Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1899 — DUBBINS' FALL TRIMS GRACE. [ARTICLE]

DUBBINS' FALL TRIMS GRACE.

And now Crnmpacker is being talked of for governor in 1900. It Is presumed, no doubt, that this will open up a place for that chronic office-seeker, J. Frank Hanly. Altgeld’s boom for mayor of Chicago is assuming mammoth proportions. John P. is a very hard man to down, and is probably in closer touch with the people than any other man in the United States. The legislature just closed passed 270 acts, against 196 of the legislature of two years ago. It is the new laws —not having emergency clauses—will go into effect about June Ist. There are 117 acts having emergency clauses, and some are now in effect. Our gold-bug friends are respectfully referred to the fact that Bryan and free silver received another death stroke (?) Wednesday. The democratic state convention at Kalamazoo, Mich., in their resolutions reaffirmed the Chicago platform and endorsed W. J. Bryan. In the future a widow cannot receive a pension unless she marries the man “prior to or during the military or naval services of the veteran on account of whose service the pension is asked or claimed.” Under this law a woman who marries a veteran after he has performed the service for which he may claim a pension cannot herself obtain a pension on his death. This will stop such injustice as that shown in the pension rolls, where there are 2,407 widows drawing pensions on account of the War of 1812, although there are only three survivors of that war now living. A few T dnys ago while the county reform bill was before the house of representatives at Indianapolis for consideration, the Call felt as its duty to the best interests of the people, the necessity of roundly denouncing the flagrant, lobbying by those who have heretofore been fleecing the taxpayers through the the connivance of corrupt county and township officials. The Call had no thought of the nrticle applying to any person or firm in this city, and was greatly surprised when informed that the manager of a bridgo company in Lafayette was greatly incensed nt its publication and stopped his subscription to this paper, saying he would not patronize a paper that was always roasting him.—Lafayette Call, (rep.) It is claimed that the new law placing county commissioners on a salary will add to the expense of such board over the old per diem system in many counties. Perhaps this is true, but not so in Jasper. Under the new regime our commissioners will receive $225 eacl) per annum, a total of $675. In 1690 the cost of commissioners’ court in this county was but $325. Bince that time it has been crawling up with the other luxuries and in 1894 reached $1,074.43; 1896, $991.69; 1897, $1,336,63; 1898, $2,215.50, and every year since 1892 it has been considerably more than $675. Therefore instead of increasing the coat of commissioners court in Jasper county the new lew will save the taxpayers a neat Jam each year. However, there are few such extravagant counties in the state as Jasper.

Under the new law requiring that feeble minded child-bearing women under the age of 45 yeara, now confined in county poor asylums, be taken to the school for feeble-minded, Jasper county will have one representative to send. We are reliably informed that this woman has borne no less than five illegitimate children since her incarceration in the poor asylum in this county, the latest but a few months ago. This is a most deplorable state of affairs and is probably without a parallel in the whale state.

The late legislature found just previous to adjournment that all of the $105,000 appropriated for ite use had been used up and some members hadn’t drawn their salary. A wild scramble was made for more funds and a bill rushed through appropriating an additional SIO,OOO. Then, putting waste baskets, law books, stationery, spittoons, and everything else of a movable nature in the assembly rooms into their capacious grip sacks, the honorable body wended their way homeward, serenely happy in the consciousness in the thought that the state of Indiana wouldn’t go to the dogs for the next two years even though the balance of the country did. Less than ten years ago, Mr. McKinley declared: “The foreign market is delusory, the poorest of all markets, because in the foreign market the profit is divided between our own citizen and the foreigner, while with the trade and commerce among ourselves the profit is kept in our own family.” Less than ten years ago Mr. McKinley was advocating 16 to 1 silver; less than a year ago he declared “forcible annexation would be criminal aggression;” less than five months ago he was opposed to taking any more of the Philippines than “a coaling station or two,” and less than three weeks ago he declared that Jehovah had loaded us up with the Philippines and if we tried to unload the devil would get us sure; and in the same speech he declared we must hunt for markets wherever they could be found. The Major is undoubtedly a great —admirer of Mark Hanna.

The democracy of The Democrat editor has never been questioned except by the antediluvian nondescript of the Barnacle, whose general incompetency and wearying efforts to carry water on both shoulders is responsible for the present condition of outrageous taxes and public extravagance in Jasper county. The beastly appearance of his “weakly” sheet has been an eye-sore to the democrats of the county for years, and has made them almost ashamed to acknowledge they were democrats, with such an apology for a party organ. Its Rip Van Winkle editor—Rip did finally awake, however—has ridden the party in Jasper county for a long time. He has collected numerous campaign assessments from candidates and shoved it, every cent, down in his jeans, all the while under the domination of the republican court house ring, who have thrown him an occasional crumb to keep him from starving out and some live democrat from coming in with a respectable, newsy paper, conducted in the interests of the taxpayers. The democratic party of Jasper county is under no obligations whatever to the Barnacle or its insensate editor, and they did well when they long ago repudiated both. The millstone is removed from their neck and the dawn of a better and brighter day for democracy—the true friend of the people—is at hand. The Barnacle man should go over body and breeches to the republican ring, where it pk>perly belongs. He has served them well and they should now retire him on a liberal pension. The democrats have no use either for the Baraicle or its “editor.” Bring your job printing to The Democrat office. We appreciate your favors, do nothing bat tbe best work and charg moderate prices.

years ct more, like our sac. any man me knew. An' if yon argyed with Mat he wmifsAe agree with yon. Bat 'totfaer day be Ml hen game. Mear’napriae an'grief; army beef. Twas down at Diggses grapery star the trouble was began; An'Diggs, tbe viUian, started it, asusmd.jto fer ton. of tbe day. I poda often Ax ****** An’ reckoned if MBes ewer ran he'd hce* an minin'to! i Gee wbiz! bat ttsetyosedns tee to see Jed an Tbe fits’tune he gat betted an to nail year. ain't no friend of Jed. Because, yon aee, Jed's wife she nt a Eagan fore sbe wed T" She warn 1 no relation to the GesUaffid Bat Dubbins kinder Mt that be bad married into fame. Tod Perkins didn't know find Jed wasrSedup like, an'mad. So Tod allowed that amy beef seas potty pesky bad. “Who p'inted yon” says Jed toTed,** Bmd of Inquirer?" “It ain't no call of yaum,”«ay» Tod. “as to as i nen i/dddids pctied ms jifTn m rhc w there in atnaar, Fer MadviUe ain't seen sack a sight xb aS ns hull born days. Jed Dubbins bein' peaceful Jer some fiftyytaas or more. We thought that Tod would take fans an' proceed to wipe tbe finar; It turned out Jed mas satin’ up fer all Haem fifty year. An' firs' thing Perkins knew be was a-standto* on his ear. Our expectations all was wrong, as' Pcahans came to grief He's wearin’ beefsteak on bis eyes fer beefin' erbout beef. Baltimore American.