Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — Call for Democratic County Nominating Convention. [ARTICLE]

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 . „

.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.