Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The fight for batter and more economical county government being waged by the Jasper County Democrat should appeal to the sense |Hi Judgement of every taxpayer In Jss* per county. For years tax-ridden by one of the moat extravagant political rings that ever prayed apon a long suffering people, the turning point has come. Thera are times whenfk long suffering people refuse to listen to appeals to ••stand by the ticket” and vote for their own interests. We la Jasper county.—Delphi Times. What do you think of a set of men who contract for a court house complete for $89,180, and then run in extras enough to double that sum? Several claims are still pending on acoount of that new court house, and they have not been “dismissed" either, but simply “continued” until after election. In the event of the republicans electing their oounty ticket next Tuesday the. Journal hopes with the aid of its statistician (30 years in office) to be made the official organ, hence its low-down, baseless attacks on democratic candidates, ■, Judge Thompson aayi members of election boards can draw pay for bat one day’s labor. The Journal says they are entitled to three days pay. Which is rightT—Democrat of Oct. My attention has been called to the above statement, which is a mistake. The matter has not been presented and has not been passed upon by the court or the Judge. 8. P. Thompson, J. C. C. The above statement appears in the Journal of this week. We suppose Mr. Thompson means that the matter has not been presented to him in an official way. He will not deny making the statement to the writer in private conversation some two months ago, when we were talking over the Benton county bar trouble and the pay jurors and election boards were entitled to under the law.

The writer claims to be no expert in examining reoords, but we have unearthed lots of rottenness in county government in our necessarily limited time to devote to such examinations. There was never a time in the history of Jasper county when exposures were made of violation of law and looting of the public treasury by officials and contractor* so extensive and flagrant as those The Democrat has made of the present republican administration. The question for the taxpayers is, what is to be done about it? The offense is open. It is undenied and undeniable. It is a matter of publio record What am you going to de about it? ■W At last! Bro. Marshall explains (?) that $4,000 loan matter, and devotes more than a column ofjspace to saying nothing more than that it “has been paid,” Although the loanwasmade for but thirty days (order made for same June 29, 1896) it wau not paid until August 24th of'the present year, “after the auditor's annual report was made up and it was found there was sufficient money in the oounty fund to pay it.” when “Mr. Halleok ordered it paid, and it was paid on August 24,1896.” Well, we are glad to learn that this loan has been paid at last, although past due mom than two years, but as the auditor’s report is made June Ist, why was the loan not paid before August 24? Why pay three months more interest on it than was necessary? Why did not Mr. Halleck make his order three months earlier? And why, unlessto deceive the people as to the rear condition of the county’s financial affairs, was not this county warrant of $4,000 included, in the auditor’s report of outstanding warrants for 1897 and 1898? ADVERTISED LETTERS.. Mr. Guy Hoover; Mr. John Chantal; Ettie M. Coleman; Miss Person* celling for My of the above letters in this list will please „ G. M. Robinson, P. M. .• v. .. j:£ 1 .• - . ... 'XJ-,