Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Page 4

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DEMOCRATIC TICKETS.

NATIONAL. For President; - WILLI A.IJ E N NIN <ISHRY AN, ot Lincoln. Neb. For Vice-President, ADL VI 1,. STEVENSON, ■ f Bloomington, 111. For Governor, JOHN W. KERN, of Indianapolis. Fm- Lieutenant-Governor. JOHN C. LAWLER, of Salem. For Secretary of State, ADAM HEIMBERGK-R, of New Albany. For Auditor o£ State, JOHN W. MINOR, of Indianapolis. Fur Treasurer of State. JEROME HEKFF, of Peru. For'Attorney General, CHAS. P. HKI MMOND. of Plymouth. For Reporter of Supreme Court, HENRY <>. YERGIN, of New Castle. For Sure, of Public Instruction, CHAS. a. GREATHOUSE, Mt. Vernon. !•. r State Statistician. EDWARD HORI FF. of Madison. For Judge of Supreme Court. Ist Dist. GKO. L. REINHART, of Bloomington. For Judge oi Supreme Court, Ith DiSt, JOSEPH XE Columbia City. DISTRICT. 1-or <’ongressman. JOHN ROSS, of Lafayette. For State Senator, LI'CIVS S I'KONG, of Rensselaer. For Representative for Jasper and Lake Counties. JOSEPH A. CLARK, of Lowell. For Prose itc g Attorney, for Jasper and Newton Counties. ACtiOTl > I». BABCOCK, of Goodland. • COUNTY. For Treasurer, WILLIAM J RIED, of Jordan Township. .•or Recorder. JOHN KIMBLE, of Barkley Township. For Sheriff, WILLI AM H. BEAM, of Rensselaer. For County Assessor, ROBERT J. Y EOM A N, of Newton Township For Surveyor. THOMAS M. CALLAHAN, of Barkley Tp. For Coroner, Dr. WILLIAM C. SCHWI ER. of Wheatfield tp Commissi >ner from Second District, DAVID Cl LP. of Hanging Grove Township. Commits oner from Third District, GEORGE HESSE, of Remington. For Coni.tv Councilmen—at Large. GEORGE O STF.MBEL, of Wheatfield. FELIX FRENCH, of Rensselaer. JAMES C I’il-.RCE, of Marion Township. Councilman n>r District No. 1. composed of 1.1.t0n. Keener, Wheatfield and Kankakee townships. JOSEPH GKI’BE. of Wheatfield tp. Councilman for District No. 3. composed of Hanging Gr ve, Gillam. Walker and Barkley townships. GEORGE S I ALBAVM. of Walker tp. Councilman for District No. 3. composed of . anon and Newton townships. JOSEPH NAGEL, of Marion township. Councilman for District No. 4. composed of . Carpenter. Jordan and Milroy Townships. JAMES D. CARSON, of Remington.

COUNTY PLATFORM.

Whereas. 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 odecteU 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, and Whereas, our county commissioners refuse to grant 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 rt-a- nabl • means to have the county records examined that the people may know the true condition of our county affairs; and further, be it Resolved, that as a party and as candidates we pro., i.-e to entourage and practice the most rigid economy in county and township affairs, consilient with public good, and we invite all lovers ot fair dealing and good local government, to join us in trying to bring about the consiimatio.i of the pledges herein made. And further, in asking the support of all good citizens, we do it not for the sake of party triumph and party advantage but that a better order ot t!ii gs may be brought about in our own county management. * * •

Vote to open the books.

Any ('unity offijer whois dissatisfied w t i the salary provided by law for Lis services and who pays over money belonging to the county under protest, ought not to ask the people for re-election. Whe i ex-President Harrison opSjses Pr >ud mt McKinley’s Porto ican policy he opposes the very essence of imperialism} The people of the id til are rio nearer a republican f >r.n of government than they w >r.> under the oppressive nil • o.‘ S> tin. Shelbyville. Ind., Oct. 15. Judge Morris has selected Judge Kirkpatrick of Kokomo to try the crimiral er; -.■< against George M. Commissioners Amos. Girton «|dCberrv and ex-Sheriff William MctMtugail for filing false c|aiins againV the county and inisappropriiftuig the county’s funds. I Jmfge.KirV’alrick will arrive nest Tuesday, w\yjrflie issues will be i made up. !

If the tax payers of Keener tp., want to recover the $6,000 of the ,Keener tp., gravel road fund — the 20 per cent, which the law provides must be kept back —that was squandered along with the balance of the construction they must vote this fall for an investigation of the county records. i Horace E. Smith, attorney for ex- County Treasurer William H. Schmidt, intimated yesterday that upon Mr. Schmidt’s return from New Mexico he would al once take steps to fight in the courts the collection of over $9,000 of fees, charged by Expert Accountants Leslie and Ayres as due the county and held up by Schmidt. In settlement of the claim against exTreasurer Sterling R. Holt Mr. Holt promptly gave his cheek for the full amount charged against him - slo,ooo con tingen t upon his own experts being given access to the books in the treasurer’s office to verify Hie account. E. M. Johnson and Frank Miller are now engaged in examining the records for Mr. Holt.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

If there was ever a time in the history of this country when the wives and mothers of the land should take an interest in politics and exert their influence toward defeating the expansion policy of the republican trust-dominated party, now is the time. The reelection of McKinley means an endorsement of forceful expansion and its twin allies, militarism and imperialism. It means a large standing army to fight the battles such a policy inevitably brings about and the enlistment and filially forced service of the fathers, husbands and boys. Do you want to see your husband or your son drafted into service to assist in fighting “expansion” battles thousands of miles away in some pestilential clime? If not, use your influence, wives, mothers and sweethearts to prevent an indorsement of a policy fraught with these dire results.

Our republican friends in the north profess great love for the negro and raise their hands in holy horror at laws passed in some of the southern states requiring educational qualifications to entitle residents of those states to the right of suffrage, their latest spasm being that of one of the. Carolinas. Only a day or two ago, however, we read in the daily papers of a negro who had begun an action for damages against an Ohio jury, alleging that a case in court had been decided against him by the said jury, wholly contrary to law end evidence, simply because he was a negro; and the banner republican state of the Union, Pennsylvania, requires suffrage qualifications which would disfranchise 95 per cent, of all the colored men of the South, as does also the Nutmeg State of Connecticut. Even Teddy, the republican nominee for the viceprsidency, the man who says that the drunken cowboys are much better citizens than are farmers or laboring men and mechanics, in his “Life of Gouverneur Morris” advocates a property qualification as a right to suffrage. Congressman Crumpacker and the rest of his cohorts have unlimited gall to refer to disfranchisement in the south.

The Administration writers and speakers are slow to discuss the important business to come up at the session of Congress which opens seven weeks hence. Under a continuation of present policies there must be vastly increased appropriations to carry on foreign wars. Instead of the wiping out of jiestiferous war taxes, which the Republican leaders promised should take place next winter (after the election), there will be more of them. A large standing army will be to provide for, and the willingness of the people to volunteer in numbers sufficient to meet the imperative requirements in the Philippine Islands will be tested to the last notch. During the next year a great many of our soldiers will be brought home dead, and others will come alive by reason of the expiration of their terms of enlistment. The present war is not for the defense of tne country. It is not for the preservation of the republic. On the contrary, it is tearing down republican principles at every step. There has ceased to be patriotic incentive to a war for conquest in a countrv on the other side of the globe. . In a fight to establish empire over a people who are not assimilative with us there is no warm invitation to our citizen soldiery. This is the kind of war, though, for which Congress at its coming session must make elaborate preparations. The season of campaign lying will then be over. The real condition in Luzon will have to lie acknowledged.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Gems From “Teddy’s” Books.

Theodore Roosevelt, the republican candidate for vice-presi-dent, the man who in case of election may become president, has written several books in which readers of the same can get a true insight into the man’s character and his ideals of citizenship. Intelligent men who are thoughtfully weighing Mr. Roosevelt’s claim for their political" support, will do well to read some* passages from his life of Benton, in the American Statesmen Series. In that book, pages 290 to 295, in a chapter entitled “The Abolitionist Dances to the Slave Baron’s Piping,” Mr. Roosevelt pays his respects to the Abolitionist, and, among other things, says: “Polk was backed by rabid Southern fire eaters and slavery extensionists, who had deified negro bondage and exalted it beyond the Union, the Constitution, and everything else; by the almost solid foreign vote, still unfit for the duties of American citizenship; by the vicious and criminal classes of all the great cities of the North and in New Orleans; by the corrupt politicians, who found ignorance and viqiousness tools ready forged to their hands, wherewith to perpetrate the gigantic frauds without which the election would have been lost; and, lastly, HE WAS ALSO BACKED INDIRECTLY BUT MOST POWERFULLY BY POLITICAL ABOLITIOISTS. * * * The Liberty party, in running Birney, simply committed a political crime, evil in almost all its consequences; they in no sense paved the way for the Republican party, or helped forward the anti-slavery cause, or hurt the existing organizations. * * * They bore considerable resemblance—except that, after all, they really did have a principle to contend for—to the political Prohibitionists of the present day, who go into the third party organizations, and are, not even excepting the saloon keepers themselves, the most efficient allies on whom intemperance and the liquor traffic can count.” HE DON’T LIKE THE PEACEFUL QUAKER. On page 37 of the same work this knight of the bronco and the six-shooter uncorks his vial of condemnation on the peaceful Quaker, as follows: “But after all, this ruffianism was really not a whit worse in its effects on the national character than was the case with certain of the ‘universal peace’ and ‘non-resistance’ developments in the northeastern states; in fact, it was more healthy. A class of professional non-combatants is as hurtful to the real, healthy growth of a nation as is a class of‘fire-eaters; for weakness or folly is nationally as bad as a vice, or worse; and in the long run A QUAKER MAY BE QUITE AS UNDESIRABLE A CITIZEN AS A DUELIST.” HIS IDEAL CITIZEN. Nor is the Life of Benton the only book in which Mr. Roosevelt has seen fit to indulge in expressions of this sort. His older book, “Ranch Life and Hunting Trail,” presents a passage that is a revelation of the man’s ways of thinking, and of his real character. Speaking of the cowboys, on pages 9 and 10 of that book, he says: “Peril and hardships and years of toil, broken by weeks of brutal dissipation, draw haggard lines across their eager faces, but never dim their reckless eyes nor break their bearing of self-confidence. * * * When drunk on the villainous whiskey of the frontier towns they cut mad antics, riding their horses into the saloons, firing their pistols right and left, from boisterous lightheartedness rather than from viciousness, and indulging too often in deadly shooting affrays brought on either by the accidental contact of the moment, or on account of some longstanding grudge, or perhaps because of bad blood between the ranches or localities. THEY ARE MUCH BETTER FELLOWSAND PLEASANTER COMPANIONS THAN SMALL FARMERS OR AGRICULTURAL LABORERS. NOR ARE THE MECHANICS AND WORKMEN OF A GREAT CITY TO BE MENTIONED IN THE SAME BREATH.” This passage ought greatly to add to the enthusiasm with which the honest, peaceable, lawabiding, temperate, God-fear-ing and Christian farmers and working men of the country will vote the Republican ticket—may be!! Any one anxious to verify these statements will find both of the volumes which we mention in almost any public library.

The Democrats it is true, have little money with which to battle against the overwhelming resources of Mark Hanna. But a similar state of thihgs existed a century and a quarter ago, when the colonists were fighting Great Britain. Yet the people won then.

An investigation of the county records means the recovery of thousands of dollars to Jasper county that has been illegally paid out. Do you want this money recovered, taxpayer? If so, vote the democratic county ticket, the candidates on which are pledged to make an investigation and recover this money. There was a time a few years ago that a great many of the “good and loyal citizens” who always affiliate with the god and morality party, believed all the whiskey was drunk by the wicked democrats, and while they might not have held the opinion that all democrats were horsethieves, they firmly believed all horpe thieves were democrats. These pious subjects of William I. would no doubt be rudely shaken were they to learn of the alleged methods used by two of the god and morality candidates at Remington at the Barrett meeting, and these “methods” took place in a saloon, too. One republican from this city estimated the “methods” cost some S2O or $25. At 5 cents a glass this would amount to 40Qor 500 glasses.

A Mathematical Problem.

In Commissioners' Record 11, pages 478-9. record of the October, 1900, proceedings of the county commissioners, are a couple of entries regarding the transfer of county funds to the Auditor's and Treasurer’s Funds, respectively, amounting to $10,594.96. The petitions for the transfer recites that

warrants have been drawn on each of these funds in favor of Henry B. Murray and Jesse C. Gwin, as auditor and treasurer respectively, during their respective terms of office, in excess of fees collected by them and pa’d into the said “Auditor’s Fund” and “Treasurer’s Fund,” to the amount above shown, and the respective funds show on the books as overdrawn the above amounts. The amount overdrawn in the “Auditor’s Fund” is given at $5,431.67, and the amount overdrawn in the “Treasurer’s Fund” as $5,163.29. To square up the books the commissioners were asked to transfer from the county fund to each of these funds the amount thus overdrawn. The prayer of the petitions was granted and transfer made. That the reader may get a more intelligent idea of this matter we will state that the fee and salary law provides for the collection of certain fees by the various officers and such fees are to be turned over to the county treasurer and by him credited to funds known as the “County Auditor’s Fund,” “County Treasurer’s Fund,” etc , and the salary of such officer shall be paid out of the funds thus created. Now. we of course, know nothing about how much was collected and turned into these respective funds by the above officers during their terms of office, but Jesse C. Gwin was treasurer two terms, 4 years, and the salary is $1,200 per year or $4,800 for the four years. How in the name of Mark Hanna could warrants be issued to him during this term for salary (the only charge that can be made against this fund) that would overdraw the “County Treasurer’s Fund” $5,163.29, or $363.29 more than the total salary amounted to if the officer didn’t collect one penny of fess? ’

“I have an ambition to become the chief executive of. Indiana, and if elected, as I feel sure I will be, it shall be .my constant thought and steady aim to see that the state maintains its foremost place in the union. I pledge myself to an honest and economical administration of state affairs, when Indiana will no longer be a haven of refuge for fugitives from justice, and I now serve notice that democratic fugitives will not be tolerated any more than republican fugitives./^—Hon. John W. Kern, Democratic Candidate for .Governor.

Why Under Protest?

On Commissioners Record No. 11; at page 233, we find the following entry: “No. 7103, Robert B.iPorter, Recorder Report of fees. “Comes now Robert B. Porter, recorder of Jasper county, and presents his report of fees for quarter ending May 31, 1899, amounting to 5735.25, WHICH SUM I HAVE PAID INTO THE COUNTY TREASURY UNDER PROTEST and to avoid probable litigation for failure to do so. “The Board now examines and approves said report." Now the supreme court has time and again decided the fee and salary law of 1891 and 1895 constitutional, and reiterated -in those decisions that all fees of whatsoever nature collected by county officers under that law are the property of the county, and not of the officers who collected them, that the officer is confined strictly to his salary and “shall receive no other compensation for his services whatever.” “Words could hardly be stronger or more explicit,” says Supreme Judge Timothy E. Howard, in delivering the opinion upholding the law, inthe!47tb Indiana at page 184. The salary fixed by this law for the recorder of Jasper county is $l,lOO. This salary has been paid right along each quarter, as shown by the allowances made by the commissioners. Why, then, should that officer pay THE COUNTY’S OWN MONEY into the county treasury under protest? Why did the commissioners accept a report made under protest? Does the officer who paid the county’s money into the county treasury according to law expect, if reelected to office again this fall, to continue paying in the fees collected by him under protest, and then begin suit against the county to collect it back hoping that the law may finally be overthrown. These are pertinent questions for the taxpayers of Jasper county to decide before casting their ballots thia fall.

Some one more indiscreet than he should have been is alleged to have called McKinley “a traitor” on the street last Saturday. While this practice of charging political opponents with the crime of treason is not commendable, it does not lie in the mouth of Geo. E. Marshall to burst forth in invective against it. He has quoted with approval anything said by a numerous class of republican thugs, and thieves who have charged every crime in the calender against Mr. Bryan. He has been charged with inciting rebellion against the United States, with having caused the death of every soldier killed in the Philippines, with having given aid and comfort to the enemies of his county. No crime against man could be greater. Yet these charges have been made and reiterated by republicans time and again. How about McKinley, anyhow? When Capt. Oberlin M. Carter stole $2,500,000 from the U. 8., was court martialed, unanimously condemned and sentenced to five years hard labor, McKinley holds up the enforcement of the sentence for two years, because Carter had rich and influential friends; when Neely, Rathbone, Heath & Co., rob the Cuban postoffice of some $200,000 and are not even prosecuted—indeed Heath is in charge of this same scandal-bureau of 1 he god and morality party; when he appoints John W. Griggs attorney general of the U. 8., a man identified with the trusts, and who has persistently refused to prosecute any of them; who retired. Com. General Egan on full pay for five years for the little crime of TJurchasing thousands of pounds of rotten beef and delivering it to the army as rations; who permits M. A. Hanna, a notorious briber and boodler, who stands charged by his own party with having bought his seat in the U. 8. senate, manage his compaign for re-elec-tion— must, if he had knowledge’of any of these things, be either a fool or a knave, and a man wholly unfit to the office of president. A man protecting such a gang of thieves should be defeated at the polls Nov. 6.

cits’ Hoosier Poultry Powder Make* H«ns Lay, cnrsa Cholera, Gapes and Roup, and keeps poultry healthy. Price, aa<.. per parkiya Sold by A. F. Long.

Blood. We live by our blood, and on it. We thrive or starve, as our blood is rich or poor. There is nothing else to live on or by. When strength is full and spirits high, we are being refreshed, bone muscle and brain, in body and mind, with continual flow of rich blood. This is health. When weak, in low spirits, no cheer, no spring, when rest is not rest and sleep is not sleep, we are starved ; our blood is poor; there is little nutriment in it. Back of the blood, is food, to keep the blood rich. When it fails, take Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. It sets the whole body going again—man woman and child. If you have not tried it, send for free sample, its agreeable taste will surprise you. SCOTT & BOWN’E, Chemists 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and st.oo; all druggists.

Job Couldn’t Have Stood It If he’d had Itching Piles. They’re terribly annoying; but Bucklen’s Arnica Salve will cure the worst case of Piles on earth. It has cured thousands. For Injuries, Pains or Bodily Eruptions it’s the best salve in the world. Price 25c. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by J. A. Larsh, druggist.

QUESTION ANSWERED. Yes, August Flower still has the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thought of using anything else for Indigestion or Billiousness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of Appendicitis, Nervous Prostration or Heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation of undigested food, regulate the action of the liver, stimulate the nervous and organic action of the system, and that is all they took when feeling dull and bad with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green’s August Flower, in liquid form, to make you satisfied there is nothing serious the matter with you. For sale by A. F. Long.

A Thousand Tongues Could not express the rapture of Annie E.'Springer, of Philadelphia, when Dr. King’s New Discovery cured her of a hacking cough that for many years had made life a harden. She says: “After all other remedies and doctors failed it soon removed the pain in my chest am! I can now sleep soundly, something I can scarcely remember doing before. I feel like sounding its praises throughout the Universe.” Dr. King’s New Discovery is guaranteed to cure all troubles of the Throat, Chest and Lungs. Price 50 and Si. Trial bottles free at Larsh's Drug Store. For Sale at a Bargain. I have a farm of 109‘4 acres for sale. The farm is well fenced, has five never failing springs, a brick house of 4 rooms in good order, bank barn 45x50. good well, sufficient timber for. firewood and fencing. Land in shape for crops. Possession given at once. Best of reasons for selling, price $1,500. Title perfect, Abstract furnished. Address, Geo. F. Lawrence. Mayor, North Vernon, Ind. Mention this paper. HONAN’S AGENCY. City Property For Sale. 10 acres inside city limits, finest land in the state, young orchard and shade trees street on 2 sides, ideal market garden. Price $2,000. House and corner lot 1 block from Court House, most beautiful location in the city, a bargain at $2,000. Cottage and corner lot. good well, barn and garden patch, cost $l,lOO, for sale at $750. New house and barn; orchard and 814 acres of ground in small fruits, ideal place for market garden. Inside city limits, south of railroad, cost $6,000, will sell at $4,000. For particulars call or wrile, E. P. Honan, Rensselaer, Ind. Real Estate Transfers. Mary Mulcahy to Abraham Pruett Sept, 8. 10 acres off west side ne ntf 38-38-7, Jordan, SBOO. William Mulcahy to Abraham Pruett, Oct. 0, 80 acres off east side ne nw 28-28-6, Jordan. SOOO. Norman E. Helmick commissiore-, to Albert S. Keene. May 14. sub-div. of It 1, 12, 18, bl 2. Bentley's add Wheatfield. SB3O. Com. deed. Same to same. April 80. sub-div. of It 2, 13, 18. bl 2. same add. $ 15. Com. deed. B. J. Gifford to Albert S. Keene. Trustee. Sept. 29. pt secor. se 18-83-6, Wheatfield. sl. George B. Switzer to James Fay. Oct, 8, eK nw sw 17-30-6, 30 acres. Barkley, S6OO. F. Guy Barnard to Charles W. Coen et al, Aug. 22, pt nw 17-31-6, Walker, It 4, Gifford. SISOO. U. S. of America to Allen McCasliin, Dec, 1, 1848, wW ne 15-80-0.160 acres. Barkley. Patent. Edward T. Biggs, Administrator, to Karen Gulbransen, Sept. 10. s 70 a. nW se 5-31-5, Walker. S7OO. Adm. deed. George N. Wineland et al to David Vanderhoof. Aug. 30, nH'ne 26-81-6, 80 acres, Walker, SI,OOO. James B. Graham to Sarah A. Connor, Oct. 11, It 4, bl 5, W’heatfleld, Graham's Sec. add. $75.