Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

W. L. Dunlap of Franklin, was elected department commander of the G. A. R., and Mrs. Maria Schlater of Logansport, president of the W. R. C., at the annual encampment held at Terre Haute* this week. The resolutions laud President McKinley and indorse the benevolent assimilation of the Philipinos. The time to have opposed trusts was in 1896, when the democracy was fighting them with all of its power. If Mr. Bryan had been elected the death knell of monopolies would have sounded long ago, but myriads of them seem to have sprung into existence during the current national and state administrations.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

Bro. Clark used to say that the Apologist editor “padded” his legate until in some cases the heading took up about as much space as did the body of the notice. Did Clark tell the truth about it? Please compare the notice reproduced on this page with the same identical notice set without the ‘•padding,” and the question is answered. The last two weeks of the present term of the Hancock circuit court has been set aside for the trial of county officials and others indicted for alleged maladministration of county affairs. It will be remembered that the late grand jury returned 991 indictments against county officiate and others on various charges of rascality in the management <sf county affairs. When you have a nor-resident notice, notice of appointment, notice of survey, notice of final settlement, etc., to be published, insist on your attorney having the publication made in The Democrat. Our prices for this work are as reasonable ns others and the clients themselves control this class of legal advertisements. Remember this and see that the paper of your choice gets the advertising. The county officers’ Association is again trying to break the fee and salary law, and the case now before the supreme court to again test the constitutionality of the law was argued Tuesday. Attor-ney-General Taylor in his brief filed in the case says among other things:

“The laws were of human enactment * * * but that they were fair and just to the county officers through the state is manifest, if from nothing else, from the fact that, although the present system has been in force for more than eight years, in no one of the nine-ty-two counties of the state, and in no one of the five offices in each county has it yet appeared that any man has resigned or refused to accept office because of the inadequacy of the compensation provided by law.” The attorney-general concludes his brief as follows: “It is respectfully submitted to the court that the people of Indiana, from 1871 until now, have constantly endeavored to correct a system of compensation of public officers, which they believed to be wrong, and that, in their efforts at reform, they have been constantly opposed and thwarted by the efforts of officers whom they had created, through and by the use of funds which really ought to belong to the public. “As a mere change in the law did not affect the desired object, the people of the state changed the constitution, and then, after a tenj ears’ struggle, succeeded in obtaining a law, under which it is not contended that the salaries, as salaries, are inadequate, and under which many county officers are now compensated more handsomely than the judiciary of the state, or any part of the judiciary of the state.

“It is submitted that the people defended these laws of 1891 and 1895 against numerous and repeated assaults in this court, and that every question involved in this appeal has been already settled and determined, and that the time has come to put an end to litigation over this matter. ‘‘The appellee, therefore, asks that the judgment of the superior court of Madison county be affirmed, and thatdamages to the amount of 10 per cent, upon the judgement recovered against the appellant be assessed in favor of the appellee in this cause.” . \ ■. ADVERTISED LETTERS. Mr. M. Fletcher, Mrs. D. K. Frye, Miss Pearl McGee, Jos. Phillips, B. D. Vanderson. Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list will please say they are advertised. F. B. Meyer, P. M.