Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — A CARD. [ARTICLE]

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'