Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Notice To Advertisers. All notices of a business character, Including wants, for sale, to rent. lost. etc., will be published in The Democrat st the rate of one cent per word for each insertion. No advertising will be accepted for less than 10 cent*. Cards of thanks will be published for 36 cents and resolutions of condolence for •1.00. 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 delegates selected by the precinct meetings throughout the county, will meet in Rensselaer. Ind., on SATURDAY, JUNE 2. 1900. 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, 1900: County Recorder,-County Treasurer County Sheriff, County Coroner, County Surveyor, County Assessor, County Commissioner, Second District, County Commissioner, Third District, Three members of the County Council at large, also County Council men from the Ist, 2d. 3d and 4th Councilmanic Districts. N. S. Bates, Chairman. C. D. Nowels, Sect'y.

Of course it would be outrageous for the Boers to blow up the Johannesburg mines, which are owned by British, but it is all right that the two republics should be wiped out or existence. They are only owned by Boers, you know. It is a curious illustration of j American political methods that Senator Hanna is bringing pressure to bear upon himself to accept the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, and Gov. Roosevelt is trying to bring it to bear on himself to refuse the nomination for the Vice cyIn answer to a question as to when he thought the Philippine war would be over, ex-Speaker Reed answered: “Over where?” The speaker is still bitterly opposed to imperialism and the purchase of “yellow pellies at $2 a head,” and points to the Cuban scandals as proof that his misgivings -on the subject were true. The War Department has no official record of Filipinos that have been killed. It is not considered proper by any nation to keep tally on the death dealing work of its armies. But the best informed unofficial authorities place the number at not more than 3,000 — only a very small percentage more than our Own losses from all causes. To appeal from Caesar McKinley to the American people is now the program of the Boer envoys. They have not abandoned their idea of making a tour of the country, and arousing public sentiment. They will begin this week in Baltimore, and from there will go to other cities where they have accepted invitations to attend public meetings. The Spooner bill, making Mr. McKinley Czar of the Philippines, is dead for this session and probably for all time, as in addition to some republican opposition to it, the democrats in the Senate have served notice that the bill would not be allowed to pass at this session and they have the power to make that notice good by simply refusing to allow the bill to reach a vote. \

Now it is reported that there arA a number of clerks in the Washington city postoffice who have been drawing, double salaries for alleged work in Cuba and Porto Rico, although they have never been out of the city and have hcd nothing to do with Cuban and Porto Rican offices. They were appointed, it is said, to sinedures at the time when the Havana and San Juan offices were branches of the Washington office. Will the scandal that started with additional salaries to army officers never end. ' ’ J "V " ' \