Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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*