Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — Page 4

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Democratic State Ticket.

For Secretary of State. SAMUEL 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, JAMESS. 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'CABB, of Warren County. Fifth District, TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, of St. Joseph County. For Judges of Appellate Court, First District, EDWIN TAYLOR, of Vanderburgh County. Second District, 0. J. KOLLMEYER, of Bartholomew County. Third District, EDGAR A. BROWN, of Marlon County. Fourth District, WILLIAM S. DIVEN, of Madison County. 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. YEOMAN.

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 I. 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 Carpenter Tp. Commissioner Ist District, FRANK M. HERSHMAN, of Walker Tp. Commissioner 2nd District, LUCIUS STRONG, of Rensselaer.

Don’t go back on your own records, Mr. Halleck. Why don’t the Journal tell its readers about that 54.000 loan? A man who is leading a double life should use care in throwing “dornicks.” The more we probe into the management of county affairs the more rottenness is disclosed. Where was the statistician (30 years in office) during all the time that this democratic auditor didn't steal anything? ? The supreme court has decided that the names of the nominees forjudges of the appelate court must go on the official ballot. The day of reckoning is close at hand, and two weeks from next Tuesday will permanently settle ring rule and reckless extravagance in the administration of county affairs in Jasper county. In the recent proposed investigation of certain affairs of the county by the county commissioners, the thought seems never to have occurred to them that their own acts and office needed a thorough investigation.

Said a prominent republican to us a few days ago: “Matters have reached a stage when there must be a change in county management The ring is becoming too arrogant and carry too much the air of proprietorship. Why, at the present time, one man I thinks that he owns the whole court house, and he’s only a deputy, too.

The fight for better and more economical county government being waged by the Jasper County Democrat should appeal to the sense and judgement of every taxpayer In Jasper county. For years tax ridden by one of the most extravagant political rings that ever preyed upon a long suffering people, the turning point has come. There are times when a long suffering people refuse to listen to appeals to “standby the ticket” and vote for their own Interests. We believe that this is one of those years In Jasper county.—Delphi Times. And still not a “cheep” from the ring organs about that §4,000.00 loan. Has it ever been paid? And if so, when? Judge Thompson says members of election boards can di;aw pay for but one day’s labor. The Journal says they are entitled to three days pay. Which is right? • . -• . The cost of commissioners court for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1890, was §325. Since that time it has been crawling up gradually, and four years later amounted to §1,074.43; four years more (1898) and it t has reached the very healthy sum of §2,215.68. Still the ringsters say it is dangerous to make a change—for themselves, no doubt it is.

In the Auditor’s annual report for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1890, we find the cost of books and stationary for the year was §863.68. The same authority gives the cost for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1898, at §2,882.08. Notwithstanding the fact that this class of work can be had cheaper now than eight years ago, it costs Jasper county nearly four times as much as it then did. There’s something very rotten in Denmark. If it will help the Journal and its statistician (30 years in office) any, in compiling their “official” history of The Democrat man, we will be pleased to give them such datas as they may lack as to our birth, place of birth, family genealogy, our religious and political beliefs, where we have spent each month and year since our arrival on terra firma, and any other information of a personal character that they may desire. We always like to be accommodating. The Journal’s statistician (30 years in office) says there was “a large net profit” from the county poor farm for the fiscal year, and yet the figures sent by this same statistician or his acting deputy, Mr. Murray, shows a large net deficit. It seems a very hard matter for the statistician (30 years in office) to make two sets of figures on the same subject that come anywhere near each other. Better open up the books and see how long this system of mathematics has been going on.

If your neighbor says to you that The Democrat’s charges of mismanagement in county affairs are simply campaign lies, tell him to withold his decision until he makes an investigation for himself. We have given the county records themselves as our authority for charges made, and in nearly every case the pages of record where our statements are corroborated. It is any easy matter for any one to satisfiy themselves as to the truth or falsity of our statements, and we certainly would not be so explicit in our charges were they otherwise than as published by us. B. J. Gifford, the largest land owner and heaviest taxpayer in Jasper county, was in the city on business Monday. Mr. Gifford openly stated, we are reliably informed, that there must be a purification in Jasper county politics, that the best interests of the people demand it, and that he was in favor of a complete change in the management of county affairs. He said that while as strongly opposed to the free silver idea as ever, this had nothing to do with the local situation in Jasper county, and he wanted to see the democratic county ticket elected, that the present managemant was rotten .to the core and must be weeded out. X

The Journal’s statistitian (30 years in office) went over to Remington last week to collect a little statistical information in regard to The Democrat editor. Evidently the information secured was not exactly to his liking, as no mention is made of his trip in the court house sewer. Last week the Rensselaer Republican copied an article in regard to the late war management from the Winamac DemocratJournal, and headed it “An Honorable Democratic Editor’s Opinion.” Now, we suppose the Republican will admit that this editor was just as honorable the week previous to the publication of said article as he was when the article referred to wfls published, and he then said of the cutting out of those four pages of the Jasper county commissioners’ record, that it was “a most unheard of proceeding only in cases where such mutilation was made with criminal intent.” One thing which we wish to impress on the minds of the people of Jasper county is this: That no man can get the nomination for a responsible county office on the republican ticket under the dominition of the ring unless said ring can use him, and that while the official may wish to do everything in his power for the best interests of the people, he soon finds that he has a string tied to him apd must jump every time the string is pulled by the ringsters. This is a sad state of affairs, but it is a fact that every voter cognigant with county management knows to be true. Knock out this ring and open up the books. The Journal of Sept. 29, in referring to the poor farm report for the quarter ending August 31, says: “With a large net profit during the last fiscal year and with the first quarter of the present year practically even” etc. Thereport filed with the Bureau of Statistics, however, does not show “a large net profit during the last fiscal year,” but does show a large net deficit. The Journal’s sayings will not bear a very close investigation. It’s statistician (30‘years in office) is far from reliable when it comes to figures of county receipts and expenditures, and all taxpayers irrespective of party, will be pleased to learn that his long pull at the public teat will cease with the term of the present auditor. BEWARE OP THE MAN WHO IS ALWAYS TRYING TO DEFEND THE SCOUNDRELS WHO ARE FATTENING ON PUBLIC PLUNDER. A CLOSE INSPECTION WILL GENERALLY REVEAL THE FACT THAT THEY ARE SHARING IN THE BOOTY.-Hebron News.

“Honest Abe” delivered a political speech over in Milroy township, last Saturday night, we are informed. and in the course of his talk referred to the court house yard matter. He stated, it is alleged, that The Democrat’s charge that the county paid the expense of tearing up the coping and walks and relaying them was false, that it did not cost the county a cent. If Mr. Halleck made the statements attributed to him he said what he well knew was absolutely false. The records show that the contract was let for §8,300, and while Abe was sharp enough to keep from the record the fact that the contractors were paid for doing this extra work, he could not keep the matter secret that the total amount paid them was §8,956.50, or §656.50 mure than the original contract called for. It seems that the agreement to pay them for extra work was not put on record, at least we did not find it, and no mention is made in the allowances that any part of the §8,956.50 was foi extra lab«r, the last allowance made reading “balande on court house, yard contract.” If this §656.50 was not for extra labor performed in the tearing up and relaying said coping and walks, as we are reliably informed it was, will Mr. Halleck please tell us what it was paid for, and why it was thought best to keep the matter secret.

If any of the taxpayers in Jasper county have any doubts as to the truth of our statements in regard to the court house yard matter,let them consult Commissioners’ Record 10, pages 546 and 551, and Record 11, pages 18, 93,122, and the latter record for allowances made Aug. 23d, and at the September session. These allowances amount to §8,956.50 while the contract price was but §8,300. Understand, too, that the money paid for extra cement and the pay of the superintendent in overseeing the tearing up and relaying of the coping and walks is not included in this SB,-' 956.50.

Those of our readers who have followed our court house cuts and accompanying statements of cost etc., we think will agree with us that other counties have erected equally as good court houses as our own for about one-half the cost of ours. These counties, too, are from one to four times as large in population and wealth as Jasper county, but they did not deem it wise to place a burden upon the people that few now living will ever see lifted. Were they wise in erecting a public building within their means, or is the wisdom all on our side in bonding the county for about 4 per cent of the assessed valuation, twice the legal limit? The Journal this week devotes over two columns of its valuable space to showing that Jasper county never lost a dollar by any of her democratic officials of years gone by. It also seeks to convey the idea that mismanagement in public office is generally discovered when the opposite party comes into power. We cordially agree with the Journal on this proposition, and as we have shown up a whole lot of mismanagement in county affairs, especially in the auditor’s office, we think the voters of Jasper county will agree with us that it would be a good idea to put a good, straight, honorable democrat in this office and find out just where matters do stand.

The Indianapolis News, a rampant republican organ, makes some suggestions to republicans of Marion county that will apply equally as well to republicans of Jasper county. It says: In reply to the thoroughly substantiated charges against some of the republican county officials, the Journal points out that democrats were guilty of the same acts at a time when they were not illegal, and this morning it recites the record made by the democratic board of county commissioners that went out of office three years ago. We do not believe that the 1 people of Marion county will be impressed with this reasoning. I The question before them is i whether they will condone the ' acts of men now in office, some of whom are candidates for re-elect- ' ion. No plea, based on the ne‘cessity of supporting the national 1 administration, or on the importance of winning a victory for sound money, can be accepted as a warrant for indorsing a corruption, malfeasance or carelessness—whichever it may be—in the administration of county affairs. 1 It ts not important that the I democrats have behaved badly in the past. Under our system the only way to cure evils is by turning to the party out of office. In this county we have to choose between the democrats and republicans. There is no other resource. And as the evils have occurred under the present republican administration, the people who want to put an end to them, for a time at least, will be likely to support the democratic county candidates. We appreciate to the full the importance of defeating the democratic party, whenever it can be done without sicrificing the public interests, as long as it continues to hold to the free silver theory. In our opinion it is necessary to do everything possible to uphold the cause of sound money. But there are some sacrifices that the people of a community cannot be asked to make. In this county the sound money men can, and by all means should vote for the republican candidate for congress and the republican state and legislative tickets, but there is no reason why* they should vote for republican candidates for county offices that have shown themselves to be incompetent, or that have for any ren on sacrificed the best interests of he county.

JASPER COUNTY TAXES Compared With Neighboring Counties.

* For county revenue on each SIOO Vai. Jasper (inc ct house bonds) . .§ -45 > White(inc ct house bonds).. .28 f Pulaski (inc ct house bonus) .30; t Porter (including special).. .28, Lake (including special)... .23 ; Benton 22 Newton 25J

OUR INDEBTEDNESS Compared With Adjoining Counties.

Amount. Per Capita Jasper $153,500.00 $9-33 Starke 76,361.44 6.61 White 67,819.64 2.06 Pulaski 56,000.37 3.07 P0rter....... 13,939.11 .63 Lake 8,000.00 .21 Benton none. none. Newton none. none. We would respectfully remind the Journal that county officials of twenty years ago and even those before the civil war are not on trial at this time, and their acts, good, bad, or indifferent, have no bearing in the present battle for a more honest and economical county government. ■ As many prominent republicans have remarked, the silver question nor the war question have nothing to do with the political situation in Jasper county. Every taxpayer should be interested in a more economical administration of local affairs and in the defeat of the ring which has brought about the deplorable state of affairs now confronting the people of this county.

We see that the Journal is attempting to make a little campaign thunder out of the fact that B. J. Gifford paid §7,210 in gold into court this week. Of course it never occurred to the narrow minded Journal scribe that Mr. Gifford made his tender in gold coin, simply because it is the only kind of money that is a full legal tender for all purpose. Mr. Gifford knew what he was doing.

The “money power” would probably make a handsome profit out of both gold and silver. It would soon own all the silver and all the silver mines in the world and then let us have just such money and just so much of it, as would best suit its own purposes and most satisfy its greed.—Rensselaer Republican. Read the above again and ponder it carefully. It is a fair sample of the unanswerable logic that makes Jasper county so solidly republican. Of course it never entered Bro. Marshall’s head that the “money power” may even now be controlling all the gold and all the gold mines in just this manner.— White County Democrat. The Democrat wishes it distinctly understood that it has had no personal animous against Auditor Murray, that it has made no l>ersonal attack upon him in any I way, and the fact that our disclosures of rottenness in the management of county affairs mentions the auditor and the auditor’s office in an official way, and not in a personal way. The official records of the county affairs are kept by the. auditor and in his office, and he is the custodian of such records. Auditor Murray has become much incensed at our disclosures and has shown his displeasure and allowed it to be done by the Journal’s statistician (30 years in office) in various personal ways. The efforts made to muzzle us or drive us out of business are not new to this gang, but we shall continue to show up the rottenness in the management of county affairs in spite of their buldozing tactics.

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