Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — Page 4

M CODHTY BOM. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. f. f. BABCOCK, EDITOR HD PUBLISHER. Entered at the Poet-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS ONE YEAR SI.OO BIX MONTHS 50c THREE MONTHS. 25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellie & Murray's Store.

Noticb ToAdvertisers. All notices of a business character, Including wants, for sale, to rent. lost, etc., will be published in The Democrat at the rate of one cent perword for each insertion. No advertising will be accepted for less than 10 cents. Cards of thanks will be published for 3ftcents and resolutions of condolence for SI.OO. For President in 1900, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET.

. ' For City Mayor, JOHN EGER. For City Clerk, EARL MANN. For City Treasurer, JERRY HEALY. For City Marsha], ABRAHAM SIMPSON. For Councilmen, Ist Ward, MOSES TUTEUR, JOSEPH SHARP. For Councilman. 2d Ward, FRANK PARKER. For Councilmen, 3d Ward, JOHN C, CHILCOTE. CHARLES E. HERSHMAN.

Call for Democratic County Nominating Convention.

The delegates selected by the precinct meetings throughout the county, will meet in Rensselaer. Ind., on SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1900, 1:80 p. m., to select delegates and alternates to the State Convention, the Congressional Convention, the Senatorial and Judicial Conventions, and to the Representative Convention, and nominate candidates for the following offices to be voted for st the general election in November, 1900: 1 County Recorder, County Treasurer County Sheriff, County Coroner. County Surveyor. County Assessor, Ccunty Commissioner, Second District, County Commissioner, Third District, Three members of the County Council at large, also County Council men from the Ist, 2d, 8d and 4th Councilman)*: Districts. N. S. Rates,Chairman. C. D. Nowels, Sect'j^- 7

Township Conventions. MILROY TOWNSHIP. The DemociaMc voters of Milroy Township ■nd all other voters of said township who de•ire to affiliate with them in the coming campiign, will meet in mass convention at Center School House, on SATURDAY. APRIL 2S, I9CO. at 1:30 j>. m, to nominate a full township ticket—Tturtee, A«M*Mor, Advisory Board. Justices. Constables and Road Sui eivisors. John Soithard, Tp., Chm. BARKLEY TOWNSHIP. Notice is hereby given that the I’emnersU of Bark’ry *1 ownship will meet in Mass Convention at* osy Palace schooibouse, in said Township, on SATURDAY. MAY 6. 1900. att o'clock p. m.. sharp, for the purpose of nom natlrg tl e lolltmlng Township Ticket: < reTiUa’ee, on* Assessor, three members of t e Advhory Board, and three Road SuperJohn St HROER.Chalimaii. John Mari att. Secietary. Announcement of Candidates. ASSESSOR. BARFLTY TP. HORAITO KOPP is a candidate for the nomination for Asse mor for Barkley Townshir, subject to the decision of the democratic township convention.

The Kentucky gubernatorial contest case will be heard by the U. 8. supreme court April 30. In the list of valuable products grown in Porto Rico, no mention has so far been made of campaign funds. Which will reach Porto Rico first, the trade anti prosjierity which she needs and which was guaranteed to her by General Miles*, or a lot of carpet-baggers? The H ouse has passed a bill for a constitutional amendment for the direct election of Senators by a very large majority. Now it will be interesting to see what the Senate will do with it. The republicans of the CarrollWhite jutlieiul circuit renominated Truman F. Palmer for judge and Edward E. Pruitt of Delphi, was nominated for prosecutor at their judicial convention nt Monticello last Saturday. The U. 8. supreme court has again rendered a decision in an important case in favor of a big monied corporation, and against the people. The base was that against the American Express Co., to compel it to pay the war stamp tax, instead of the shipper. The express company wins, of course.

Major John R. Simpson, editor of the Paoli News, is a candidate for the democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. 1 . . Roosevelt says he made Dewey, and everybody knows Hanna made McKinley. Now Roosevelt and Hanna ought to match for keeps. •-- - ' Now a soldier in the Philippines has been saved by a plug of tobacco in his pocket, which stopped a bullet that would otherwise have gone through him* While this is not an argument against carrying Testaments, neither does it prove that the tobacco trust is a mild and benevolent institution. The President says that he is going to allot the Porto Rican jobs to good men and not to politicians. Yet, before the bill was even signed there was a flood of applicants at the White House, each bringing his “influence” along with him, begging for the posts. If the President can withstand this flood he can do more than his former performances warrant the country in expecting.

Still there is no decision by the supreme court in the Jasper county case regarding the employment of tax-ferrets, and wo opine it will be many a day, good people, before there is. This case came in handy, though, as a subterfuge when the taxpayers one-thousand strong petitioned the commisioners to “open the books.” They would have been in a tight place if someone hadn’t thought about that old tax-ferret case.

Laporte Bulletin: N. J. Bozarth of Valparaiso has announced bis candidacy for the democratic nomination for congress in this district. He is a graduate of tho Indiana state law school, and has practiced at the bar for twenty-eight years. Ho served in the civil war, enlisting when onlv fourteen years old. Two years ago he was a candidate for tho nomination, receiving the the solid vote of his own country, being deleated by John Ross of Lafayette.

We understand that both the superintendent and engineer of gravel road construction are paid for their services out of the c< unty fund, and not out of tho gravel road construction fund, hence Jasper county taxpayers hnve been bled for over three years for services of • superintendent and engineer on that notorious “sixteen miles” of gravel road “constructed” in Keener tp. Perhaps this has had something to do with the nursing along of tho job.

A bill to make more republican patronage, which can be utilized in tho coining campaign, has been repoited from tho House Census Committee. It provides for the cn ntion of a Censuaprinting office, with a superintendent at $2,500 a ytar, and a large force of printers and book binders. In previous censuses, this work has been done at the government printing office and there is no other reason than greed for more patronage on the part of republicans why it should not ba done tl ere for this census.

The report made by President McKinley of the rost of his Philippine commission iodate is highly instructive. $35,285 to the commission* rs, §12,22U to their sene tary, sl3,fib7 for tninsportaiion. $9,252 for household expenditun s. $31,701 for clerical s* i vices, nnd $14,998 for ‘'miscell aneous,’’ making n total of $117,185, with recommendation for additional allowances to Dewey and Otis equal to the other commissioners. It would be interesting to know what the whole outfit could have earned at any other occupation, and what kind of miscellaneous they drank.—lndianapolis Sentinel. *

It was not long after the Keener tp., gravel road contract was let until the fact was known that no bond of the contractor had been placed on record or was in existence, so far as known. In spite of this the county commissioners went ahead and paid out all of the construction fund, and, although toward the last the rond was narrowed and the amount of gravel lessened in depth from the specifications, tne money is all gone and some five or six mih»H <. •’ road remain ungraveled. Th » mstofficiid statement of the recei »ia and expenditures of thy c y siios that $18,892.95 was p Ou * O i. ic. count of this road , r. she th months ending Jan. 1 C ' 1 is a transaction wly 1 ly ). proaches criminal <. > ,* it would seem that' be held respond! taxpayers of Keen*

Gravel Road Construction Funds.

the payment for the construction of gravel roads reads as follows: County Treasurer shall sell bonds at not less than their face value, and the proceeds shall be kept as a separate and specific FCNp to pay for , the construction of the particular road or roads for which they were issued, and shall be paid by him to the contractor upon warrant of the Auditor as directed by the Board of Commissioners. The CommissiOßersahall orderthe same to be paid in such amounts and at such times as they may agree, BUT NO PAYMENT SHALL BE MADE BY THE COMMISSIONERS for MORE THAN EIGHTY (80) PERCENT. OF THE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE OF WORK DONE BY THE CONTRACTOR. NOR SHALL THE WHOLE AMOUNT OF THE CONTRACT BE PAID UNTIL THE ROAD SHAUL HAVE BEEN RECEIVEDASCOMPLETED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS."

In every estimate made by the engineer on the Keener tp., gravel roads, so far as we have observed from the records, the full amount of the estimate was allowed, contrary to the statutes, and it is now publicly admitted by the county officials that the construction fund is exhausted, the last report of the auditor—Jan. 1, 1900—showing but $566.11 in the Keener tp. gravel road fund, and no doubt this was a balance received from taxes, and not a part of the construction fund. Still there is some five or six miles of the road uncompleted! Had the 20 per cent, been kept back as the statute requires there would still be over $6,000 of the original construction fund in the county treasury. As it is there is nothing, and our guess is that nothing more will be done toward completing the road and neither will the county make any effort in the matter, for the simple reason that jt has no case.

COLD FIGURES.

Showing Enormous Increase of National Debt and Power of Banks. New York Journal; It is high time that this national bank perpetual-bond scheme was stopped. Five per cent premium ou a two-per-cent bond is on un-heard-of bond credit in nationrl finances. No nation on the face of tho earth can discount that. Tho Conference Committee’s currency bill, recently passed by a Republican Congress, makes the national debt, principal and interest, payable in gold coin. The bonds now outstanding can be refunded into two per cent bonds, the interest on which is payable eveiy threi months; but the principal cannot be paid under 30 years, and the last of such bonds issued are tho first that can be paid. These bonds are not taxable, and national banks can deposit them with the Secretary of the Treasury, and, in addition to drawing interest quarterly upon them, can get back their full face value in national bank notes, which they lend to the people at from 6 to 12 per cent interest. What a contrast is this policy to that pursued immediately after the close of the Civil War! During Johnson’s Administration —1865 to 1868—the interest-bearing debt was reduced $179,441,567, and $702,140,559 was paid in interest. During Grant’s first term—lß69 to 1873 —the debt was reduced $347,266,422, and $460,246,751 was paid in interest. During Grant’s second and Hayes’ terms the public debt was increased §12,306.100. Why whs this? Again, during Garfield’s and Arthur’s Administration §413,003,900 o’ ll o public debt was cancel* d. DnringCleveland’B first term $245,6:8.450 of the'debt was paid, and in Harrison’s $244,824,660 wascan-i c 'led. At the close of Harrison’s Admistration the public interestbearing debt was only $585,029;330, while in $1865 it was $2,381,530,294, thus showing a reduction of §1.796,510,964, and the annual interest was (reduced from §150,977,677,697 in 1865 to $22,893,893 in 1892.

The monthly statement for February, 19(10, shows that the inter-est-bearing debt is now $1,026,862,120 an increase of §441,837,790 in the bonded debt since 1892; and the annual interest has increased to $40,347,872. Omitting the eight years of,Grant’s second term and Hayes’ term, we find that for 20 years the national debt was canceled nt the rate of $89,825,548 per year, but duriug the past seven years it has increased at the rate of $63,119,684 per year. Why these changes? Has it not been brought about by national banks for the purixwe of jwrpetunting the debt and to gain C n rol of the ssu i >f the iiaper mo ,ey?

That Throbbing Headache.

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County Investigation Matters.

Suits have been filed against excounty . commissioners Wm. D. Daily and Hamlin Anderson for SBOO and S9OO respectively, to recover fees alleged to have been received by , them illegally while commissioners of Decatur county. II II II Shelbyville, April 18.—The motions to quash the indictments against Erastus Daroon, John G. Ferris, Herman Cheuden, Armin Cheuden, William McDougal and ex-Treasurer J. M. Wilson were overruled yesterday by Judge Morris. These are the ex-county officials indicted at the last term of court for presenting false claims. The indictments against George M. Ray have not been passed on.

Ex-Recorder W. E. Schelling of Marion county, has offered to compromise with the county commissioners in the suit now pending against him to recover $3,600, the the amount of fees reported by the experts appointed to make an examination of the county records, which he is alleged to have wrongfully witheld from the county. He offered $2 200 in settlement, but the offer was refused and the case wili be prosecuted to a finish. The Senate Committee on Commerce has decided to force the ship subsidy steal through that body, regardless of the fact that the recent Republican Senate caucus decided not to take it up at this session. It seems that the ship builders refuse to contribute to the fall campaign fund unless they are given at least this much as earnest of the good faith of the Republican party. Nothing could more surely show the steady increase of public sentiment in favor of. the election of Senators by direct vote of the people than the adoption by the House of a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for so electing Senators, by*’ a vote of 240 to 15. A similar resolution has been adopted by the House in a previous Congress but not by such a large vote. Whether the Senate will respond to public sentiment by adopting this resolution is yet to be seen, but it is doubtful.

Millions Given Away.

It is certainly gratifying to the public to know of one concern which is not afraid to be generous. The proprietors of Dr. King’s New Discpvery for ‘Consumption, Coughs and Colds have given over ten million trial bottles and have the satisfaction of knowing it hascured thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Lai Grippe and all Throat, Chest and I Lung diseases are surely cured by it. Call on Hunt Bros. Druggists, I and get a free trial bottle. Regular size 50c and SI.OO. Every bottle i guaranteed.

$650 TO $1200 A YEAR.

We want reliable and energetic men and women in each State to ♦ravel and appoint agents; salary $650 to §I2OO n year and expenses, guaranteed and |>aid Weekly. If yo» cannot travel, you can have Local Managership of your own or adjoining Counties, the duties and salary being the same as that of Traveling Representative. You may devote full or spare time; or evenings only, in connection with your regular vocation. It is not necetfsary for you to have had experience; we thoroughly instruct you in all that you will have to do. Send stamp for full particulars. Address, The Bell Company, Dept. B„ Phila., Pa.

Rensselaer Markets.

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ii Hi Ms ill Mm And all the boys that want a nice Buggy; Remember that I have the Rubber Tire jobs in stock. Call and see them; you are welcome to inspect and get prices. Cash counts for anything I have ttg sale. I will name some of the goods: < Studebaker Farm Wagons, Weber harm Wagons. Studebaker Buggies and Carriages, Page Bros. Buggies, also other makes I have the agency for the Weeks Weighing Scales, with patent combination beam without extra charge; the Birdsell Clover Huller, a world-beater, and the Huber Engines and 4 i Threshers’outfit. This engine won all four prizes at the world’s fair at Chicago, and is better to-day « than ever; and these two machines, viz: the McCormick New 4 Mower and the Bight-Hand Binder, the world cannot beat. You are cordially invited to call and see them and get a catalogue. Thanking you for past favors, I am, yours truly, CHAS. A. ROBERTS. Located at Glazebrook’s Blacksmith Shop. Front St., Rensselaer, Ind-

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