Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — THERE ARE OTHERS. [ARTICLE]

THERE ARE OTHERS.

The Warsaw Union charges a county commissioner over there with making a profit of $153 on the purchase of a galvanized tank for the poor farm. That commissioner has a sense of business enterprise which should be curbed at the polls.—Valparaiso Messenger.

The Rensselaer Republican devotes a column and a half to Brother Babcock of the Democrat. in a vain endeavor to teach the latter the error of his ways anent the removal of 4 pages from the auditor’s report of the county commissioners coart. The whole thing appears to be a “tempest in a teapot,” but the fact remains that the removal of a page of oounty records is not justifiable under any circumstances. It would have answered the same purpose and silenced all criticism, to have cancelled the record on these pages, and allowed them to remain in the book.—Remington Press.

Doe* Bro. Sbanlaub, of the Morocco Courier, want the commissioner* of Newton county to build a $185,000 court house, even if it would be located at Morocco?—Jasper County Democrat. No, and if Bro. Babcock will remember, we intimated in a recent issue that we did not regard that costly edifice at Rensselaer as being an abeolnte necessity. Honesty and economy in the expenditure of public money should be the watchword and guiding star of every public servant, ana that official who manifests, even in a slight degree, an inclination to exceed the bounds -prescribed by the above mentioned qualities, in the management of public affairs, should be effectually suppressed at the first opportunity.—Morocco Courier. Will the Republican and Journal please copy.

It has been the custom for the Rensselaer papers to publish only so much,news of county affairs as they wanted those outside the “ring” to know. It is not to be wondered at that they are all “redheaded” at The Democrat for its many exposures, from the “barnacle” up.

Republican papers were swift to arrogate to their party all the glory and credit for the victory over Spain. They must now accept the shame which covers the conduct of the war department. Little by little, the history of the war as conducted by the political officers appointed by the republican administration is coming to the surface, and for downright cruelty, criminal negligence, official dishonesty, and consequent suffering among the soldiers, no record among civilized nations furnishes a parallel.—Delphi Times.

A. F. Knotts, the republican candidate for joint representative for Lake and Jasper, has, according to a Hammond dispatch to the Indianapolis News of Thursday, hit upon a scheme for paying off the debt of the city of Hammond, and it is nothing more or less than to turn the city over to the gamblers and collect from them a good license for the “protection” given them. According to his own statements he will also father a bill in the legislature, in the event of Lis election, which will in a measure license the pooling feature of horse rhcing. “The race horse men” he said, “are willing to pay a lioense fee of $260 a day into the city or county funds, provided of course, they are protected from arrest” The article referred to favors Knotts’ scheme and contains much more to the ■•me effect. Is this the sort of ■urn the people want sent to the legislature from this district?