Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MARSHALL’S ROORBACK.

A Complete Exposure of One of His 'Campaign Prevarications. Rensselaer Repnblican: “It is an almost invariable rule that every building, even so simple a one as a common dwelling, costs about one-third more than the builders planned for. This is much more the case in large and complicated structures like court houses and other large public buildings, and more especially when, as must always be the case with new court houses, they are built by inexperienced men. Therefore it is not surprising that the court house at Knox, in the Democratic county of Stark, is costing much more than was originally expected. The contract price for the building alone was $56,000; and it was thought that when fully completed and furnished its total cost would be under SBO,OOO. But it has already reached $125,000, and there is some more to follow. But we notice that our rabid contemporary, the Democrat, does not mention these facts.” And we notice that our stupid contemporary, the Republican, does. But Bro. Marshall makes one grevious blunder, THE COMMISSIONERS OF STARK COUNTY ARE REPUBLICANS, AND THE COUNTY HAS BEEN UNDER REPUBLICAN CONTROL SINCE 1895! In proof of this—although all well informed people know it to be a sact —we copy the following from a recent issue of the Stark County Democrat: “Boiled down into a few words, the arguments or reasons republicans could honestly give for deserving, expecting or hoping to win in Stark county this year would be something like this: ‘We expect to win because we are smarter than the democrats and can outgeneral them. We can lay deep plots and execute them effectively. By circulating plausible falsehoods we expect to stir up strife among democrats and thereby get some of them to vote for republican candidates. We ought to win because of what we have done for the county. We took charge of the afiairs of the county in December, 1895. At that time the county was practically out of debt and had a surplus of over $14,000 in the treasury. In two years and a half we have made away with that surplus and protested county orders, and at the expiration of three years, by December, 1898, if we have no bad luck, we will leave the county in debt to the amount of something like $140,000, which, including interest, it will take about $250,000 to pay. We sold the first issue of court house bonds, $75,000 in amount, at a premium of four per cent, at private, SECRET sale, refusing to inform other bidders who inquired when they were to be sold. We could have sold the next issue of $27,000 for the same premium or less if the measley Democrat had not found out when we were going to sell them and made a roar that forced us to open the sale to competition and accept 7 7-9 per cent, premium. We have kept everything secret that we could, letting the the taxpayers know as little as possible, which is certainly a good thing—for us. Meantime, while doing all this for the people who pay the taxes, our republican officials have prospered greatly. This is a truthful summary of our official conduct of the affairs of the county. Upon it we rest our case and implore you to continue us in office.’ ” So much for the“absolutely clean, decent, and respectable campaign” of theßensselaer Republican, andit is a fair sample of the lies it has told the people during the whole campaign. After this exposure of its contemptible methods of deceit we would ask the taxpayers if any of its utterance® on county matters are worthy of any credence? The truth is that Stark county officials have brought about nearly the same condition of affairs as prevails here, but those officials are REPUBLICANS, NOT DEMOCRATS, «8 the Republican editor, well knows.