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

The republicans of the BentonNewton representative district, met in Goodland last Saturday and nominated Reid Allen of Ambia, for joint-representative. Everyone should welcome the census taker and help him in his work. He does not come in the attitude of a village gossip and he is forbidden to retail the information given him. It is impossible that accuracy should be obtained in the results unless accuracy is observed in the details of the great work. Republican Senators consented to a Congressional investigation of all Cuban accounts, as proposed by Senator Bacon’s resolution, not that they wanted an investigation, but because they feared to defy a practically universal public demand for one. They are now trying to de-, vise schemes that will enable them to keep the investigation in their own hands, but democratic Senators are wide-awake and intend to participate in that investigation, and if possible, they are going to have another for Porto Rico,' where there has been great extravagance in the payment of double and in some cases triple salaries to postal employes, if no actual stealing. It is also generally believed that affairs are quite as bad, if not worse, in the civil branch of our government in the Philippines, and there are scandals even in the Washington City Post Office.

Representative. Talbert, of 8. C., has been making another warm speech on the Pension question, his text being the case of the Michigan man who draws SIBOO a year as a clerk in the Interior Department, and SI2OO a year as private Secretary to Representative S. W. Smith, of Michgan, and who has been voted by Congress a pension of $72 a month for total disability. Representative H. C. Smith cited the case of Justice Long, of the Supreme Court of Michigan, who draws a pension of $l4O a month as an excuse for this case, and Mr. Talbert said said in reply: “Two wrongs do not make one right. The gentleman asks now because one man is robbing and plundering the government unjustly and unmeritoriously, that another man may be placed on the pension roll and receiye a high pension. That is the trouble about this indiscriminate grabbing of pensions. One man gets in and another man wants to get in. Members have their friends and they will not vote against each other. They will not have the reports read because they sit here like dummies saying, ‘Oh, they will reach my case next.’ That is what is the matter. You want to do a dozen wrongs .to make one right and you want to continue to do wrong in order that your own cases may be favorably acted upon. I want to see justice done by the old soldiers and I will help do it every time if I can, but I do not want to give any soldier what he does not deserve.”