Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — The Itch For Office. [ARTICLE]

The Itch For Office.

While there is no disputing the fact that the Jasper county republican ring is “patriotic” and' ever ready to saermee the whole membership if possible to filling the fat offices of this section of the state, it should not be forgotten that there are other republican “patriots” in the neighboring counties who are also badly affected w i ith the itch for office and the drawing a good salary and the “perquisites” that sometimes go with it if the officer is “thrifty”. Of course, our republican friends in Jasper, who make politics a business and preying upon the taxpayers a principle, would not object to filling all the offices in Indiana, and many of themjnre so puffed up with their own importance that they have grown callous from self-ad miration and are loth to make a fair division of the loaves and fishes with their compatriots in surrounding counties. Herein lies troubles which may retire some of these political workers to the rear ranks of their party. There is an adage that “the pitcher that goes oft to the well is broken at last,” and it is hardly likely that the patriotic ward-heelers of Lake, Newton and White counties will submit to Jasper county republicans hogging all the district offices. This judicial circuit is at present composed of Jasper and Newton, and Jasper has both the judge and prosecuting attorney. The former’s term does not expire until 1902, but a prosecutor is to be elected again this fall and the present incumbent, of course, is working tooth and nail to secure the nomination. The senatorial district is composed of Jasper, Newton and White, and here again Jasper comes to the front with a candidate —a good man against whom we have riot one word to say. The representative district is composed of Jasper and Lake, and here again the ringsters show their swinish propensities by bringing out a candidate for this office. Do they think for a moment that republicans of the other counties will allow Jasper to carry off all this pap? Rather will they be inclined to turn them down good and hard and not give them a solitary office. The districts are so overwhelmingly republican that they could do this even though they lost several hundred republican votes in Jasper county. The Democrat merely calls at, tention to these matters to show the inordinate desire of the Jasper county republican ring for occupying all the offices. A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.