Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — The County Ticket. [ARTICLE]

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.