Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A CALL. The Democratic County Central Committee are requested to meet at E P. Honan’s office, Rensselaer, Thursday, March 22, 1900. Business of importance to attend to. N. S. Bates, Chm. C. D. Nowels, Sec.

The Nicaraguan canal is to be held up until the commission sent south to examine the Panama route can report, until the HayPauncefote treaty is out of the way, and until the Treasury has has recovered from the drain of the ship subsidy bill —a drain which wonld build the canal and maintain it for twenty years. The cjuntry will hold to a heavy reckoning those who thus deride its will.

A new and interesting bit of political gossip is that Mr. McKinley is seriously thinking of making a Bcapegoat of Secretary Hny, with the nope of squaring himself with the numerous and influential republicans who have* been making vigorous protests against tho too-English Foreign policy of the administration. It would be nothing new for Mr. McKinley to sacrifice a friend to serve his own political interests, but in this particular case it is doubtful whether the sacrifice would do more than add to the country’s belief in the adroitness of Mr. McKinley in looking out for No* 1. Mr. Hey is inviting the sacrifice by his talk against the amendment of the Nicaragua Canal treaty.

The opponents of the county nitd township reform laws are said to be working quietly to secure the nomination of candidates for the legislature in many counties who are opposed to those laws and who would vote for their appeal or for nvodifying them in such a way ns to make them valueless. It, therefore, behooves the friend of those important measures to be vigilant, in order to prevent the politicians from accomplishing this end. If anything is to be done with tho reform laws, it should be simply to remedy their imperfections and increase their efficiency, instead of their diminishing it, or repealing them altogether. It may be taken for granted that the spoilsmen who would expecl to be profited by their repeal will leave no stone unturned which would help them to bring about what they are working for.—Ex.

Says the editor of the Delphi Herald: A defeated candidate is of few days and full of prunes In infancy he is full of colic and catnip tea and in old age he is full of cuss words and bad whiskey. In his youth his mother taketh him across her knees and sweeteneth his life with her slipper, and when he is a man grown the sheriff pureneth him through the alleys and all the days of his life. He spreadeth like a bay tree. He getteth into office and his friends g etr around him like to a sugar barrel. He swelleth with vanity. He cuttethmuch ice for a time, but he is hewn at the next convention and cast into the salt- box; and his name is bloomers. Out of office and out of friends, he soon goeth busteth. He lieth down beside the still waters of the cow pasture; he goeth to sleep and a neighbor’s goat eateth his last shirt from his back. He dieth out of the world and goeth where it is warm enough without clothes, and the last end of that man was worse that the first.

Are the majority of the Senate afraid of England? Their action, when Senator Mason compelled the Senate to take up his resolution, expressirg sympathy for the Boers, certainly looked that way. The majority refused to allow the resolution to be discussed in open session, because things would be said that might offend England. Ye Gods! this sort of talk in the American Senate, where men who cringed to no foreign friend or foe, once upon a time fearlessly expressed their opinion and time after time have spoken in favor of down-trodden peoples, without stopping to think whether their oppressors would like it or not. Now, as soon as anything affecting England is even mentioned, the majority orders all the doors closed. What a picture for the American people to contemplate! Even in secret session, the administration Senators are afraid to allow Senator Mason’s resolution to .be squarely voted upon. Their programme is to throttle it by hav- » ing a majority vote to lay it on the table. If the so-callea era of friendship with England is to rei suit in squelching our Americanism and our love for liberty, the sooner it comes to an end, the better for us as a people.