Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — Page 4

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Democratic State Ticket.

For Secretary of State. SAMVEL 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, TWOTH Y 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, a 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. YEQMAN.

The County Ticket.

For County Clerk, JOHN F. MAJOR, of Carpenter Tp. For County Auditor, GEORGE O. STEMBEL, of Wheatfield Tp. For County Treasurer, MARION 1. 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 jXrpenter Tp. Comniissionef'lst District, FRANK M. HERSHMAN. of Walker Tp. Commissioner 2nd District, LUCIUS STRONG, of Rensselaer.

Only about three months ago, ■wheat reached 51.85 per bushel. To-day it is worth but one-third that price with a prospect of going still lower. What a vision for office-seekers looms up in Havana, Porti Rico ami the Philippines, especially to that large class who believe that public office is a private snap. In referring to that gas-pipe flag pole surmounting the new court house, please say the 8416.16 flag pole. In the light of recent investigations we have come to the conclusion that 8337.50 is not correct. If so much revenue was received from the poor farm last year, why is it not shown in the auditor’s annual report? And why, the report being due in June, was it not published until the middle of August, and then in such form as to ; require an expert to comprehend E it? ——— : T . In the death of ex-Governor r Claude Matthews, Indiana loses an important figure in the politics i of the state. News of his fatal t stroke of paralysis and subsequent : death came a > a shock to his many friends all over the country. De- [ cea-ed was but fifty-two years of | age, a man of correct habits and i apparently a model of manly | strength and vigor, about six feet • in height, well proportioned and | Weighing nearly or quite two I hundred pounds. His death is a ' loss to Indiana and creates a va- ■ nancy in the front ranks of democracy of the state not easily filled. | A wife and two daughters, the younger unmarried, survive him.

THE EXPLANATION.

Rensselaer, Aug. 27, ’9B. Editor Democrat: Dear Sir? In your issue of last week you made a number of allusions to the fact of two leaves, (four pages) having been removed from Commissioners’ Record in my office. I wish to make a statement of the facts in regard to this matter, which it seems to me common fairness should have prompted you to give me an opportunity of doing liefore such publication with accompanying insinuations of wrong. This was at the August session of the Board for the purpose of receiving the reports of township trustees. On the first day of the session the reports of seven trustees were acted upon and recorded on pages 467, 468, 469, and 470. On this same day the Board did other business, pertaining to new court house which is recorded on pages 475 to 481 inclusive. After having made the record of settlement with the seven trustees I overlooked the action of the Board in other matters, and made an adjourning order on page 471. I also made a convening order for next day on same page and proceeded to fill nip the pages removed with a record of the second day’s proceedings before discovering my over-sight. The mistake had to be corrected in some way and the only way occurring to me at the moment, when I was hurried with the record work, was to remove the two leaves and make the Record just as the facts required and as though these two leaves had not been there. Of course the mistake should not have been made by me and possibly some other and more complicated course in correcting it might have been better, but the blame, whatever it may be, is mine only, the record as it is, shows the facts and all the facts. I respectfully ask that you give this statement a place in your next issue as prominent as was given the matters in your last. Respectfully Yours,

HENRY B. MURRAY,

Auditor, Jasper Co.

Although many well informed people believe otherwise, admitting that the new court house is worth every dollar it has cost and that every dollar of such cost has been put into the building, did the future outlook for Jasper county demand any such expensive structure? And was it wise in the Commissioners or did they show even average business management in paying 8165,0CX) for a building which they nad contracted for complete at a cost of $89,180.00?

Indiana has no ex-governor now living. In this connection it is interesting to note that Indiana governors do not as a rule, live many years after jtheir retirement from office. Governor Hovey died in office. His successor, Governor Chase, died a short time after his retirement. Oliver P. Morton lived twelve years after his gubernatorial service expired, and Conrad Baker lived fifteen years. Thomas A. Henricks lived seven years after completing his term as governor, Isaac P. Gray lived seven years, and Albert G. Porter twelve years. Governor Williams died at an advanced age while in office.

The horrible stories of neglect and ill-treatment of our soldiers in the field and in camp is enough to freeze the blood in the veins of the most hardened wretch that ever lived, and shows the folly of appointing, for political reasons, dishonest devils and men who are thoroughly incompetent and know nothing of the duties they are expected to perform, to positions of importance and trust. There has been altogether too much politics in the war just closed, and hundreds of young men are now sleeping their last sleep after sufferings besides which those of the unfortunates confined in the noted rebel prisons of the civil war are only equaled, not surpassed. Dishonest officials have stolen the food and supplies intended for the soldiers, others have furnished food unfit for a starving dog, that they might themselves wax fat off the government contracts. The horrible tales of suffering and neglect seem almost incredible, yet they are vouched for in a way that cannot be disputed in a great

many instances. A rigid examination phould be made and the wretches who have starved and ill treated our soldier boys made to suffer the very severest penalties that can be imposed upon them. Said a "prominent republican tax payer to us a few days ago: “We have got that new court house now and must pay for it, but we can show our disapprobation at Jhe polls in November, and this we will do.” • An entry setting forth the error and expunging pages 471, 472, 473 and 474 of commissioners record 10 would have been much better than to have cut the pages from the book altogether, and would have effectually settled any question as to what what said pages contained. A republican congressional love feast was held at the Makeever house behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon. Congressman Crumpacker was the star attraction and gave his henchmen their orders for the work of the campaign. Commissioner Davidson and W. S. Rowe of Benton county, and about a dozen wire-pullers from other places were present at the star-chamber meeting.

It is really amusing to observe the frantic efforts of the boodle organ to figure out a surplus from a deficit, in the poor farm matter. While you are about it, Bro. Clark, why not include in last year’s report all the stock, produce, etc., which you expect to be sold from the farm during the next five years? It would make a better showing for your side of the case and is just as reasonable as the including of unsold products or receipts in last year’s report. Better drop the matter, Leslie. There are many things connected with the county management here that emit a worse stench for you the more they are stirred.

Anent township trustees’ service accounts, we desire to say that the duties of such office is not in proportion to territory or population altogether. For instance, the ordinary duties of a trustee in a township containing 10,000 population cannot be said to be twice as great as that of a township containing but one-half that population. Now in 1897 the trustee of Marion township, received S4BO for service account, which at $2 per day, the sum allowed by law, would have required two hundred and forty days service. There are but 365 days in a year, and assuming that the trustee did not work on the 52 Sundays, we have but 313 working days. Thus, substracting 240 from 313, we have 73. In other words, Mr. Babcock, who is a farmer and stock raiser, only had 73 days out of the 365 to attend to his own private affairs.

In another column we publish a statement from the county auditor in regard to those missing pages from the commissioners’ record. While not disputing the truth of Mr. Murray’s statement, the fact remains that the people of Jasper county simply have his word as to why the mutilation was made. The record pages in question are gone from the book, and we will add that no matter what error might have been made, the auditor nor no other officer is justified in cutting any pages whatever from any record in his possession. Public records are most sacred property and should be kept inviolate. We are much surprised to have an officer of Mr. Murray’s intelligence and experience ccStue before the people and say that he cut four pages from a county record of such importance as this one simply “because he made a mistake” in writing up the proceedings of the board.

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LABOR UNIONS

Through Legislation the Democracy Lifts Many Burdens From Labor Organizations. It Wm Through Democratic Legislature* That Coercion and Intimidation by Unscrupulous Employee* Wa* Prohibited— Republican* Responsible for the Infamous Law to Intimidate RaUroad Employe*—Bringing of Pinkerton** Into the State to Shoot Down the Striker* Prohibited by Democratic Enactment*. It is well known to every union workingman in Indiana, because it is a part and an important part of labor’s history, that the time is not remote, even if it has passed, when employers were-virulently hostile to labor organization and in numerous ways sought to impose penalties upon workingmen who became members of such organizations. This hostility was exhibited in various forms, each and all of which was inimical to the liberty and independence of the union workingman. This opposition took the form of coercion, intimidation, threats of dis* charge, and of discharging men from their employment and of blacklisting them. It was in the most odious form wage slavery. And to make matters still worse, the opposition of employers to labor organizations was often, and generally, secret. The employers had their hired spies and the penalties imposed came without premonition. This shameful antagonism of employers became so pronounced that union workingmen appealed to the Democratic legislature of 1893 for redress and the response was the enactment of a law, approved Feb. 25th, 1893, which provided: “That it shall be unlawful for any individual, or member of any firm, agent, officer or employer of any company or corporation, to prevent employes from forming, joining and belonging to any lawful labor organization, and any such individual member, agent, officer or employer that coerces or attempts to coerce employes, by discharging or threatening to discharge from their employ or the employ of any firm, company or corporation, because of their connection with such labor organisation, and any officer or employer, to exact a pledge from workingmen that they will not become members of a labor organization as a consideration of employment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurismetion, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding |IOO, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the conrt.” In these provisions of a wise and just law it is seen that labor did not apoeal to the Democratic legislature in vain. Workingmen were at onoe emancipated from a most debasing thraldom. The odious schemes and machinations of employers were overthrown and union workingmen oould exercise their rights and discretion unintimidated. When the great number of union workingmen in Indiana is considered and the benefits that have accrued to them by virtue of the law under consideration, the Democratic party of Indiana has a right to felicitate itself upon the wisdom and justice of the statute which secures rights to workingmen which they appreciate, and prize above measure. INTIMIDATION Infamou* Legislation Enacted by th* Republican* Against Workingmen Repealed by the Democracy. The Republican legislature of 1881 enacted one of the most infamous laws that ever blotched the pages of the statute books of Indiana. The law, which was approved April 14, 1881, was designed especially to intimidate railroad employes and prevent them from striking against oppression, intimidation and coercion, and compel them from fear of fine and imprisonment to do the bidding of their task masters unresistingly. It is a matter of history that the demands of corporation magnates, when they have required laws promotive of their schemes, however nefarious the object in view, have sought ‘ the aid of Republican legislation, and there is not an instance on record in which a Republican legislature or a Republican congress has failed to respond satisfactorily. The Republican law of 1881 was in the interest of railroad corporations, the penalty being fine and imprisonment for any and every attempt to resist the outrages inflicted upon them by men in control of the ’railroads of the state, among whom, more or less conspicuous was, 0. W. Fairbanks, now United States senator. No one knew better than Fairbanks the purpose of the despotic law, but it was reserved for the Democratic legislation of 1889 to give railroad employees the relief they sought by repealing the Russianizing Republican intimidation law, for which thousands of railroad men in Indiana were profoundly grateful. The splendid record made by the Democratic legislatures to improve the standing and broaden the influence of workingmen in Indiana baa made the Republican party cautious, though still ready, as la shown by the infamous and unconstitutional garnishee law to aim a blow at poor mon when over aa opportunity offers, if it can be done in a way to obscure the real iateat of the moaoure. Whoa, as tbo records show, that five Democratic logMaturss in racnooriou retpoadod to the requests of the work-

ingmen of Indiana to afford them relief from oppressive conditions, all doubts regarding the fealty of the Democratic party to labor at once disappears, and the fact that the party is the friend of the workingmen of the state stands confessed and irrefutable. PINKERTONS The Great Friend* of Carnegie, Frick and Other flnccrapulotu Employer* Denied Admission to Indiana by a Democratic Legislature. It will be remembered by every citizen of Indiana, who has ever given labor troubles and interests a thought, that a few years ago serious labor difficulties occurred at Homestead, whereabout 10,000 workingmen were employed in building up the colossal fortune of Andrew Carnegie, one of the multimillionaires of the country. This man Carnegie is now knowu in Europe and America as “Blowhole” Carnegie, a sobriquet applied to him because of his attempt to rob the government in the manufacture of artnorplate for battleships, which was found to be worthless on account of “blowholes.” But before Carnegie attempted to defraud the government, he, in association with another rascal by the name of Frick, who bad won a large measure of infamy in the coke regions of Pennsylvania by defrauding workingmen, began the same system of robbery at Homestead. Carnegie and Frick tried several methods for killing their employes who struck against the reduction of their wages and by being watchful, had escaped being scalded to death by hot water or killed by electricity, and finally to subdue men who were contending for fair wages and against robbery, Carnegie and Frick imported into Homestead a small army of thugs known as “Pinkertons,” who were armed to the teeth with the most deadly weapons. These mercenary murderers, hired to kill for so much a day and rations, were attacked by the Homestead workingmen and compelled to inglorionsly retire from the battlefield. But the incident aroused universal indignation and became a world-wide infamy. It disclosed the fact that a concern in Chicago kept constantly on hand or within call an army of unhung mercenaries, who could be hired as the British hired Hessians, to kill workingmen with as little compunction as if they were so many vagabond dogs, and it was seen that there were men in the United States at the head of great industrial enterprises who were willing to hire these outcasts to murder their employes, and fearing that Indiana might be within the “Pinkerton” zone, the Democratic legislature of 1889 enacted a law which forbade the employment of such vagabonds. This law enacted to protect workingmen from wounds and death inflicted by men as heartless as Apache savages, pro vided, “That it shall be unlawful for any person, company, association or corporation to bring or import into this state any person or persons or associations of persons for the purpose of discharging the duties devolving upon sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, marshals, policemen, constables or peace officers in the protection or preservation of public or private property or in the punishment of any person violating the criminal laws of this state.” And the penalty imposed for violating the law is imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year and a flue of < 100. “ This wise and humane Democratic measure received the emphatic indorsement of every workiugmau in the state and was convincing evidence of the promptness of the Democratic party to shield workingmen from the assaults of corporations, and from assaults of thugs, the product of the slums of great cities, and in the employment of men who were willing to resort to such means to conquer their employes.

Governor Mount’s friends, regardless of party, are still deploring the injuries he received in his collision with Judge Showalter. The Governor had sidetracked his train, whioh was hauling the constitution, the legislature, the supreme court, the 3-cent streetcar fare law and the attorney general when Showalter’s injunction locomotive struck him, head-on with terrific force, since when the governor, the constitution, the legislature, the S cent fare law and the attorney general have been so intermixed and intertwisted that all who have viewed the wreckage have declared the collision was altogether the most disastrous that ever occurred, since such judicial mosquitoes as Showalter wore boots. Before the war with Spain we were getting on nicely with a standing army of 25,000 men, and now we are to have a ’standing army of 100,000 men. It costs money to keep up such an establishment, but to raise it all that is required is to lick and stick revenue stamps. _________ Major McKinley hints that Whitelaw Reed will be made secretary of state, because he married a fortune big enough to enable him to get up swell entertainments in Washington, and make a superb ass of himself, as he did in Paris. Senator Fairbanks, who goes to Canada on some sort of a government picnic, oould, if required, tell the Canadians the profitable limit of wind and water to be injected into their railroad stocks and bonds. Having acquired the Hawaiian islands, 2,000 miles west of our Pacific coast, what becomes of the “Monroe doctrine?” The administration ought to inform the people, approximately, how much leprosy has been annened to the United wwuBCW wMMM

SYMPATHIZED WITH HIM.

Tbs Boy Didn’t Know That His Fathef Was After Him. The person who related this anecdote vouched for its truth, regardless of its near approach to a narratifs well known to history. Down on the south side lives a family of three. The boy is small, th* father is of slender construction, but the mother is ample and globular, and if the earth does not tremble when she treads it certainly shudders slightly. One day the boy, being caught redhanded in some misdeed, was directed by his mother to,go upstairs and prepare himself for a trouncing. The boy fled to the upper floor, but instead of waiting in patience for his bodybeating he took refuge under a bed. When the avenger came with sounds of heavy breathing to chastise him he refused to come out of his retreat. She bent and tried to pursue him to his corner, but it was like the effort of the camel to progress easily through the eye of the needle. The space between the bed and the floor was too narrow for the admission of the mother’s unsylphlike form. She pulled the bed out from the wall, but the boy was still too wily, and he followed under it. Then she pushed it over to another side of the room, hoping that it twould pass over him and leave him behind, but it did not. So in despair she returned to the lower floor to wait for the homecoming of the father of the flock. When the man of the house arrived the situation was explained to him, and he went up those stairs at a gallop. He did not wait for argument or persuasion, but, bending low, shot under the bed. The anxious mother followed him into the room, reaching the door when the husband was halt under. The culprit from beneath could see nothing, but he understood that his father was coming, and that his mother was a close second. “Here, dad! This way!” he cried. “It’s comfortabier here, and there ain’t no show or fief getting in after you.” And then in a free-masonry of crime: “What did you do, dad? What’s she tryin’ to get you for?” And he spoke with such honest consideration and such a desire to be helpful to a fellow-sufferer that the father hadn’t the heart to give him the hiding he had intended to administer.—Chicago Record.

THE SAFFRON CITY.

Havana as It Has Been Recently Described by a Tourist Havana is bounded by beauty on one side, by ignorance on the other, Remarks Edgar Saltus in Collier’s Weekly. The approach to it, particularly in the early morning, is exceeded in loveliness by perhaps but two or three other ports. There are many exquisite things in the world, and among them, near the head of the list, stands dawn in the tropics. It is sudden as love and just as fair. Dawn in. the Havaneje harbor is a foretaste of what Paradise may be. The tourist who has sailed that way passes a night beneath stars that are larger and more neighborly than our own. The water, too, is different. At Key West it looks like a lawn in May. It has the same asparagus green. Then it changes. It liecomes seamed with phosphorus. As the stars disappear it changes again, and very suddenly, into a sirup of opals. At the horizonis a tender pink. Overhead is a fusion of salmon and blue. Just beyond, within rifle range, is an amphitheater of houses partly colored as rainbows, tiaraed with the pearl points of a cathedral, girded with the yellow walls of a crumbling fort. ' Every city has an aspect and an odor of its own. Paris, for instance, has a white sky, and smells like a pretty woman. The aspect of Havana is saffron. It smells of rancid oil.' In addition it suggests Seville. Though the Moors have never been thtere, it looks as though they had. There is a saying which runs “Que no ha vista Sevilla on ha vista maravilla”—not to have seen Seville is not to have seena marvel. In view of recent events it is proper and pertinent to give the saying a twist.—“ Que no ha vista. Habana, ha vista nada.” It does not rhyme as well, but as nada means nothing it ought to pass in a crowd.

Sensation of Hanging.

A captain who was rescued from the gibbet kt the intercession of Viscount Turenne, after being partially hanged, related thar, having lost all pain in an instant, by being rescued he had been snatched from a glorious light, the charm of which defied all description. All victims of partial hanging agree that the uneasiness is quite momentary; that a pleasant feeling succeeds, and that various colors start before the sight, casting everything else in oblivion. The mind, averted from reality, is engaged in scenes most remote from that which fills the eye of the spectator—hideous gallows arid the struggling form.—Scientific American. ’

A Queer Race.

There has long dwelt in the heart of the Pyrenees, on the old Catalonian border of Spain, a race of dwarfs, suppo®®d to be of Tartar origin.