Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Boont> county commissioners have contracted for voting machines for the next election, and is the first county in the state to take such action. President McKinley is now engaged in preparing his annual platitutes for the delectation of his imperialistic admirers. No doubt the message will explain why the United States has adopted as a perpetual pensioner the Sultan of Sulu with his plurality of wives and slaves. A township assessor in Grant county has been indicted for extortion. He had required his deputies to contribute a part of their salaries to him in consideration of an appointment. This had been practiced by his predecessors, said he, for years, and he only “did what was the custom.” The entire country would be given some decidedly interesting information, if Secretary Gage should frankly open his mouth, and let the people know what form of reasoning he changed his mind and became subservient to the financial sharks of Wall Street by issuing a call for §25,000,000 in bonds.

The official vote of • Ohio gives Nash, 417,199, 368,176, •Jones, 106,721.* Nash’s plurality | over McLean, 49,023. The McLean and Jones vote combined was 57,698 more than the Nash vote. As : both the McLean and Jones supjiorters were opposed to President McKinley and his war policy, it is difficult to see how the latter’s supporters can gather very much j consolation from “administration enddtsement” in Ohio.

There is a popular demand for an investigation of the records of the various county officers of Jasper county, and a petition signed by as many prominenttaxpayers—regardless of politics—as that recently presented to the board of commissioners ought not to be ignored. Even Benton county, with a tax rate less than one-lmlf that of Jasper, ordered an investigation of some of its offices, among which was that of the auditor, but no report, was made public, from the fact that the party conducting the investigation deposited his report wit?i the auditor and the auditor. strange to. say, “mislaid” the same and it has never been found. Pulaski, Tippecanoe and many other Indiana counties have been doing a little investigating, and as a result the county treasuries of those counties will be swelled thousands of dollars. In fact, in every county where investigations have been made —all high taxed counties—lots of rottenness has been unearthed, Will the county commissioners in our own county ignore the prayer of their constituents at their meeting next month.?

The action of a number of the American people in their treatment iof Admiral Dewey because he saw fit to transfer the property lately i given him by his admirers, to his wife, is the basest, blackest blot, ion American citizenship wo have lever seen. While we think it was bad taste to go wild over Dewey j and present him with something which he was amply able to purj chase for himself, there were no ! strings tied to the.gift, and he had J a perfect right to do as he pleased | with it. Admiral Dewey lowered j himself in the estimation of many | sensible people when he accepted [ this gift, and now that such a disgraceful howl has been raised over his transfer of the same to his wife, | he would do well to have it again ; to himself and then tell | the fawning hero-worshippers who 1 presented it to him and who later made such great asses of thomi selveft, to take it and go to shoel with it; that he did not want their gifts and would have nothing more to do with it. The hissing of Adimiral Dewey's picture by a Washington audience the other evening because of this transfer was the most damnable act an American audience was ever guilty of. 1, ■ - | See those handsome high grade patterns of. Madg-to-order suits that C. W. Harner will sell you for less money than you, will pay for a ready-made Hand-me-down. Fit and workmanship guaranteed. Chicago Racket SYore. j Remington, Irid.