Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — Page 4

m mot Damn. Official Democratic Paper of j/sper County. f. I. BIBCOCK, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind, as second class matter. ,y ' - 1 - • ■ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTipX: 1 ONE YEAR SI.OO SIX MONTHS ,50c THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable In Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensaelaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’s Store. Notice To Advertisers! 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 ctnt per word for each insertion. No advertising will be accepted for less than 10 cents. Card s erf than ks wHI -be published for 25 cents and resolutions of condolence for #I.OO. For President in 1900, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

Democratic Conventions.

County Convention, Rensselaer, June 2. State Convention, Indianapolis, June 6. *>•' Nationnl Convention, Kansas City, July 4.

DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET.

L.,,.. ; For City Mayor, JOHN EGER. For City Clerk, EARL MANN, For City Treasurer, JERRY HEALY. , For City Marshal, ABRAHAM SIMPSON. F’or Council men. Ist Ward, MOSES TL’TEL’R, , JOSEPH SHARP. For Councilman. 2d Ward, FRANK PARKER. For Courtcilmen. 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 mFet in Rensselaer lnd., on SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1900, 1:30 p. in., 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 at the general election i:i November, 1900: County Recorder, County Treasurer County Sheriff, County Coroner, County Surveyor, County Assessor, County Commissioner, Second District, County Commissioner, Third District, Three members of the County Council at large, also County Councilmen from the Ist, 2d, 3d and -Ith Councilmantc Districts. N. S. Bates, Chairman. C. D. Nowkls, Sect'y . „

Township Conventions. * MILROY TOWNSHIP. The Detnoctattc voters of Milroy Township and all other voters of said township who desire to affiliate with them in the coming campaign, will meet in mass convention at Center School House, on SATURDAY. APRIL 28. 10U). k/ atl:3op. m, to nominate a full townsh p ticket-Trustee, Assessor, Advisory Board. Justices. Constables and Road Supervisors. John Southard, Tp.. Chm. BARKLEY TOWNSHIP. Notice is hereby given that the Democrats of Barkley Township will meet in Mass Convention at Cosy Palace schoolhouse, in said Township, on SATURDAY. MAY 5. 1900, at 2 o'clock p. m.. sharp, for the purpose of nominating the following Township Ticket: One Trustee, one Assessor, three members of the Advisory Board, and three Road Supervisors. John Schroek, Chairmrr. John Marlatt, Secretary. UNION TOWNSHIP. The Democratic voters of Union Township and all others wishing to affiliate with them will meet in mass convention at Wild Lilly school house on SATURDAY. MAY. 6. ltfoo. at a O’clock p. m. A full Township Ticket will he uotnina'ed—Trustee, Assessor, Advisory Board, two Justices. two Constables and six Road Supervisors. T. J. Mallatt. Chm. N. Precinct. S. A. Bkusn ah an, Cbm. S. Precinct. .Announcement of Candidates. ASSESSOR. BARKLEY TP. HORAITO ROPP is a candidate for tbe nomination for Assessor for Barkley Township, subject tothe decision of the democratic Rftvnshlp convention.

Quay “come within one of it.” The republican newspapers have been edited in Washington for some time but the writing of state platforms there is a new departure. Congress should not adjourn without devising some plau whereby the foreigner would be obliged to pay the war tax on telegrams, express packages and patent medicenes.—Fowler Leader, (rep.) Now that we are growing so English, yon know, now would this do as a title for his imperial highuess, William I. ? William McKinley, by the grace of Hanna; President of the United States and Emperor of Pueto Rico, the Philippines and the Sulu Islands.— Denver News.

.On uccount of lthe high price of building material the big cement factory project at Milford, Ihd., has been abandoned for this year 7 The wire And steel 'trust has closed down a number of its plants, throwing thousands of employes out of work. It has also come down off of its high h6rse a little and reduced barb wire and nails 25 per cent. About July 5 a funnel-shaped cloud will form in the immediate vicinity of Kansas City and take a swing around the circle. If William McKinley, Mark Hanna, the trusts and the constitution defiers know what’s what they will hustle for the political cyclone cellar.— Omaha World-Heratd. Jerome Herff of Peru, is a Candida tefor the democratic domination for treasurer of state. Mr. Herff is a very able man, a true-blue democrat and if nominated will add strength to the entire ticket, while his experience in politics and services on the state committee is a guarantee that he will make an active campaign and use all honorable means to be elected.

Experience doesn’t always teach. Notwithstanding, the awful experience of our soldiers in the war with Spain, thousands of whom were made sick and unfit for duty, by eating the so-called canned roast beef, the War Department has ordered a big lot of the stuff sent to the Philippines for the use of our soldiers over there, Gen. Miles is as much opposed to this meat as he was during the war with Spain, and the War Department acted without consulting him. An Irishman was painting his barn and he was hurrying his" work with all his strength and speed. “What are you in n hurry for, MTirplTyy"~ asked n spectator. “Sure I Want to get through before my paint runs out,” was the reply. March 8, ’97, the republican commissioners of Jasper county let the contract for 16 miles of gravel road in Keener tp , for the sum of $31,858. The job has been nursed along and a superintendent and engineer have been employed —at county expense, we urulerstnnd—up to quite recently. The money has “run out,” and five or six miles of the original sixteen remains unbuilt. .

Senator Wellington has formally left the Hanna-McKinley pnrty, and made this announcement: “I was opposed to the permanent acquisition of the Philippines, and to the 15 per ceut. duty on Porto Rican imports to the U. S. This being my position, I do not intend to support a platform that is ngniust my convictions in such important particulars. Ido not intend to remain a member of the republican National Committee, nor to attend the National Convention.” There are numerous prominent republicans in both branches of Congress who believe just ns Senator .Wellington does, but whether any of them will show • hat they have the courage of their convictions by following his example, remains to bo seen.

Another ugly scandal has cropped up under the rule of the War Department, which cannot fail to add to the wave of public sentiment, daily becoming higher andstronger that will sweep the republican party, with its record of scandals, out of power. This particular scandnl was uncovered quite by accident and its existence was not denied by Secretary Root, who is responsible for its continuance, although it was originated by Alger. It is to speak plainly, the robbery of the Cubans, for the benefit of officers of the U. S. army. Hints of extravagant living by Americau officers in Cuba, aud of large sums paid for their expenses, have been frequent, but it was not until within the last few days that it became positively known that officers in the U. 8. .army were in direct violation of law, drawing two salaries, one from the U 78., and one from the Cuban revenues. Tbe ground upon which Secretary Root justifies this robbery is worthy of a shyster lawyer but not of n member of the U. 8 Cabinet—That the money drawn from the Cuban revenues by these officers, is not a salary from the U. S., and consequently their receiving it is not a violation of the law prohibiting two salaries. Mr. Root goes even further than that. He says this robbery was carefully considered and endorsed by Mr. McKinley and his entire Cabinet before it was started, and that he intends to increase the number of officers who are allowed to participate therein. But he won’t, unless prominent republican Senators who have expressed surprise and regret at the scandal, change their minds. The Senate has adopted a I resolution, calling for all the facts.

Indiana’s Youngest County.

; Saturday’s Indianapolis .Press -contained the following interesting write-up of our neighboring county of Newton, from the pen of its special correspondent, E. L. Lewis: Newton, the ninety-second, youngest and last of Indiana counties, is celebrating its fortieth anniversary today. Thomas R. Baker, who was appointed sheriff to a Iminister the oath of office to its first officers, met them in old Kent April 21, 1860. The town then consisted of but two buildings. But seventeen persons eligible to the ballot were found in all of the territory south of the Iroquois River. William Russel, Michael Coffelt and Thomas R. Baker were qualified that day ns comissioners, Zecba Spitler as clerk, Alexander Sharp auditor, Samuel McCollough treasurer, Elijah L Shiver sheriff, A. W. Shidelar surveyor and John Ade recorder. Spitler and Ade aie still alive. At the first election but 492 votes were cast in the county. Until the formation of Newton out of the western half of Jasper, Jasper had been the largest county in the State, a distinction now held by Allen. The western part of Jasper County had been turned over to trappers and hunters. Fur bearing animals were plentiful in the marshes and woods, and wild turkey, deer and other game were found there. This section, that is now Newton County, did not even have its “first settler” until 1832. Josiah Dunn and John Elliott were the first. The first corn-cracker and sawmill was not erected until 1845. Jacob Kenoyer established it on Spitler’s Creek. At that time, and several years-later, hogs ran wild in the woods, feeding upon mast, and were free to those who would kill and dress them. The first church in the county was a log cabin built by the United Bret hern on the old Frederick Kenoyer farm. That was in 1842. The Baptists went to Brook and the Methodists to Illinois to worship. Trading was done—until 1850—at an old French trading l>ost at Thayer’s Landing on the Kankakee. The first storekeeper of the County was Elijah Whitson of Morocco. Morocco, Kent and Brook were candidates for the “Court House,” and the fight, then settled in Kent’s favor, has never ended. ’ A Court House, costing $1,600, was erected. For several years prisoners were in carcerated at Lafayettg. The first order of the first court that convened in Kent, August 27, 1869, issued by Charles H. Test, the first judge, was for the sheriff to proceed to Lafayette and return with the person of Samuel Brandon who, in the first trial in the county, was sentenced to prison for life for killing a farmer named Hadley. John L. Miller was the first prosecutor. The first attorney’s were W. D. Lee, A.G Brown and George O. Spitler. Kentland, long known as Kent, was organized in 1860 and named in honor of A. J. Kent, the original proprietor and keeper of the first hotel. The first paper in the county—the Newton Chronotype—whs published here. The first child born in the town was Lizzie West; the first physician was Dr. J. A. Hatch. The first settlers were John Ade, A. J. Kent, Nathaniel West, James Martin, Isaac Speck, William Ross, John Peacock, William Littlejohn and Alexander Harrison. Kentland was almost wiped out by fire in 1870. It is now the prettiest town in this section of Indiana, and lately has been noted as the home of George Ade, whose “Artie,” “Pink Marsh” “Fables in Slang” and stories have lately caused him to be regarded as the “coming humorist of the nation.” It was here, according to his own confession, that two ambitions beat within his soul. One was to be a clown in a circus, the other to be a minister. Newton County is also the home of Pfrimmer, “the bard of the prairies,” wliosa songs of rural life m Indiana have made him known in every part of Hoosierdom. Morocco, lnid out by John Murphy as a seat for the county, was the home of the famous old Bank of North America, of which so many interesting stories are told by Indiana bankers. It is claimed its president was chosen because of his prowess ns a coon hunter, and the cashier was the village “smithy.” The stories concerning itsopeia bouffe existence are many, but the accounts are well balanced by the statement that it was one of the few banks in the days of the “red dog” and the “wildcat” currency that redeomed all of its issues. * Goodland was laid out in 1860. The first settler in the vicinity, was John Smith, back in ’49, and since then there has generally been a John Smith or so on the tax.lists. Brook, on tbe Iroquois, was given life ns a trading place. v

Newton at first was a very wet county, except in tlie southern part, over which extended the eastern lobe of the grand prairie of Illinois. Beaver Lake covered a congressional township, but it has been drained. Tbe Kankakee swamps are found in the northern, part. Drainage has been the great problem, and it has conquered. Over the fields of Newton Couuty last year were raised 1,949,184 bushels of corn—enough to give her fifth place in the list of corn-producing counties. In oats and other crops she is near the top. The history of Newton County has just begun. The criticism of the press of the U. S. supreme court’s decision holding that the shippers must pay the war tax ou express packages, is very severe and quite general. In the light of this and the income tax decision, it is not unnatural that the highest court in the land should be suspected of being overly friendly to the trusts and corporations.

F. E. Babcock, editor of the jAsreß County Democrat, was a pleasant caller at this office Saturday. Brother Babcock reports that a similar condition exists in his county that did in this prior to the general “renovating” in November, 1898. The best cure for such a condition is a general uprising of the taxpayers. No power on earth caq, stop tbe onward rush of an outraged public when once it starts—as the boodlers and sharks of all counties discover when it is too late to escape annihilation.—North Vernon Sun. (dem.) Bro. Butler of the Sun, begun a fight on the rotten management of affairs in Jennings county in 1894. The county had been republican by several hundred for many years, and the gang jumped onto Mr. Butler for exposing them. He kept up the fight, however, and soon had two libel suits on his hands, brought by who sought a “vindication” in the courts. He won each suit, and later two of the county commissioners were indicted for taking bribes on bond issues, bridge cortracts, etc., etc. In the fall of 1898 the people of the county arose Jn their might and swept the gang from power, every candidate on the republican ticket being defeated. The taxpayers are well satisfied with the change, and tbe democrats will remain itt power as long as they are honest and faithful servants of the people. When they fail in this they deserve to be kicked out.

County Investigation Matters.

Shelbyville, April 21—The motions to quash the indictments against J. Marsh Wilson, George M. Ray, Julius Chueden and Herman Chueden were argued in court to-day. The court overruled the motions and ordered the cases set for trial the second week of tbe June term of court. Much credit should be given to Alonzo Blair, the prosecuting attorney, for the able manner in which he has handled th0.,0 cases; every effort has been put forth by those interested in having the indictments quashed to accomplish that end, but Mr. Blair has b«en equal to the occasion and will certainly see that no effort is spared to bring tbe wrong-deers to justice. INI II

There is a movement on foot among the republicans of northern Indiana, led by one of the most influential rtpubiicans of the state, to request Governor Mount to make an investigation of the state treasurer’s office. This oocdition of affairs was brought about by the recent circular of the treasurer of state which was sent out to the county treasurers asking for a partial settlement for the reason that tbe state is Iwnkrupt. The last statement of the treasurer of state showed a balance on hand available for state purposes of $650,000, and Ihese republicans are wanting to know what has become of it.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

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 Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds have given away over ten million trial bottles and have the satisfaction of knowing it has cured thousands of hopelees cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, LaGrippe and all Throat, Chest and Lung diseases nre surely cured by it. Call on Hunt Bros. Druggists, and get a free trial bottle. Regular size 50c and SI.OO. Every botfle guaranteed.

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ellis t imr. • bib turn. SPECIAL SHOE SALE 1 A Great Money Saving Offer for the buying public of Jasper County. Beginning MAY Ist and continuing up to and including SATURDAY, MAY 5, we will give a 20 per cent Discount ! «■ on all kinds of MEN’S, BOYS’, WOMEN’S and CHILDREN’S SHOES. This Means That You Can Buy During X This Sale, X Our Men’s HANAN $5.00 Shoes for $4.00. “ #“ “ 4.00 “ « 3.20. “ “ DOUGLAS 3.50 “ “ 2.80. “ “ “ 3.00 “ “ 2.40. “ Ladies’ Fine 3.50 “ “ 2.80. “ “ •“ 3.00 “ “ 2.40. “ “ “ 2.50 “ « 2.00. ** “ “ 2.00 “ “ 1.60. ' * . All cheaper Shoes the same per cent off. This Sale is for FIVE DAYS, not longer. ELUSI inn CASH STORE.

Mi iiM Mbs 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 for sale. I will name some of the goods: Studebaker Farm Wagons, Weber Farm Wagons, Studebaker Buggies and Carriages, Page Bros. Bugfies, also other makes I hare the agency for the i T eeks Weighing Scales, with patent combination beam without extra charge; the Birdsell Clover Huller, a world-beater, and the Huber Engines and 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 Right-Hand Binder, the world cannot beat. You are cordially invited to call and see them and get a catalogue. Whwkvwwwi Thanking you for past favor?, I am, yours truly, CHAS. A. ROBERTS. Located at Glacebrook’n BlacksT.ith Shop. Front St,. Rensselaer, Ind

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