Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Two weeks from to-day the democratic county convention will be held in this city. Delegates to that convention have already been selected. - A few words abouj, candidates will not be inappropriate at this time. Candidates for county offices should be selected solely because of their fitness for the office and their ability to make an active ajjd aggressive campaign. Hundreds of good men cannot achieve victory. Candidates with clean records, youthful enough to possess vigor, untiring, indefatigable workers, aggressive, in the fullest sense of that word—this class of nr6h, in The Democrat’s opinion, will be the winners. And furthermore, there has never been a time when the chances of a complete victory were so good as they are this year. The late city campaign is in point. The candidates of the democrats had overwhelming odds to overcome, yet they triumphed. The people wanted a change, and the democrats came very close to winning a complete victory and gaining complete control of the city government. The local republican situation is typical of the county situation except in lesser degree. Hundreds of the better element of the republicans stand ready to assist the democrats in overthrowing the ring that for so many years has dictated the management of public affairs in this county. Let the delegates to the county convention make no mistake in the selection of candidates. Nominate good, active men, men with clean records, whose personality alone gives promise of administering the various offices with economy and fidelity, and a complete victory for the people is assured in November.

Judge Horace P. Biddle, one of i the most prominent of Indiana’s ' older school of public men, died ' at his home on Biddle island, in ; Logansport, last Sunday, at the ripe old age of 89 years. Judge Biddle won great prominence as a lawyer, judge, politician and literateur. He practically retired from from public life twenty years ago, and had since spent the remainder of his days in the enjoyment of awell earned competency in his beautiful home in the middle of the Wabash river on what is known as Biddle’s island. The Hon. Benjamin F. Shively, in an interview telegraphed from South Bend to The Sentinel, announces that his name will not be before the democratic state convention for the gubernatorial nomination. Mr. Shively has decided not to make the race on the ground that he cannot afford the time and expense necessary to an active campaign. The announcement will be received with regret by thousands of democrats all over the state who recall his brilliant canvass of 1896 and were anxious to see him at the head of the ticket again.—lndianapolis Sentinel. When you hear Some one telling how the prosperity wave is sweeping over the people of Jasper county just remind him of the fact that from March 19, 1846, to Feb. 11, 1892, all the mortgages given in Jasper county required but 20 record books; while from Feb. 11, 1892, to date, 16 records have been used for the mortgages recorded in the county. Each record contains about 600 pages. During the past 8 years the county has gained but two or three thousand in population, and but $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 in taxable wealth, yet almost as many mortgages were given durthis period of 8 years as during the entire 46 years previous! Tell him that if mortgages are an evidence of thrift, then Jasper county is doubly blessed, and that 7 of these 16 records have been filled (luring the three years reign of Hanna, McKinley and prosperity. State Geologist Blatchley returned yesterday from a trip to Stnike county, where he wont last Monday for the purixise of exploring the marl de- | [xisits in the vicinity of Bass, I sometimes called Cedar Lake. He found a deposit of forty acres in the south part of the lake, but the quantity is uot sufficient to induce , anybody to erect a factory. He ’ explored the lake from one’end to I the other. Over one hundred isoudings were taken and the i greatest depth found was thirty j one feet. The greatest length I ia three miles and the greatest width less than one mile. Bass is the third I largest lake in Indiana. Many I Indianapolis people spend the