Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Hanna says to Indiana republicans: “Stop your kicking and take your medicine.** The Boer war is a little behind the Philippine one in the matter of times that it has been crashed, but it will catch up before long.

Messrs. Carnegie and Frick have been made up, in a business way, but their differences were of long enough duration to startle the people with inside information. The Loud bill has been defeated. Now let Mr. Loud devise some plan to reform railway rates for carrying the mails and he will be surprised to find how enthusiastically it is received. Poor Beveridge. He has experienced the “Mailed Fist” of Mr. Hanna and the other leaders. It was only what might have been expected. He is a bright boy, but he is too young to monkey with the old fellows as he has been doing.

There are republican editors not a thousand miles from this ground who are taking turnips and sowbelly on subscription and yelling frantically in their editorial columns that President McKinley has brought the country to a state of unexampled prosperity. —Ex. All the district offices have gone glimmering, and Rensselaer got only four of the eight county offices!' But the state nominations have not yet been made and $ Hanna is still looking about for a running mate for Willidm I. Perhaps there is yet a chance for some Rensselaer patriot.

Representative Caldwell, of 111., believes that Senator Cullom will be succeeded by a democrat. He said: “I think I have a right to be sanguine in my hopes that we shall elect a democrat to the U. S. Senate. The present law districting the state makes it possible for us to carry the legislature, although the republicans have a majority in the state somewhere between 25,000 and 45,000.” p The name of Judge Timothy E. Howard is being mentioned in connection with that of B. F. Shively for the democratic gubernatorial nomination. Many are of the opinion that Mr. Shively should have a clear track, inasmuch as he was the “sacrifice” last campaign. Judge Howard is one of the most able jurists in the state and stands very high in hb party- He has served on the supreme bench and is a most estimiable gentleman.

One result of the investigation, now being made by the House Military Committee of the use of Federal troops in Idaho, is the resolution offered in the House by Representative Lentz, of Ohio, and in the Senate by Senator Allen, of Nebr., calling for the withdrawal of Federal troops from the Coeur d’Alene district in Idaho; the revocation of the labor permit system, and restoration of the right of habeas corpus. The resolution declares that the further use of U. S. troops in aiding and assisting the maintenance of martial law is improper, unnecessary and unlawful.

The Rensselaer republican highbinderrs claim that they were robbed, spat upon, trampled in the dust and cruelly humbled at the senatorial convention; that while the Jasper candidate had a majority of the delegates, the “other fellow” was dishonestly counted in. What is the matter with our ringsters, anyway ? Beaten out of the prosecuting attorney, robbed by the Lake county ring of the representative, and now allow the White and Newton county republicans to steal the senator! Can it be that the Board of Strategy has been so busily engaged in instituting libel and tax sui(s against the editor of The Democrat that it has neglected to put itself in proper training for the regular larceny act?

Senator Cockrell, speaking for the democratic Senators, just before the Senate passed the bill authorizing the appointment of a a Commission to go to China and Japan and make a report on Commercial conditions in those countries, said: “The republican party is in absolute control, and We on this side of the Chamber are powerless to prevent the enactment of any legislation coming from the republican party and deemed necessary by it. I will not antagonize this bill, although I do not agree with it in principal. I want it understood now and un-derstood-distinctly, that hereafter, absolute responsibility must rest upon the republican party for the passage of all resolutions and