Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — Page 4

Meanwhile, it might be just as well to turn the searchlight on Porto Rico and the Philipines. Both democrat and republican papers are scoring Gov. Mount for his attitude in harboring criminals. “Republicanism does things,” says a recent party platform. It does. It does. Witness the Havana postoffice. Hon. Webster Davis paid McKinley a left-handed compliment when he declared him to be all right, but controlled by bad men. No president is all right whois controlled by bad men. So far, the offices and the crimes in Havana seem to be confined in Indiana men. The administration should try some other state. There is Ohio, for instance, which we all know has been shamefully neglected since McKinley took office. Trusts advance prices to consumers ICO per cent, and the republican spell-binders call the promoters “captains of industry.” The labor unions attempt to advance wages 10 per cent, and the same people call the latter a curse to the country. The entire blame of the wrong doing in Cuba must rest with the administration. The President listened to the cry of the hungry horde of office looters and tore down the bars of Civil Service Reform, and must bear the burden of his act.—Fowler Leader (rep ) Even so good a Republican ns Senator Hale has denounced the postal methods in Cuba, declaring that such power was never given even to a Roman pro consul as was bestowed upon Rathbone. And yet the author of the postal code under which he acted hangs bashfully in the background. Justice, in Cuba is a funny thing. Postmaster Thomson has had his bail cut downito SI,OOO because he couldh’t furnish a larger sum, and has been released, while twostampeellers who are charged with altering the books at his request, are in jail, their bail having been fixed at $1,500. Thompson must have a down hill drag with the administion. * .

Democratic county convention one week from today. Wharton Barker, nominee of the middle of the readers, called on President McKinley to know whether everything would be all right, and then gave out an interview predicting Bryan’s defeat. No doubt McKinley promised him that he would speak to Mark about that little account and see that it was settled at the first opportunity. The Bepublican anti-trust platform is very simple. First, get an amendment to the Constitution, which will take only a few years and is so easy to get; second, pass ideal laws under this amendment, and, third, get an honest Attorney General to enforce them. It has never occurred to the g. o. p. that if it would get the last, it could dispense with the other two. Cuba seems to be rotten with corruption. It is now officially admitted that the military authorities at Havana Tiave charged up over $342,000 for building a railway six miles long over level ground through public streets, paying no duties on materials and no price for right of way. This is nearly $60,000 & mile. And the War Department excuses it by saying that the United States has been compensated from the islandrevenues. The republicans in Congress are afraid to adopt either of the resolutions offered by democrats in the Senate and House for a Congressional investigation of the Cuban stealings. The total of those stealings, already known, and the number of officials already implicated, makes the republicans fear that an investigation participated in by a few fearless democrats might trace some of the stealings to Washington, and implicate bigger officials than those now known to havelyeen in the conspiracy at the Cuban end of the line.

Government statistics indicate that beer drinking is increasing rapidly throughout the United States. In 1850 the amount of that beverage consumed amounting to one barrel for each sixteen inhabitants but since then the average has increased so steadly that in 1899 it amounted to one-half barrel for each man, woman and child throughout this broad land of boasted morality. The amount drank last year reached the enormous total of 38,581,114 barrels. In forty years the population has incieased 125 per. cent while the .consumption of beer increased 1,800 per. cent. Whiskey drinking is apparently on the decrease for there was more of it manufactured in 1864 than there was in 1899. Ex. The United States supreme court on Monday decided against “Governor” Taylor of Kentucky, and he has abdicated and his guards have dispersed to their homes. Governor Mount provides an asylum for the Goebel murder suspects, and all fled to Indiana as fast as possible. By his action in refusing to deliver up indicted men to Kentucky Gov. Mount has shown himself to be a very smallbore politician and disgraced Indiana far more than any governor she ever had. The decision of the highest court in the land is in keeping with The Democrat’s published opinion at the time this controversy began, that no court could go behind the decision of the Kentucky legislature; that its decision was final.

Unless Mr. McKinley stopped his ears, he heard the enthusiastic cheers given to the Boer envoys and the voices of the Senators and Representatives, who spoke in behalf of the two republics, now engaged in a death grapple with the world’s mightiest empire, to an audience which the largest theatre in Washington would not hold. The Speakers at that reception pointed out the fact that from all over this country there was a demand that this government should save the lives of those little republics, whieh all the world knows could be done by a word from Mr. McKinley to the British government, and yet that word remains unspoken. Instead, the mouthpieces of the administration are saying, “hush! we know that England intends to wipe out those republics. but it is none of our business; vve have promised to remain neutral and we must not say a word.” A President who is afraid of-JEnglpnd, is a novelty in this' country, afid a decidedly unpleasant one, too. But the remedj’ lies in the hands of the people. Next November they can elect a President whose first act will be a dissolution of the partnership between the greatest republic and the worst land-grabbing empire op earth, and if present signs are not misleading, they will do it.

In May, 1893, four bushels of corn bought 100 pounds of barbed wire. In May, 1900, under McKinley “prosperity,” the same wire costs fifteen bushels of corn. Six bushels of corn bought 100 pounds of wire hails in May, 1893. In May, 1900, it took fourteen. Twenty-eight bushels of com or a 200 pound hog bought a good 14inch plow in May, 1893, In May, 1900, it took 57 bushels of com or more than two 200 pound hogs to buy the same kind of a plow. Exchanging more corn, oats, hogs, cattle, or sheep for what he is compelled to buy, now, than in 1893, may be made to appear ns “prosperity” to the farmers, but The Democrat’s prediction is that the result will be as it was in 1890— very disastrous to the g. o. p. Secretary Root’s second reply to a Senate resolution, asking for a detailed report of receipts and expenditures under our military government in Cuba, was only a little more satisfactory than the first. The details are still lacking, but the report makes it plain that the charge of extravagant expenditures in Cuba, is well founded. For in-

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stance, the civil salary list of the Cuban government for last year, exclusive of §1,377,000 paid on what the report calls the “labor pay roll” was $4,330,587. Adding these totals together and more than one-third of the total receipts —sl6,ooo,ooo —are shown to have! been paid out for civil salaries, not to mention the cost of the Military Establishment, which is, of course, paid by the U. S- Government. How long could a political party remain in control of one of our states which spent one-third of the.state’s receipts for salaries? An exchange remarks the fact that the charitably inclined people of America have been hustling around the past few months raising funds to send to the starving people of India. India is supposed to be under the protection of England, and would naturally look to that country in her hour of distress. But England is sending her millions to wage war upon the Boers, a people who are able to take care of themselves, and only ask a chance to do so. The war is costing the British $760 a minute. If the destitute in India were given that much they would be able to purchase all they want to eat ana have enough left over to buy an occasional plug hat or spring jacket. Were England to use even a part of the money she is spending in South Africa in pro-, viding for the starving people of India she would be doing much more for the cause of humanity.

The Indianapolis Press, independent republican, which has been against the democrats all the way through in the Kentucky gubernatorial controversy, says editorially of Gov. Mount’s arbitrary action in refusing to honor the requisition of Gov. Beckham: - * * There is only one Governor, and that is Beckham, whose title is incontestable. Gov. Mount, therefore, in refusing to honor his requisition for a fugitive indicted for crime, exercises a dangerous discretion, if it is a matter in which discretion may be exercised. The provision of the Constitution governing such cases is mandatory. TheConstituiionof the United States, Article IV, Section 2, says: “A jferson charged in any State with Treason, Felony or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the Crime.” Finley is in the State of Indiana, and how the Governor can bold and protect him here Sermanently is difficult to unerstand. In truth, when reduced to its last analysis, this course puts the Governor in the unfortunate attitude of opposing the law and the Courts

and all the safe-guards which centuries of civilization have erected at such cost and travail.

Delegates to County Convention.

Following is a list of the delegates to the democratic county convention, to be held in this city next Saturday, June 2: HANGING grove. newton. J amei Culp CL Carr Ed Randle W L Bringle' W R Willets Joseph Lane gillam. Frank Yeoman John Ryan Simon Kenton Frank Wagoner Janes Yeoman John Johnson John Goetz Wm Pruett KEENER. WALKER. • W H Tyler Chas Harringtoh J W Pinkston KANKAKEE. Asher F W Fisher Geo Ketcbmark E W Allen Henry Hunsinger BARKLEY, WEST. WHEATFIELD. John Moore Joseph Moritz John Schroer S Remley Wmßull Joseph Gru be - ----- George Cooper David He>l BARKLEY, east. George Clark Smith Newell Philip Stuppy John Kimble Andrew Misch Wm Snedecker H Clark

Til Callahan carpenter, south, marion, Ist. E H Blake JWDouthit M B Graham J ack Ho.ves J K Stoudt C F Stackhouse Henry Welsh Jerome Andrus George Besse John Kohler, jr. carpenter, east. Wrn Donnelly Geo Mocrhead John Keiper W L Rich Earl Duvall G E Vincent D A Stoner J Williamson marion, 2d. Robert Miller J W Smith J D Carson I A Leavel -jjlra W Yeoman E J Kays G G Thompson Nelson Randle carpenter, west, I Perry Marlatt Ellis Jones Frank Maloy John’Eck, Sr. Felix French E W Culp Frank Kelley D V Garrison Lucius Strong D A Bickel marion, 3D. Moses Sigo Nathan Scott J E Westfall Marion I Adams milroy. Frank O’Meara Wm Barlow James Pierce Henry Beaver Frank P Meyer E Blakeman H Hildebrand Wm Smith H Eiglesbach union, north. Moses Tuteur Grant Davisson Tbotpas Crockett Wm Cooper marion, 4th. N Littlefield John Kohler S B Moffitt Adam Nagle T J Mallatt Wm Hoover Peter Zea Charles Simpson union, south. R H Yeoman John Garriott I A Glazebrook T F Brusnahan C B Steward Aug. Shultz Joseph Putts Charles Martin Michael Eger L D Mauck jordan. Chas Lakin Mala Garrison Wesley Taylor Jacob Fingermeyer Isaac Blake Morgan Dewey Wm Timmons J E Lamson H M Burr John Bill * We were unable to secure the names of the eight delegates from Walker. Ed.

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