Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Our ring contemporaries are kept pretty bnay explaining why “Honest Abe's" $2,900 court house clock occasionally performs thus and so. Of all the pitiful ideas that were ever made in a political campaign, the worst is this, that republicans should vote 'er straight so as to retain (the ring’s) “party friends” in office. Let every, taxpayer who wishes to see lower taxes and a more economical management of county affairs consider himself a committee of one to see that a full vote is gotten out next Tuesday. Less than two miles of the sixteen miles of gravel road in Keener tp., is completed, and the commissioners have already paid out almost one-half of the contract price for the whole road! Was any county ever “blessed’’ with such financiers as Jasper? “Honest Abe’’ says the people of Jasper county are prosperous. Unfortunately Abe’s vision doesn’t extend beyond his own shadow, and as his per diem of the commissioners’ court cost last year was between SBOO and S9OO, secured without in any way neglecting his own private business, it’s no wonder that he thinks the people are all prosperous, like himself.

The candidates on the democratic county ticket have made an honorable active campaign and all of them will be elected. They will make excellent officials, too. They will make honest officials. It is conceded by votere generally that the democrats have never placed a better ticket in the field or one that is more deserving of the sufferages of the people. “Beware of Roorbacks.” —Journal. We heartily endorse die above and as the democrats have no “roorback” to spring, but have simply given the people true and reliable statements of affairs, and the roorback is and always has been a creature of the ring politicians, we would most earnestly caution the taxpayers of Jasper county to beware of them. The ringsters dislike very much to poll their hands from out the county treasury and will resort to any measures to still retain their place at the public trough. Yes, by all means, beware of the roorback.

That $4,000 loan: "There has been nothing secret nor nothing underhanded about it.”—Republican. And still it was kept from the taxpayers by “omitting” from the published statement of the county's financial affairs for two yen ra- presumably also on Hailock’s order, as Abe is an adept at the omitting business and when the last interest was paid 'the fig. ures on the record were juggled so as to deceive the people again as to its being paid on this same old 80-day temporary loan! Not a thing secret nor underhanded about it! Oh, no! The people would still have been in ignoranoe in the matter and doubtless the warrant would still have been drawing interest had not Thb Democrat smoked these “financiers” out, Our billions contemporary next door, to divert attention from the issues of the campaign, has devoted a grgat deal of space lately in “exposing” The Democrat man for not listing property for taxation last spring which the said Democrat man did not possess. Now, let us see how The Democrat man compares with the Journal editor in this matter. We owned the Remington Press a little more than three years. The actual value of the plant was about onethird or one-fourth that of the Journal plant, but during the years we owned it, we listed it for taxation at S4OO. The Journal outfit, with power press and engine, which alone is worth from S7OO to SBOO, was given in to the assessor by its very moral, truthful and honorable editor as worth only $485. It is very amusing to hear such fellows t ruthfulness in others. 7