Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — Page 4

JIM MBIT DMT. ~ F. E. B«BeOGK, HITOB «HD PUBLISHER. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. ■stared at the Post-office at RensselarnJud. as secoud class matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: ONE YEAR *l-00 SIX MONTHS 50c THREE MONTHS, ;...25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’s Store. Notice To Advertisers. i_ Ali notices of a business character, including wants, for sate, t<r rent. • tost, etc., wtil bepublished In Thk Democrat at the rate of one cent per word for each insertion. No advertising will be accepted for less than HO cents. Cards of thanks will be published for 35cents and resolutions of condolence for SI.OO.

COUNTY PLATFORM.

Whebeas, Many counties of the state, by employing experts to examine the county records, have reclaimed thousands of dollars of fees and bills which have been wrongfully and illegally collected and held by county officials, and Whereas, Jasper county having been for years one of the very highest taxed counties of Indiana, and is at present burdened with one, if not the heaviest debts of any county of the state in proportion to populotion and wealth, ami Whereas, our county commissioners refuse to grain the peoples' petition when they pray for an honest Investigation of the county records; therefore be it Resolved, by this convention, that its candidates, today nominated pledge themselves, that if elected, to use all honorable, economical and reasonable means to have the county records examined thatthe people may know the true condition of our county a flaks; .and further, be it Resolved, that as a party And as candidates we promise to encourage and practice the most rigid economy in county and township affuirs, consistent with public good, and we invite all lovers of fair deatmg and good local government, to join us in trying to bring about the consumation of the pledges herein made. And further, •in asking the support of all good citizen's, we do it not for the sake of party triumph and party advantage but that a better order of thit gs may be brought about Inourown county management. * * »

DEMOCRATIC TICKETS.

NATIONAL. For I’r anient, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,' of Lincoln, Neb. . *=* For Vice-President, - ADLAI K. Si KVKNSON. ' of Bloomington. 111. , STATE. For Governor. JOHN W. KERN, of Indianapolis. For Lieutenant-Governor, JOHN C. LAWI.KK. of Salem. For Secretary of State, ADAM HEIMBEKGEK, of New Albany. For Auditor of State, JOHN W. MINOR, of Indianapolis. For Treasurer of State', JEROME 111 1 .KFT of Peru F'or Attorney General, CHAS. V. DRUMMOND, of Plymouth. For Reporter of Supreme Court. HENRY G. VERGIN', of Newcastle. F'or Sunt, of Public Instruction, 1 CHAS. A. GREATHOUSE, Mt. Vernon. For State Statistician, EDWARD HORI FF’, of Madison For Judge of Supreme Court. Ist Dist. GEO. L. REINHART, of Bloomington. For Judge of Supreme Court, -Ith Dist, JOSEPH M. ADAIR, of Columbia City. DISTRICT. ■< For Congressman. JOHN ROSS, of Lafayette. For State Senator, LUCIUS STRONG, of Rensselaer. F'or Representative for Jasper and Lake Counties. JOSEPH A. CLARK, of Lowell. F'or Prosecuting Attorney, for Jasper and Newton Counties. AUGUSTUS I». BABCOCK, of Goodiaud.

It is said that when Mark Hanna, in his Chicago speech to the trust magnates, declared that there were no trusts in the country, his audience went wild with applause. The suggestion that Mr. Bryan may accept Mark's challenge to a joint debate if the latter is certified to as the real president in case of Republican success, ought to got beneath even Mark’s thick cuticle. Mark Hanna states there are no trusts. Perhaps not. Mark has been bleeding them for some time and possibly they have expired in the process. But there is something else just as bad in their place, “H rose by another name.’’ A consignment of loot from Tientsin has been seized at San Francisco for non-payment of duties. It was sent by army and navy officers to their wives, sisters and friends, and is described as very costly and rich. Thus we are rapidly civilizing the heathen. The miuers are compelled to buy their powder from the mine operators, who, in many cases, charge them the same rate that they did thirty years ago. This is double the present market rate and is a steal pure and simple. Whatever may be true or untrue about the strike, this fact is unquestionable.

The need of u compulsory arbi- ' tration law is seen in the great coal strike. Like the late George M. Pullman, the coal trust settles back in its easy chair, folds its arms and says it “has nothing to arbitrate.” A little good, wholesome democratic legislation would soon show these gourmoranta whether they had anything to arbitrate or not.

The meeting of the National Association of Democratic clubs at Indianapolis next Wednesday and Thursday promises to be the greatest gathering of democratic hosts ever held in the capital city. The Jasper county clubs will be represented. The attempt of Rathbone’s lawyers to extradict Mr. Brewster is of course ridiculous and trivial, but it shows to what lengths Rathbone and Neely are willing to go, and probably justifies the administration in deciding not to attempt to prosecute them until after the election. Any present action taken against them would undoubtedly result in disclosures that might be embarrassing to Mark Hanna. If Colonel Durbin is so influential with the trusts as to secure the temporary opening of a nail mill at Anderson, as announced in Republican papers, will he be a proper man enforce against them the Indiana anti-trust laws? How is he connected with the trusts and what is the secret of his influence with them, anyway? Will Mr. Durbin get out in the open and answer these questions in which the people are interested? The democrats of the country no more endorse the treatment accorded Gov. Roosevelt and party by a crowd of ignorant miners at Victor, Colorado, Wednesday than did the better element of republicans the mob of Yale College students who broke up Mr. Bryan’s meeting at that great -sent of learning and republican city of Hartford, Connecticut, four years ago, when a gang of the millionaires’ sons rode through the crowd on horse-back, trampling women and children to earth and, wo bolieve, so badly injured one child that it afterwards died.

Gen. Weaver, in his speech Monday, ranked President McKinley with Jefferson Davis. The remark was highly applauded by several leading Democrats, including it is said, one very prominent candidate on their ticket. But the applauders used to be great admirers of Jeff Davis and may be they thought that Weaver was paying McKinley a great compliment! Who knows?— Apologist. The above statement is wholly false, as the liar who wrote ife well knew if he knew anything at all about it. Democrats never have had nor do they expect anything like fair treatment from that dirty sheet. They should cut out the! above clipping and paste it in their hats for future reference. The leader of the Republican party, the man who absolutely controls its policy and says what it shall do and what it shall not do - Mark Hanna—says there are no trusts. That shows how the republican party will destroy the trusts. It shows also what reliance may be placed in Republican platform declarations on that subject. The grist of the matter is that the trusts have “contributed,” and their schemes of robbery are not to bo interferred with if McKinley is re-elected. Last week Hanna, at a banquet in Chicago, J said: “Mix up the dose and give jit to tho people.” This is no doubt a part of the dose.

The Rensselaer Republican, tho self-alleged official organ of the Republican party in Jasper county, has been at all times in sympathy with the Hanna-McKinley administration, including tho Porto Rican taritf steal {after McKilfley went back on “our plain duty” statement), the Boer war question and all other matters of importance. On the Boer war its editor feared to openly endorse England’s policy of crushing those hardy patriots. but published editorials of lfis own and other republican AntiBoer sympathizers which plainly showed where the official organ stood, ns its readers well remem oer or can easily find by consulting the copies published last February. The German and Holland vote in Jasper was a big thing, and they, together with all liberty-loving people, heartily sympathized with the Boers, hence the Official Apologist dared not opeidy espouse England’s cause. We do not believe these voters, however, will forget the covert espousal England received from the administration and the administration press of the country, including the Rensselaer Republican, when they enter the booth to prepare their ballot this fall.

Editor’s Awful Plight.

F- M. Higgins, Editor Seneca (Ills)., News, was afflicted for years with Piles that no doctor or remedy helped until he tried Huckten's Arnica salve, the best it, the world. He writes, two boxes wholly cured him, Infallible for Filet. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c. Sold by J. A. Larsh druggist.

Morris’ English Worm Powder rrScw. Me. per hoc. . Sold by A. b Look.

If there is any class of labor in the world that should be well paid it is that of the coal miner who takes his ljfe in his hands 'every time he enters the bowels of the earth to toil for the _ soulless corporations. Nearly every week we read of scores of lives lost in some mine horror, and yet this perilous occupation is the poorest paid of any in the whole country. There are no other employments that have so little possibilities of enjoyment, so little of the common blessings of life as that of the coal miner. He ought to be well paid and his family have a fair chance, but he isn’t. The mining companies generally own the miserable shacks the miners are compelled to live in, for which they charge exorbitant rents, while the company pluck-me stores get the balance of the poor devils’ scanty earnings and generally keep them in its debt. Whole families are compelled to labor in the mines to eke out a scanty existence. No one can realize the pitiful condition of these people who has not personally been among them and seen with his own eyes the true facts. The writer, born and raised a republican and believing in its principles, years ago got his eyes open to the fallacy of the republican party’s plea for a high tariff to “protect the American laborer,” through observations made while in the factory districts of Massachusetts and seeing the true condition of "protected” labor. We saw then that the whole protective theory was a sham and a fraud, so far as its benefits to the American laborer was concerned,, but it did enable the protected manufacturer to keep up the price of his product and reap great benefit therefrom. The factory owner owned tho tenement houses, boarding houses, coal yards, market places and pluck-me stores, etc., and it was difficult for a single man to get work if the company had any unoccupied tenements. The rents charged were enormous and with the aid of the company or pluckme stores the mill owners got back about all of the meager wages paid their employes. This started us to investigating other claims of the republican party, and the result was that we landed in the democrat camp fifteen years ago, and our conscience has never pricked us any for having done so. Having seen with our own eyes the condition of factory employes in Massachusetts at that time we can fully realize what must be that of the poor, ignorant miners in the coal regions, where it is a hundred times worse. The miners have just grievances but -so great a hold has the coal trust got on the throat of the government, and especially the great republican state of Pennsylvania, where the coal trust and railroads control all legislation, they will be forced in the end to submit at the point of a bayonet, and then their condition will be worse thfvu ever.

The Effect Upon Ourselves.

In a late number Air. Goff takes as a text for his excellent poem a quotation from Thos. H. Buckle, one of England’s profoundest thinkers and ablest historians, and who doubtless would have been one of the most eminent men but for his early death. The thought tiented by Mr. Goff is so important and so full of significance that it deserves to bo further treated, and with that end in view there is herewith submitted more matter on the same subject. Buckle wrote: "In order to defend the attempt to destroy the liberties of America, principles were laid down which, if carried into effect, would have subverted the liberties of England. Not only in the court but lu both houses of Parliiuent, from the Episcopal bench, and from the pulpits of the church party there were promulgated doctrines of the most dangerous kind, doctrines unsuited to a constitutional goverument, and, indeed, incompatible with it. The danger was so imminent as to make the ablest defenders of popular liberty believe that everything was at stake, and that if America were vanquished the next step would be to attack the liberties of England, and endeavor to extend to the mother country the same arbitrary government which by that time would have been established in the colonies. If the colonists had been defeated our liberties would have been in great jeopardy. From that risk we were saved by the Americans, who with heroic spirit resisted the royal arms, defeated them at every point, and seperated themselves from the mother oountry.” It is surely not unreasonable to assume that if Buckle were a living American today he would believe and declare that tho Philipiuos are fighting for their own. Regarding the same matter Dr. Jebb, an able writer and observer of the time, said that “tho American war must be decisive of the liberties of both countries. Lord Chatham wrote in 1777: “Poor England, if successful, will have fallen upon her own sword.” The groat Edmund Burke, perhaps the greatest of English statesmen, said: “Thnt the establishment of such a power in America will utterly ruin our finances is the

smallest part of our concern; it will become an apt power and certain engine for the destruction of our freedom here.” For the, same reason Fox wishes thp Americans to be victonpds. Many more quotations or the same character might be made. It is interesting to note that those men, while the ablest and most devoted friends and champions of the liberties of Englishmen, were denounced as “unpatriotic,” “disloyal,” “men who ought to leave the country if they don’t like it,” etc., etc. But the logic of events proved that they were right. The success of the American colonists immediately broadened the liberties of Englishmen. The principles of democracy have in fact grown more rapidly in England since the American Revolution than they have here. The result of that war secured to English colonies inhabited by Englishmen a form of government that the American colonies would never have revolted form. If the success of the colonies had such an effect can there be any doubt that their failure would have been followed by a realization of the predictions of the great Englishmen quoted? The same danger confronts this country now. If our government practices the art of governing without the consent of the governed, and the act is approved by the people, how can they be assured that the principle will not be made to apply in the north temperate zone as well as in the tropics, in the United States as well as in tho Philippines? If sucnLA/poison is allowed to find a place anywhere in our domain where is the assurance that the infection will not spread to all parts? “It is this that should give us pause.”— Farm, Stock And Home.

Cows For Sale. 200 milkers and springers; always on hand. Sold on one year’s time. Sam Yeoman.

Township Trustees’ Service Account.

Following are the bills of the various township trustees for service account for the year ending Sept. 1, 1900, as shown by published reports: Hanging Grove.. .$ 163 00 Wheatiield 216 00 Keener 231 00 Giiiam not given Barkley report not published Carpenter (-13 months) . . ....... 322 00 Miiroy 108 00 Kankakee 147 00 Union noygiveu Jordan 200 00 Marlon 253 00 Walker 170 00 Newton 128 00 For some reason the service account in Gillam and Union was not given. In Union tp., however, the service account last year was §334, about the second highest in the county. We are informed that the trustee of Barkley township will not publish his report, for what reason we are not advised.

MARKIAGE LICENSES.

Irwin F. Stone to Marie M. Loftus, issued Sept. 22. Albert E. Abbott to Elizabeth A. Keiper, issued Sept, 24. Andrew Knopinski to Josephine Bridenbach, issued Sep. 27.

A Powder Mill Explosion

Removes everything in sight; so do drastic mineral pills, but both are mighty dangeious. No need to dynamite your body when Dr. King’s New Life Pills do the work so easily and perfectly. Cures Headache, Constipation. Only 25 cents at Larsh's Drug Store.

OAK LUMBER.

My sawmill is now running, 5 miles north of Rensselaer, and I am prepared to furnish all kinds of oak lumber and sawed to order, if required. Phone 176. D. H. Yeoman, Rensselaer, Ind.

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Warren & Irwin are making loans on fariji or city property at a low rate of interest aua commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. S. P. Thompson will sell his lands in L T nion township, in tracts, and on terms to suit those desiring to farm or raise stock. See or write to S. P. Thompson, Rensselaer, Ind.

HONAN’S AdENCY. City Property For Sale. 10 acres inside city limits, finest land In the state. young orchard and shade trees street 00 a aides. Ideal market garden. Price 92,000. House and corner lot 1 block from Court House, most beautiful location In the city, a bargain at 92,000. Cottage and corner lot, good well, bam and garden patch, coat 91,100, for sale at 9750. New house and barn; orchard and 8K acres of gronod In small fruits, ideal place for market garden, Inside city limits, south of railroad, coat 9Q.000, will sell at SI,OOO Kor particulars call or wrile, E. P. Honan, Rensselaer, Ind.

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Democratic Headquarters.

Democratic headquarters have been opened in the opera house building, over Huff’s jewelry store, where you can meet the County Secretary or Chairman or their representatives at most any time. All democrats in the county are requested to call and report progress. Respectfully,

N. S. BATES, Chm.

C. D. Nowels, Sec’y.

Does It Pay To Buy Cheap?

A cheap remedy for coughs and colds is all right, but you want something that will relieve and cure the more severe and dangerous results of throat and lung troubles. What shall you do? Go to a warmer and more regular climate? Yes, if possible for you, then in either case take the only remedy that has been introduced in all civilized countries with success in severe throat and lung troubles, “Boschee’s German Syrup.” It not only heals and stimulate* the tissues to destroy the germ disease, but allays inflarnation, causes easy expectoration, gives a good night’s rest, and cures the patient. Try one bottle. Recommended many years by all druggists in the world. For sale by A. F. Long.

Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a Great Favorite.

The soothing and healing properties of this remedy, its pleasant taste and prompt and permanent cures have made it a great favorite with people everywhere. It is especially prized by mothers of small children for colds, croup and whooping cough, as it always affords quick relief, and as it contains no opium or other harmful drug, it may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. For sale by J. A. Larsh.

The Rensselaer Steam Laundry. Telephone 115. C. S. CHAMBERLAIN & CO., Propr’s. Office North Side of Public Square. Good work, prompt service, close attention to details, improved machinery, expert help, are making The Rensselaer Steam Laundry one of the best in Northern Indiana. Our constant aim is to give our patrons work that cannot be excelled. Our.. f Linens, Our [Remington, flf': J Quick work, Agen- j Monon, Lace Curtain work. c,eß * *!j Rose Lawn t Woolens without shrinking, 1 ; Mt. Ayr. Fair Oaks. Please tell your friends about the quality of work you get. RENSSELAER STEAH LAUNDRY.

MiiMCiin And all the boys that want a nice Buggy: Remember that I have the Rubber Tire jobs in stock. Call and see them; you are welcome to inspect and get prices. Cash counts for anything I have for sale. I will name some of the goods: Studebaker Farm Wagons, Weber Farm Wagons, Studebaker Buggies and Carriages, Page Bros. Buggies, also other makes I have the agency for the Weeks Weighing Scales, with patent combination beam without extra charge; the Birdsell Clover Huller, a world-beater, and the Huber Engines and Threshers outfit. This engine won all four prizes at the world’s fair at Chicago, and is better to-day . than ever; and these two machines, viz: the McCormick New 4 Mower and the Right-Hand Binder, the world cannot beat. You are cordially invited to call and see them and get a catalogue. 'VSfVWuVu'wWi.n Thanking you for past favors, I am, yours truly, CHAS. A. ROBERTS. Located at Glaiebrook's Blacksmith Shop, Front St„ Rensselaer, Ind

•m k nii m! nut lies Nis Brin Proof.. Fed regularly for a preventive it repays its cost three fold in extra flesh, saves grain, expels worms, stops cough. Prices $2.50, $1.25 and 50c per package; 25-lb cans $12.50, half cans $6.50. For sale by CHAS. A. ROBERTS, Rensselaer, Ind.

H\ DENTAL SCIENCE... C Has reached its highest point in our office. We have f conquered pain and anxiety. We have assured our pa- ? tients that our methods and price* are in keeping with \ Jental progress. Confidence haa been the keynote of / our success. If we work for you once we’re sure of getting all your work, as well as the dental work of your . C relatives and friends. Onr dental work co’L little, wears orric* UPSTAIRS ✓ well, and Is guaranteed to bethebestthatmoneycan buy 1 IN HORTON BL'K ? ■ Hoc°.r* COCRT ) J. W. HORTON, Dentist.

Craft’* Distemper and Cough Cure Flkis, Ns. ILMfir klttfl. Sold by A. V. Long.

When you want a pleasant physic try the new remedy, Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price. 25 cents. Samples free at J. A. Larsh’s drug store. I have private ffinds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates Funds always on hand”

W. B. AUSTIN.

5 PER CENT. MONEY.

Money to burn. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison.

Non=Resident Notice. State of Indiana,) Jasper County j * n l !?£™ Jas P er Circuit Court, September Term, 1900. William B. Chilcote) r j- f Complaint No. 5970. Lydia V. Chilcote. ) By order of Court, in said cause, the following defendant was found to be non-resident of the State of Indiana, to-wit: Lydia V. Chilcote. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendant, that unless she be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be hoiden on the 2nd Monday of November. A. D. 1900, at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, which is for divorce, the same will be heard and determined in her absence, t—, In witness whereof, I hereunto I seal I set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 11th day of September, A. D. 1900. John F. Major. Clerk. — lames W. Douthit. Att’y for plaintiff.

Morris’ English Stable Liniment Sold by A< If - JLod£.