Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — TOWNSHIP CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

TOWNSHIP CONVENTIONS.

At the Democratic Township conventions held throughout the county last Tuesday the following' nominationswere made. Marion—Justices of Peace, John P. Warner, James W. Pierce, Lee E. Glazebrook, Peter Hordeman, Sr., Washington Scott. Constables, Edward Phegley, Zackariah Stanley, Vance Cullins, Alfred AHoover, Oscar Houter. Union—Met and discussed matters and adjourned for two weeks. Jordan —Trustee, Frank Welch Justices of the Peace, report o£ nominations not yet received. No reports from other township® received yet.

The two democratic township trustees of Jasper county were the first to have their reports published, and they appeared five days after the annual settlement. The law says the reports must be published within ten days thereafter. Bro. Marshall is still running reports of the republican trustees. Such publication comes far from, fulfilling the law.

The charges of misconduct in the management of the war is not a democratic outcry by any means. It is essentially republican, and. comes from the Chicago Tribune,, the Springfield Republican, Phil—adelphi Ledger, Boston Herald, Milwaukee Sentinel, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Pittsburg Dispatch, San Francisco Argonaut* Baltimore American, Boston Transcript, Providence Journal, Springfield Union and scores of other republican papers.

The Journal says the reason forreducing the county levy was be—cause the receipts for the past year* had been so much greater than the expenditures. Is that so? Well* the report of the county auditor (which we now have before us) shows the total receipts from county revenue for-the year (including $78,448.61 received from, court house bonds) was $124,889.49 while the expenditures (including amount paid out on new court house account) was $129,815.05, or $4,815.05 greater than the receipts. We can hardly reconcile your statements with the county auditor’s, Bro Clark.

Bro. Marshall, strange to relate* doesn’t like the way we are conducting The Democrat, and thinks we should, we suppose, like, himself, get “in” with the ring and say nothing that will in any way conflict with ring interests. Sorry* Bro. Marshall, but we are conducting our paper in the interests of the people of the whole county, instead of a small but powerful ring* and while it was hinted to us before we had been here two weeks that it could be made to our financial interest to be a little easy in referring to certain matters, we then as now declined the proposition, not even extending onr thanks for same.

We care not what the anarchistic newspapers of Rensselaer may say, we still proclaim that the removal of pages from a public record is an unheard of way of correcting errors in same. It is in every way wrong, we care notwhether done by republican, democrat, prohibitionist or populist, and to back up our assertions that it is wrong we have the Statutes of the great state of Indiana, which, makes it a penitentiary offense. All the ridicule, bombast, blow, and bluster of these enemies of law and order will not make a wrong right, if they talk all thofall and winter about it. Thanks to The Democrat no more records will be so mutilated in Jasper county for many years.