Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — Page 4

m cow denom. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. | f. {. BIBCOCK. EDITOR MB PUBIIW. _ *- ■ntered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE YEAR slo° SIX MONTHS .-50 c THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray's Store. For President in 1900, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

GALL FOR DISTRICT MEETING.

The Deinocrats of the 10th Congressional District will meet in delegate convention in Monon, in said district, on Tuesday, January 9th, 1900, at one o’clock p. m. of said day, for the purpose of selecting a member of the State Central Committee for the ensuing two years. The basis of representation fixed by the State Central Committee will be one delegate for each 200, or fraction over 100 of the vote cast for Hon. Samuel M. Ralston for Secretary of State in 1898. Democratic papers, please copy.

EDWIN J. FORREST,

Dietiict Chairman.

There is one place where England doesn’t want any “open door” and that is at Delagoa Bay.

In order to kill the trusts, it is necessary to smash the tariff that protects them and makes them possible.

If the war tariff were repealed, there wouldn’t be any surplus to deposit with the City National Bank of New York.

The American mule seems to be about tip* only “critter” that can do eighteen hours work a day and flourish in South Africa.

It would be curious if the long expected European war should be precipitated by events at an obscure place like Delagoa Bay.

Two more army transports have arrived at San Francisco, In a few days we shall have the usual reports of mismanagement on board of them.

There will be a river and harbor bill at this session all right. A Presidential year without one would be an anomaly not to be tolerated by the faithful.

It is the duty of the Administration to declare its policy toward the people of the islands which we have acquired. An air of gloomy mystery palls after a while.

The American Wire and Steel Trust gave the people a New Year’s present in the shape of another advance of 25 cents per 100 pounds in the price of nails.

An investigation of the public affaire of Washington county is in progress. The county treasurer is short in his accounts and has been unable to settle with his successor.

If President McKinley wishes the American people to believe that he is hostile to trusts, it would he well for him to choose another campaign manager than Mark Hanna.

Of course it was inevitable that Secretary Gage should use the only bank possessed of the necessary bonds. But who warned the “Rockefeller” National to bp ready with such a huge stock of bonds? If Governor Tanner of Illinois really intends to withdraw from politics, his action will be most , enthusiastically received. But the chances are that he will give the country a few more farewell tours first.

A Good Citizens’ League has been organized in Shelbyville to look after the.conduct of all public officers. Among the abuses complained of is that it has been the custom for years to sell teachers’ places for from $25 to SSO each. Unless the British win some victories before Parliament meets, it is conceded that the ministry will fall. If such a thing were done in this country, it would be denounced as rank treason and the doers would be consigned to the **

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Senator Cockrell says that a bill for a permanent army of 100,000 shall never pass the Senate while he is in it.

How many Ohio commissioners who are now out of a job will the President appoint on the new “Cuban Claims Commission?”

Chairman Sulloway of the House Pension Committee, thinks that the government should spend annually double its present appropriation for pensions.

And now the Niagara Electric Company wants a duty of twenty per cent imposed on electricity manufactured in Canada and sent pcross the border by wire.

The French in Canada are almost in open revolt against the British ,war in South Africa. Another call for troops will strain their loyalty to the breaking point.

Now that we are discussing hemp, it might be well to ask after those fortunes that certain officials are said to have made by smuggling arms to the rebels in exchange for hemp and tobacco.

No opposition has developed to the re-election of district chairman Edwin J. Forest. Mr. Forest has made a good chairman and it seems to be generally understood that he is.to be the first choice for the place.

An Austrian Admiral has been toasting the “British victories in South Africa” amid great applause from the British naval officers. He didn’t specify whether it was Methuen, Gatacre or -Buller that he wished to honor.

It would be hard lines if President McKinley should retire First Assistant Postmaster General Heath as an offensive partisan, for accepting a berth on the Republican National Committee, during the next campaign.

Senator Hanna exclaimed ‘ ‘Pish” when it was suggested to him that Mr. Kohlsaat of the Chicago Times-Herald might take Mr. Gage’s place in the Cabinet. Hanna and Kohlsaat are rival White House nurses.

The whole transaction of letting contracts for county supplies in Jasper county under the new reform law has been illegal from beginning to end, and it is likely that suits will be instituted to recover any monies paid out on these

One of thh Montana legislators, who confessed under oath that he was bribed to vote for Clark for the Senate, has now confessed that he was bribed to vote for Clark for the Senate, has now confessed that he was really bribed by the other side to confess Confessions come cheap in Montana.

Since May 31, 1899, Jasper county has allow:ed to outside firms for books arid stationery, bills to the amount of $1,981 20, and a suit is now pending for $714.52 more! This does not include a large amount also paid to local republican papers for blanks, etc., alleged to have been furnished. How is this for seven months, taxpayers? Oh, what a rotten county Shelby is!

There was probably never a time in the history of the country, when the people were taking so much interest in finding out what is being done with the money paid into the various county treasuries as the present. Not only is this investigating being done in dozens of Indiana counties, but taxpayers of other states are looking iijto the financial matters of their county management to more or less extent. In Highland Co., 0., as an example, the prosecuting attorney has begun suits against derelict officials to recover over $35,000 which hafe been illegally retained by them.

The editor of the Remington Press—the “honest man,” a relative by marriage to the editor of the official Apologist, the man who so loved to bear his just burdens of government that he gave in a $2,000 newspaper plant for taxation at the munificent sum of $250 and then swore he had listed it at its true cash value to the best of his knowledge—says that he has an “abiding faith” in the wisdom and official integrity of Jasper county’s public servants. Of course, such an absorbing faith as that of our genial little friend of the Press could not be shaken by any exposures, however rotten, that might be made by anyone, or on any authority. J

Shelby County's Lessor.

The exposure of th’e rotten condition of Shelby county affairs serves to emphasize the necessity for reform in the conduct of county business. The extravagance practiced there in the matterof furnishing the county with printing and stationery has been almost beyond description. The present county auditor—who is sought to be mandated by the local Democratic paper for refusing to pay a printing bill of sl,loo— the county has had supplies enough furnished to last a century at ten times their actual value, and that the present bills are fraudulent and illegal. It is just such exposures as this, that serve to show the great need of some check upon the management of county affairs. They also offer a clew to the reason why so many of the township trustees are so bitterly opposed to the supervision of the township councils. They cannot conspire with the sellers of school and township supplies to plunder the tax payers, as they formerly could, thus limiting their incomes to their per diem.—lndianapolis Press (ind.)

Yes. we expect things are pretty rotten down in Shelby county—in fact this is generally admitted by both democratic and republican papers. So rotten, in fact, have they become that the democrats are now engaged in unearthing tfie rottenness. Shelby county has been “reliably democratic” for 10, these many years, and a sleek, well fed, unprincipled democratic court house ring has grown up there, such as the Press remarks, “has been almost beyond description.” It is to the credit of the democrats of Shelby county that they are earnestly endeavoring to break up this ring and bring about an honest county government. But, speaking about rottenness in county government, The Democrat can point to a county which has been “reliably republican” for many years that can give Shelby cards and spades on rottenness, and the figures we here present in proof of this statement are taken from the official reports issued by the republican state officials at Indianapolis, These reports are before us as we pen this article, and we will add that any taxpayer who doubts the statements made can call at The Democrat office and satisfy himself as to their reliability, in fact we would be pleased to show him the reports and let him make other comparisons in the official management of the two counties. So reliable are these figures that even the official Apologist or its editor’s relative by marriage, he of the “abiding faith” in the integrity of our past, present and future official management the Remington Press “editor”—dare not dispute them.

The county we refer to is our own “reliably republican” county of Jasper, where the five newspapers —owned body and soul by the court house ring—tell you everything is lovely and the goose hangeth high. The Press refers to stationery, so we will herein make comparison only in this one item, but nearly the same showing is made in all departments: The reports from which we take these figures gives the population of Jasper county at 16,609, and Shelby county at 32,463. or nearly twice as large as Jasper. This estimate is based on the vote of 1898. As every intelligent man knows, the needs of a county for books and stationery are in porportion to her population, thus Shelby should require about twice the amount of Jasper. Let us see how the expenditures for this purpose compare in the two counties: For the fiscal year ending May 31. 1896, Jasper county expended for books and stationery the sum of $2,099.00 Shelby county only 1,965.00

Excess exp’ts? .in Jasper 134.00 For the fiscal year ending May 31,1807, Jasper county expended for books and stationery the sum 0f...., $2,520.01 Shelby county only 2,381.03

Excess exp’ts in Jasper 138.98 For the fiscal year ending May 31, 1898, Jasper county expended for books and stationery the sum 0f.... $2,882.08 Shelby county only 2,265.22

Excess exp’ts in Jasper 616.86 The total excess of expenditures for this one item in Jasper county for the above three years is $889.84. “The present auditor of Shelby county says the .county has had supplies enough furnished to last a century at ten times their actual value.” If so, Shelby county requiring twice the amount of supplies of this nature as Jasper, we should have supplies enough to lasts little more than two centuries! There seem*, hdwevei, to be, this difference e&tfonery

Veteran L. IMOWewfr Ww Anita, lows, MHed his COfefitry during the late war at the 6*pen»e 6f his health. The story copcel-tiirttf fits restoration to health is given below in his own words: “When I returned from the army my constitution was broken down. I suffered extreme nervousness, and indigestion. Physicians did not hdp me until one prescribed Dr. Miles’ Nervine, and today I am in better health than I have been for thirty years." DR. RULES’ Restorative Nervine is sold by all druggists on guarantee, first bottle benefits or money back. Book on heart and nerves sent free. Or. Mlles Medical Company, Elkhart, Ind.

affairs of the two counties —Shelby county actually got her supplies, even though she did pay ten times their value, while with Jasper county if the supplies were furnished, they are not in evidence. Yes, Shelby county is undoubtedly very rotten officially, but—*

THE COMMON COUNCIL.

The common council met Friday evening and the following is the record of the business transacted. Final estim ite Plum street sewer was presented for objections. Obj.—D. Hilton, C. Kellner, W. H. Eger, Nancy Towers, I. N. Hemphill, John Makeever, C. M. Williams, Hiram Jacks, A. J. Abbet. A compromise was made by shifting part of the assessment bn to the non-objectqrs. The following claims were allowed : ROAD FUND; Geo McCarthy, work on street $ 2 52 J A Grant, same 5 60 Jos. Rowen, same 5 68 Wm Huffman, same.... 2 80 Wilson Brinley, same 8 80 J ARamey, same ..... 80 J H Perkins, same 1 20 B H Dillion, same 3 45 J C Ennes, same 45 David M Worland, same 75 R P Benjamin, same 100 John S Ramey, same .... 60 Wm Zink, travel .. 6 20 John Daugherty, work on street.... 2 50 J H Hoover, same 1 42 Chas Platt, assessment Plum St sewer 90 75 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. B Forsythe, wire.. 5 62 A McCoy <£ Co., freight and express.. 10 66 E W Hartman, work on line 6 25 Louis Haag. (J F Antrim, as.) same 4 35 Landy McGee, (J F Irwin, as.) same 12 50 I N Hemphill, drayage...- 3 40 Varney & McOuat, electric supplies.. 23 24 Central Electric Co,, electric sup.... 233 17 General Electric Co., same..;. 22 50 Leslie Clark, printing ordinance 5 00 Cox & Barens, fuel 7 30 H L Gamble, serv. city engineer 4 50 C C Starr, Int on water works bonds 288 72 C C Starr, Int school bonds 3:10 83

Having a Great Run on Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.

Manager Martin, of the Pierson drug store, informs us that he is having a great run on Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. He sells five bottles of that medicine to one of any other kind, and it gives great satisfaction. In these days of la grippe there is nothing like Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to stop the cough, heal up the sore throat and lungs and give relief within a very short time. The sales are growing, and all who try it are pleased with its prompt action.—South Chicago Daily Calumet. For sale by Hunt Bros.

Five Per Cent Non Red Tape Real Estate Loans.

Wm. B. Austin continues to make as many farm loans as all the other agents in the county combined. In a recent given period of time Mr. Austin made 86 loans while all the other agents combined made 87 loans. It is not hard to understand this w’hen you know the facts: First, Mr. Austin makes the interest as low as the lowest. Second, He; closes up loans in from two hours to one week from the application. Third. There is absolutely no red tape in his loans. You don’t have to prove by affidavit that your great grandmother had red hair in order to make an acceptable title. Fourth. He loans home money and is prepared to be lenient with delinquent borrowers. So they may have ho attorney fees to pay* Don’t ? waar<out your livea waiting<Mrn»uraneß -oompaniese-' ■ -

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