Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — Page 4

m cooiiTY m. ■ I. IBUBCOCK, HHTOR MB MUM. Bntered at the Port-offiee at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE YEAR 5 100 SIX MONTHS 50c THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable In Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’s Store.

There will now lie a surcease in “prosperity” editoralizing in some of the organs. And the “statistician” (30 years in office) gets another four years lease at the court house. And now the stay-at-homes are busy kicking themselves and saying “If we had only known?” The ringsters left no stone unturned in their frantic efforts to retain their hold on the public crib. Those “dismissed” and “continued” court house bills can now be taken up and finally passed upon. Jasper county endorsed the “splendid administration” of Win. McKinley and Abraham Halleck last Tuesday. Will the Rensselaer Republican now acknowledge that it was (intentionally),. mistaken about Starke county being democratic? The ringsters were given a mighty scare on the whole ticket,: and can get but little satisfaction out of the slim majorities secured. With a republican majority of 479 on the state ticket how small must the ringsters feel over the meager vote accorded their county candidates. The Democrat will continue its battle for lower taxes and more economical county government until the Jasper county ring is wiped completely out of existence. If Abe Halleck does not have commissioners’ court in session 365 days in the year, he will fall short of the expectation of the people of this county. The county and contents thereof are his. Wherever The Democrat had its largest circulation there was made the greatest gains on the whole county ticket. It is to be regretted that its truths could not have been read by every taxpayer in the county. The Journal thinks democracy can’t win in Jasper qounty in an honest and truthfully conducted campaign. Well, perhaps not, but we prefer defeat to the lying, inaliscious and bull-dozing tactics of our opponents. Every candidate on the democratic county ticket/ considering the obstacles to be overcome, made a splendid race, but the hardest work they had ever done on the part of every ringster and an unlimited “bar’l,” let the republican candidates in by a scratch. With good weather last Tuesday nearly the entire local democratic ticket would have been elected by good majorities. Its greatest strength lay in the country districts, and the extremely bad weather kept many who lived at a distance away from the polls altogether. • Be a man for once, Bro. Marshall, and acknowledge that you know every statement made by The Democrat about mismanagement of county affairs was substantially true in every particular, and that yon disputed them simply because you wanted to see your “party friends” continue their raids on the county treasury.

That there are many republicans who are thoroughly disatisfied with the situation as it now exists in this county can not be disputed by any one who has looked over the returns of the election held last Tuesday. And to those selfsame republicans, who, in the face of prejudice so powerful as to deter many men from voting heretofore for any candidate labeled democrat, however good, however honest, however capable he might be, for the office to which he aspired, all praise is due; and The Democrat hereby extends to them the right hand of fellowship in this fight for better county government, in this fight for lower cost in county government, in this fight to lower, and reduce local taxation. ’Tis true they have but performed a duty that they owed to themselves and their neighbors, to themselves and their families in voting for men to fill offices whom they considered more worthy, and more capable of disdischarging the duties thereof than those presented by the republican party. But so strong has been the yoke of party slavery in the past that but few men have had the courage to brave party discipline by voting in opposition to convention nominees. Let ushope that this time has [passed, and the dawn of abetter day has come, when in local affairs at least, no party will dare present candidates for the sufferages of the people, wholly unfit to perform the duties of the office to which he aspires, when no voter,—be he republican or democrat —but who dares to rebuke his party, by voting and working against candidates presented for his suffrages that are wholy unfit to fill the position to which he aspires. The history of this county shows conclusively that in no other way can this sorely needed reform be brought about. But there are other elections and the good work just begun can be carried on until the fight is won and every incompetent and every scoundrel is turned down and a good man elected to fill his place. And those five kegs of beer sent by the republicans to a couple of out townships, how many votes did they influence? Well, Clarkey will continue to pull at the public teat, but his dream of becoming the “official organ” will no doubt prove only a dream. The Democrat is still ready to prove by the county records themselves the truth of every statement made of county affairs in its colums during the campaign just closed. ==================== No better county ticket was ever placed in the field that that presented by the democrats in the campaign just closed, and every true friend of honor, morality and an honest and economical administration of county affairs will sincerely regret their defeat. In White county the entire democratic ticket was elected with the exception of recorder and coroner last Tuesday, by majorities ranging from 24 to 465, the latter majority secured by S. L. Callaway, the candidate for clerk. F. B. Humston, the present incumbent, who was a candidate for re-election, gained some unenviable notoriety about a year ago by his connection with a rather gay female of Monticello, the couple being caught redhanded at a Chicago hotel. The good people of White county showed their disproval of such acts on the part of a county official by snowing

Humston under by a big majority. Would that it were thus in other counties. The county went about 100 democratic on the state ticket.

GEORGE O. STEMBEL.

George O. Stembel stands to-day the first man in the democratic party of Jasper county. His canvass shows the respect in which he is held by the people who know him. It was with much reluctancy he accepted the nomination. In a county of over four hundred republican majority and with seemingly the most popular candidate of the opposition, there was at first but little encouragement for George Stembel to run for auditor. But soon it developed that Bbacock’s popularity and the real man himself had been overestimated, so Stembel set to work to win against all odds. Wherever he went his manly bearing and gentlemanly deportment won him friends. He proved himself to be the best organizer, the schrewdest campaigner that ever fought in the ranks of Jasper county democracy. George Stembel has more of which to be proud than any other candidate, either elected or defeated. The honorable and successful campaign he has made entitles him to a place on the next democratic state ticket and to that end his friends will this day begin to labor. XX

MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION.

Report of a special meeting of the Rensselaer Ministerial Association held at the home of secretary, Wednesday, Nov. 9. Meeting called with pastor Jeffries presiding. The matter of completing the arrangements for the Union Gospel Temperance meetings to be held in this city from Nov. 15, to Nov. 25, by J. B. Stanley was first brought up. Motion carried that the Temperance meeting be called in the Trinity M. E. Church at 7 p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 15. Necessary committees were then appointed. x The matter of Thanksgiving Services was then presented, which resulted as follows: Service called at 10:30 a. M. Scripture Lesson V. O. Fritz Prayer N. H. Sheppard Thanksgiving Poem C. D. Jeffries Reading of President's Proclamation R. S. Dwiggins Thanksgiving Discourse. H. M. Middleton Benediction W. H. Saylers Music for the day Choir Motion carried that each Pastor appoint a member from their respective choirs, said appointees to organize a special choir for the Temperance and Thanksgiving services. Motion passed to ask business houses to close on Thanksgiving day from 10:30 a. m. until noon. Resolved that we kindly request the business men of the City to close their respective places’ of business at 7:30 p: m. during the continuance of the Union Gospel Temperance meetings. Motion carried that the secretary request of the City Editors that they publish programme, resolution and notices of these meetings. Special stress was placed, upon the exceptional fitness of a day of Thanksgiving this year, inasmuch as the hand of Go<l has been plainly discernable in the movements of nations in the recent past. F. L. Austin, Secy. Rens. Mins. Asso. Judy and The Lief Buggy Co., will sell anything in their lineto you individually, independently of any one else as security. FARfI LOANS. I have plenty of money to loan on real estate. A special low rate of interest on farm loans in large amounts. I also loan money for short time on real estate or personal security at current bank rates. 23t8. James H. Chapman. WANTED-TOWN PROPERTY. I have several good Farms ranging from 40 to 400 acres which I will exchange for real estate, in Rensselaer. Long time will be given on residue. James H. ChXpman.

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

. {From our regular correspondent.) Of course the Army officers know better than to talk for publication about such things, but' among themselves some do not hesitate to say that Gen. Lawton’s testimony before a member of Mr. McKinley’s alleged investigating Commission, which was extremely laudatory of the War Department’s management of the Santiago Campaign, might have been very different had Gen. Lawton not ex - pected to be named to supercede Gen. Graham, who was without warning deprived of his command as Commander of the second corps, stationed at Camp Meade, Pa. * * * The fact that the members of the Fourth Ohio Regiment would get home in time to vote was made apparent by Mr. McKinley’s treatment to them. The regiment, which was brought all the way from Porto Rico, by special order of the President to get their votes in, was stopped in Washington for the purpose of being given a reception in the White House. The regiment was first reviewed from the White House portico, and was then received in the East room by Mr. McKinley, who shOok hands and exchanged a word or two with every member. It is the first time that any President ever accorded such an honor to a body of soldiers as large as a regiment, but then, you know, Mr. McKinley regarded their votes as being necessary in Ohio, and hoped that he might catch the democratic members—the colonel is a democrat—by paying them unusual attentions. * * * If Lieut. Hobson, who is still in Washington, has any of the superstition which most persons raised in the South have, he probably regards himself as having been hoodooed. He had hardly recovered from the knockdown given him by the. Navy Department when it refused to allow him'''to continue his efforts to save the Spanish warships, sunk off Santiago, when the news reached Washington that the Maria Teresa, the Spanish cruiser raised under his direction, had foundered in a storm, while on its way to New York. There is much real regfet ov>r the loss of this fine ship, estimated to be worth $2,000,000, but there are'NavaFofficials —high ones —who regard the loss with complacency, because the vessel would have been a constant reminder of Lieut. Hobson, who has, they think, already received too much glory for his work. Hobson can’t talk about the way he has been treated, but some of his friends can and do most emphatically. • * ♦ Belva Lock wood, once a Presidential Candidate, and for years a sort of a lawyer and claim agent, has been telling some other women exactly what brought on the war. She said it was all the wicked newspapers, and attempted to prove the assertion. The following extract is a fair sample of her speech: “There was no need of the late war, and but for the press, it would never have blackened the pages of our history. There was nothing but what could have been settled by peaceful measures, by the President and his Cabinet. Yet there were legislators who burned for glory and longed for fight, and these, egged on by the press, which printed all their wild utterances, brought about a declaration of war. Then we forgot our civilization, and from reading the papers, we thought it would be glorious to butcher our fellow men and great to whip Spain. The papers continually piled the terrible fuel on the flame, until five year old children were impregnated with a desire to kill, and ran about the streets stoning everything which bore any relation to Spain. .* • * Although it has taken the Peace Commission, at Paris, more than a month to get down to the single question it was formed to settle—the disposition of the Philipines—it would be a safe wager that it will not take three weeks more to finish the business. This may seem a rash statement, in view of the apparent dead lock of the Commission, Caused by the refusal of the Spanish Commissioners to agree to surrender the Philipines upon the terms offered by our Commissioners. If that deadlock were real, it would be a rash statement, but it is not. There are the best of reasons for the belief that this apparent dead lock is a dummy, trotted out for effect, and that the Congressional campaign being over, and the administration no longer having a reason for delaying the negotiation of the treaty, the Commissioners will very speedily agree upon the amount of money that we are to pay Spain, and finish up the treaty. Although the treaty will say that we pay this

money to Spain for the Philipines, others will regard it as paid for other purposes, inasmuch as the Philipines are ours by right of capture. This idea of the victorious nation paying indemnity to the conquered nation, has only one thing.to commend it—it is original —but that isn’t likely to make it popular. There will be some sharp talk on this subject in Congress, this winter, and it will not all come from democrats, either. ••Of- ' ; . ’■■■

WHERE MONEY DIDN’T COUNT.

Uncle Jerry Had to Fix Bia Rain £&el First ‘A lawyer had come all the way from Califortfia to pay a SIO,OOO legacy over to Uncle Jerry Hopefield, yho (pnLlived all hjs life m a little town m Onio, and after breakfast two or three of us were invited to go along and witness the transfer. When we reached the house Uncle Jerry was tightening up the hoops on the rainbarrel, while his wife had gone to see a sick neighbor. They had been fully identified the day before as the proper parties, and now the lawyer said: “Well, Uncle Jerry, I want to hand vou that money and get a receipt and be off this morning/’ “I’m kinder busy just now,” said the old man, as he stopped hammering for a moment “Yes, Sub! nave SIO,OOO here for you. I don’t believe there’s a man in the world who wouldn’t stop work long enough to sign a receipt for such a fortune.” “Mebbe not, but it looks like rain, and I want to git this bar’l fixed right away. Can’t you come over in about an hour?” “Look here, man, but did you ever see SIO,OOO in ell your lifer” asked the lawyer, as he opened the satchel and displayed a big* package of new greenbacks. \ “No, I never did,” replied Uncle Jerry, as he pounded away, “Did you ever have a thousand dollars of your own?” “Lands, no!” “Never had a hundred all at once, did you?” “Never. Durn that hoop, but it don’t want to go on!” “I must ask you to get this business over as soon as possible,” continued the lawyer, as the old man kept at his work. “But it’s going to rain.” “Yes, but here’s your money.” “And I’ve_ got to get this bar’l fixed.” *lt won’t take overlStrmiautes to fix up our business. < Run alongaMfetch your wife.” “See here,” said Uncle Jerry, as he laid down his hammer and wiped the back of his neck, “Mariar has gone over to Blodgett’s to be gone an hour. Before she went she said I must tinker up this rain-barrel.” “But can’t you stop your tinkering to handle SIO,OOO in cold cash!” exclaimed the lawyer, in indignant tones. ■ />- “Yes, yes, I kin stop work; but what about Mariar?” “Well, what about her?” “Why, she’d come home expectin’ this bar’l to be all tinkered up, and if she found it wasn’t, them SIO,OOO wouldn’t hold her no more’n a tow string would hold a hoss. She’d jest shove me clean down among the cabbages; and jump on ,the bar’l with both feet and sqush it all to squash, and fur the next week I’d hev to walk around on tiptoe and eafemy meals in the woodshed.”

SILK HATS.

Ab Amusing Story of Prof. Lowe’s Travel Through Tenaossee. Prof. T. S. C. Lowe tells an amusing story of the influence his costume had among the southern people. He wore a Prince Albert ana silk hat, and while traveling on the train through Tennessee noticed at each station several persons entering the cars, mostly well dressed, generally in black, with high silk hats, gloves and the conventionalgold-headedcane. These he recognized as southern gentlemen of the old style, who held official positions. In this case they were members of the Tennessee legislature, and it was interesting to observe how one “silk-hatted” gentleman would naturally approach another and enter into conversation as though they were already acquainted. The silk hat seemed to be a kind of passport or mark of recognition and Lowe was frequently addressed on the subject uppermost in their minds. When they reached Nashville, though the hotels were said to be full the “silk hats” had no difficulty in securing rooms and attention, Lowe among the rest, much in contrast to his reception a few days before in the sand hills. It may have been this good fortune that induced Lowe ever afterward to wear a silk hat and a black frock coat, which he did on his balloon ascensions during tie war while at the front, much to the disgust of the officers and men of the army, who thought he was entirely too mueh of a “dude” to be in active warfare.— William Jones Rhees, in Chautauquan.

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