Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — Page 5

WASHINGTON LETTER.

(Krom oar regular correspondent.) There is much sympathy expressed for Mrs. McKinley, who left Washington for Canton, Ohio, Saturday night, to attend the fun—al of her brother, who was killed, pposedly by a jealous woman, Friday evening. She was to have started to the Omaha -Exposition today, with Mr. McKinley and a party of officials and their wives. The went and will be joined at Ganrcjn, by Mr. Mckinley, but Mrs. McKinley will probably not goI Nothing could show more encouragement for democrats in in the Congressional campaign than the fact that republicans acknowledge their fear of losing four out of the eleven lowa districts, now all represented by republicans. A gain of thirty neats is all that is needed by the democrats to put the republicans in a minority in the next house, and the prospects of getting them and many more, is very bright at this time. * * • Mr. McKinley is said to be very much disgusted at the position takenjby Teddy Roosevelt, that his election to be governor of New York is necessary as an indorsement of the administration and the war, and it would not be surprising if he should take some way of letting it become known that he would not consider Roosevelt’s defeat an affront to himself or his administration, although - pressure is being brought to keep his mouth shut.

Ex-Senator Blackbum, of Kentucky, now in Washington, said: “The political outlook in Kentucky is as satisfactory as democrats could wish. Of the eleven Congressional Districts they will carry nine certainly, and of the remaining two there is more than an even chance of carrying one — the Louisville district. It seems to me that there is every reason to regard the condition of the democracy throughout the Nation, with complacency, and I believe that the gains made by the party in November, will be large in a majority of the states.” • • • Col. Phil Thompson, once a member of the house from Kentucky, who spends much of his time in New York, has been telling his Washington friends about the campaign. He said: “I believe that Judge Van Wyck will beat Col. Roosevelt, for Governor, by a heavy majority. There, is an element in the republican party that doesn’t like Roosevelt and will secretly rejoice in his downfall. He is cordially hated by the salocn keepers and their friends, for his course while Police Commissioner, and they will work like beavers to roll up the ballots for his opponent. Then, too, Judge Van Wyck is an amiable and upright man, with no blemish in his record, and conservative people think he will make a far better executive than tne brilliant, but rather impracticable rough rider. The strongest card, however, for the is the bad record of •the republican state administration. The tax payers are up in in arms over the canal improvement fund, and when they come „,to vote they are going to take a sure way of manifesting their displeasure with Gov. Black’s regame.” * • * Lawyers for the defense seldom bringout any testimony against the accused. The members of the Mckinley war investigation Comnffssion—“The Alger Relief Commission,” is what a local paper calls it—who have put the questions to the witnesses who have so far testified may not consider themselves Alger’s lawyers, but, if they were, their questions could not in the opinion of many unprejudiced persons, have been more carefully prepared to prevent the giving of undesired evidence. One witness— Col. Lee—who started to tell about some of the War Department’s mismanagement, in the matter of transportation, without being questioned upon the subject, was at once called down and informed that the commission was not ready to enter that branch of the investigation. He took the hint and thereafter only answered such questions as were asked. Gen. F. Vy Boynton reiterated his theory that flies were responsible torso ' much sickness at Camp Thomas, and another witness,—a brigader surgeon—indorsed it. Instead of trying to find, out, the Commission appears to be trying not to find out anything derogatory to Secreiary Alger s management of the complimentary to the Department. f * • ■ I

Parke County, Indiana, Court House. This building was erected some years agja. uribem labor and material was much dearer than at present. The contract was let for the building complete for $794000. The contractor was paid nearly full amount when building was only about one-half completed, by republican board of caamatsaaraera. He failed to complete the job and the work was taken up by next board, which was democratic, and tamdsed. Total cost of everything complete, including amount paid on first contract, SIIO,OOO. This court house is of a different style of architecture than any heretofore appearing in war enhsasan, and b said to to a nry fine, massive looking building, handsomely finished and furnished with all the modern improveusente and oosrveaatans. It is M# feet long. 80 feet wide and 146 feet high, being about large enough to take the Jasper county court house in oat of toe art inane endof its roomy proportions. Parke county has an area of 440 square miles, and the erases of 1890 gave it a popubdinmet 3QL2ML abort dsnhfe tort of Jasper.

tigation, Quay adopted bluffing methods; told the Committee that he speculated in sugar or anything else, whenever he wished to, and in effect asked what the committe was going to do about it No real patriot will deny that the country would be better off if all such men as Quay were driven out of the Senate and kept out.

THE CIRCUIT COURT.

The October term of the Jasper circuit court will convene Monday Following are the names of the petit jurors who are called for the second Monday of the term: Michael RobinsonGillam George W. VineentCarpenter Asa A. BrownWheatfield Benjamin Thomas Carpenter Anderson Jenkinsßarkley John J. Jeeeen ......gnieliw Charles Odom....'..Gillam Charles L. Heusler..Jordan Menroe Carr. •.. .Marion Calvin Coppem...:.....Gillam Abraham BringleUnion John Daugherty.. .\Rensselaer George Boehen .. Wheatfield L. D. Marlon.. Marion Frank M Norman Marion WilliamH. Mi11er............Newt0n

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

Mr. James H. Alverson, Mr. Chas. Boughter, Rudolph Fisher, M. & F. Truance, John E. Miller, Mrs. Addie Myers, W. P. Peterson, V. W. Shuck, Orval Thomas, Mr. Frank Vancloren, Mrs. Season, widow. Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list will please Bftyt G e M. Robinson, P. M.

MORE ROTTENNESS.

CemtyWanaets lataed far Laona and the EactKept Fran the As previously stated by us. no information about county affairs has ever been published by the ring organs here except what the ring wanted the public to know. The only information ever given the people about that $4,000 court house loan has been through The Democrat, and until we exposed the matter it is not likely that more than a half dozen people in the county knew such a loan had been made. To show the utter unreliability of the official statements given out by publication in the ring organs, and for which the county pays a great deal of money, we will trace up this $4,000 loan for a while. On June 29th 1896, (Record 10. page 253) we find that “the county

revenues having been exhausted by payments advanced therefrom on account of ditches and new court house, the Board finds that to preserve the county from loss, a temporary loan should be made.’’ Therefore an agent was appointed “to secure a $4,000 loan lor thirty days, and the Auditor ordered TO DRAW WARRANTS FOR THE SAXE, BEARING INTEREST AT 7 PERCENT. This temporary loan, bear in mind, was for only thirty days, and was made to tide over payments <m new court house account until the next bond issue was made and negotiated. No further reference is made to this loan that we discover until about one year afterwards when we find an entry of allowance made “interest on temporary court house loan, $320.” During the year that had passed the Auditor's annual report had been made, examined and approved by the commissioners ana published Thrift report purported to contain among other things all the outstanding county warrants issued and remaining unpaid on May 31st 1887. The warrant issued for this “temporary loan” of $4,000 hadnot been paid, but it WAS MOT inclvDED IN THE MET PUBLISHED NO* ANT MENTION WHATEEVR MAD* ON IT. “Of course the comrammonm and Auditor knew this loan hadnot been paid, but it areas* it was thought best not to publish the fact, tons showing guilt on their

riidtire made hy the atiiKtiia offAecowAtitmotf the affairs rfAe corarifiy, proved by the boead «f Ctemwstsskmezs, No imKKKXiMTifi time -or this MJOBO xmx, ivTHOTGH THE WAHROT TXIXEKR is still rKrAm. Arab* Are* officials are guihy off the true state of affairs fima Ae more ishmsi oftfe loan, so far as the recanfe atrewus(last month« meeting <aff Ae oraa-i mission®,. when wefind Ast was paid as "interest «■ ocnnjffly AdtMeAresT' Am aararew of Ae Auditor eficted the infoumattom that this was interest As smreei old temporary 30-Ay ioum made two yuan and two soA Itofara.

On being ashed if the team had ever been Mfr puM, the Anfitar replied that ithnd been, as he m, derstood, a loam time before. The i Treasurer also urieifiy stated to as] in answer to oar *that it i had been paadJ” * J Now comes aaoae coucealsneatt on the part «f the mmraararimmcK! and the auditor The fiaßtemtry of interest paid reads '“toterest vm temporary court house isum." The last entries in bath the ecanmissioners docket and reread as first made have bam craned fpreHuimably <m TMhriPs rerieri mad it; now reads “iatomrt cm tocmaty to-' debtedness,” the auditor stated to ma, it was the maar aid "temporary coast hamse bate” of $4,000. Now we would She to here the figure the interest am this hmm from Jaly 4,1885, to Sept. at 7 per cent, the cate at faderect given rathe caderto tone rise warrant We arake the areamat $606.68, bad the rereads ihnw that S6BB ha* been paid. How does it cease, if thus lama was paid off, even as late as Septesuber IhC tiara tise wamatt c&Bad fior? erawwty waxraskte of which ass reahiiehs was

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ROTH-MARLATT.

Ore popular young townsman, Mr.. MAom Roth, ©ff the firm of Moody A Roth, aod Miss Ollie Morlnft the charming daughter off Mt asd Mrs, Pferry Marlott of rHbulliy tranabiip, were married at the hraae cff Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ctefe. im Eagbtwood, ML, last SunAy evemiug. They returned to RreamAH- Tuesday morning and to® stest housekeeping in Mrs. IT. Randße’s house on Cullen sfineetL The best wishes of a host off firiraA are theirs. Sdhsmbe for The Democrat.

RECEPTION FOR ARTHUR LAKIN.

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REPUBLICAN CURRENCY REFORM.

bi my last communication I under* took to show just what the Republican platform means by “comprehensive and enlightened monetary legislation." Thia legislation is not a matter for the Ba* publican leaders to settle in the future. Even if it were not fully determined on, the people ought to be taken into their confidence more than this vague, smooth sounding platform declaration does. But they have fully decided on this “currency reform" and it is embodied in house trill Na 10,289. This is the bill which was favorably reported by the house committee at the last session, and in this letter I want to briefly discuss that feature of the measure that makes our coined silver dollars redeemable in gold. (See Sea 8, H. R. No. 10,289.> As the law stands today, there is no provision for free or even limited coinage of silver dollars (except the provision in the Bond bill for coining the seignorage, which has been absolutely ignored by the treasury officials), but there is an amount of silver coined already that is full legal tender standard money. There is no statute that permits their redemption in gold and there has been no policy adopted or attempt made by the treasury officials to redeemthem in gold. They have the equal exchange or money value of gold, simply because they pay as much debts and taxes in this country. In any event, the $425,000,000 of coined silver dollars enlarge the volume of our standard money that much and in a certain way have the effect of that much gold coined. But if the law is to be changed so that thia silver is legally redeemable in gold, at least two vicious results follow:

L The volume of standard money is contracted, for instead of being part of oar standard, legal tender money, our silvfer dollars will become mere car* rency. Our fibined gold will be left the sole standard money; it will be the sole money of redemption and the money in which government bonds must be paid. A large part of this funded national debt was created on a paper basis when greenbacks were legal tender and would have paid it. It has been refunded on a coin basis, when under the law and under the terms of the contract, it could be paid in either gold or silver dollars. * Now they propose to make the public debt payable only in gold. This purpose was foreshadowed in the defeat of the Teller resolution in the last house, and in the declaration of President McKinley in his speech to the American Manufacturers’ association, Jan. 27, 1898, that “no matter what the language of the contract, the United States would pay its obligations in the money recognized as the best at the time of payment.** And, as this purpose cannot well be carried out by refunding our debt and issuing gold bonds in the place of coin bonds, it is to be done by making silver mere currency and gold the sole money of payment.

If there ever was danger in making our public debt payable in gold, that danger has increased in recent years. The injustice and unwisdom of gold payment has grown since McKinley voted for the Matthews resolution in 1878. which declared that our coin bond* could be paid in either gold or silver dollars. The increased demand for gold as standard money, here and elsewhere in the world, has caused its value to riae and has correspondingly caused property and prices to fall. A wise economist would not increase that demand. Besides, our debt has grown in the last few years, <460,000,000 (largely due to the attempt to maintain gold redemption), making gold payment not only more difficult but more unjust than •ver. Again, if we take away the money function from <425,000,000 of stiver, we not only reduce the volume of standard money that much, but by making this silver redeemable in gold we add that new burden to gold. This in an experiment we need not try. 2. The hypocrisy of the proposition can be seen on a moment’s reflection. If silver is to be meth currency, redcotna blaingold.it amounts to mere promises to pay the gold back of it. It stands, just as the redeemable paper dollar does* and if this be true, why not have all paper currency or paper promises to psqy gold? It is a sheer waste of good material to use silver to stamp these promises on when we can use paper to print them on. Why not dispense with silver? Ik is because they do not care to alarm th* people by such a proposal. Even im the bill the plan of gold redemption in veiled in the sentence: “Pay out goldl coin in exchange for silver dollars.”

They are seeking to do by indirection what they may not propose directly. They are seeking to surreptitiously fasten this legislation on us. H. HL Hanan says his poll of the house shown that aU the “sound money” member* favor it and yet they come back to their constituents and talk of “honest dollars” and “comprehensive monetary* legislation ” Not one word to say ha defense or explanation of a bill to which, if Mr. Hanna speaks the troth, they have committed themselves. These speakers and papers are silent, but the work is ready for the next comgross if it be Republican. And Mr. Hanna says, in his open letter of someweeks ago, that they were encouraged to believe that the war would enabl* them to carry ths elections and controlthe next congress, and then their proposed legislation would become a tew. Heaven forbid that under the guise and to the name of patriotism they shall secure cur congress for each nefarious purposes. ' Hbxry Wabrum. With wheat at 4* coats a bushel th* tomsMS who have hogs might profitably dfeporoof itasfted, white waiting fire ttoMeßmtey wave of prosperity. Buffalo BUI may find it mote dMßtete than he anticipates to dose a ocatraak with McKinley’s catenet to mate tk m. **** * _ *