Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — Page 4

« COUNTY DM. F. (. BIBCOCK, EDITOB 188 PUBLISHER. Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS ONE YEAR .'••••- Jl -°° SIX MONTHS. ...SOc THREE MONTHS.... .. ... ...... ..25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis <St Murray’s Store.

The actual republican plurality in Indiana was 17,516. The formation of trusts and conbines goes merrily on. Scarcely a day passes but we read of some new creation of this character. If the water pipes at the court house freeze up during the slight chill of Tuesday night, what will they do when it comes cold weather? A little less court house and more gravel roads would redound to the credit of the county and be a great benefit to all the people thereof. Our republican friends are making lots of noise about the “race troubles” in the south, but are strangely silent about the “race troubles” in Illinois. Over 2,200 claims for pensions arising out of the war with Spain have been filed with the commissioner of pensions, exclusive of the claims of the battle ship Maine victims. The claims are coming in at a lively rate.

Now a trust has been organized to take control of the Philipines. A corner on heavens will bo attempted next. — Fowler Leader, (rep.) The republican party has for a number of years claimed a corner on the latter place, John.

Not since the days of “blocks of five Dorsey and Dudley, and crisp new two dollar bills” has there been a more corrupt use of money to control an election, than the one just held. If the half that has been told is true, money alone is the ruling power in politics.-- Delphi Times.

Now that the election is over and people have nothing of a jxditieal nature to engross their spare time, let a determined effort be made Ao secure the improvement of that notorious three miles of Range line road in Jordan tp. For the good of all, let those who have a little influence over “Honest Abe” see that the commissioners make an effort to bring about this much needed improvement.

The supreme court has <l. ■ U'flf 'J. house there.’’ And he rose lazily and pointed vaguely down the Street, where a number of small houses were visible, among which the yellow one stood out distinctly, having been recently built and just received its coat*of priming. Duke walked rapidly from the depot and hastened in the direction of the “tavern," keeping the chimney in view as a gaurd against mistake, and soon found himself before a dirty, ill-kept, ill-looking place, from which an odor of boiled cabbage and onions was now Issuing. To his loud and twiee-repeat ed knocking the door was finally oper ed by an untidy specimen of womai kind from which lie would at any othflmt linlo* in t: -—-" •• The four election boards of Marion tp., cost $50.05 each for their services, and it cost $9.80 each for their meals on election day. Taxpayers, how do you like the idea of your commissioners allowing three days’ pay for one day’s work? In order to help out a private enterprise at public expense, the members of these boards even husteled around and got their breakfast, and the county paid the bill. Each board was composed of seven persons, and their meals for the day, including breakfast, cost $1.40 for each person thereon. It does seem that people drawing from .$4.50 to $6.00 per day might at least get their breakfast at home. No more damnable outrage exists in the state than that of allowing such outlandish bills for election expenses.

In another column we publish the address to the citizens of Indiana, by Chairman Hernly’s commission that has undertaken the reform of county and township government. In view of the position taken during the late campaign by the three republican papers of Rensselaer, we cannot see how those papers can consistently publish this address, notwithstanding it comes from a republican source. Perhaps they will do as Bro. Marshal did last week in referring to the matter — chop out all the features which do not meet with their idea of fleecing the people.

The room of a democrat in pre’et No. 4, Marion tp., is worth $4.25 for rent, fuel, etc., for the purpose of holding an election. The room of a republican in precinct No. 2, same township, is worth $8.25 for fuel, rent, lights etc., according to allowances made by “Honest Abe.” At this price “light” comes a little high, and we believe is the first time republican coal oil has been officially recognized as being worth $4.00 for 8 hours service. In this connection we might say that this high-priced republican was occupying this low-priced democrat’s room for which service he drew in addition to his $8.25 for rent, fuel, lights, etc., $8.25 more for services which his brother has unofficially expressed the opinion that but $4.00 could be charged.

A few weeks ago the commissioners paid something over $1,600 for stock cattle for the .poor farm, the intention being, as we understand it, to feed until ready for market, then dispose of them. Perhaps, from a financial point of view, in this instance, it may be to theeounty’s interest, but we very much doubt the wisdom of such speculation with the people’s money. We admit that it is better to consume the products of the farm thereon than to sell them after the manner of many farmers, and think there should be at all times a sufficient amount of stock upon the farm to consume the products thereof, but we do not think it the proper thing to speculate with the public monies as in this case. Individuals can do so if they desire, but it is not the proper thing for counties to indulge in, and neither do we believe they can lawfully do so, although little regard is paid to the law in the management of public affairs in Jasper county.

Just before the election both the Indianapolis Sentinel and News made war on the republican management of Marion county. Among the many ; things comilained of was the rottenness at the ounty farm. * The Sentinel delated that charges had been filed lull Commissioner Greer by the 4mor engineer at the poor farm, ,'ninst tho management of the ante, and that said charges had >een smuggled. Greer, candidate or re-election, likeour own “Honest Abe” and our statistition (30 years in office) denied the whole thing, and in an article in an evening paper said that the board had investigated the poor farm and found things all right—“fine as silk.” The election being over and # McKinley and the republican management of Marion county being indorsed, Commissioner Greer swears out a warrant and has Flavius J. Meyers, superintendent of the Marion county poor farm, arrested for grand larceny. Detectives found a large amount of supplies bought for the poor farm secreted in packed boxes in Meyers’ own house on his farm near the poor farm. This stealing appears to have been going on for some time, yet everything was “as fiue as silk.”

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STARK COUNTY COURT HOUSE.

Of course Bro. Marshall will now admit, since there is no more necessity for his falsyfing about it, that Stark county has been under republican control for the past few years, and that all the bad management which, but a few weeks ago, for political effect, he falsely laid to its democratic (?) officials, was done by republicans, and that the latter alone are to blame for the extravagance shown in the building of their new court house. The situation in Stark seems to be almost identical with that in Jasper. A republican board of commissioners have leaded the county down with a debt that few now living will see 4?aid- The Stark County Democrat has the following to say of the matter since the election, which we believe applies equally well to the situation here: Several times since the election last week we have heard men—republicans, of course —say sarcastically on the street, “the court house is all right now, that the election is over.” The idea meant to be conveyed by the persons making the remark was, of course that, the criticism which has been expressed of the methods followed in the building of the court house has been for political effect; and that those who have spoken disapprovingly of the frequent betrayals of the confidence of the people and disregard of their interests were insincere and dishonest in those criticisms, and will now discontinue them and fall down and worship the new court house. Speaking for the Democrat, for whose especial benefit the remark quoted was evidently made, and we believe voicing the sentiments of hundreds who condemn the methods of secrecy and And deception practiced upon the taxpayers of Stark county by those elected to protect their rights and interests, we desire to say emphatically that no such change has occurred or will occur. We have condemned the secret bond sale, the expenditure of more than twice the amount of money people were assured would be expended, and other features of the court house proceedings which we know were against the interests of the taxpayers. That condemnation is true as gospel, richly deserved and entirely just, and it must stand. We have at no time denied, and do not now, that the county is getting a magnificant court house. If the bonded, interest bearing debt of our people had been made still larger, an even finer building could have been erected. But to do so would be just as foolish as it would be for a man owning eighty acres of land to mortgage it for every cent he could and use the money to build a fine and expensive bouse upon it, which it would take his children all their lives to pay for. With the new court house, as a court house, we have no fault to find. It is a fine structure. But with the methods used by the republican board which erected it to more than double its cost, hoodwink and mislead the people and saddle a debt on them more than twice as great as they were led to expect—with them we have the contention that there must always exist between right and wrong, and the close of neither this nor any other campaign will in any way change that contention.

“Harbor” Knotts is in receipt of a large grist of congratulatory telegrams froiU politicians throughout the district and state. The manner in which he scooped Col. Yeoman in the latter’s home county is a matter of which the former’s friends are especially proud, and when one makes an observation concerning this little incident the harbor winks the other eye and smiles. The above “amoosing” squib is taken from the Hammond Tribune. The facts as to how Knotts scooped Yeoman are shown by the following figures: Jasper county gave 475 republican plurality for the state ticket and 228 majority for Crumpaeker. Knotts was given 54 majority, or 174 less majority than Crumpaeker received and 421 behind his tlve'! Then Lake, “Harbor” Knotts own county, gave the state ticket 712 majority, and Crumpaeker 707 majority, but Knotts only carried it by 524. No wonder he “winks the other eye” when he sees he ran 188 behind his ticket in his own county and that Crumpaeker received 183 more votes than he did in the county! Scooped! Oh yes he scooped Yeoman because the counties were so strongly republican that he was elected, though running 61§ votes behind his ticket! County News.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our regular correspondent.) It has been definitely settled that Mr. McKinley will in his annual message to Congress, recommend that the regular army be increased to 100,000 men, and that he will endorse the recommendation of Secretary Long that three battleships and twelve cruisers be built, and twenty thousand men and two thousand five hundred boys be enlisted in the Navy. * * * Mr. McKinley has shown his adroitness as a politician by deciding not to recommend any legislation at the coming sessio* of Congress for Porto Rico or the Philipines, and to keep the islands under military rule for a while. He knows that the question of legislation for the islands will be a troublesome one and prefers that it shall not be taken up until his party has a majority in both branches of Congress. >* * * It is announced that the Canadian American Commission, now gitting in Washington, has made great progress, but the announcers take good care to accompany the announcement with the statement that the agreements reached by the Commission have been only upon minor matters, and that the important questions are still up in the air. It is further stated that none of the agreements reached are to be binding unless agreements are reached upon everything, which indicates that the “great progress” is largely imaginary. *,* * How some men’s heads do grow after they get an office. During the years that Perry Heath did newspaper work around Washington, nobody ever suspected him of greatness, although he was always on the lookout for the main chance and got his name on the public pay roll at every opportunity—for a long time he drew pay as a laborer in the folding room at the Capitol, hiring a man, at half his salary, to do the work —but he got into Boss Hanna’s good graces, and 10, he became First Assistant Postmaster General; and now he wants to be Senator from Indiana. Should that want be gratified, he will have to have his hats made to order. His head is already swelled out of the recognition of many of his old friends. * * *

The republican U. S. District Attorney, for South Carolina, spent two entire days consulting the administration, upon what should be done by the Attorney General, if anything, about the race troubles in that state. The District Attorney w T as not enthusiastic over the probable success of the plan of trying to get indictments against white men for participating in riots, from a Federal grand jury, which has been adopted by the administration, but he will have to try it on, if the administration insists; he wishes to continue drawing his salary. Telbert, the Assistant Post Master, who was driven away from McCormick, has decided to remain in Washington and try to catch a government job, on the strength of his “martyrdom.”

It is the easiest thing in the world to get people accustomed to and indifferent to large public expenditures. Only a few years ago the appropriation of a billion dollars by a republican Congress aroused the public opinion of the country, and elected a democratic President and Congress. Since then, about every Congress has been a billion-dollar Congress, and the present Congress, which has already appropriated almost a billion dollars, will, by the end of the coming * short session, huve reached the tw© billion mark. It is true that a considerable portion of this money is chargeable to the war, but outside of the war, the public expenditures are entirely too extravagant, and might be largely curtailed without lessening the efficiency of the government. * * * Nobody need be misled by the backing and filling of the Peace Commissioners and the weekly crisis, on paper, always accompanied by an alleged ultimatum vent by this government. There has been but >tie {uestion to be settled since tnid government demanded the Philipines. The price we are to pay for them. That question is still unsettled. Why, some of the Spanish bondholders could doubtless tell. When it is settled we will have the Treaty of Peace and not before. That Mr. McKinley could quickly settle this business by sending an ultimatum is unquestioned; also that he ought to do it, but it is humiliating, in the extreme, to have men close to the administration announcing every week that one has been sent, when

a day or two afterwards it becomes apparent to all the world that it has not. - * * * Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn wishes to be the Hanna-McKinley candidate for the Senate, from Nebraska, and his friends say that he thinks he will be, the conditions being that he shall promise to support the administration in all things in the Senate, and that he shall secure a solid McKinley delegation from Nebraska to the Republican National Convention in 1900. The same sort of pledge is being exacted as the price of administration support of all the other candidates for the Senate, in states where the legislatures to elect Senators are controlled by the republicans. Mr. McKinley seems reasonably certain of a renomination,' but Boss Hanna will take no chances and will, if in his power, clinch the thing long before the convention is held. It is to carry out this clinching programme that the Republican National Committee is to open headquarters in Washington, at once, and keep them open until after the Presidential election. ~lt is also a part of this scheme to exhibit the strength of the administration machine to Czar Reed, as a warning.

John W. Keeley, of Keeley motor fame, died at his home in Philadelphia last week after a brief illness from pneumonia. Twenty or thirty years ago Keeley astonished the whole civilized world by his extravagant claims and the public exhibition of his still incomplete invention. Since that time large sums of money have been advanced by capitalists to perfect the invention, but without any practical results. In 1888 he was confined in jail for a time for contempt of court in refusing to disclose the secret by which he produced many remarkable effects in the presence of experts, but the secret died with him.

THERE ARE OTHERS,

The result of the election held in this county on Tuesday of course is very gratifying to democrats, and yet it cannot be properly called a democratic victory, for it is the result of the active cooperation with us of very many good republicans, who had grown tired of extravagance, batl management of county affairs and a general disregard of the people, as shown on the part of county officers. —Martinsville Democrat.

It is the local political ring that has been the greatest curse to nearly every county in every state in the union. Lawrence county is only one among many and “there’ll come a day some time” when a a sufficient number of the people of this county will see things as they are. That many of them already see it was evidenced in the election of last Tuesday. It was a protest of the people, but unfortunately the protest was not strong enough. It was a healthy sign, however, not only in Lawrence, but in other counties where rings—republican or democratichave been wont to run things according to their own sweet wills.— Bedford Democrat.

There was scarcely a county in the state of Indiana in which the management of county affairs, and the county books, did not figure in the county campaign, before the election. It was not a mere partisan cry, for both parties engaged in the demand to “open the books.” In the democratic counties the republicans wanted to see books, and in republican counties the democrats wanted to examine the books. This general disatisfaction shows the necessity of having a general law providing for the examination of the books of all county officers by an expert appointed by the state, annually, or at least every two years.—Rising Sun Record

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