Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

After ten year’s service in the House, Representative Cox, of Tenn., has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-election. When asked why, he answered in three words—“ Tired of it.” He will be missed by the democrats of the next House, as he has won a place as an able champion of democratic principles.

. Mr. Foss, of Illinois, acting chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, has prepared a naval appropriation bill which is 118,000,000 in excess of any ever prepared before. Mr. Boutelle of Maine had better come back and take charge of his committee once more. He may have been delirious, but he was never so delirious as that The House Naval Affairs Committee has reported in favor of paying 1545 a ton for armor plate, end the big firms are willing to furnish it at that rate. Last year, when prices generally were much lower, the firms asked exactly the same rate. The question is now up to them. Did they ask too much last year or too little this year? One or the other must be the case. Bishop Potter has returned from the Philippines and states that a study of conditions there has convinced him that expansion is all right. But it turns out that the Bishop was in the Philippsnes for only a week. He reminds one of a newspaper man who ’went to Honolulu some years ago to study the new Dole government there, and wrote ana mailed a three column letter to his paper before he landed from the steamer, declaring that the United States was totally ignorant of the true situation in the islands.

How do our prosperity shouters reconcile the following Associated Press dispatch with their continual cry that there are no idle men in the country to-day and that many business enterprises are suffering because employers can secure no laborers? NEW YORK, March 26.—Thousands of unemployed men have flocked to New York in anticipation of securing work on the underground rapid transit tunnel, and the result is that the city is more crowded than ever with laboring men looking for work. Hundreds of men seeking employment gathered in the City Hall Park as early as 6 o’clock this morning, and had increased to such an extent at 9 o’clock that at that hour pedestrians could not pass through the park. It will be months before many men will be at work on the tunnel, and as there are more men out of employment at the present time in New York than the tunnel contractors can employ, the constantly increasing number of newcomers will have little chance of success in securing steady employment.

Senator Tillman utilized his pitchfork, to toss a few aggravating questions to the almost distracted republican Senators, which furnished considerable amusement to the occupants of the galleries and to the democratic Senators. Among the questions, which no republican seriously attempted to answer, were the following: “Has the President changed his mind or not? Is the President for free trade with Porto Rico today, or is he not? Is he leading his party or has he surrendered to the dictates of special interest, following the triumphal car like a prisoner of war? Will some gentleman please tell me whether the President is for free trade with Porto Rico, or is he not?” After waiting in vain for a reply to his questions, Mr. Tillman said with a sardonic laugh: “A dumbness falls upon us all.” He then vividly sketched the present troubles of the republican party, and predicted that the people would sweep it from power, for not recognizing that the flag, the Constitution and liberty must travel together, and charged the republican party with indirection, hypocrisy, and dirty work. Senator Spooner sought to detract attention from Senator Tillman’s plain talk about Porto Rico by shifting the debate to the suppression of the negro vote in South Carolina, but Mr. Tillman met him at once by declaring that he had no apologies to make for the action of the white people of South Carolina, adding: “When you could get nothing more from us by law, you turned a horde of negroes and carpet baggers loose upon upon us to steal everything we had left. We are here to stay, and we demand our rights. We are not to be trampled on and hammered and patronized ' any longer. I say that as a South Carolinian, I am the equal of any Senator on this floor/ I propose to have my say here no matter whose feelings are hurt?’

NOTICE. Having sold my lumber yard I desire to close all my business by March 20. All accounts not settled by cash or note will be left with a collector and costs added. I will be at my office until March 20. J. W. Paxton & Co.