Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Republican orators in Ohio this fall are paying beautiful tributes to the flag in order to avoid the real issues of the campaign. Another Indianapolis building and loan association has gone to the wall —the Reserve FuiuJi Savings and Loan—and hundreds of stockholders are caught. The Civil Service Commissions have recovered their courage sufficiently to express the hope that nobody will go so far as to do anything real naughty out in Ohio. William S. Peckham, a republican trustee of the Lafayette city schools, was, by a unamimous vote of the republican council of that city, asked to resign his office. He is accused of appropriating to his own use interest received from school funds loaned by him as treasurer of the school board. Thoughtful Americans will not overlook the dangerous possibilities in colonial administrations. Colonies may do for monarchies, where the executive office is inherited, but they are not for governments where the chief magistrate is elected, and through whom colonial officers secure place.

Shippers tell us that another advance of two cents per hundred in eastern freight shipments will go into efFect Nov. 1. This means a little more than one cent less per bushel to the farmer for his corn. The advance in rates since August 1, have been about five to seven cents per hundred pounds, and as usual it is the farmer who “pays the freight.” Senator Hanna seems unable to open his mouth these days without putting his foot into it. At Cleveland he spoke after President McKinley, and said: “In public affairs we are all striving for the same object—the advancement of our own interests.” It was tough on the President that his friend Hanna should thus give him away as a mere self-seeker.

The Tippecanoe county commissioners, in addition to the suit about to be brought against exClerk Flynn for witholding fees belonging to the cpunty, will, it is said, bring suit against ex-Sheriff Gaddis and bondsmen for *3,150 which it is alleged he has illegally retained, as shown by the report of the experts appointed to make an investigation of the county records. A Lafayette dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer of last Saturday says: The County Commissioners will bring suit against ex-County Clerk, David Flynn to compel the payment of nearly $5,000 due on a shortgage in accounts. Flvnn left the office owing $14,000. He is a prominent politician, and was a candidate before the last Republican State Convention for nomination as State Treasurer.

The most notable feature of the coming Congress will be the absence of the biggest Republican, Reed. The House without him will seem like Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark omitted. While McKinley’s friends express satisfaction that Reed will be out of the way, no Republican concern- ' edinthe welfare and success of the Republican party will deny that Reed’s retirement is a party loss. It is an important advantage to the Democrats. * The offer of the treasury to pay in advance interest due on government bonds has met with generally cool response. As the interest is rebated somewhat when paid in advance, there is little advantage to large holders to get their money before due. The result is, the money market still continues restricted, and there remains the scarcity of small money which has hampered the fall trade greatly in some localities. In portions of the west there is a strong outcry against; tne snortage of silver,