Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — Page 4

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Som-bUy suggests that, as a last remit to try the full dinner pail argument on Aguinaldo. Lord Salisbury has extended his congratulations to the nation for having defeated Mr, Bryan. The British can always be relied upon to be needlessly offensive. Now we will liave the ship subsidy steal, which will take SO,000:090 a year for 20 years out of the pockets of the taxpayers and hand is over to the shipping trust ns a bonus. Now that the election is over, Secretary Long can agree to the demands of the armor innkers and grant them all they asked, exorbitant as li > once denounced their demand- to be.. Senator Hamm is being boomed for the Presidency in 1004, but of course In 1 will not be nominated. No President has ever yet been given a third term, and the country is not likely to begin with Mark. Of course. Great Britain is pleased with the result of the election In the first place, she is glad to depress silver and buy it cheap. In the second place, she Is glad to have the United States stand besid ■ her in her policy of trampling upon weak peoples. Governor. Mount has issued his thanksgiving proclamation,setting apart Thursday. 20th inst. ns a special o.‘c ision for a bird and a cold bottle. He recounts a multitude .of blessings, which, in his judgment, have descended upon the peep'-v. but omits all reference to the r 'cent election. In a decision rendered twenty years ag > the supreme court held that con-li i tionnl amendments, to carry, in ait receive a majority of all the votes cast. This being the case, the two amendments voted upon at the late election failed of ratification by the people, as they did not receive a majority of the vote cast.

The election was lost to the Democrats by the Republican threats to bring on a panic if Bryan was elected. Many men who voted for McKinley did so most reluctantly because they were afraid that a Democratic triumph might imperil their jobs. That is the whole secret of the landslide. Four years ago, the leading events thnt have characterized McKinley’s administration and the present policies of the Republican party were absolutely undreamed of. Is it not nt least possible that four years more of unrestrained power will le id to fresh events and fresh policies thnt are undreamed of and repugnant to-day? The newspapers state that as soon as McKinley’s re-election was nssured the stock of that gigantic trust, the Standard Oil Company, rts « a number of points, and that John D. Rockefeller, the king bee of the trust swooped in 27,0 K),(H)0. We haven’t heard of any Jasper county farmer having made quite ns much as this by reus m of any rise in the price of c >rn, oats, hogs or any other farm products. Politics is a funny game, and this year the Democrats were—in the lungui ge of the esoteric society —“up against it.’’ It wasn’t their year to win. There is no reason, but the fact is here big, cold, hard anti abidin r. And the thing to do is just to l-t it go without r fining on ho v hard they did it; tell them they certainly did do it, good and plenty, and dismiss the subject. Don’t apologize. Don’t regret anything. Don’t let tlx merry oppositi in fill you with east wind labelled “reasons.’’ They are a goo l ’ deal more surprised than yo i arc. Ami above all things, don't c mfess you were wrong. For y»u were not.— Lafayett} Journ d.

It is announced that the codling republican legislature will re-dis-trict the state so it will give them ten congressmen instead of nine. The proposed counties in this district will be Lake, Porter, Laporte, Newton, Jasper, White, Cass, Benton and Tippecanoe. Americans have won a car building contract for South Africa from Great Britain by offering quicker work at 30 per cent, less prices. Yet our infant car builders have demanded and received heavy protection from British cheap imports. They sell in South Africa cheaper than they do at home and pay the freight besides. A Lafayette genius has applied for a patent on a voting machine that is claimed to be ahead of anything yet produced, doing away with the two most serious objections to the present machines —expense and cumbersomeness. His machine can be sold for SIOO and is one of medium size and weight. It also embraces many features not possessed by any other machine, and to have many advantages over the best now on the market.

Election Echoes.

The official vote on governor gives Durbin, rep. a plurality of 25,163 over Kern, dem. Beckham’s plurality over Clark, dem. for joint-representative of Lake and Jasper, was 1,874. In Pulaski county the democrats elected the entire county ticket and Bof the 12 township trustees. Benton county gave McKinley a plurality of 469, a loss of 10 over 1896. The republicans elect the entire county ticket, as usual, excopt omi councilman. The Democrats elect 4 of the 11 township trustees. E. H. Wolcott’s majority in this senatorial district is 969. He carried Newton county by 400, Jasper county by 357, and White county by 211. Sink’s plurality for prosecutor is 717; 399 in Jasper and 318 in Newton. Newton county gave McKinley a plurality of 550, and elected all of the republican county ticket except sheriff and one commissioner. The democrats elect the sheriff, one commissioner and 4 lof the 10 township trustees. White county gave a republican plurality of 52 on the national ticket, but the democrats elect the treasurer, sheriff, surveyor, one councilman and seven of the eleven township trustees. The republicans elected the auditor, coroner, assessor, two commissioners five councilmen and five township trustees. Judge Palmer’s majority in the county was 728, which speaks volumes for his popularity as a judge. John Ross, democratic candidate for congress from this district, ran 12 behind the national ticket in Benton county, 114 ahead lin Jasper, 61 ahead in Lake, 34 ; ahead in Laporte, 2 behind in Newton, 89 behind in Porter, 60 ahead in Tippecanoe, 20 behind in Warren and 5 behind in White, a total of 152 ahead of the national ticket in the whole district. His opponent run 234 behind the national ticket in the district. Mr. Ross and all the other democratic candidateson the district or county I ticket made records to be proud ! of.

It is claimed that enough votes wore thrown out in Barkley and Carpenter townships to have elected democratic trustees in each case. The intent of the voter was clear, as he had properly marked the small square to the left of the name of the democratic candidate; but he wished it distinctly understood that ho was not voting for the republican candidate, so he erased the latter’s name. This is held to be a mutilated ballot or a distinguishing mark, and of course all such ballots had to be thrown out.

McKinley’s plurality in Indiana has been whittled down, by official returns, from over 30,000 to less than 25,(NX). The popular vote in this state for McKinley four years ago was 323,755, and the vote nt this writing, for 1900 with the official returns of a few counties still out, is given nt 337,209, a gain of 13,455. The total Bryan vote four years ago was 305,573; this year 312,251, a gain of fi,678. The Prohis polled about 13,000; votes this year; the middle of the roed Pops about 1,IOC; the social democrats about 1,782, and the socinl labor about 800.

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THE LAND SLIDE SLID.

The Demmycntic papers—they hem, an’ haw, an' aay. "The reason why we lost It Is somethin’ like this way—” An’ then go on explaining an’ maltin' some excuse, Along with “If," an’ "therefore”—but, lawsy—what’s the use? Us Demccrats In Bowersville—when we are dore we’re did. We know that all that happened was* the Land Slide Slid. Republican newspapers in full o’ shouts an' song. They ooze with glee an’ glory, an’ head-lines ten feet long, An'yell in big, black letters: ’’’Twas caused by so-an’-so,” An’ show by facts an’ Aggers just how she had to go. But, gee-mun-neeT Inßowersville the reason isn't hid— We know that just what hit us was the Land Slide Slid. The country’s just as happy—phe’s just as good an’ grand— She’ll go on just as peaceful, right at the same old stand. We got no cause to worry about the reason why— There ain’t no use tq ligger on what has just whizzed by, My land! Down here in Bowersville, when we are done we’re did. We know that what upset us was, the Land Slide Slid. —Baltimore American.

Current Comment.

Meantime, Neely is in the United States and Rath bone is in Cuba. —Washington Times. The diagnosis of Hon. Don M. Dickinson meets with a few objections.—Baltimore American. Mr. Hanna indicates that he does not care to be President in name, but only in reality.—Atlanta Journal. When Grover Cleveland pulled the hole in after him we hope he nailed it down on the inside. —Toledo Bee. Secretary Gage says he is not going to resign. Hanna says he is. The odds are against Gage.— New York World.

By promising the voters a full dinner pail, Mr. McKinley coaxed them to hand him over the pie.— Kansas City Times. Woolley, Barker and Debs didn’t need rubbing down after the race. They didn’t perspire enough to turn a hair.—Denver Post. Next to Mark Hanna and his President the happiest man over the election results appears to be Lord Salisbury . Boston Traveler. ’Mark Hanna wants the address of tl#e man who started his Presidential boom, ostensibly to kill him, but more likely to send him a box of cigars.—Chicago Record. From Mark Hanna’s point of view there is not half as much enjoyment in being President as in commanding the forces that elect the President.—Chicago Tribune. Salisbury, conqueror of the Transvaal, praising McKinley, would-be conqueror of the Philippines, recalls the line, “A fellowfeeling makes us wonderous kind.” —New York World. Mark Hanna has had a brilliant ovation in New York. Now if be should extend his trip to England we doubt not that his reception would dnzzle the entire universe. —lndianapolis Sentinel. French papers are alarmed over reports of the retirement of Secretary Hay from McKiuley’s Cabinet. Mr. Hay has made a very good Secretary of State for foreign countries —Baltimore World. We don’t mean to revive campaign insinuations, but it would be realy„interesting to know what General Otis thinks now of the “crushed rebellion” in the Philippine Islands. —Cincinnati, Enquirer. Mr. McKinley and his foreign associates ought to refrain from publicly gloating over the humbuging of the people long enough to let the latter catch their breath after a heavy fall —Washington Times. Mr. McKinley will please bear in mind that he has voluntarily taken the responsibility off Providence, and is, therefore, in honor bound to give us good crops for the next four years.—Atlanta Journal. The beef trust put up the price of beef one cent a pound the day after election. And on Monday of this week the salt trust, thinking Armour and Bwift were getting a little too fresh, sent salt soaring. There was a rumor in stock exchanges that the lattef'rise was caused by the great demand occasioned by democrats requiring additional accommodations up Salt Creek. But this is an error — n trust fabrication, and unworthy of notice. —Lafayette Journal.

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What Might Have Been.

Mr. McKinley’s plurality in the popular vote will probably reach 750,000. It would seem at first thought that the Republican ticket might have suffered a loss of one teftth of its popular plurality without serious consequences. Seventy-five thousand votes are only about one half of 1 per cent of the total number cast last Tuesday in the Presidential election. Yet the resalt depended upon that apparently insignificant fTaction of the immense total. If 75,000 citizens who voted for McKinley in certain states of the Union had voted instead for Bryan, McKinley would have been defeated and Bryan elected. The table below mentions 12 states with the electoral yotes belonging to them and their several, pluralities for McKinley and Roosevelt, as unofficially ascertained or as estimated yesterday. Changes in the figures by later returns will not greatly affect the general proposition: Electoral Repub. Vote. Plural'y. Delaware ..... 3 5,000 Indiana..... 15 27,400 Kansas io 25,000 Maryland 8 14,360 Nebraska 8 5,000 North Dakota 3 8,000 Oregon.... ...I 4 14,000 South Dakota 4 10,000 Utah 3 4.000 Washing.on 4 5,000 West Virginia 6 15,000 Wyoming y 3,0-0 Total 71 135,760 Thus, leaving a margin of 14,000 for possible increase in the aggregate Republican plurality in these states, it is evident that the change of 75,000 votes would have reversed the result in all 12 of them. That is to say, if 75,000 citizens who voted for McKinley had voted for Bryan, 71 electoral votes nowin the McKinley column would have gone into the Bryan column, thus: McKinley’s electoral vote as it i 5.... 2c>2 Electoral vote of these 12 states 71 McKinley’s electoral vote as it would have been. 221 Necessary to a choice 224 On the other band: Bryan s electoral vote as it is 155 Electoral vote ot these 12 slates.... 71 Bryan’s electoral vote as it would have been 226 Necessary to a choice 224 The change of 75,000 votes, therefore, properly distributed in the 12 states in the list, would have given to Bryan two more than the necessary number of electoral votes; his electoral majority over McKinley would have been 5. —N. Y. Sun.

A GOOD THING. Gernun Syrup is the special prescription of Dr. A. I'.oschee, a celebrated German Physician, and is acknowledged to be one of the most fortunate discoveries in Medicine. It quickly cures Coughs, Colds and all Lung troubles of the severest nature, removing, as it does, the cause ‘of the affection and leaving the parts in a strong and healthy condition. It is not an experimentta! medicine but has stood the test of years, giving satisfaction in every case, which its rapidly increasing sale every season confirms. Two million bottles sold annually. Boschee’s German Syrup was introduced in the United States in 1868, and is now sold in every town and village in the civilized world. Three doses will relieve any ordinary cough. Price 75 cu. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. For Sale by A. F. Long.

BANK STATEMENT. HE POUT or THE COHDITIOH OF THE Commercial State Bank (North Side. of Public Square) Rensselaer, Ind., at the clone of it* bittiness, on the 31st day of October, 1900. • RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts $120,990.2* Overdrafts 546.60 U. S. Bonds and Securities on baud. 1.9000.(0 Due from Ranks and Baukers....... 31.300.9 J Bunking House 5.585.00 Current Expenses 26.20 Currency 7.165.00 Specie 2.827.61 Cash Items 2,239.5! $172,483.13 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Paid in $ 25,000.00 Surplus Fund 2.000.00 Discount’Exchange and Interest... 2.697.53 Individual DeiMMita on Demand 99.449.03 Individual Deposits on Time 43.136.5? $172,483.13 STATE OK INDIANA. ? Jasper County J “• I. Emmett 1.. Hollingsworth. Cashier of the Commercial State Bank of Renaaelner. Indiana. do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. Emmet L. Hollinuhwohth. Subscribed aud sworn to before 1 seal. > me this sixth day of November. 1906. ( >—■— ’ Jambs H.Chapman, Notary Public. We transact a general hanking business, buy and sell exchange on the principal cities of America aud Europe, buy good notes and loan money on personal and real estate security at current rates. This bank respectfully solicits a share of the patronage of the community promising fair and liberal treatment to all. g percent. Pares Loses e specialty. Addison Parkinson, John M. Wasson. Jamb* T. Randue, Geobuk B. Murray, E. L. Holxioohworth. Directors. Notice of Final Settlement. Id the matter of the Estate of Isaac Hurdesty deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, November Term. 1000. Notice is hereby given. thHt A. K. Hardesty, as administrator of the estate of Isaac Hardesty, deceased, hat f ireaented and tiled his account and vouchers n final settlement of said estate arid that the same will come up for examination and action of said Circuit Court on the 4th day of Dece i her tfKK). at which time all heirs, creditor*. legatees and all other* interested in Bald estate are reunited to appear in said Court and •how came If any there be why said account and vouch.-rs should not lie approved. A. R. Harhesty. John F Major. Clerk

THE CHINESE DOCTOR.

Western World Several Centuries Behind the Orient in Medical Practice. Don’t laugh at the Chinese doctor; he knows more than you think. The western world has not yet ceased marveling over the discoveries of Pasteur, but the agency of germs in causing disease has been recognized in Chinese medical theory and practice for a thousand years. Trephining of the skull is a triumph of comparatively modem surgery with us, but the Chinese have been practicing it for ages. Still newer to the surgeons of Europe and l America—the sensation of last year, in fact—is the “buttonhole operation” for removing a kidney, but the same operation is both de’Scribed and illustrated in a Chinese medical work published in 1622. No, says the New York Herald, the Chinese doctor, with his eyes blinking through huge tortoise-shell spectacles, is no object for ridicule. It would be much better to laugh at the doctor of your grandfather, or even your father—the dispenser of boluses and black draughts, who warned you that night air was poisonous, and remarked that a wound was “suppurating nicely” where a modem surgeon would recognize the horror of bloodpoisoning. That medicine is the noblest of all callings has only within a generation or two won universal acknowledgment in the western world—with all due respect to the clergy, who, as a witty N ew York surgeon paints it, are not called upon to face the embarrassment of an autopsy. But in China this truth was appreciated in the dawn of history, and it is traditon&l there that a physician should wield the social and political influence of a mandarin. Compare this with the state of things in England a century ago, where the village barber was also the village surgeon. In his method of collecting fees the Chinese doctor is several centuries ahead of his western rival. He draws a regular income from his patients while they remain in good health, but as soon as one of them falls ill the contribution from that family is cut off, and the ghost refuses to walk again until the doctor has put the sick member on his legs. This inculcates in the medical man a deep sense of personal responsibility and gives him his highest prosperity at the fitting time—when his patents are all in the best of health. The American humorist who writes delicate jokes about the glee of the medical fraternity about the appearance of an epidemic would have to go out of business if he moved to China. There is one respect in which the healing profession in China lags behind the age. Doctors there are not banded together in the brotherly pursuit of knowledge as they are in western lands. On the contrary, each keeps his discoveries secret, and medical knowledge is handed down from father to son as a private inheritance. Hence if a physician hundreds of years ago won fame by his successful treatment of a certain disease his descendant to-day enjoys the 6ame renown and profits by it.

A PROFITABLE TRICK.

People Who Want Something for Moth, tag Easily Imposed Upon. “Give some people something for nothing and you’ve got them,” said a well-known real estate dealer the other day. He went on to 6tate that he never had any trouble in renting houses as long a* he succeeded in thinking up something-for-nothing schemes. “My most successful plan to rent a house has been to place about half a ton of coal in the cellar,” he said. “People who wish to rent come along, and after I have shown them some of the best points of the house I escort them to the cellar. They spy the coal, and to their inquiry I simply let them believe their own suggestion that the previous tenants left the coal behind. Now, as I have said, so anxious are most people to get something for nothing that the left-over coal game very seldom fails to take. Who loses? Why, nobody; the coal man who has supplied the sample has put in his best, and when I tell him the house is rented he immediately appears with his price list and with the recommendation that he served the previous tenants he does business often enough to pay for the more.”—Philadelphia Record.

A City's Polling Places.

New York city has 1,522 polling places, only 51 less than the whfcle state of Nebraska, and nine more than there are in North Carolina.

The Horns of a Dilemma.

Those who dori’t impose on you find fault with you.—Atchison Globe.

Help... Nature Babies and children need proper food, rarely ever medicine. If they do not thrive on their food something is wrong. They need a little ® help to get their digestive machinery working properly . • S*°EH S UbSjOH COD LIVER OIL WfTH HYPOPHOSPttITESorLIMEiSOOA will generally correct this difficulty. If you will put from onefourth to half a teaspoonful in baby’s bottle three or four times a day you will soon see a marked improvement. For larger children, from half to a teaspoonful, according to \ age, dissolved in' their milk, if you so desire, will very soon show its great nourishing power. If the mother's , milk docs not nourish the baby, she needs the emulsion. It will show an effect at once both upon mother and child. 50c. anil SI.OO, ail druggists. SCOTT 6BOWNE, Ch. mists, New Ycrk. !

For Sale at a Bargain. I have a farm of 109(4 acres for sale. The farm is well fenced, has live never failing: springs- a brick house of 4 rosins 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. I.awhence, Mayor, North Vernon, Ind. Mention this paper.

Real Estate Transfers.

Wyllys K. Bliss to William B Austin, Oct. 25, nw 22-31-5, 100 acres. Walker. *3,409. Levi Hawkins to John A. Patton, Nsv. 9, pt nw sw 80 9 7-0, Remington, fS)O. Charles G. Spitler to Francis N. Powers. Oct. 24, wH ne 20-32-5, SO acres Ka ikake?, *116.* 50. OpheliaC. Potts to James Monroe Carr, Nov. 5, Rensselaer, pt 19-20-6,1 acre, Wilbur O. Florence to George O. Stembel. Nov. 8, s'* nw 6-98-7, 100 acres. Hanging Grove $0,400. John Reed jr. to John Reed. Sr., Nov. 19. eV4 sw 98-28-7. Jordan. sl. q. c. d. John Reed Sr., to William J. Reed, et al. Nov. 19. pt ett sw 98-28-7, pt wH se 28-38-7, pt wj| se 38-38-7, pt ett sw 98-38-7, pt eVi sw 28-7. pt Wtt se 38-28-7, pt wK se 38-98-7, pt eH sw 98-28-7, wtt ne 38-98-7, 340 acres, Jordan, 11. Anna V. McColly to Muncey O. Stokes, Nov. 8, It 5, bl 3, Searight s add Remington. *SOO. William R. Geier to Arthur L. Coan. Nov. 7, nV4 It 8. bl 14, original plat. Remington *l,lOO.

TOWNSHIP IROM’ CARDS. Miiroy Township. Wm.T. Smith, trottee of Miiroy township, gives notice that be will be at his residence in said township on the Second and Fourth Saturday afternoons of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and all business relating to making contracts or payng claims will be done on such designated day. Wm. T. Smith. Trustee. STONEBACK, ARTIST PHD PHOIOCHHPHER caws mums ||,sfl. 11.50. Pictures enlarged in pastille, water colors and crayon. Buttons and Pins. Cuff Buttons, Hat and Tie Pins —Picture Frames. . H PAVILION GALLERY. — L " » - I New Undertaking Jj west of Makeever House, with a i> comple e and first-clan, stock of i[ FUNERAL FURNISNINUS 1 resrectfully solicit a share of thei! public s patronage and guarantee sat- < isfaction In every respect. Calls < promptly responded to day or night. <, A. B. COWGILL, Residence at Makeever House. '[