Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1899 — Page 4

JISPER GOBIffY ill Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. F. (. BIBCOCK, EDITOR MD PUBLISHER. Kntered at the Poat-olßee at Renaaelaer, Ind. a* second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION* ONE YEAR *1«0 SIX MONTHS 50c THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Renaaelaer Street, North of Ellle it Murray'a Store.

OUR FIRST MILE STONE.

With this issue The Democrat teaches its first mile stone. For years the dire need of a democratic paper was recognized by every party man in the country and by scores , of others who had not and who do not affiliate except locally, and then occasionally, with democracy. The Democrat was started to fill this “long felt want,” and from the general circulation and from the prompt and hearty manner of renewals it can boast of having accomplished the purpose for which it was established. In its brief existence it has done much for this county, has saved it some thousands of dollars in expenses, has been the sole cause of adding many thousands of dollars to the tax duplicate, has saved the taxpayers hundreds of dollars in claims that heretofore were paid without protest, has given the taxpayers their only insight into county matters they have ever had, and all these facts are established by the one fact “that those who came to scoff” at The Democrat remained and are praying lustitly to be saved from the wrath to come. The fight for good government —municipal and county — will be continued, no guilty man escape. Frauds will be exposed, steals will be uncovered, and where The Democrat is not respected it will be feared. In this connection the management desires to thank The Democrat's constituency individually and collectively for the hearty manner in which they have appreciated its efforts, both financially and by the many good words that have reached this office, words I of encouragement and cheer. It will endeavor in the future as in the past to merit this appreciation. The Editor.

Mark Hanna triumphed over McKisson at Cleveland in the municipal election last Tuesday, by assisting the democracy. It is a cold day when Mark doesn’t get what he wants. Score another for The Democrat. Telephone instruments, switch-boards and office fictures and furniture are to be assessed this year in Jasper county, and the tax duplicate will be swelled thereby several thousand dollars. War statistics of casuality amongst American soldiers during the war with Spain and in the Philippines, shows the*surprising fact that while 329 soldiers were killed in action and 125 died of wounds, 5,277 died of disease. These figures do not include the casualties for March. The attorney general has rendered a decision on the new transfer law affecting the schools. He says children transferred from one township to another corporation will have the right to schooling during the entire term of school, the pay for tuition being paid monthly, as provided by the township in which the child lives. The Democrat is looking after the interests of the taxpayers of the whole county, and every man, be he democrat, republican, populist or prohibitionist can well afford to contribute a dollar a year —the subscription price—toward the support of a newspaper that is earnestly fighting their battles for them, and thereby saving them thousands of dollars each year.

An amendment to the pension law, which quietly went through congress, provides that where a pensioner of the United States wilfully neglects his wife or children, the commissioner of pensions upon being satisfied of the fact, shall take one-half of such pension due and devote it to their maintenance.

The Barnacle “editor” still claims to be the only pure and undefiled dyed-in-the-wool democrat (?) in Jasper county. That he is of a rare and distinct species cannot be denied, but the term democrat is a misnomer. Democrats stand for democratic. principles, and do not seek to deliver their party over to the enemy, nor are their names carried on the republican pay roll.

The construction placed upon the new fish law is that it makes an entirely closed season during May and June in the streams of the state, and a closed season in all other waters of the state from the Ist of January to the Ist of April, and from the Ist of May to the Ist of July, except with hook and line. The law permits hook and line fishing in streams from J\ily Ist to the following May Ist.

The republican press of this city has made the announcement several times that the new commissioners’ salary law carried an emergency clause, and therefore the law has been in effect since its passage. While this is perhaps true, The Democrat has been unable, to learn of the fact from any reliable source, and has therefore said nothing about our commissioners now being on salary. Just what authority they had for making this statement, is not apparent but perhaps it was the same “official information” that gave the Republican to understand several weeks ago that the new laws “would be out in a few days.” Auditor Murray says that he has had no official notice that the law carries an emergency clause.

An Indianapolis dispatch says: While the Democratic leaders of the state, as a rule, are quietly biding events, content to wait upon the expressed action of the national convention, the immediate friends of Mr. Bryan in Indiana are showing much aggressiveness, and Hon. John Gilbert Shanklin, who is a member of the National Committee, after spending two weeks in the East, expresses the belief that William J. Bryan will be renominated practically without opposition, and that Indiana will send a Free Silver delegation to the National Convention. Mr. Shanklin also believes that the platform of 1900 will embrace: 1. Free and unlimited coinage of silver, as well as gold at a ratio of 16 to 1. 2. The Government, and not the banks, should issue paper money. 3. It will oppose the so-called money trust. 4. It will oppose trusts in general. 5. It will be against the conquest of foreign lands by force. 6. It will declare in favor of an income tax: and lastly, it will declare against government by injunction. Mr. Shanklin further says that there has been no attempt at a compromise with the so-called Gold Democrats, and there is no possibility of a compromise.

The Jasper Circuit Court.

The April term of court will begin Monday. No grand jury will be called, we understand. The petit jury has been drawn but the time for calling it not yet decided upon. Following are the names drawn for petit jurors: Randolph Wright, Newton tp, 4 .' Lewis Welsh, Jordan tp. Warren D. Swisher, Gillam tp. Charles W. Coen. Rensselaer. Henry Grow, Rensselaer. John W. Nowels, Newton tp. Augustus Stimson. Wheatfield tp. S. D. Clark, Wheatfield. Charles Stalbaum, Walker tp. John iD. Cooper, Kankakee tp. Wallace Robinson, Rensselaer. Mark Yeoman. Barkley tp. William L. Bringle, Newton tp. William H. Daniels, Barkley tp. John Pinter. Wheatfield. William D. Meyer, Walker tp. Advertisers should bear in mind that The. Democrat has a larger circulation among the farmers than any paper published in Jasper county.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From oar recnhrconaixndnL) A bomb was exploded in administration circles Ivy a prominent New York republican who came to Washington for the purpose, when it was announced that Gov. “Teddy” Roosevelt was in the field for the republican Presidential nomination, next year, and that there was an understanding between ‘Teddy” and Gen. Miles, who has been credited with entertaining a similar ambition himself. Some of Mr. McKinley's friends appear to think that he is bound to be renominated and re-elected, bat those of them who are long-headed and who have had experience in politics, do not look at things that way; they know that both Roosevelt and Miles have qualities which are calculated to arouse the enthusiasm and support of the yonng men in their party, and that with good management a combination of their following might give the Hanna-McKinley machine a hard fight, if not an actual throwdown. If this announcement is straight, Boss Platt must have failed in his efforts to keep “Teddy” off the McKinley track. With all Czar Reed’s faults, and he has enough and to spare, he has never been a sneaky fighter, which is more than can be said for the administration crowd, which is afraid to come oat in the open and try to defeat Reed for the Speakership, but is engaged in trying to bluff him into not being a candidate, by stating that the administration has determined to throw its influence for Reed, bnt with the express understanding that the rules of the next House shall be changed so as to cat oat all the Czar business. The idea is that Reed would not care to be speaker, if he is to be shorn of the autocratic power he has weilded. This is on a par with the talk which has at times been heard ever since Reed first became Speaker, about republicans who were going t° unite with the democrats to change the rules and curtail the power of the Speaker. They never did so. and if the republicans elect Reed Speaker of the House again, as they will almost surely do, he will be the same old Czar. *** It has been brought out in the testimony before the Military Court of Inquiry that Gen. Eagan told a Boston Contractor, and a Texas cattle-raiser who had in a bid for furnishing beef on the hoof, that Secretary Alger had practically ordered him to try the refrigerated beef, which Swift A Co. | claimed to have a secret process of | preserving, as an experiment. The 1 longer the Court sits, the worse! things look for the Alger-Eagan j crowd, and Maj. Lee who is representing Gen. Miles says he has already been fully proven to have been bad, the court may decide that it is unnecessary to hear all 1 these witnesses. Mr. McKinley has apparently at last become aroused to the danger, to his own political fortunes, of retaining Alger in his Cabinet, and, unless all the political “wise men” are at fault, the “Ex” is hot on the trail of Alger and cannot fail to catch up with him very soon. It has been, these men say, fully determined by Boss Hanna and the other directors of the administration machine that Alger must go. They prefer that he should do so willingly, but if he declines to tender his resignation without being requested by Mr. McKinley to do so, Mr. McKinley will make that request. From a strictly selfish point of view, democrats would prefer that Mr. McKinley should keep Alger in the Cabinet, for then it would be impossible for the administration to deny responsibility for Algerism and all its horrors, but democrats are too patriotic to wish to see a nan filling the responsible office of Secretary of War, who deserves to be kicked out. just to make political capital for their party; they wish, above everything else, to see the affairs of the government properly administered, and know that they will not be in the War Department, as long as Alger is at its head.

A group of army officers were discussing the cost and results of the campaign of Gen. Otis against the Filipinos, which has just closed with the taking of Aguinaldo’s capital, and the driving of him and his army into the interior, when one of them said: “For my part, I don’t think the game worth the candle. After a considerable loss of life, we have the Philippine insurgents just where the Spaniards had them. That is, we have possession of the coast and all of Hie towns and they are in the interior. It is true, that if we start after them, our pursuit will be very different from that of the Spaniards, and that in the end American grit is bound Id win, and we

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shall succeed in killing, capturing or subduing them all, but it will be no picnic I assure you, and I know what the conn try is; we shall pay dear—far too dear I think—for our triumph over them.”

* * * The Cubans who came to Washington to present to the Administration resolutions adopted by the Cuban Assembly, left town in disgust when informed by Secretary Hay that Mr. McKinley would not receive them, and that no more money would be put up than the $8,000,000 promised Gen. Gomez, and that the Assembly would not be allowed to issne bonds for the purpose of raising money. There is a trick concealed in this bond business that nobody has succeeded in getting entirely to the bottom of. There are also some millions of dollars in it, if the administration can be roped into giving an official consent. Although this consent has just been refused and not for the first time, the schemers have not given up and are still at work and hopeful of success.

City Council Meeting.

The common Council met pur-; suant to adjournment last Friday evening, T. J. McCoy, mayor, pre- j siding. Councilmen Meyer, Mur- j ray. McColly and Spitler, and S. - C. Irwin, clerk, were present. Jesse C. Gwin, county treasurer, J was appointed councilman for the 3d ward to succeed W. H. Beam,! resigned. Resolutions were adopted declaring the necessity of improving Cullen and Forest streets to Oak, Clark street from Van Rensselaer to Forest, Vine street from Forest to Main, Van Rensselaer street from Harriscn t> Washington Harrisons treet from Van Rensselaer to Cullen, Cullen street from Harrison to "Washington, Cedar street from Division to Melville. All these several streets by macadamizing same and under the Barrett Law and amendments. Objections to said improvements will be heard on April 19, 1899, at 7:30 p. m. A resolution for improving Forest street from Oak to Merritt, lost for lack of two-thirds vote. Dr. James W. Porter asked for a cement sidewalk on the east side of the south half of Block 33 on Dayton street, referred to committee on sidewalks. D. M. Worland was granted a permit to build an iron covered building on lot 1, block 3 original plot. 24 badges were ordered purchased for the fire department. The fire bell and tchemical engine were ordered sold on best terms obtainable. (Here is a chance for Wheatfield.) Lot 4, block 15, Robert J. Yeoman; lot 3, block 11, Adeline Thornton; lot 1, block 10, Joseph i Yeoman; all at S2O each, were reported sold at Weston cemetery. Sales approved, and deeds will be , executed by the mayor. The following bills were allowed: ■UCTKIC LIGHT FUND* Wallace Bros. Co. Jenkins discs $ 2 04 C. E. Mills, collections 4 72 CORFORATION FUND. R. White a Sdn, livery.- - I OC KOAD FUND. F. M. Forman. W, J. Wrights assessment on retaining wall ....1 15 61 Barney Koezema, cleaning crossing... 1 25 John Moosmiller, same 63 Harvey Moore, same 63 Harry Mage#, same 68 Fred Yeider, same 88 Chaa. Scott, same, and work on bridge.. 1 68 Cbas. W. Plan, work on walks and cros. 2 18 John Remley, work on street 1 25 Oscar Tharp, work on crossings 2 50 J. F. Penn, banting ...... 25 Trae Woodworth, cleaning crossing..... 68 B. H. Dillon, same and wk on bridge 1 88 Frank Morian, same 1 88 J. J. Brenner, same and fence 2 50 W. H. Beam, height on lumber. 28 97 Thomas Boyle, oak lumber 52 88

CHICAQO, IN DIANA WO LIS A LOUISVILLS NY. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 15,1888. South (Sound. No. 31—Fast Mail (don’t stop) 4:48 a, m. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m, No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily). • 1:45 p. m. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:12 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No? 40—Milk uccomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32p. tn. {No. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. in. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight.. 9:30a. m. No. 74—Freight. (daily( 7:52 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. {Sunday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Motion and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. Frank J. Reed. G. P. A., W. H. McDoel. Vice-Pres, and Gen. M’g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell. Traffic M’g’r, W. H. Beam. Agent, Rensselaer.

JOHN C. CARHICHAEL, Manuf.ictuer of and Dealer in HQnd-MQde mess. Collars, Robes, Whips, Horse Brushes, Combs and Harness Oil. Manufactures all his Harness, and guarantees them A 1 quality and at prices to suit the times. CASH talks with him. Repairing a Specialty. Opposite Court House. Rensselaer, Ind.

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New Undertaking

In Horton building, one door west of Makeever House, with a complete and first-class stock of FUNERAL FURNISHINOS I respectfully solicit a share of the< public’s patronage and guarantee sat- < isfaction in every respect. Calls* promptly responded to day or night,j A. B. COWGILL, Residence at Makeever House, mom

Morris* English Worm Powder Warranted to core any caarof Worms In Horaea, CattU, Sheep or Do*», also Pin Worm; In Oolta, lepton, SOn. par Snac. Sold by A. F. Long.

Professional Cards. ATTORNEYS Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office in Hollingsworth Building, Ist floor, rear of McCoy’s Bank. , X L. Duvall, * Attobney-at-Law. All business profession carefully and thoroughly executed. Money to loan on almost any terms. Real Estate bought and sold. Collections and abstracts carefully pro-! pounded. First door east of P. O. upstairs. Geo. K. Hollingsworth Arthur H. Hopkins Hollingsworth & Hopkins, Attorneys at Law. EWOffiee second floor of Leopold’s Block Corner Washington and Vanßensselaer sts Practice in all the courts, purchase, sell am lease real estate. Attorneys for Rensselaei B. L. A S. Association. Jas. W. Douthit, LAW T YER, Rensselaer, Indiana Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Brokei Attorney For The L. N. A. AC. Ry, and Rensselaer W. L.dP.Cc over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. FRANK FOLTS. C. O. SFITUKR. MARRY R. KURRt Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attorneys-at-Law. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Abstracts ar Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in ti County. . > RENSSELAER, IND. Chilcote & Dunn, j Attorneys-at-Law, Attend to all business in the profession wiß promptness und dispatch. Office in tecoro story of Mukeever Block. RENSSELAER. IND. j J. F. Warren J. F. IrwH Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurant! Office in Odd Fellow's Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R. S. Dwiggins, /COUNCELOR AT LAW, 9 Office in Room 7. Forsythe block. Rens4l| aer. Ind. ' BANKING. J. Alfred McCoy, Pres T. J. XlcCoy, Cifßl A. R. Hopkins. Assistant Cashier. A. McCoy & Co’s BanHjj RENSSELAER, IND. J The Oldest Bank in Jasper Coun|l| Established in 1854. J l Transacts a general banking business. l>i*fl notes and loans money on long or short tiSij on personal or real estate security. FuirdHl liberal treatment is promised to ull. IntHj est paid on time deposits. Foreign bought ami sold. Y our patrouuge issolici® I Patrons having valuable papers may dep® I them for safe keeping. jj I Addison Parkinson. John M. Wasson® I President. Vice Presid^|| Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. | J Commercial State BatA (North Side of Public Square. || I RENSSELAER, IND. | I The Only State Bank in Jasper® I DIRECTORS. 3 I Addison Parkison, G. E. Murray. Jas.T. 1® j die, John M. Wusson and Emmet L. Holli® § worth. This bank is prepared to general banking business. InterestalkS]9 on time deposits. Money loaned and®! I notes bought ut current rates of interest® 1 shure of your patronage is solicited. I PHYSICIANS. II I. B. Washburn. .E.C.En^jifl Washburn & English® 1 Physicians & Surgeons, I 1 Dr. Washburn will give special attentl® S Diseases of the Eye, Eur, Nose, Throat® X Chronic Diseases. I ;■ Dr. English will give special attention toMlij gery in all Departments, und general t® M cine. Office over Ellis & Murray's®!! phone 48. 43® DENTIST. H. L. brown; ■ Dentist iff Office over F. B. Meyer’s «| flj store. «■

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