Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Vote to open the books. [ARTICLE]

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.

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.