at county expense, that Rensselaer owed it to herself to see .that nothing was done to add to the prevaling opinion that she had already received too many favors at county expense. That such a feeling does prevail over the county every one at all cognizant with the facts knows, and it is injuring the business interests of the city more than many are willing to admit. To offset this opinion and to create a better feeling all over the county, we reiterate that our city should stand on its own merits, and be very careful to avoid doing anything that could be construed as trying to “work” the county. If this is hatred of Rensselaer then we must plead guilty, but wb believe all fair minded people will agree with us that we are exactly right in the position we take in this matter, the Journal and its ilk to the contrary notwithstanding.

Our figures in regard to expense of maintenance of the county farm were taken from the annual report of the auditor of Jasper county, and We fail to find in said report any receipts from the farm whatever. As to the acreage contained in the farm we got bur information from a former county commissioner , and he nor ourself was not aware that any part of the farm had been sold. The Journal now says a great deal of this expense has been in “making improvements.” Great Scott! will they never get done making improvements there which run into so much money. This was the ; same old “gag” given us fiA-e or six years ago, when the Board of State Charities roasted the concern and stated that the cost of maintenance of the poor farm in Jasper county Avas among the greatest of any of the ninety-two counties in the state. The “ring” organ also says that there is now stock and produce on the farm ready for sale Avorth $1,400, and that after selling this the net profit during the year is $423.83. What a remarkable mathametician our contemporary is. The fnct remains, however, that this property has not been sold, that when it is sold it goes into the receipts of this year, not last, and that thereVas, no doubt, about as much produce, etc., for sale at this time last year ns now, and is supposed to have been included in last year’s receipts. The Journal admits by its oavu figures that the expenses exceeded the receipts by $976.17, while the auditor’s report shows no receipts whatever, and $3,581,45 paid out.

Bring your job printing to The Democrat office. We appreciate your faA:ors, do nothing but the best work and charg moderate prices. 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 tape. 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.

Judy and The Lief Buggy Co., will sell anything in their line to you individually, independently of any one else as security.