Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The laboring men of the large cities are wanting a share of this prosperity which the republican ] press is telling them about every, j day, inasmuch as the cost of living < has doubled, and 100,000 are on a j strike for an increase of pay. , The prohibition state conven- \ tion nominated Chas. M. Eckhart , of Auburn, for governor, and R. B. ] Clark of Evansville, for lieut-gov- < ernor. I. S. Wade of Lafayette, j well known here, was nominated for reporter of the supreme court < Boston is to have a new cold * storage plant with a c apacity of 2, j 000,000 feet Heavens! The Boston girl’s heart and head have al- ] ways been cold enough and now ] that she is going to freeze her feet, < the men had better begin to migrate. Every party hath its own griefs * and evey heart knoweth its own ; sorrows. Representative Sibley ( has gone over to the Republicans and Senator Wellington nas come over to the Democrats. Each party caij now condole with the other on its accessions. The popularity of ex-Treasurer J. C. Gwin in his own home—the 3rd ward—was fully demonstrated in Tuesday’s election. With a republican majority of 86—the largest of any ward in the city—he received but 81 votes, while J. C. Chilcote, democrat, received 112. The Ohio Republican convention has something to say about “so-called” trusts. This is good. Ohio Republicans evidently consider trusts in a sort of Christian science wffy. The rest of the country, however, has an idea that an “impression” of trusts can be eradicated by an “impression” of law. The populists at their state convention at Indianapolis this week resoluted against the administration of Hanna, McKinley & Co., and against the Porto Rioan tariff policy, declared in favor of the government issuing all money, the election of U. S. senators by the people, and instructed their delegates to the national convention to support Bryan for president. There will be no army reorganization and no ship subsidy steal at this session at least. The Democratic Senators have served notice on the Republicans that unless they promise not to try to pass them until next winter, filibustering will be resorted to against every measure that comes up in the Senate. The Republicans have yielded. Thus the inability of the Senate to close debate is, sometimes of real value to the country after all.

The senior republican organ says that Mr. Wallace, proprietor of that great gambling aggregation known as the Wallace shows, is having lots of trouble in securing men to go with his circus, “all of which results from sound money republican prosperity.” Well, perhaps this is true to some extent. Many of the “Hey Rube” boys are no douty engaged with the Hanna-McKinley circus, shooting “niggers” in the Philippines. However, we noticed in Tuesday’s dispatches to tho daily press that the Chicago & Erie railroad had a surplus of prosperity and had laid off 13 locomotives between Chicago and Marion, Ohio, and retired 58 tireman and 18 engineers; also that the Wabash road was closing a great many of its night telegraph offices “to reduce expenses.” The 12 plants that were shut down last week by the Federal Steel trust would probably furnish a few men also, as some (5,000 were thrown out of employment, because of an over production of "prosperity.” It would seem that Mr. Wallace ought not to have much trouble in finding men anxious enough to get work to take even so mean a job as traveling with a circus.