Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — Page 4

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Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis dt 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 cent per word for each insertion. No advertisingwill be accepted for less than 10 cents. Cards of thanks will be published for 86 cents and resolutions of condolence for fl.oo. _ For President in 1900, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Democratic Conventions. County Convention, Rensselaer, June 2. State Convention, Indianapolis, June 6. National Convention, Kansas City, July 4. Call for Democratic County Nominating Convention. The delegatee selected by the precinct meetings throughout the county, will meet in Rensselaer. Ind., on SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1000, 1:30 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 at the general election in November, 1000: County Recorder, County Treasurer County Sheriff, County Coroner. County Surveyor, County Assessor, County Commissioner, Second District, County Commissioner, Third District, Three members of the Cousty Council at large, also County Councilmen from the Ist, 2d, 8d and 4th Councilmanic Districts. N. S. Bates, Chairman. C. D. Nowelb, Sect’yTownship Conventions. GILLAM TOWNSHIP. Notice is hereby given, that the Democrats of Gillam township will meet in mass convention at the Ceater schoolhouse, on SATURDAY. MAY 96, 1000, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a full Township ticket, consisting of the following officers: Trustee, Assessor. Advisory Board, Justices, Constables and Road Supervisors. F. M. Wagoner, James Culp, Chairman. Secretary.

Even strikes are expanding this year. There are 50,000 lepers in the new Hanna-McKinley possessions, the Philippines. Republican representative convention No. 2 will be held at Hammond, June 7. The official call for the democratic state convention was issued last week. Jasper county is entitled to eight delegates to this convention. If Carroll county had had a large wheat crop it would have been because McKinley and Landis were running things, but being a failure they do no talking. See? —Delphi Times. It has been nearly thirty years since any president has been re elected while he was in the White House. The presidency would seem to be a disadvantage rather than an advantage to a candidate. A consular report says that the Krupp armor process is neither secret nor patented. Yet it was because of this alleged secrecy that the republicans have persisted in paying enormous prices to the steel factories. The Sultan of Sulu is crying out against the tariff which has raised prices three or four times in his dominions. Some good republican should inform him that I the foreign exporter pays the tax. It might console him. The exposure of the Standard Oil deal to sell the Danish Wesfr Indies to the United States for ten percent, of the price, has killed the scheme in spite of the 2b senators whom the Company declared stood ready to do its bidding. Chicago has been figuring on questions of comparative finance and has discovered that she derives more income from dog licenses than she does from her street railways. Yet her streets are made dangerous and hideous by the long trains of care that run through them. 1

It now develops that there was a huge conspiracy in the Cuban postal steal. One of the gang has made a confession and a number of the Hanna-McKinley pets will be implicated tn the scandal. The middle of the road populists have re-nominated Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania, for president, and Ignatius Donnelly for vice-president. The fusionists nominated Bryan and Towne. D. Me A. Williams, who with his compatriot, B. F Johnson, has been a tax-eater in Benton county for the past thirty or forty years, rushes into print in the Indianapolis Press in defense of Johnson, and in denouncing the reform laws which Johnson, also denounced. Professional tax-eaters don’t want any watch-dogs about the county treasury. When a political party declares its opposition to trusts and yet re, ceives the solid support of the trust element, not only in votes but in financial aid, one of two things is true: Either the trust element is selfsacrificing or the political party is dealing in gold bricks. And when that party nominates a trust man on its antitrust platform the whole affair becomes as ludicrous as a poorly written comedy. Sentinel. The vast army of republican looters appointed to office by President McKinley in our new possessions are beginning to bear fruit. C. W. F. Neely, a former rebublican newspaper man at Muncie, was appointed to a high position in the Cuban postoffice department. He has now been arrested for the embezzlement of over $96,000 of postal funds. It is charged that books were falsified and records destroyed in order to cover up the defalcation. The people may expect to hear of many more such cases ere long. The decision of .U. S. Judge Lochren, at St. Paul, Minn., that the U. S. Constitution was extended to Porto Rico on the day that the terms of the treaty of peace with Spain went into effect, has greatly disturbed administration circles, foreshadowing, as it does, a similar decision on the part of the U. S. Supreme Court when an opportunity is offered. If the power and influence of the administration can prevent it, no opportunity will be given the Supreme Court to pass on the question un-, til after the Presidential election. The republican taxpayers of Indiana should see to it that B. F. Johnson, of Fowler, their party’s candidate for State Statistician, is defeated at all. hazards. John B. Conner, the present incumbent of this offiice, wSs'xJefpfited for renomination by the political spoilsmen of the republican party be- , cause he was friendly to the county and township reform laws and lent valuable assistance at the time of their passage, in the way of statisticial information regarding the abuse practiced under the old laws. These laws have saved and will save thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of every county and township in Indiana, and they should remain upon the statute books. B. F. Johnson was bitterly opposed to the passage of these anti-spoilsmen laws, and was the i official head of the opposition to them—the township trustees’ organization. Whatever else they do. every honest republican who 1 wants an honest and economical administration of public affairs, should “spot B. F. Johnson.”

The Official Apologist copies from a late report of the Indiana Board of Charities some comments made by A. W. Butler, secretary lof the board, who claims to have visited our poor asylum in May ! and August of last year. The reIport of Mr. Butler as published in the Apologist seems to be incomplete. for while he states that “the sexes are separate,” no mention is ' made of the well known fact that (some four or five children were i born to one female occupant of the ; asylum during the reign of the I last ex-superintendent. Neither ,is the fact mentioned that with a good farm of 278 acres and an avl erage of only 12 to 13 inmates the ' Auditor’s report for the year endi ing May 31, 1899, showed that the I expenditures for the institution I for the year were $5,383.89. (For the six months ending Jan. 1, 11900, the auditor’s report shows ! the expenditures to have been $4,027.84.) Why didn’t Mr. Butler | tell these things? They are facts which nre easily substantiated and certainly ought to be included in a report of that character. For some reason The Democrat was not favored with a copy of the above report of the board of charities. Perhaps the secretary was instructed not to send us one.

County Investigation Matters.

Bondsmen of ex-Treasurer Thomas.B. Cauble have paid ’into the Washington County treasury $1,857, and the suit brought to collect that sum will be dismissed. • ' , II II II < • Cannelton, Ind., May 8. Messre. Schwartz and Waldschmidt, experts employed to investigate the books arid records in the auditor’s and treasurer’s offices, made their reports to the county commissioners today. The report dates from 1883 andsbows that exAuditor Dunn collected illegal fees amounting to $4,684.78, and exAuditor Casper $3,085.77; exTreasurers Mason, SSO; Eberhard, $925; Mitchell, $2,016.25. Out of these various amounts all but about $2,000 is outlawed. Suits will be brought at once to recover the money.

No Reform Wanted.

Indianapolis Press: ’ It is said that the defeat of John B. Conner for the nomination for state statistican was due to the action of the township trustees of the state. B. F. Johnson, the Benton county man, who received the nomination, was president of this association for two years and it is claimed that in this way he received the nomination. Conner was a member of the commission that helped to form the laws relating to both county and township reform and it was well known that he fayored the enactment of these laws. As a general thing the trustees are against them and for the reason stated above defeated Conner. There were many trustees at the convention as delegates and mapy of them acted aa chairman of the delegations.

PreMature Counting.

The Republican national arithmetician of 1896 has resumed business at the old stand. Congressman Grosvenor, assuming that McKinley will be renominated by the Republicans and Bryan by the Democrats, has issued Bulletin No. 1 t>f the current Presidential year. He says that McKinley will have 200 electoral votes and Bryan 174. He generously concedes to the Democrats (with mental reservation as to Bryan’s home state) the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebaaska, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia. All the rest he gives to the Republicans, except Kansas, which he sets down as doubtful, and South Dakota, which seems to have been lost in the tabulation shuffle. We beg to say that General Grosvenor’s figures are not absolutely conclusive. Delegates will be chosen as usual and conventions will be held, and thousands of mature men of both parties, including those who have made a special study of the Grosvenorian system of political mathematics, will sit up till after midnight on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, waiting for the returns. The national organization of the Republican party will go on with its tremendous capitalization scheme and the Federal officeholders and employes need not expect to escape from the “stand and deliver” agent.

Still there are curiosities and surprises in this “ciphering” that make it interesting. Why should the official statistician give up Kentucky? Has he no faith in the ability of the “powers that be” to steal it again? Unquestionably the electoral vote of Kentucky was stolen for McKinley and Hobart in 1896. The same safe-blowers are in charge of the McKinley campaign of 1900, with a few minor and unimportant changes. What is the matter with Maryland and West Virginia? Have these states receded in virtue in four years? r The present debatable character of the politics of Indiana and the manifest revolt of Hoosierdom Republicans against the Puerto Rican tariff infamy has led many Democrats to look upon themselves as on fighting ground in that state. General Grosvenor says, though: “All this talk about Indiana going Democratic is bosh. The Puerto Rican tariff is going to help rather than hurt.” Of course it is better to have false hopes dashed to the ground early in the campaign. To treasure them till the melancholy days of November and then have them fall from a greater height would only cause more pain. Hence it is that we especially note what the official statistician says alxnit Indiana. It is as to the Hoosier State that he presents his strong 'St ar?;ument or reason—indeed, the ony “argument” or “reason” he offers in his whole bulletin, to wit: “Bosh.”—Cincinnati Enquirer,

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They Never Sleep.

Indianapolis Press; The Press had occasion recently to mention the fact that the victory of B. F. Johnson over John B. Conner, in the Republioan State Convention, was a triumph for the forces pf local spoilsmen who fought the county and township reform laws so viciously in the lait Legislature. The thing was done at the fag-end. of the convention, when the delegates were tired out and many of them absent from the hall; and it is probable that but a small number of those present understood the significance of the matter. Such a time the spoilsmen and their backers, the contractors for bridges and supplies, found propituous for getting in their work. They had already accomplished much in the matter of the platform. It develops that the platform, as originally drafted by the “town meeting,” contained a most uncompromising plank on the subject of the reform laws, indorsing them and declaring against any amendments affecting the principles on which they were based. The language was changed by the Committee on Resolutions so as to leave an open door to amendments, while indorsing the laws. This change slipped through with very little knowledge of its significance on the part of either the committee or the convention. With these evidences of activity, there is no possible room to doubt that the old gang, which has fattened off the plunder from township and county contracts for years, is bending its energies toward the overthrow of the laws. They understand their business, and have, doubtless, been influential in legislative nominations in both parties. It behooves the people to exact from their candidates for the Legislature some ironclad pledges on this subject before election day.

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