Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Public officers should obey the law. a Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls of Kansas, died Wednesday. “I would not trade the life of one American boy for all the trade of the Orient.’' —William J. Bryan. The Anti-Imperian.-tls have endorsed. Bryan for president and will devote their energy to his election, Latest reports from the seat of war in China is to the effect- that Peking has been captured by the a Hied forces. In this general prosperity scheme President McKinley forgot to give the Indiana farmers a good wheat crop. What have they done to merit that kind of neglect?

The Democrat begins publication with this issue of a series of cartoons entitled ‘‘Willie and his Papa. - ’ They are “true to life” and both entertaining and instructive. Every odious,.man-enslaving trust in-the country is supporting McKinley. “Trusts are a good thing. - ’says Mark Hanna. “They are not an issue,” says Senator Fairbanks. President McKinley’s campaign cry, “keep the mills open," is understood not to apply to the mills closed by the trusts This explanation is given for the benefit of republican orators who may not have received their instructions. Most of the spilling of blood that is going on in the world today from the Ashanti, the Congo and the Transvaal to Luzon, China and Jambi. is the direct result of the greed that calls itself “business enterprise.” Philadelphia North American. The Indianajxdis Press, independent (?) seems to have thrown oil the “independent" mask entirely and can say nothing 100 bad about democrats and the cause they stand for. This, however, is no surprise to those who were acquainted with the Press’ founders.

Pre- ulelit Mc K i 1111 -y liast■ ■ns 1.. haul down the AnyricHii Hag in Alaska and to surrender American territory to Great Britain, thus putting thousands of American citizens at the mercy of John Bull. But perish the thought that its protection should lie removed from the harem of the Sultan of Sulu! henever a Republican stands before an audience and tells that audience that a war of conquest will pay, that we can afford to purchase trade with blood, you tell him to buy it w ith his own blood and not send other people’s sons there.”—(From William J. Bryans Tomlinson Hall Speech at Indianapolis.) The county commissioners have advertised that they will hold a special meeting on Saturday, Sept. 8, to let the contract for completing the notorious Keener tp., gravel roads. We would suggest that the taxpayers of that township see that the contractor's bond don't get “lost” this time and that a special guaid be placed around the construction fund, else they may have to pay for the road yet a third time.

The Democrat’s question of several weeks ago as to who ordered the metallic furniture which has been stored in the court house basement for many months and for which the Art Metallic Furniture Co., has had a hill of $375 on the commissioners’ docket for months, remains unanswered. If the matter was “straight” and legitimate, why don't someone in a position to know the facts answer this question? Also, why haven’t the commissioners paid the bill instead of continuing it for the past six or eight months? It is probably the intention to continue this $375 bill for metallic furniture until after the full election,'along with eight lawsuits now pending against the county.