Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Page 4

jbsper counit dimocrrt. I.E. BABCOCK, EBITOR MD PUBLISHtR. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. Bntered at the Post-offiee at Rensselaer, Ind. , as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE YEAR i SI.OO SIX MONTHS 50c THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensaelaer Street, North of Ellis 4 Murray’s Store.

Call For Judicial Convention.

The Democratic Judicial convention comprising the counties of Jasper and Newton, will be held at Remington, Jasper county, Ind., on WEDNESDAY', AUGUST 29, 1900, for the purpose of placing in nomination a candidate for prosecuting attorney for this the 30th Judicial Circuit. The basis of representation is one for every two hundred votes cast for'Hon. Samuel Ralston for secretary of state in 1898 and one delegate for eacffTractTon of 100 or more. N. S. Bates, J. B. Roberts, Chm. Jasper Co. Chm. Newton Co.

The Hag has been planted in the capitol of China. “Who will haul down the Hag?” The Hanna-McKinley wars have cost the government of the United States in cold cash over $500,000,000, and the end is not yet. The trusts are once" again worried about the “flag'’ and the “national honor” and “full dinner pails.” They will be desperately patriotic until after the election. I firmly believe that President McKinley will be defeated this year. I think that the interest of the laboring men lies in voting the Democratic ticket. Hon. George S. Boutwell, Secretary Treasury Under Grant. Agriculture, under present conditions, is making millionaires out of men who are not engaged in it —the trust magnates who fatten on the sweat or the farmer’s brow. But no one has yet heard of a farmer who became a millionaire. —Benjamin F. Shively. In May of this year there' were 917 failures, as shown by Dunn’s Mercantile Review, as against 917 the same month in 1896. Remember the dates and remember the figures: 1896 was, according to Republicans, a year of calamity. What will they call 1900? “I helped to create the Republican party, the party at that time of justice and principles and honesty. I now believe it is the party of injustice and despotism, and 1 will help to destroy it. And how? There is but one available means and you know what that is. lAM FOR BRYAN’’—George S. Boutwell, at the Liberty Congress. Indianapolis. In carryingout his imperialistic plans Mr. McKinley is willing to shed any amount of other men’s blood. America is strong enough to crush the Filipinos in time —it is only a question of men, transportation and subsistence, guns and ammunition—but what are we to gain after we have opened this pandora’s box? The trusts may be benefitted, but what of American labor that must inevitably work in competition with the millions of brown men who are now fighting fortheir freedom?

This butchery of a brave semisavage race, whose only crime is its dogged fighting for its freedom, is not the American people's war. The American people repudiate it while they blush for it. It is a war entered into by the administration without either the knowledge or sanction of the American people, and the mortality and sickness, tip* horrors and excesses that are marking its progress are not chargeable to the American people; they are chargeable only to the administration and in especial toPresident McKinley. Suits have been tiled in Wells county against five ex-county officials, whom the investigation of the experts employed to examine the books found to Im* short. The first suit is against G. W. Huffman. ex-slieriff. and his bondamen, for 83,092.01. B. F. Kain, ex treasurer, and bondamen, is sued for 8386.09. Ex-Clerk Robert F. Cummins and bondsmen are sued for $0,530.(17. Ex-Auditor George W. Studebaker, Jr., and bond men are sued for 8313.50. and ex-Clerk Albert Oppenheim and. bondsmen for 8136.49. All are civil suits on bond. Quite a number ol other ex-officials were found to be short but the statute of limitation had expired and nothing could be done.

This Is True As Gospel.

Our republican friends well remember that four years ago it was impossible to find a republican in this whole country who would admit that the republican party favored a single gold standard. They were all for both gold and silver, as was their candidate for the presidency. All the talk of the democrats that the election of McKinley and a republican congress would fasten the gold standard on the country was most nonsensical. Thousands of republicans all over this broad land that voted for McKinley in 1896 would have repudiated him at that time had they any that the gold standard currency bill would have been adopted. But how did it turn out? The gold standard bill was adopted and to-day the administration is using this very piece of legislation—with the trusts and bankers—as campaign thunder. Now they tell you there is nothing in the democratic cry of imperialism; it is too silly to even think about. Why, the republican party is as much opposed to militaryism and imperialism as any democrat dare be. But wait. By the same subtle trickery that the republican party gained an “endorsement’’ of the gold standard in 1896, it will attempt to get an “endorsement” of imperialism in 1900, and the re-election of William McKinley to the presidency will fasten imperialism and all its attendant evils upon this country just so sure as there’s a God in heaven.

The following editorial from the I Chicago American is in point: To-day the Democrats accuse the Republicans of aiming at imperialism. In a feeble sort of way the Hanna machine denies that its tendencies are imperial. But ! let the country vote to continue Hanna-Republicanism in office and up will go the cry that Imperialism has been formally indorsed. In 1896 the Democrats declared that the Republicans intended to put the country on a single gold standard. That was denied by the Republicans, and Mr. McKinley expressed great anxiety that other ; nations should come in on a 16 to I 1 basis. But the election w’as de- ■ aided against the Democrats, and I what happened in the silver matter? A bill was passed by Hanna via McKinley. This bill permanently—or as permanently as Republicans could do it—outlawed the white metal. Disclaimer today and frank confession tomorrow. Such is the Republican scheme. Re-elect McKinley, Imperialism will be pushed to its extremes, the great standing army —ready for China or any American city with ' a strike on hand—will be built up I out of American families. Then if you voters cry out you will be laughed at. You will be told: I "Why, the whole election turned on 1 Imperialism. Bryan said it was the para- | mount issue. When "McKinley was reelected Imperialism was endorsed by the American nation, and the will of the na- , tifin must be obeyed." If you want to kill Imperialism I you must kill it NOW, at this elecI tion. If you do not want a great army ready to march hither and yon at Hanna's command, you must vote against that army THIS FALL. If you don’t want to see the ; power of trust monev backed up by a great STANDING ARMY CONTROLLED BY TRUSTS, you i would do well to vote against the i whole trust brood THIS fall. If you vote for Imperialism this year, don't complain when you got Imperialism in big doses right after election. There must be an investigation of the county records—the people demand it. The democrats of the Benton-Fountain-Warren judicial circuit have nominated John W. Sutton of Williamsport for judge, to oppose Judge Rabb, Again: What service did Francis Bostwick (the Barnacle editor's daughter) perform nt the late railroad election that Jasper county was under any obligation, either legally or morally, to’pay her sl2?

“A large standing army is not only a pecuniary burden to the people and, if accompanied by compulsory service, a constant source of irritation, but is ever a menace to a reiiublican form of government.”—From William J. Bryan’s Speech of Acceptance.

The case of an Omaha editor charged with contempt of court, has been the means of obtaining from the Nebraska Supreme Court an opinion on the right of newspapers to criticise judicial acts. Says the court: “Our decision# and all of our official actions are public property, and the press and the people have the undoubted right to comment upon them and criticise and censure them as thSy see fit. J udicial officers, like other public servants, must answer for their official actions before the chancery of public opinion; they must make good their claims to popular esteem by excellence and virtue, by faithful and efficient service, and by righteous conduct.

After being out but 53 minutes and taking only one ballot, the i’ury unanimously found Caleb ’owers guilty of conspiracy in the murder of Governor Goebel of Kentucky, and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. Those who followed the trial closely know that the verdict was a righteous one. When the jury retired to their room, Juror Porter, a republican school teacher, was the first to speak and said: “Gentleman, I have said that I did not believe Goebel’s murder the result of a conspiracy, I did not think Caleb Powers could be guilty, but I have heard the evidence and I am convinced he is.” Yet we have the humiliating spectacle of other conspirators in the plot to murder being furnished a safe refuge from the law’s clutches by our republican governor. One of the conspirators (Taylor) is making republican speeches for the republican state committee, while Another (Finley) is editing a republican newspaper!

Congressman Landis, speaking at Lebanon the other night, said of Gov. Mount, who was on the same platform: “He has demonstrated as governor that no gang of political bloodhounds can trace a legally elected governor of a state into Indiana and take him back a fugutive.” Mr. Landis is treading on tender ground. Before this he had placed himself in the attitude of defending political assissi nation—he and others of the same brand. The man whom the supreme court of the United States declared to have been legally elected governor of Kentucky was murdered in cold blood by men who were very close to W. 8. Taylor, the usurping governor. Taylor did all he could to screen the guilty. He surrounded them with soldiers, and when at last the suspected ones became known he issued pardons in the vain attempt to shield them from punishment. Then as soon as the court declared against him he fled in the wildest alarm from Kentucky and took refuge in Indiana. Flight may always be shown as evidence of guilt, and yet Mount, knowing that Taylor and others had, run away from arrest and trial on a charge of murder, refused to honor a requisition for their return. Mount and Landis and Hernly and their kind are apologists for and defenders of political assissi nation and shielders of persons duly indicted as assassins. If there is glory in it, if there is anything to be proud of and to brag about, they are welcome to it.

The Barnacle refers to George W. Castor, trustee of Milroy tp., as a democrat, and we do not question the Barnacle’s statement as based on the cow-puncher’s idea of what constitutes a democrat. The record of Mr. Castor’s democracy, however, is not such as would commend itself to loyal democrats of Jasper county. Mr. Castor was originally a republican, we understand, but became imbued with the populist doctrine for a short time and was nominated for township trustee in 1894 on the populist ticket, (no democratic ticket was put in the field) and was elected by the combined votes of populists and democrats. Soon after his election to this office, it seems, he forgot the people who had placed him at the head of their township government and has since utterly ignored populists and democrats and gone back to his first love, the republicans. What little patronage he has had to bestow has been given to republicans, who had no claims whatever upon it. His annual reports have not even been given the Barnacle, but were given to avowed republican papers. Two years ago Mr. Caster was “indisposed" on election day and did not appear to open the polls. An election in Milroy tp., as a result came very near being defeated, but was, after considerable delay and extraordinary effort on the part of the voters, arranged for and held, but the vote of the township trustee was not recorded as among those who voted. Today you will not find a. democrat in Milroy township who will say

that he believes Mr. Caster is a populist or democrat either, and to do him justice we will add that we never heard of his claiming to be the latter. The Barnacle is very hard up for followers when it claims Mr. Caster as a democrat, and, you know, the cow-puncher hates populists as the devil does holy water. Since its admission as a state in 1816, with but four exceptions—--1824, 1836, 1848 and 1876-the electoral vote of Indiana has been cast for the winning candidates for the presidency, and for the past 20 years there has been no break. Of this number the names of eight ended with the letter “n.” Bryan and Stevenson are sure winners, and will carry Indiana by at least 40,000 plurality. See if they don’t. Robert Parker wrote W. J. Bryan a Letter offering him S2OO for a one hour s speech at Fountain Park Assembly. Mr. Bryan replied that he did not speak for less than SSOO per hour. The great democratic leader’s struggle to be a friend of the poor man is likely to make him a millionaire.

The above is copied by the Official Apologist here from the Goodland Herald. The statement is only partially correct. About three years ago, so Mr. Parker says, through Hon. Anson Wolcott, he offered Mr. Bryan ‘s2so for an hour’s non-political speech at Fountain Park. At that time Mr. Bryan was devoting much of his time to lecturing and had engagements a long time ahead. Mr. Wolcott opened up a correspondence with him and reported to Mr. Parker that Mr. Bryan could not afford to come for less than SSOO. Mr. Parker did not want to take the chances on bad weather, etc., of the investment paying out, and Mr. Bryan was not engaged. Mr. Biyan’s presence would, of course, have been a great attraction and thousands of people would have paid their money at the Park gates to see and hear him. Mr. Bryan never has made any charge for speaking at any gathering that was free, but he has received good round sums for speaking where the affair was purely speculative, and has turned large sums of the money so received into the democratic campaign fund to assist the cause he stands for. His refusal three years ago to come all the way from Nebraska to make a nonpolitical address at Fountain Park for speculative purposes will lose him no votes in November.

Conn’s Conversion.

Carroll County Citizen: Republican papers throughout the state are parading the statement of Hon. C. G. Conn, the Elkhart horn manufacturer and former democrat, who says he will support McKinley. As Conn is the only democrat in the state who has changed his views the republican press and speakers are making his “conversion” a “paramount issue” in this state, but unfortunately for Mr. Conn, the Journal this week in its “McKinley prosperity” the “Old Flag and Philippine swag” department, inadvertently perhaps, but most effectually, reveals the cat in the meal tub as follows: “Indiana is furnishing all the musical instruments used by regimental bands in the Philippines, the product of the Conn factory at Elkhart. The factory is now running to its capacity to keep pace with the government orders.” There is the whole thing in a nut shell. Ex-Congressman Conn has swapped a prosperity statement for government orders. There also seems to be a method in the deal. Conn’s prosperity statement, as it appears in the Journal, occupies 63 lines. There is, according to government reports 63,000 U. 8. soldiers in the Philippines. Each regiment of 1,000 men usually has a regimental band. The McKinley-pros-perity and the band manufacturer have just about traded “even up,” one line of prosperity twaddle for one band order and Conn has the best of the deal. Whatever Mr, Conn may say of prosperity will cut no figure. The voters themselves know just how prosperous they are without being informed by wealthy manufacturers who are made prosperous by government orders. After Mr. Conn’s screed has had its run it would be in order to call on the government contractor for armor plate in exchange for fat contracts; the Studebakers, who are rushed with orders from the government for army wagons, and finally the people who pay the bills which tell their story at the polls in November.

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Rensselaer bargain Store. -r Bring your “Star,” “J. T.” “Horae Shoe,” “Old Honesty," “Good Luck,” “Cross-Bow,** and “Spear-Head** tags to me and get SOc per 100 for them.

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