Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

'■f 1 S S IKBeware of the men who aie always lirying to defend the scoundrels who Kro fattening on public plunder. A Mflose inspection will generally reveal ■Ke fact that they are sharing In the Booty.— Hebron News. JhiL i i i COMMITTEE MEETING. (The members of the Democratic Kkrnnty Centra] Committee are re|quested to meet at the Nowels ttfouse in Rensselaer, on | Thursday, August 24,1899, lat 1:00 p. m. Business of importrautice is to be transacted and a full Ifettendance is desired. N. S. Bates, Chairman. EThos. Walters, Sec. |At a little meeting in Chicago Rhe other day it was agreed that Httmber was worth $1.50 more per Iphousand and up it went. —Fowler ‘ Leader (rep). The deep solicitude of the “officfial organ” for the democrats of Jasper county in selecting an organ for them is indeed pathetic. iHowever, as the democrats of this I county are neither orphans nor have they been officially declared Blnsane, they feel amply able to ?judge for themselves in this mat- • ter. “Offered service stinks,” is an old and trite saying, as our friend of the Wheatfield ■ Telephone would remark. Why are all these cases for alleged tax-dodging brought against democrats? The evidence is conclusive that George E. Marshall, editor of the Republican official organ, is not altogether blameless, if we may believe, his assessment sheets, and yet we have heard of no case being filed against him. Don’t show so much partiality in these matters, gentlemen. Pass the good things around among members of your own party. Is it not strange (?) that the republican papers here are so anxious that the Barnacle should get the public printing required to be done in a democratic paper. The Barnacle “editor” has served the republican ring long and faithfully, but the democrats desire to have a thing or two to say about the medicine they must take in the future, and, as Mr. M. L. Spitler of the county council says, “they, the democrats, should be the sole judges in this matter.”

We are constantly assured that a great wave of prosperity is sweeping over the country. Yet everywhere workers are striking for an advance in wages. Is the “wave” benefiting the capitalists alone? If it does not touch the man with the dinner-pail it is not very beneficial to the country. The bone and sinew of the land must be touched by the life-giving current or it availeth not “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick,” and truly the “wave’’ is a long time coming.—Noblesville Ledger (rep). A well known republican township trustee who managed to get in a service account of S4BO in one year, three weeks of which year is said to have been spent at a widely advertised resort in a neighboring state, refen ing to the letter of notification sent out by The Democrat to the trustees said that if he (w. k. r. 1.1) did what he ought to do, he would begin action for blackmail against the editor of The Democrat. A gentleman, a prominent democrat, who heard the remark, offered the beMgerent official five dollars to do that very act, but up to date this ; high-priced township official has not seen fit to call around for the V. It is just such public officials as this man - that made necessary the new reform laws and it is not strange that men of his stripe are howling moet about having a