Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

??? 1 q 3 Beware of the men who ate always trying to defend the scoundrels who are fattening on public plunder. A dose inspection will generally reveal the fact that they are sharing In the booty.—Hebron News. kkk & i i

The unmasking of the ring is still going on. Talk for an investigation of connty affairs in Jasper county. A man must become quite desperate when he gives a §4O piano for $5.00 woithof firearms. If we may believe the assessment sheet of its editor, the '‘official organ" has been degenerating for some years. It seems strange that “such a nice man" (self-confessed) as Mr. Marshall would be so absentminded as to “forget" to list such a luxury as a piano with the assessor. According tp Marshall’s sworn statement to the assessor his whole printing establishment, is worth only about one-half the amount he annually receives from the connty treasury through the commissioners’ allowances alone! We do not like to appear too persistent, but will not Bro. Marshall take the time from figuring out how he is going to explain the “mistake” of omitting taxable property from his assessment list for years, to telling his readers something about that stationery steal of 1897-8? The Democrat has preserved the annual reports of receipts and expenditures of our neighboring counties, for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1899, and which were published early in June, and is now patiently waiting for the report to be made public in our own county, that it may make comparisons. And $350 is all the whole "official organ” plant is worth, including all book accounts and unpaid subscription! The" writer will give Mr. M. six times this amount for the same —not that we want to run a republican paper, but because the outfit and “good and collectable accounts” is even worth considerably more than this sum. The Tippecanoe county commissioners have served notice on ex-Sheriff Gaddis that he must make good the shortage of §1,200 charged to his official account by the experts who recently examined ex-Clerk David N. Flynn’s accounts. Mr. Gaddis is allowed until Aug. 1 to settle and if lie has not done so by that date suits will be filed against him and his bondsmen. Congressman Crnmpacker is being extensively quoted by the republican press of the Tenth district as opposed to “trusts.” Perhaps Mr. Crnmpacker is, personally, opposed to these cormorants, but if so, he is largely in the minority in aud the people need expect no relief whatever from these grinding combinations so long as they furnish the “spondulix" for keeping that party in power. We believe it was Artemus Ward who remarked about going to war, that he was willing to sacrifice all his wife's relatives on the alter of his country. We are reminded of this remark when looking over Mr. Marshall’s assessment sheet— he wasanxious to have an extravagant new court house built, and .is willing to sacrifice the taxpayers of Jasper county to pay for it. In 1897 his printing office aas given in for taxation at S6OO, in 1898 at *450, and in 1899 at only $350! At this rate it will escape taxation altogether in about