Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

According to the records, G. E. Marshall, publisher of the “official organ,” received §132.25 of the amount already paid on the Keener tp., gravel roads. No doubt that astute individual feels highly gratified over the prospect of the taxpayers of Keener tp., getting about eight or ten miles of the sixteen miles they had expected to get and for which they were bonded and taxed.

Republicans and the few demo[crats who occasionally receive a copy of the Barnacle —if there are ; any such—even though in some j cases, perhaps, they mav think that thej- are receiving a “free copy," will do well to insist on having a receipt when paying their subscription thereto, or. if a “free copy,” a statement to that effect. ; A number of claims for subscription to the Barnacle have at different times been filed against decedents’ estates in this county, i and by taking she above precautions any mistakes which might occur in such claims or accounts could the more easily be correctI ed.

They are having lots of trouble in Mark Hanna's state nowadays. At Cleveland the city is practically in the hands of a mob, owing to the street car strikes and the pres- ' enee of thugs, toughs and other I irresposnsible persons always attracted by a strike, and companies of armed soldiers are patrolling the streets and endeavoring to preserve order. At Cincinnati the messenger boys and newsboys are ion a strike and everthing is in a topsy turvy condition. Mark should return from his European trip at once and try and get matters straightened out so that the people of his commonwealth may be able to assimilate some of this Hanna-McKinley prosperity. Taxpayers of Jasper county, bear this fact in mind: Every j statement made by the The Dem|OCRAT in regard to the mismanagement of county affairs we stand ready to prove by the records to the satisfaction of any taxpayer of ordinary intelligence who will take the trouble to go with us to the records, and who is not so prejudiced as to refuse to believe the evidence of his own eyes. An 1 eminent gentleman once said that j “to argue with a man who renounced reason was like giving ! medicine to the dead,” and we do not wish to be understood as j claiming to do the impossible. Tell your neighbor that before calling The Democrat man a liar, to go with him and investigate the records on which his I statements to which he takes exI ception are based. This is cer- ! tainly a fair and honest proposition and every word of it means just what it says.

A dispatch from Highland Co., Ohio, says: A tremendous sensation was created in political and official circles here to day by the filing of the report of a committee appointed three months a<zo to examine the county recoids and report the amount of illegal fees drawn by the different county officials for the past ten years. The people of Highland county have been groaning under big tax burdensand charges of misappropriation of funds have been freely made, Ender the statue provided for such cases Probate Judge Hughes appointed an investigating committee, and the report filed to day alleges that theamount of $;>fi.200.24 has been illegally drawn by county officials. This covers a period of 10 years, and is divided among the different offices as follows: Surveyors..; $ 144 gR Infirmary Directors 2.961 D 4 Infirmary Superintendents 1.274 76 Commissioners? 4 386 04 Prosecuting Attorneys.,,..... 550 86 Recorders 10.319 no Treasurers 472 70 County Clerks 5,800 19 Probate Judges Sheriffs Auditors 22.537 90 The taxpayers are worked up to a high pitch over these alleged raids on the treasury, and will insist that suits at once be brought to recover the money.