Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dividend declaring in London to be curtailed for some time.

The English appear to have stirred up a regular boer’s nest in South Africa.

Those Republican members of bimetalism concluded to shut their eyes and vote for the gold standard bill.

The English .officers in the Transvaal labor under the disadvantage of not having a Kansas press agent.

We fancy from the remarks of railway king Yerkes, that the only safe things to speculate in are Chicago aldermen.

It is a pretty safe guess that when England goes to war again she will place someone besides Joe Chamberlain at the starting gate. >

A newspaper that is honest to its readers does not protect incompetent or unworthy offici ils under the cowardly whine of harmony. —Oxford Tribune (rep.)

The only way that Governor Roosevelt will be able to intimidate Lou Payn will be by sending him a copy of his book, entitled “How I Chastised Spain.”

We predict for the financial bill an unpleasant surprise when it reaches the Senate and the Hon. William V. Allen of Nebraska discovers its presence there. .

It strikes us that the selection of Philadelphia as the place for holding the next Republican National Convention, is another straw going to show that the convention is expected to be a “tame old affair.”

We have heard that pretty little story that General Buller expected to take his Christmas dinner in Praetoria, but it strikes us the General will be doing well if he gets one of those 10,000 plum puddings served cold.

Some of that gas that the Hon. Billy Mason is letting loose in Congress might be exceeding useful to the Hon. Cecil Rhodes, pent up as he is in Kimberley, with teose dreadful Boers offering a price on his head and his balloon still uninfiated.

Those Washington correspondents, who have been writing to their papers that Billy Mason’s speech on the subject of the Boers did not create any excitement, evidently were not present to witness that gentleman when he was in the act of delivering it. By the way, did any one even see anything in the Remington Press under its present management favorable to an investigation of county affairs? No, certainly not. Like all the other republican papers of the county, its “policy” is dictated by the ring, and nothing that would tend to raise the fur on the leaden’ backs is allowed to pass theeagle eye of the “hoes editor” proof reader.