Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Democratic State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Democratic State Ticket.

For Secretary of State. SAMUEL JLALSTON, 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 WAKRUM, of Marion County. For Superintendent Public Instruct ion, W. B. SINCLAIR, of Starke Comity. 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 Couitty. Ttiini District. JAMES M'CABE.of Warren Cottuty. Fifth District, TIMOTHY E. HOW A RD. of St. Joseph County. For Judsfes of Appellate Court, First District. EDWIN TAYLOR, of Vanderburgh County. ,■ Second District. C. J. KOELMEYER, of Bartholomew County. Third District, EDGAR A. BROWN, of Marion t ounty. Fourth District. WILLIAM S. DIYEN, 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. 30tli Judicial District. IRA W. YEOMAN. The County Ticket. For County Clerk, JOHN F. MAJOR, of Carpenter Tp. For County Auditor, GEORGE O. STEMBEL, of Wheatfleld Tp. For County Treasurer, MARION I. ADAMS, of Murion 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 Rensseluer.

Vote to open the I looks. The county commissioners would do well to study up on the fee and salary law a bit. Everydody recognizes that the democrats have the best county ticket ever put Indore the people. Again we ask if that temporary court house loan of $4,000 hns ever been paid, and if so, w’hen was it paid? How many more county warrants are outstanding of which no mention were made in the auditor’s annual reports? Is there any wealth producer in the country who can exhibit any evidence of prosperity under this Hanna administration. The ring organs make no attempt to disprove our statements, but simply lay back and holler, “lie!” “false statement!” etc. If the people want honest and reliable reports of the county’s financial condition they will vote for a change in county management. The people vs. the ringsters is the issue of the campaign in J asper county this year, and we believe the people will win by a good safe majority. The Credit Mobilier steals, the whiskey ring steals and Star Route steals will all be laid so far in the shade by the present war steals that they will never be referred to again when steals, jobs or Republican “patriotism” is mentioned.

The fight for better and more scan—tent county government being waged by the J neper County Democrat ebon Id appeal to the aenpa and Judgement of every taxpayer In Jaepcr county. Par yearn tax ridden by one of the meat extravagant political rlnga that ever preyed upon a long eußering people, tha turning point haa coma. There ere tlmee when a long suffering people refute to lie ten to appeale to “stood by the ticket’’ And veto far their own Interests. We believe that this Is one of those years In Jasper county.—Delphi Times.

What is needed in Jasper county is not an investigation of the taxpayers, but an investigation of the county officers. How much do the books and stationery firms contribute to the republican county campaign fund in Jasper county? If you want to get any soft snap contracts from Jasper county hurry up and do it before the present board of commissioners is wiped out. Can any one satisfactorily explain why the cost of books and stationery for the county should grow from $8(53.38 in 18(H) to $2,-88-2.08 in 1898? The Journal’s explanation ( ?) of the large number of mortgages being placed on record in Jasper county is altogether too thin. A number of those mortgages were given to obtain money to pay taxes. Is there a taxpayer in the county who honestly believes for a moment that the cost of commissioners’ court should threble in four years—-1890 to 1894 —and more than double again in the next four years—lß94 to 1898? Men talk about “overproduction” in this country because big cotton and food crops are selling at a low figure, when thousands of the operatives of cotton mills are in rags and often go hungry because they are unable to buy clothes and food even at cheap figures.

Thousands of dollars in the way of illegal special allowances have been made to the county officers by the commissioners. The fee and salary law, which has-been upheld by the supreme court, fixes the salary of all county officers and says they shall receive no other COMPENSATION WHATEVER. There is not a solitary man running for county office on the democratic ticket but is above reproach in every way. They have no ring to serve, no political ward-heelers to whom they must provide a job at county expense. They will every one go in office perfectly free to do the will of the people. Remember this. President McKinley thinks jobs are hunting for men these days. He must refer to dishonest jobs in the War Department. They hunted for Alger and found him, but honest jobs are being hunted *by hundreds of thousands of honest workingmen, and hunted in vain, and no one knows it better than the President knows it. The Journal is anxious for the re-election of Judge Crumpaoker, and yet the editor of the Journal favors territorial expansion. About the first measure Mr. Crumpacker introduced in Congress was a resolution to amend the constitution of the United States, prohibiting the acquisition by the United States of any more territory, and it is well known that he was bitterly opposed to the annexation of Hawaii and voted against it. The Democrats and their allies are making a strong aggressive fight all along the line. There is no dodging* no compromising, no equivocation. The Republicans are greatly disconcerted because all their efForts to drive their opponents from firm support of the principles of the Chicago platform have failed ingloriously. They see that this very confidence and loyalty is adding each day to the strength of the congressional candidates who are making their fight on that platform.

Our republican contemporaries make no attempt to answer the questions asked them last week. They are like the boy, have nothing to say. The ring journals are resorting to all kinds of false statements to deceive their readers and bolster up their cause. It’s no go gentleman, the people will take no further stock in your mutterings but will try voting for their own interests once. The cost of commissioners’ court in Jasper county for the fiscal year ending May 31st 1890 was $325; in 1894 it reached the sum of sl,074.43; in 1898 it had reached $2,215.68, or $788.56 for each commissioner. Will the people longer j submit to such outrages^* We want the taxpayers to re- ! member that not a solitary charge jof mismanagement in county affairs hns been successfully contra- ; dieted by the ring organs. We have made our charges so specific 1 that any taxpayer can easily satisfy himself as to their truth or falsity. ..The Journal’s statistician (30 years in office) had plenty of time to go over to Remington, antici- ; pating in gouhlisli glee that he | would find something detrimental |in a personal way to The Democrat editor, but met with a— to him —sad disappointment. He has no time, however to tell the "people anything about that $4,000 loan or ; many other shady transactions of 4 the county officers. The new anti-Roby law will no ■ doubt wipe out that robbers’ roost effectively. It prohibits all winter race meetings, and allows only three race meetings not to exceed 15 days each, during the remainder of the year. —Rensselaer Republican, March 14th, 1895. And now the Republican wants the notorious lobbyist and attorney for this selfsame “robbers’ roost” sent to the legislature, where he may cut up more devilment of for roby gang.

“Honest Abe” Halleck, the tax dodger’s terror, was assessed $455 on 26.5 miles of telephone line in Marion, Union and Keener townships and nothing in Newton. These lines have been in operation three or four years. Why did not “Honest Abe” place his telephone lines on the duplicates for the years previous to last year? He may have been using the same memory on this occasion that proved so defective when the assessor called upon him in the years previous to 1897. The ring organs make no reply to The Democrat’s specific charges of rottenness, extravagance and wilful waste of the people’s money except to scream “lair,” “false statements” etc. It requires no great amount of brains to call another person a liar or to say that he has made false statements, but as our charges of rottenness and mismanagement have been so specific, why don’t these advocates of public plunder state wherein we have lied or made false statements and prove their assertions, as we have proved our charges, by the county records themselves? They cannot do it nor dare they make the attempt. Isn’t it better to have our party friends in office*—Republican. No doubt about it at all, Bro. Marshal, forthe financial advantage the ring. But for the best interests of the taxpayers of the county it is better to have men in offioe who belong to no ring or clique, and therefore have no political hangers-on who must be fed at the public crib. Yes, there is no doubt but it is much better for the ringsters to have their party friends in office. The people, however, have tried keeping them in office for many years, and their demands for more feed from the taxpayers have been constantly growing greater each year. If the people wish a continuance of this they should by all means vote to keep the ring’s “party friends” in office.

BEWARE OF THE MAN WHO 14 ALWAYS TRYING TO DEFEND THE SCOUNDRELS WHO ARE PATTENtNO ON PUBLIC PLUNDER. A CLOSE INSPECTION WILL GENERALLY REVEAL THE PACT THAT THEY ARB SHARINO IN THE BOOTY.-H#kron News. . ( ■■■ ■■■•'" ■' In reply to a letter written by a prominent republican of this place, A. F. Knotts said that he wrote the letter copied from the Hammond News, and that he also wrote several hundred just like it. At the rate matters have been going on in the past few years it it will not be long until Jasper county will be obliged to ask the legislature again to let her issue bonds beyond the legal limit, that she may pay the county officers and buy books and stationery. We have tried the road toward the single gold standard for so many years, and on that road nothing but closer times and more frequent panics have awaited us. Are you not ready to return to sound and well-tried bimetallism, the double standard of otir fathers? While we fail to see what the private acts of either the Journal or Democrat editor have to do with the campaign, we will state that the Journal’s personal attack this week is false in every important particular, a fact which we can easily substantiate by papers in our possession. The Democrat has been trying for six weeks to get the republican organs here to explain that $4,000 loan, and why, if not for political purposes, the tax levy was reduced when this loan remained unpaid. Not a word do they have to say about it or the other matters of importance to taxpayers which we have asked them to explain. The Journal’s statistisian (30 years in office) still maintains that, there was a cash surplus from the poor farm for the year ending May 31st, 1898. If true, why was it not so stated to the Bureau of Statistics? Read the Bureau’s letter in The Democrat window" and then ask yourself if you can believe any of the statements published of the condition of county finances? Remember the reports to the Bureau of Statistics, by county officers, are supposed to be absolutely correct. The Republican publishes and commends to the consideration of The Democrat, an article from the pen of John Carr, whom only last week it characterized as the editor of the “populistic and anarchistic but now pretended Republican Fowler Leader,” and said of an individual who had a little newspaper spat with the Leader. “He no do donbt got the worst of the fight, as any decent man would who tried to fight the devil with fire or a polecat with its own weapons.” And the Leader is supporting Crumpacker for Congress. Suffering Moses! In reply to the question which has been asked us several times, by republicans, as to why the democrats have no public speaking in Rensselaer this campaign, we will say that our modern $165,000.00 court house has no room large enough to hold any public meeting of this kind —the largest room seating but 120 people—and whenever we hire the opera house it costs us sls for each meeting, while the band taxes us $25 for music. We have no contributions from the state committee, have no trusts or rich corporations to donate funds, no stationery firms or others who receive fat contracts from the county, no county officers to assess from SSO to SIOO each, and in fact have only a very few dollars—contributed by individuals of slender means—in the treasury to pay the necessary expense of getting out sample ballots, filing certificates of nominations, etc. We are appealing to the commonsense and intelligence of the people, rather than their prejudices, and have no means to make a brass band campaign if. we so desired.

The system of government of Jasper county under the present regime is composed chiefly of a collection of methods for “soft snaps” for the people who are in the combine. v In Marion county the republican commissioners have; it seems, been borrowing county money from the republican county treasurer and have paid him some $54,000 in interest on same, ill other words the county is paying interest on its own money. Have our county officers got onto this “graft” yet?