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

REMINGTON.

—Sheriff Reed was in town Tuesday. —Weather a little better than last week. —Dr. Pratt of Goodland, was in town a short time Monday. —Editor Walker, of the Wolcott Enterprise, was in town Monday. —Mrs, Cal. Creek and daughter Della, of Pontiac, Kansas, are visiting relatives in Remington. —Strange how some good people will preach temperance and vote the opposite in county politics. —With good weather, this week will com* plete the work of laying the cement walk around Exchange block. —Fred Bowman returned last week from Chicago where he had gone to take a position in a wholesale drug house, not having been successful in securing the position. —Bert Green of Goodland, has oh exhibition at the Star Cash Grocery an Acetyline gas out-

fit. It seems to be giving satisfactory results: making a light almost if not entirely equal to electricity at a very much less cost. —Peter Brooktnan. a Remington man, was run down and killed by a Chicago and northwestern train at Chicago white crossing the tracks on a bicycle Monday. Brooktnan leaves a wife and four small children. —John Sutton, a former Remington boy but now of near Hutchinson, Kan., and wife, who have been visiting the latter’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. Isaac Westfall, for a few days, left on the 0:38 a. m. train Tuesday morning forhome. f —ln regard to the charges made by the Republican county papers, why don’t they give theirauthority? It would be an easy matter for any one to write such articles. But when the authority is hidden it don’t look just right. Give your authority, gentleman, or keep still. —ln view of the fact that democrats were at the head in directing the movement in nearly every decisive battle In the Spanish-American war, it is very amusing to note that the republican speakers are a unit in their efforts to make the people believe that the republican party is entirely responsible for Spanish defeat. —The republicans realizing the uncertainty of electing any of their candidates in this county or congressional district, are making every effort possible to stay the tide, and are moving heaven and earth for speakers and running them into the county, but the people are awake and every speech only makes republican defeat more certain, —The speaking by Congressman Crumpacker at Exchange Hall Monday night was not the success that had been hoped for. Notwithstanding the-fact that the band was called out to attract a crowd, there was by actual count less than 75 voters in the house and one fourth of those were known democrats. The only applause given was by a few radical republicans at the reference by the speaker to j “The Splendid Administration of President McKinley.”

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 "stand by the ticket” and vote for their own interests. We believe that this is one of those years in Jasper county.—Delphi Times.