Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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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