Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

There are no flies on the Inauguration high ball. Anyway. Senator Jones road in —procession instead of being chain--od to the choriot whetdb. Why don’t the British study the old cook book and catch their Boers before cooking them? . Carter H. Harrison bus been -•nominated by the democrats -©£ for the third mayoralty Ifcerm. Judge Kirkpatrick has refused a new trial to George M. Ray, the oditor of the late Official Apolof;ist of Bhelby county, convicted 1 or filing false claims against the county, and Ray must go to the penitentiary. Congress passed over 1,500 special pension bills, nine-tenths of which had been previously rejected by the 'Pension Bureau for cause. They were forced through Congress by the cohesive force of separate pulls. Oh, but it was dry for the In euguration visitors in Washington on Sunday last. They had to go three miles, outside the city limits to get a drink. That’s why Washington is called the City of Magnificent Distances. How is it that a dozen years of wavy life transforms the sons of the butchers, the bakers, and the candlestick makers into snobs that took down upon the class from which they sprung and object to its want of social standing? Judge Kent of theCliuton circuit court holds that the county treasurer's salary is fixed by law, together with 4 per cent, commission for collecting delinquent taxes, and that the demand and levy fees properly belong to the county.

The franchise hunters had a sad •.shock when they learned that Congress had forbidden the granting of such loot except under conditions that would prevent its most flagrant abuses. They will still itry to get an extaa session called Ito repeal the restriction—and perhaps they will succeed. The salary grab of the Jasper county recorder has pnssed both branches of the legislature and will become a law. It raises the Salary from $l,lOO per year to $1,750, making it the highest salaried office in the county except auditor, which is $2,000 per year and has more than double the •duties. -•After Marshall bad heard of the f abtion df the commissioners in * cutting down his claim for publishing the notice to taxpayers, he is vsaid to have tearfully exclaimed: 4/ But Mac, my old pard Mac; Wbat did Mac figure it amounted Moo?” “Great Scott,” ejaculated his interlocutor, ‘if the commissioners Aiad gone by Mac’s figures you »offould have got only $lB out of it.” 'Vkeu the angel of Washington ‘fifttwet fell upon his face and moaned: “Too bad, too bad; I uiever dreamed that anyone would •Question a bill of mine and hadn’t posted Mac.”

The Ray trial at Bhelby ville has tieen completed and long-deferred justice is done. Everything that <x>uld be done to prevent the punishment of a notorious offender jbas been done, and in spite of it mil the strong hand of the law has #fastened on him* It is a lesson Ahat may be advantageously considered everywhere. Political combinations for loot may succeed but there usually comes a disastrous end. The auof Bhelby county, and ine people who have stood back of *4hetn are to be commended for rihe manly fight they have made justice. The result will be beneficial to the public and to the democratic party in Bhelby county. -—lndianapolis Bentinel.