Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.