Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Page 4

JHSPER COUHTY DEMOCHIIT. f. L BABCOCK. tDITOR MiIPUBUBKR. Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE YEAR tl.«> SIX MONTHS 50c ' THREE MONTHS ISc. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Ven Rensselaer Street, North of Ellie A Murrey's Store.

A CARD.

To my many friends, who stood "by me so nobly through the past County campaign, I tender my sincere thanks, and may I never by any act of mine, give them cause to regret the support given me. George O. Stembel. The Indiana bankers’ association met at Indianapolis this week. They find their business prosperous. The official vote of Indiana gives Hunt, the republican nominee for Secretary of state, a plurality of 16,896, We understand that J. E. Alter will be County Surveyor Price’s deputy. If this be the case the people can rest assured that the present excessive cost of the surveyor’s office will be maintained. The republican press is again engaged in the Herculean task of burying the silver question. Strange, how our republican friends persist in burying this issue after continuously declaring for more than two years that it was dead and buried. Senator Cullum says he would not be surprised to see congress in session throughout the year. Cullum, like “Honest Abe” Halleck, believes public office is a private snap, and The Democrat doesnot believe Abe will stand by and see congress out-do him in the session business. From an article printed elsewhere in this paper from the pen of a commercial traveler it would appearthnt “Uncle Mac’s” cyclone of prosperity has not yet struck the northwest. Elbow room seems to be plenty, and one can move about freely without coming in contact with anything which might be called ordinary prosperity. Ninety-nine men out of a hundred in Jasper county are raising thunder about high taxes, and are heaping unstinted abuse oh parties responsible for this state of affairs; but when it comes to voting a large majority of them “vote as they shot.” These voters have at last succeeded in electing a set of men who will give them ample cause to howl, mark what we say. The result of the elections bring out one fact very pointedly, to-wit: expenditures-national, state, county and muncipal, will be enormously increased. The burden, already almost unbearable, will be made still more burdensome. And in this fact lies the hope of democracy. The republican party, made drunken with success, will make anew its record of 1889 and 1890, and it would not be surprising to see the $1,500,000,000 limit reached before the coming congress are done with the national appropriations. It's not to be wondered at that Estil Pierson feels so sore over his defeat for the circuit court clerkship, and, egged on by a very few of his alleged friends talked “contest” for several days after the election, notwithstanding the fact that he run 477 behind his ticket. We are informed that he has stated that the nomination cost him SIOO, and his “assessment” SIOO. The “sure thing” in Jasper county politics is a thing of n the past, Estil, and while we feel sorry for your loss of the S2OO, it no doubt helped some of your friends to get elected.

Indiana will lose the service of Senator Turpie, and his place will be filled by a millionaire or some man who will vote as the rich men dictate. Senator Turpie has been a consistent advocate of measures which he believed were for the good of the common people and his defeat will be greatly regretted by that class throughout the state. —Columbia City Post. There are hundreds of democrats in the county who dp not take a county paper. All should be interested in this and see that every man takes his home democratic paper. We now serve notice on every fellow who stayed from the polls Tuesday that we do not want to hear him growling about hard times and a lack of money. If you want better times and more money go and vote for it. —Sullivan Times.

Some of the republican chickens are coming home to roost. When the McKinley bill was being framed we heard a great hue and cry a bout tin, and a tax of 2| cents a pound was placed on that article. This duty was in force about four years, or until the Wilson bill was passed in 1894, when the duty was cut to cents. The usual howl about “ruining American industry” w r as raised by the republican party and it was ably seconded by the tin-plate manufacturers themselves. All this has led to the usual result. A huge trust or combination is now in process of forma-p tion to curtail production, and of course to devise means to “reduce” the cost of tin-plate to the consumer.

During the last fiscal year 229,299 immigrantscame to the United States, 135,775 males and 93,524 females. During the year 3,030 were debarred. Of the whole number over 14 years of age 43,057 could neither read nor write, and of the arrivals 58,613 came from Italy, 27,221 from Russia proper, 25,128 from Ireland, 17,111 from Germany, 16,659 from Hungary, 12,450 from Galicia and Burkowina in Austria-Hungary, 12,398 from Sweden, and 9,877 from England. Of the total number of steerage passengers, their occupation was given as 54 actors, 59 artists, 153 clergymen, 12 editors, 43 engravers, 37 lawyers, 223 musicians, 81 physicians, 136 sculptors, 288 teachers, 47 accountants, 1,469 bakers, 1,032 barbers, 1,152 blacksmiths, 150 brewers, 1,094 butchers, 2,904 carpenters and joiners, 706 dressmakers, 2,635 mariners, 1,371 masons, 1,604 miners, 741, painters, 972 seamstresses, 3,229 shoemakers, 3,826 tailors, 1,182 weavers, 5 bankers, 836 cooks, 16,243 farmers, 1,188 grocers, 52 5311aborers, 4,429 merchants and 23,659 servants.

An Indianapolis dispatch says that Chairman Hernly, of the Republican State Central Committee has declared himself in favor of a good primary election law, and a law relating to county and township business, and he has employed attorneys to draft a bill looking to reform in county government. The abuses on the part of Republican county officials brought to light in the recent campaign have alarmed the Chairman, and he now says that the Republicans, having the Governor and both branches of the Legislature, must do something, in this direction. Chairman Hcrnly serves notice, in, his own language, that “the Republican party is not going to carry in another election county officers who are recreant to the trust put in them by the voters. I have already said to some of the county officers that if they violate the law they need not expect the party to stand by them, for it will not do it. The bridge fiends are the worst men we have to contend with.” He believes that the county commissioners should not be permitted to make expenditures exceeding SIOO without taking bids; these bids to stand for 10 days in the circui court, that all may see them, 1 enter protest if protest is war'

PROSPERITY IN THE NORTHWEST.

A commercial traveler whose business takes him through the great “prosperity region” of the northwest thus writes the American Artisan and Hardware Record, a trade publication of pronounced protective proclivities published at Chicago, of the condition of business throughout that region: At no time since the panic of 1893 have I heard so much complaint from business men and travelers as to poor business or a lack of animation in business circles as for the past five or six weeks. Those who have never generally registered any complaints, but have always been conservative in speaking of business depression have been quite outspoken upon these points. While we have a profusion of politics, a state campaign being on, it cannot be attributed to that as a cause, for never in my life have I been through a campaign, national or state, when there was so much lethargy in politics. Along the road, in business houses and everywhere you go unless by chance you should come upon a small group of office holders, office seekers or campaigners, one hears very little and sees much less indicating that a canvas for state, county and city officers was in progress. One may see an occasional banner announcing headquarters of some party faction, occasionally see some one wearing a party or candidate button, but publicly one hears but little and may travel all day and not hear a word of discussion, at least this has been my experience. A few’ days ago I rode a number of miles in the same coach with the Republican nominee for governor of Minnesota and he was left largely to his lone-self. No one seemed to pay him any particular attention nor were there greetings or demonstrations at stations, yet it was he w’as on board. Newspapers have not seethed with campaign rot and have generally spoken of the canvas as one of apathy, hence politics cannot be assigned as a cause for stagnation in trade. Some other reason must be assigned and the one generally chosen is the low price of wheat. Undoubtedly farmers have striven to hold their product for better prices. That they have done so, so far as possible, has probably accounted for the keeping of wheat within fifty per cent of the price of 18M. While by so doing a betterprice scale has been maintained trade has suffered from slower collections and a less volume of ready cash for immediate trade. Unless the farmers let go their grain or something arises to advance prices the fall and winter trade will be longer drawn out than usual. The actual consumption is about the same one year with another only varying as population increases, as increased monies led to increased extravagances in living, indulgences in travel or peasure. Nominal incomes mean nominal living expenditures. For several years we as a government and as a people have been working i tow’ard normal conditions, which w r e have about reached, and he who figures or shall figure for any marked or radical changes from those conditions soon is simply reckoning without a basic factor. The country has not been and is not going to the dogs, but the administering of false stimulants, the attempt to create false values by combines, to boost prices beyond warranted points and conditions will only redound in disaster. Labor must have its full reward, the producer must get value for his expended energy and strength, likewise the manufacturer should have a fair equitable return for his capital, labor and skill. Extravagant expenditures in management and conduct (if any) should first receive curtailment. Every and all factors must bear their just and proportionate share of the burdens of government. The duties of one factor should not be shifted to the shoulders of any other factor, and since labor is the producer of all ot.her factors it needs the most careful thought and protection to see abuses do not come to it. Equal taxation must become more general enj no one, particularly the large corporations, should be permitted to scale down their valuations in order to escape a just proportionate taxation. With the burdens equally distributed, among and upon our people, we should become the happiest and most independent people under the sun. Advertisers should bear in mind that The Democrat has a larger • Nuintion among the farmers jinn any paper published in Jasper county. 1

“Uncle” Mac’s patriotism, •‘The sweetsingers of Israel” and “sheepskin band” campaign cost the republicans a good round sum. A subscription paper was “passed around” and some sixty odd dollars raised to pay for this part of the show. We understand that every candidate on the republican county ticket was assessed SIOO for the county campaign fund, in addition to the large amount received from the state committee, all of which was used and it was necessary to go about a few days ago and raise more money to settle other bills contracted during the campaign. Not one penny was received by the democrats from the state committee, and the total amount paid into their campaign fund by all the candidates was less than SIOO, every dollar of which was used legitimately.

Although about four hundred republicans voted the democratic county ticket on Tuesday of last week, yet the party increased its majority on the state ticket over its big majority of two years ago. This shows that to be a good republican a man does not always have to stand by the county ticket. Many voters are learning that national politics and local politics are not always necessarily one and the same thing. The republicans will never again dare go before the voters of this county with a ticket containing the names of the commissioners and surveyor, they elected last week. ’

VOTING MACHINES A SUCCESS.

A Rochester, N. Y. dispatch says: The facility and accuracy with which the voting machines used in this city election day did their work have caused numerous inquiries to be made regarding them. The voting machine does all the work of canvassers and tally clerks. All the voter has to do is to move a handle over the face that looks like the switch board of a telephone central office, and when he leaves the booth the apparatus clicks, and his vote is not only recorded, but is added on to the total. When the machine is locked at the end of the day it has automatically added up the vote of every candidate. The machine in Rochester worked perfectly, and there will be a bill introduced into the legislature directing the use of the machines all over the state. In Rochester, which is a city of 133,000 people, ’ there were seventy-three standard voting machines employed and the result was that the total vote of Rochester was known in just thirty-seven minutes after the polls closed. This time was required to get the totals of the seventy-three machines together and add them. InSyraciise, which has 40,000 less population than Rochester, the return was not complete until midnight. There are as many stupid men in Rochester as anywhere else, but with the voting machine the dullest voter could not get mixed up. The voter cannot lose his vote by voting for two candidates for the same office, the most frequent blunder noticed when ordinary ballots are counted. There are no springs in the mechanism, so there is nothing likely to get out of order; not one of the seventy-three machines used at Rochester failed to do the work expected of it. There is a little lever before each name on the face of the machine, and the voter picks out his ticket by shifting these from perpendicular to horizontal. If he chooses to vote a straight ticket he merely moves a handle over the party emblem at the head of the column, and when the machine registers it records a vote for every candidate under that emblem. Moving the levers does not record the vote, so there is all the opportunity for correction that one could desire It if* only when the man inside the b<.ut opens the curtains to leave that his vote is counted as indicated by the levers. The totals of the votes cast can only be read when the machine is locked against voting. The voting can only be done when the curtains that hide the voters are closely drawn, and as he steps back the little levers all fly to perpendicular again, and there is nothing by which a man can tell how the man ahead of him voted. Jf a voter wants to vote a nearly straight ticket he does not have to indicate every candidate on his

list. He merely moves the handle of the party emblem under which most of his candidates'are ranged and then moves the individual levers for the exceptions, and the wise machine counts them and cancels the corresponding names on the party ticket. All the inspectors have to do is to see that the man who entered the booth is a legally registered voter and the machine does the rest.' According to the Republican, John Temple Graves, the lecturer, who probably knows as much about court houses as a hog does about heaven, says Jasper county’s new court house is the finest in the United States, and worth several times its cost. It will make a second Chicago out of Rensselaer, and the Jasper county frog ponds will grow seal-skin sacques, it will advertise the county, (has already done so), will make the cows give Jersey milk and all bear heifer calves, the roosters will lay double-yolked eggs, all the boy babies born in the county in the next hundred years, will be republicans, the sheep will grow two crops of wool every year and all the the farmers stock will be bom thoroughbreds. Even the prairie wolves will grow two scalps instead of one, that the lucky fan mer who kills one will get sl4 bounty instead of $7. The grass will have a more luxurious green and will feed twice as much stock as it would previous to the building of that court house. All the mud roads will turn themselves bottom side up and provide asphalt boulevards all over the county. Had we space we could enumerate many more things that are sure to happen, according to John, by reason of the building of that wonderful $165,000.00 court house. Even were John’s statements true, it doesn’t prove that the taxpayers of Jasper county were able to put up such a structure or that the commissioners showed good business sense in so doing.

JIM WAS ELECTED.

The great election fight is fit, 'an folks that used to sneer At me fur marryin’ my Jim are knocked all out o’ gear! They scarcely know just what to do, or what they'd ort to say To see me top ’em all in sich a 'ristocratic way. They said 'at he was no account, an’ called him "Lazy Jim,” An' tol’ me I would rue the day I coupled onto him, Now each ’un feels her sland'rous words a stickin' in her craw, Fur he's elected constabul to regulate the law. They done their best to throw him down, talked about his shiftless life, An’ even hurled their sneerin’ rocks at me, his honored wife, Tol’ how I went went with Simon Snooks an’ was so sweet on him Afore I shuck the clerky snob an’ sidled up to Jim. They said I couldn't bake a pie a Christian ort to eat. An’ that I alius burnt my bread, an’ had a man's size feet. An’ now I guess their cup o' woe’ll be a brimmin’ full. Fur they won’t dar' to cheep since I am Mrs. Constabul. I heerd they give ol’ Craay Sam a sheep to git his vote, • An’ ol’ maid Mag a pound o’ tea if she would turn her coat, An’ Deacon Hart that sings an' prays an’ leads the Sunday-school, Went back on us to git the mor’gage lifted off his mule. But spite of all their party tricks an’ bold rascality Jim got some thirty-seven votes an’ Billings twenty-three. An' I just had to set an’ cry, my heart a bustin’ full, When he come home an’ tole me I was Mrs. Constabul. I’ll get a dress like Mrs. Pratt, whose husban’ keeps the bank, An* mebbe striped stockin’s, too, in keepin’ with my rank, An’ Jim's a going' to wear white shirts an* collars an’ cravat, An’ says he reckons he must git a more judicial hat. He says he'll show Vox Populist, as placed their trust in him. They didn’t make no fatal break in honorin’ my Jim; We’ll both just do our best to make his big constitu’ncy Feel mighty proud that they reposed their trust in him at? me. Denver Post.

FARMERS’ INSTITUTE.

Farmers’ Institute will be held the 13th and 14th of January, 1899, at Rensselaer. James Riley, of Thonitown, Boone county, J. A. McFarlan of Plymouth, Marshal county, are" the assigned speakers. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Riley at the shite conference which was held at Purdue, and can recommend him to the people of this county as very well qualified to teach farming. Mr. McFarlan is undoubtedly all right or he would not have been sent to this county. The date, is made a long time ahead, so that any one who has a subject they wish discussed can make it known in time to have it in the program. Please think about the matter. We cannot say where the institue will be held, but probably in one of the churches. Will you take an interest in the Institute and make it a success? L. Strong, Pres.

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