Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I “If you want to extinguish the trusts you have got to take the extinguisher out of the hands of the trusts.”—William J. Bryan. James K Reed and Robert L. Mason, who have been engaged in examining the recbrds and fee book in the Hancock county clerk’s office, prepared their report for the commissioners today. The contents of the report in detail will not be made public until it has been spread of record but it is known that it discloses a shortage in the clerk’s office during the term of office of A. V. B. Sample of $4,999.95. The report also shows a small .shortage against the present clerk William A. Wood. The experts were much delayed in their work by the theft of a number of papers and notes from a drawer in a desk in the clerk’s office, which was broken open.— Indianapolis Sentinel. Our republican friends are making a great deal of noise about the “disfranchisement oFthe negro vote” in North Carolina, yet if any one will take the trouble to look up the qualifications of suffrage in the different states he will find that the reliably republican state of Massachusetts disfranchises all citizens who cannot read and write and who do not pay taxes on a specified amount of property. In the great republican state of Pennsylvania non-taxpayers are disfranchised. Why should such a law be considered proper and right in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and improper and wrong in any southern Mate? Has the fact that the politics of the two sections are different anything to do with it?

The Jasper county democratic convention was composed of about one hundred representative democrats from all sections of the county. This convention unanimously endorsed the candidacy of Lucius Strong for state senator and directed the delegates to said convention to east the solid vote of ■Jasper county for Mr. "Strong. The cow-puncher of the Barnacle went to Monon on the day of the senatorial convention anil tried to defeat the nomination of Mr. Strong by working on the delegations of the other counties, but, like the democrats of Jasper county, they paid no a'tention whatever to him. And this antiquated relic of a prehistoric age the ring insists in foisting on the democracy of Jasper county as a democrat! Ye Gods! but they have gall.

Township Trustee S. R. Nichols advertises in the Apologist that he will let the contract for building a new school house in District No. 8, Barkley tp , on Sept. 8, and M. W.Recd. ditto, in the Journal, in District No. 5. Jordan tp., on Sept. 8. The law requires that these advertisements be placed in “two leading papers published in the county representing the two political parties casting the highest number of votes at the last proceeding election,” but neither of these gentlemen, evidently care anything about observing the law, so we presume one publication will be given to the Barnacle, which is under the fostering care of the republican ring. The democrats of Jasper county do not recognize the sheet in any way, and The Democrat sends about 75 papers into Jordan tp., while the Barnacle semis but 2. The same ratio exists in Barkley. The reign of both these trustees, however, will soon be ended and men elected in their steads who have some regard for the statutes and the rights of others.