Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — Page 4

m gouty mm. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. l E. BABCOCK, EDITOR IW PUBIISHER. lulht ml st the Post-office at Renmelaer, Ind. aa second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE YEAR »•<» BIX MONTHS 50c THREE MONTHS. 25c. Payable la Advance. advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rcncsolacr Street, North of Ellis A Murray's Store. For President in 1900, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

Beware of tbe men whj 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. Imperialism belongs only to a monarchy, and to enforce it requires an autocrat and a standing army. It is about time for Senator Hanna to make a few remarks about the evil of using money in politics. The law makers overlooked a developing field whe.i they neglected to require a revenue stamp on all sword presetations. It is understood that the Sultan of Sulu has decided to remain pacified just so long as the American people keep putting up the money. “Manifest destiny” is receiving severe wrenches by the recent exposures, showing the inside history of the peace negotiations with Spain. It is very evident that the Hon. Thomas B. Reed, attorney-at-law, New York City, is too busy with his clients to make any campaign speeches this fall. It is said that the owner of the house in which Dewey was born is charging an admission fee to all visitors. This is another instance of yankee thrift exceeding patriotism. Congressman Robeits of Utah may be expected to watch the Sultan of Sulu with jealous eyes, and wonder why this government discriminates on the polygamy question.

England enters upon the war in Ihe Transvaal with the sentiment of the whole civilized world against her. She is entitled to no sympathy no matter what disasters may follow*. In his address at Huron, S. D., President McKinley took a step in advance of his previous position regarding the by speaking of them as already “become a part of the United States.” The National Savings and Loan Association of Indianapolis, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The concern was national, and did business in several states. Thousands of stockholders will be losers, it is said. Another example of too much prosperity. As a result of the three years of profligate management of Starke county affairs by the republicans, the building of a £lio,ooo court house, etc., the county treasury is empty and county orders are a drug on the market. County orders to the amount of over $20,000 have 1 een protested,and the banks refuse to buy them at any figure. Since the recent order of the President “broke the hack of ihe civil service law,” by opening anew thousands of places to appointment through political influence instead of merit, it is not surprising that the politicians of bis party in his own state and in Ids interest should seek to further best the law by requiring contributions from office holders.

The Superior court of Marion county handed down a decision Thursday upholding the Barrett law. The democratic party added a large amount of territory to the United States, but never had to increase the standing army to gain or to hold it. President Seyn of the Orange Free State seems to fear that in case England succeeds in benovelently assimilating the Transvaal, his own country will be next on the menu. Have you seen anything in the republican press of late antagonistic to the trusts? Word evidently went cut from the Washington editorial bureau to drop fighting the party’s friends, and the press meekly acquiesed.

The First Assistant Postmaster General is quoted as expressing surprise that Aguinaldo did not succumb when offered a commission in thp United States Army. His surprise is born of the fact that he has witnessed the pacification of a great many Ohio insurgents by the proper administration of official medicine in the shape of a postoffice appointment.

A Decatur, Ind., dispatch says: Prosecutor Dave E. Smith to-day -sued ex-County Treasurer Dan. P. Bolds and his bondsmen to recover SIO,OOO, which, it is charged, he unlawfully took during the two terms he was County Treasurer. This make’s the fifth suit against Bolds to recover money alleged to be due the county. County Auditor Mangold filed a similar action against County Treasurer Perry Robinson to recover $3,000.

The official Apologist of Tuesday devoted a column and a half to eulogizing its editor on his scrapping ability. It may become necessary to send for that Wheatfield lady who, it is alleged, took some of the conceit out of this pugilistic gentleman at a republican rally at that place some years ago, and in whose fingers a goodly part of his hirsute appendage is said to have lingered after the smoke of battle had cleared away,

Perry Lankford, the treasurer of Morgan county from June 1, 1892, to June 1,1896, is by the report to be made by the investigating committee, which is to go to the county commissioners next Monday, short $13,368.95 in his dealings with the county for that time. If action as in previous similiar cases is taken, Lankford will be immediately sued for the above sum. Twenty-three men are on his bond, which expires in 1901. —Martinsville dispatch to an Indianapolis paper,

A Washington dispatch of Oct. 16, says: “By one fell, sweeping order to-day every pending pension claim for injuries received or disability contracted during the Civil War were laid aside. Ten thousand claims of old soldiers just ready for adjudication were included in the list. By the same order 40,000 claims of SpanisliAmerican War soldiers were taken up.” Does the reader comprehend what this means? Forty thousand claims for pensions arising out of the Spanish-American war, and the Phillipine war soldiers yet to hear from! War is an expensive luxury. While in Chicago last week, Mr. McKinley told his auditors at a millionaire banquet given in his honor, about the tremendous sea of prosperity that was sweeping over the land. However, like n certain other ruler, whose history many people have read and commented upon, and who was on a memorable occasion with his cohorts gathered around the banquet table, t he president mw the handwriting on the wall, and, a« a sort of cocuM to bis prosperity bequest, he cautioned hi* hearers to watch out lest the sea becocne so hilarious with prosperity that the people were all forced into bankruptcy.

Suits have been brought against a number of Marion county officials to recover money illegally held by them, as shown by the report of the investigating experts. Next week The Democrat will publish the number and amount of the bills of W. B. Burford presented for payment to the Jasper county commissioners during the past year, and the disposition made of them. Yesterday’s Indianapolis Sentinel contained a special correspondence from Shelby'county, regarding the alleged misconduct of county officers of Shelby county, which the grand jury is now investigating. Some of the more important county records are missing altogether.

State Statistician Conner is getting in reports from the county auditors on comparative estimates of expenses and salaries with amounts allowed by county councils at their September sessions, and also comparative county tax levies under the old law in 1898, as well as under the law of the present year. He is also receiving comparative township levies of 1898, under the old law', and those of 1899, under the advisory boards. Mr. Conner says that thus far there is a general large saving under the new law, and also a general lowering of both county and township levies compared with last year. He believes the public will be much surprised at the great benefits derived from the law.

The supreme court last Friday decided the Marion soldiers’ home case, holding that inmates thereof were entitled to vote, their qualifications as electors to be determined by the same rules applicable to other citizens of the state. In 1898 suit was brought to exclude the vote on the grounds that the state in 1889 had ceded to the federal government exclusive jurisdiction over the grounds, and therefore the inmates were no more entitled to vote in Indiana

than were the citizens of the District of Columbia. A short time afterward a bill was passed through congress ceding the ground back to the state, and the last session of the legislature accepted the cession on behalf of the state. This is held by the court to make them legal citizens of the state,

Burford Has Nothing to Say.

A marked copy of The Democrat of last week was sent to W. B. Burford of Indianapolis, in the hope that he would explain matters in regard to his book and stationery bills against this county, but up to the hour of going to press not a line had been received from him. As stated last week, no man having an honest bill of $608.25 against Jasper county would submit to have such bill cut to $95.75 without a vigorous protest in the courts, and wehave heard of no suit being brought. There has been a great deal of chicanery in the book and stationery business in Jasper county, and it would seem that in view of the cutting down of one of his bills over SSOO and the dismissal of others altogether, that, if blameless in the matter himself, he would be only too anxious to set himself right before the people, who must pay the fiddler. Perhaps, though, matters have been arranged with Mr. Burford whereby he loses nothing, and the recorded action of the commissioners is but a little pudding for the taxpayers, in the attempt convince them that the commissioners are carefully looking after their interests. An investigation will show up all of these things.

Subscribe for The Democrat. Notice. I have an ad elsewhere in this Japer offering some bargains in ennings county land. Do not be deceived and misled by statements that the soil around North Vernon is the best in the county. Butlerville is in the center of some of the best agricultural lands in southern Indiana, and is the very best soil in Jennings county, if you want fair treatment come to Butlerville. E. C. Davis, Real Estate Broker, Butlerville, Ind.

IMPERIALISM.

Editor. Those republicans who stand by Hanna ana are controlled by this boss are making every effort to suppress the publication of the fact in the press that almost every German in this broad land wifi vote against the republican ticket on account of the miserable imperialistic policy of the' present Administration. Lying subterfuges are being promulgated in the hope that before the election the Germans can be brought back into line. Bat this hope is based on a foundation of sand, and will collapse in a wreck. The German in this country does not want imperialism. Imperialism and militarism are

synonymous. The majority of Germans fled to this country to avoid militarism in the fatherland. The greatest enrse of Europe to-day is militarism, and that whole continent is but a vast military camp, in which the youth, strength, energy and cream of the nation lies buried pntal after many years, freedom from the military yoke follows. The first thing by which the hopeful youth in that country is confronted is a one to three year military service, to which he is forced. Just at the time when he ought to lay the foundation of his future career he is torn from his parents and teachers and forced into this military service, and that, too, in those years of his when his intelligence is at its period of development, The result of this is that men who would be best able to attend to the business affairs of their country must wait until their military service is completed, and are meanwhile threatened with the danger that their chances in life will be spoiled. Imperialism and militarism have impoverished European countries. Their armies must be sustained by the sweat and toil of the elders, even of the mothers, and already in this country the people begin to groan under the unnecessary burden of the present standing army. According to the estimate of conservative men the imperial policy of the present administration is now costing $750,000 per day, or annually $270,000,000, already, and for every man, woman or child in this great republic $4 per year. While European nations are making efforts to shake of this burden of imperialism and militarism, an attempt is being made in this land of the free to saddle us with it, and in this McKinley and Hanna are the prime movers. Imperialism means war, conquest, spoil, suppression of other nations snd peoples. It is the teaching that might is right. For these reasons the Germans of this country are against imperialism, and in this matter they will not be hoodwinked. The Germans cannot conceive why this country should attempt to acquire by force islands that are distant from its coast by 8,000 to 10,000 miles, when thousands of acres within our own country are lying barren and only need cultivation. The country can raise upon its own soil enough produce to sustain a nation of 300,000,000 with ease. Why, then, should we want the Philippines, peopled with a race that could never assimilate with our own under our constitution?

Our war with Spain was just and on behalf of humanity, -right* eous, but when it became a war of conquest and oppression instituted by the administration without warrant, it became unjust, and diametrically opposed to the Monroe doctrine, and against the wise direction of such men as Washington, Jefferson, Adams and other patriots who loved their country above all.

. Our country has no citizens more loyal or better than the Germans, who, by their oath of allegiance, swore loyalty to the flag. Gladly they sacrificed their lives for the preservation of the Union, and they are always ready to turn their guns against any country that would seek to attack the land of their adoption. But as resolutely will they oppose any policy whose aim it is to circumnavigate the globe to seek war in order that foreign islands and foreign nations may be suppressed and subjugated, as is now being done in the Philippines. At the bailot box they will file their protest and declare that this condition of affairs must cease at once.—Greenville (Ohio) Deutsche Umscbau,

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Non*Resident Notice. The State of Indiana, ) In the Jasper Circuit Jasper County. ) Court, September Term. 1899. Lucius Strong, Admr. I vs > Complaint No. 5834. Sarah Comiskey, et al.) By order of Court, in said cause, the following defeudents were found to be non-residents of the State of Indiana, towit: Sarah Comiskey. Mike Comiskey. Matthew Ragan, Mary F.Mc’Nally, Nellie Mc’Nally, SarahJJc ? Nally and James Mc’Nally. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendents, that unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the second Monday of November, A. D., 1899, at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, in said County and State, ana answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be beard and determined In their absence. ( , In Witness Whereof, I hereunto set ( seal I- my band and affix seal of said Court. ' - ’at Rensselaer. Indiana, this 14th day of September, A. D.. 1899. Wm. H. Cooveh, Cterk. Chilcote & Parkison, Attya. for pill.

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Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk ,Wm. H. Coover Sheriff Nate J. Heed Auditor Henry B. Murray Treasurer Jesse C. Gwin Surveyor. Myrt B. Price Coroner ~ Truitt P. Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor..., Johnß. Phillips COMMISSION KBS. Ist District. Abraham Halleck Snd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District Frederick Way mire Commissioner’s court—First Monday of each month. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor.... . Thomas J.McCoy Marshal.... Thomas McGowan Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C. C. Starr Attorney .Harry B. Kurrie Civil Engineer H. L. Gramble Fire Chief Edgar M. Parcels COUHCILMXJL Ist ward .G. E. Murray, Chas. Dean, Snd ward. .John Eger, C.G.Spitler 3rd ward...... .. J. C. McColly, J. C. Gwin JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge ....Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney. Charles B. Mills Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TBUBTXXB. TOWNSHIPS. RobertS.Drake ...Hanging Grove A. W. Prevo _. GiUam John F. Pettit Walker Samuel R. Nichols Barkley James D. Babcock rr... Marion Marcus W. Reed .Jordan Jackson Freeland Newton C. C. Bierma Keener J. C. Kaupke Kankakee Albert S. Keene Wheatfleld John A. Lamborn Carpenter George W. Caster Milroy B. D. Comer Union TOWN OB CITY J. D. Allman Remington J. F. Warren .Rensselaer Edward T. Biggs Wheatfleld Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Rensselaer

First Baptist—Preaching even' two weeks at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p, m: Sunday school at 9:30: B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Sunday: prayer meeting 7 p.m. Rev. V. Fritts, pastor. Free Baptist—One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. F. meets Sunday, 6:30 P. M. Rev. F. M. Watkins pastor. . Christian—Corner Van Rensselaer and \ Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday j school 9:30; J. Y. P. S. C. E., 2:30; S. Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30: Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. A. L, Ward, pastor. Ladies’ Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon 4P by appointment. Presbterian—Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Y-P. S. O. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:30; Ladies’ Industrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Pastor. Methodist—Preaching at 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League Sun- >Aday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2:30 ai- “ ternate Sunday; Prayer meeting, Thursday at 7. Rev. H. M. Middleton. Pastor. Ladies 7 Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Church of God—Comer Harrison and Elia. Preaching 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer iweting, Thursday, 7:80; Ladles' Society nfcets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Catholic Church—St. Augustine’s. Corner Division and Susan. Services 7:3oand 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 11:30 p. m. Rev. Father i homas Meyer pastor. >

LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic—Prairie Lodge. No. 136, A. F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month. J. M. Wasson, W. M.; W. J. I rues, Sec’v. Evening Star Chapter—No. 141, O. E.S., meets first and third Wednesdays of each month. Maude Spider, W. M.; Hattie Dowler, Sec’y. Catholic Order Forresters—Willard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 3 jd. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y: Peter Htrdeman, Chief Ranger. Magdalene Court-No. 886. meets the 2nd and 4t.i Sundays of each- mouth, Miss Mary Meyer, C. K.; Mrs. Mary Drake. R. S.; : Miss CinclaMacklenberg. F. S. Odd Fellows—lroquois Lodge, No. 144, I. O. O. F., meets every Thursday. C. E. Tyner, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec'y. Rensselaer Encampment—No. 201, I. O. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. John Sayler, C P., John Vannatta. scribe. Rensselaer Rebekah Degree LodgeNo. 340. m-eta-first and thirdFrldays of each month. Mrs.-Harry Wade, N, G.; Miss Belle Adams, Sec’y. I. O. of FORESTERS-Court Jasper, No. 1708, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. J. N. Leatherman, C. D. H. C. K; c. L. Thornton, R. S. Maccabees—Rensselcer l’ent. No. 184. Kr O. T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. F. W. Cissei, Commander; Isaac Porier, Record Keeper. I’ythian—Rensselaer Lodge No. 82, Knights of Pythias, meets every Tuesday, T. J. Joiner, C. C.: N. VV. Reeve, K. of ft. Sc S. Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sisters,— vi No. 47. meets 2d and 4th Thursday, every month, Mrs. Lulu Huff, M. E. C. Mrs. Josie Woodworth, M. of R. C.Grand Army.—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. r* , A. R. meets every Friday night. J. A. Pum- ' u han. Post Commander, J. M. Wasson, Adjutant. v Rensselaer Women’s Relief Corps—meets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. C. Thornton, President; Mrs. Ella Hopkins. Sec’y. Robert H. Milroy Circle—Meets every . Thursdav in 1.0. O. F. block, Mrs. Benf. i Sayler,JPres.; Carrie I. Porter. Sec’y. •! Holly Council.- No. 7, Daughters of Liberty meets 2d and 4th Mondays. Gertrude Hopkins. Counsellor; Nellie Moss, Recording Secretary. • * % ■ Rensselaer Camp.—No. 4413. Modern Wood- L, man of America, meets First and Third Wednesday evenings of each month in Odd cEUToX* a ” Brow ”T-| Morris' EngHsli Stable Liniment \ Sold'by