Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The official count / completed last Monday at Indianapolis, gives the plqreility of McKinley in ( Indiana at 26,479. Governor Mount has decided that the two constitutional amendments voted upon at the late election did not carry, because they failed to receive a majority of all the votes cast, as required by the constitution. As was to have been expected, the republican spoilsmen are commending the action of the late trustee of Walker tp., for resigning and thus giving them the county superintendent. We hardly think even they, however, will care to elect him to office at any future time—he might resign in favor of the democrats or do something equally unprincipled if they did.

The question has been raised in many counties in the state as to the constitutionality of the act of the legislature extending the term of the office of county superintendent from a two to a four year office. There is no doubt that the legislature lias the authority to extend the terms of *an elective office, but its power to extend the terms of an appointive office is denied by many of our best legal minds —Carroll County Citizen.

Chairman Jones announces that Mr. Bryan will refuse to run next time even if the nomination is tendered to him. This is just about what most Democrats would expect from a man of Mr. Bryan’s j high character. His struggle has : been in no wise personal, but en- [ tirely for the sake of the great ! principles for which he stood. If spme other Democrat stands a better chance of winning, Mr. Bryan will be the first to stand back in his favor. J. E. Gibson, the Logansport contractor who built the Fulton and Pulaski county court houses, was arrested in Jackson, Miss., last Saturday for attempting to bribe the governor of that state to aid him in securing the contract for the new $1,000,000 state house. It is alleged ilia t he offered the governor any sum he would name if, on the day preceding the letting, he would secretly open the bids and give him (Gibson) a list of the figures so that he could underbid the rest. Governor Longino promptly swore out a warrant for the man’s arrest. .