Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1901 — Page 6

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Jasper County

Jasper is the second largest county in Indiana, having an area of 570 square miles. Population of Jasper County, 14,202; Population of Rensselaer, the County Seat, 2,255. Jasper county has gained 3.107 in population •ince 1890; Rensselaer gained 800. Fine farming and stock raising county. Corn. Oats, Wheat and Hay are principal crops. Onion. Sugar Beet and stock growing largely in Northern portion of County. Fine Lubricating Oil is also found in northern portion and hundreds of wells are now producing while Others are being put down. Price of land ranges from $25 to SSO perl acre in northern part of county, to SOS to SIOO per acre in central and southern portion.

_ ; Oh. no, of course not! Missionaries never loot. Occasionally, as in the case of China, they in ay be afflicted with Kleptomania. The ravens fed Elijah of old, but will they attend to the new Elijah-Dowie of Chicago, or will he have to depend on the jays? McKinley, fore ver! Why should't he have a third term and a fourth, too. for that matter, if the trusts want him to. They decide things nowadays. Minister Conger has carried one county in lowa in his race for the Governorship. Perhaps the Administration will help him carry the rest to insure his nomination. Chauncey Depew’s third term interview has been given the same reception that was accorded Dewey’s announcement as a candidate last spring. No one will take it seriously. Although it was early in the day, still, it is believed by many people that Chauncey must have been feeling in after dinner mood when he sprang that third term conundrum. Mrs. Eddy, it seems, has made between one and two million dollars out of her Christian Science fad. Evidently, she does not believe in muzzling the ox that treads out the wine press. By the way, it is very singular that the cable told us nothing of the gift to Minister Conger of the lock of the gate of the Forbidden City. Is it possible that Minister Conger looted it? Perish the thought. ] There is little doubt that President McKinley played a confidence game on the country when he stirred up the recent talk about an extra session. As a matter, of fact, people who know, declare that he never had the least idea of convening Congress. Our commercial treaties with most of the European countries expire next year, and unless the Senate ratifies the reciprocity treaties in the meanwhile, we shall have a tine full fledged tariff war on our hands about ten minutes after they do so. The curious thing al>out the territories part of the Supreme Court decision is that Justice Brown’s reasoning on the subject was opposed by all eight of his associates. though four of them agreed to his conclusions for altogether different reasons. About one-third of the total income of the I nited States is now expended in pensions, military and naval affairs. Again one person in ten receives Government salary or support of one kind or another.! That is, one-third of our income ■ is handed over to one-tenth of our population. There is food for thought in this, Cuba had to give in, of course. No other result was possible , between two such contestants as that little island and the United States. But the administration will go on record as having delib-1 erately told the delegates things; which it was not willing to stand for, when put in cold type. In I other words it stands responsible for self confessed bunco game.

A dispatch from South Africa tells how a British garrison has surrendered after four hours fighting in which it lost two killed and four wounded. Four hours fighting; six casualties; and surrender. Is the censor lyifig or are the British degenerating? Newton county has been the field of a couple of “boxing contests” recently and the Brook Reporter man is having a nightmare in consequence, and says it’s all owing to having a democratic sheriff. Why, Bro. Dunghill, we heve these little “bouts” here in republican Jasper for 4th of July attractions, and all the swell people attend, too. A few bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s vegetable compound might be used with good results by the Reporter man. Every man working upon any of the gravel roads or other public highways of Jasper county is, under the law, entitled to 20 cents par hour. If working for any contractor or superintendent as a shoveler or common laborer, no matter what the contractor or superintendent may pay him ordinarily for other work, when employed upon any public work of town, city or county he is entitled to the compensation above given for the time so employed, and no contractor or superintendent can say him nay. A bridge company, composed of local capitalists, was recently formed at Winamac, and as a result Pulaski and neighboring counties are reaping the benefit of receiving bids for bridge construction from a firm not in the combine. Jasper county is and has been for years paying almost double what it should pay for bridges, and The Democrat suggests that at the next bridge letting done here the Winamac company be given a special invitation to submit bids. Regarding the good results from its bidding in other counties, we quote from the Pulaski County Democrat: “The Winamac Bridge Company shook ’em up this week at Knox and at Logansport. As stated some weeks ago, the Winamac company was no sooner organized than what appeared to be and doubtless was a systematic and prearranged attack was made upon it by other bridge makers—attempts to frighten the company here out of competition or else induce it to join the combination, pool with them and so keep up prices. But the home company gave them the merry ha. ha, refusing to either desert the nest or join the trust. Some weeks ago, before the company here was organized, the Attica bridge company bid $2,170 for a 70-foot bridge in Starke county, but it was not liought at that time. Another letting was set for Monday of this week. This time the Winamac company had its oar in the stream, and what was the result? Simply this, that that same Attica company, against the competition put up by the Winamac company, bid off that 70-foot bridge and two 30-foot ones in addition at less than $1,200 —only a few dollars more than half what it asked for the one bridge some weeks ago. Five bridges were let at Logansfiort the same day. and Phil Dellinger of the company was there to look after matters. Substantially the same thing was done there that was done at Knox except that the Attica company did not get any of the work. The officials praised the Winamac company for having submitted the fairest and squarest bid received, but the combine had cut the life out of the figures, same as at Knox, in an effort to knock out the Winamac competition. As a matter of fact neither the Cass nor the Starke county bridges sold high enough to pay for the construction, to say nothing of profit, but the other fellows are foolish enough to think, apparently, that the Winamac company will soon get enough and quit. They are mistaken; the company here is composed of good stayers, who don’t want work at less than cost of building but who will stay right in the game ready to furnish any length bridge at a fair pricemuch below what the kicking companies have been getting heretofore.”

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CUBA LIBRE. ' When we Bailed from Tampa Bay, (Cuba Libre!) And our ships got under weigh, (Cuba Libre!) As we floated down the tide, Crowding to the steamer’s side, Youre memberhowwecried, “Cuba Libre!” When we spied the island shore, (Cuba Libre!) Then we shouted loud once more, “Cuba Libre I” As we sank Cervera’s ships Where the southern sea-w'all dips, What again was on our lips? “Cuba Libre!” These are foreign words, vou know—- " Cuba Libre!" That we used so long ago; (Cuba Libre!) And in all the times between Such a lot of things we’ve seen, We've forgotten what they mean, "Cuba Libre!!’ Let uh ask the president. (Cuba Libre!) What that bit of Spanish meant. “Cuba Libre!" Ask McKinley, Roof and Hay What on earth we meant to say, "Cuba Libre!” But alas!, they will not speak, (Cuba Libre!) For their memories are weak. (Cuba Libre!) If you have a lexicon, Borrowed from a Spanish don, Send it down to Washington, (Cuba Libre!) —Ernest Crosby in Life.

WASHINGTON LETTER

From Our Regular Correspondent: The idea of Mexicanizing this government by giving the President a third term, as a step toward keeping him in office permanently, by going through the farce of an election every four years, as the Mexicans do with Diaz, has been thrown down hard enough to have been killed every time it has reared its head in this country, but it isn’t dead. It is now being nursed by Senator Chauncey DeI Pew, who belongs to the class which would welcome a permanent ruler of the country, whether called President or by any other title, provided he held the right view. That accounts for Mr. Depew’s announcement of a third term McKinley boom. Mr. Depew may claim that his talk merely represented his own opinion, which is true as far as it goes, but it also represented an understanding with a number of men who I sometime ago determined to test ) public opinion on the third term idea, with the intention if there , was not too much kicking, to start an organized movement to nominate Mr. McKinley again. Those men are now studying the press comments upon Mr. Depew’s third term interview. Few of what are known as the practical politicians in the republican party are in this term scheme. Its success Would mean the retention of too many men already in office, to please them; but practical politicians never butt their heads j against stone walls, and if a strong rank and file third term sentiment can be worked up, they will follow the crowd. Some of Mr. McKinley’s friends say the talk of a third term is very disagreable to him, but that statement is not a reasonable one, since he could quickly stop the talk by announcing that he would not accept another nomination. So long as he fails to make that announcement, the public naturally take it for granted that he is not opposed. That Mr. Charles G. Dawes, Comptroller of the Treasury, who poses as a close personal friend of Mr. McKinley, should be neglecting his official duties to push along his candidacy, for the seat now held by Senator “Billy” Mason, of 111., is regarded in Washington as indicating that Mason made a mistake when he declared that Mr. McKinley would follow a hands-off policy in the Senatorial fight. The friends of Dawes openly claim thr.t he has the full and I cordial support of the administra- ■ tion and that at the proper time 1 that fact will be made clear to the 1 republican voters of the state. If I they are right, the country can look for some lively speeches j from Mason on the floor of the I Senate, in which he will do some more blushing for the administra- : tion. Mason does not rank high las a statesman in the Senate, but as a rough and tumble fighter he is an antagonist that knows how to make things howl, as he has shown upon several notable occasions. If Senator Pritchard, of N. C., did not land what He went to the White House after a day or two ago, it wasn’t because he didn’t jolly along one of our Mr. McKinley’s pet ideas. The day before he called on Mr. McKinley, Senator Pritchard got himself interviewed, and predicted that both North and South Carolina would soon lie republican. Mr. McKinley may have taken that prediction seriously since he is known to have swallowed others equally as wild about the South, but everybody else regarded it as humorous. >

Republican Representatives who have spoken favorably of Representative Babcock’s bill to repeal the tariff on all products of the Morgan steel trust, have received hints from the party leaders to be again nominated, and they are getting more than hints from the Protective Tariff League, and the Home Market Club, both of which are fighting Babcock in every way they know how. Members of the Pennsylvania delegation, appear to be taking turns in coming to Washington and giving the Babcock idea a side swipe through newspaper interviews. The Cuban game isn’t being played with the Rules laid down by Secretary Root. Instead, the Cubans have made a lot of njew rules of their own. It is admitted now by members of the administration, that there is no likelihood of immediate action by the Cuban Constitutional Convention on the demand of this government that the Platt amendment be accepted without condition, which was this week formally laid before the convention by General Wood. The administration has received a better idea of the real sentiment of a majority of the Convention within the last few days than Gen. Wood lias been able to give at any time. It has come from private sources, and has served to make some things plain that were somewhat muddled. It is not believed i that the Cubans expect to accomplish anything at present by declining to accept the Platt amendment, as they know that the administration could not. if it wished to. change an Act of Congress, but their game is believed to be to leave the matter open until Congress meets and then appeal to Congress for modification. There are reasons for the belief that interests other than the welfare of Cuba, are controlling a majority of the Convention. Whatever else may be said of Attorney General Knox, “He ain’t no cheap man.” He lias just bought a residence erected by Mrs. Geo. W. Childs, paying it is said, $150,000 for it.

“Lovers’ Lane."

Children play a conspicuous ' part in the new Clyde Fitch play | "Lovers’ Lane,” the sensation of I the present summer season in Chicago where it is filling McVicker's Theatre to the doors at every performance. The second act of the play shows the district school on the public square of Eddysville and when the curtain rises half a hundred little ones are frolicing about, for it is recess time. Some are skipping rope; some playing marbles; some having a game of “Ping-Around-The-Rosy others are playing Hide-and-seek. The minister comes to visit the school and immediately he is surrounded by the children and implored to play “London Bridge” with them. Previous to this two boys have a fight in good honest fashion and the teacher and girls have united in their efforts to quell the battle. Just as the youngsters finish their game of “London Bridge” the bell rings for school to be again taken up. Then for a time the stage is given over to the “grown-ups” but after awhile the little ones again appear, this time in the fantastic dress they are to wear at an old folks concert to be given for the church. They sing another pretty little song and do some marching and countermarching. All this business of the children isdelightful and full of charm. They are so happy in their frolic; so free from care and so innocently full of enjoyment. Mr. Wm. A. Brady has staged "Lovers’ Lane” as few plays are staged. Every detail about the piece is perfect from the scenery itself to the smallest book or card to be used during the action of the play. The Chicago critics have been lavish in their praise of the play, the players and the production.

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Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, low. flbsfracis, ins m Reoi eskm. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. A C. Ry. and Rensselaer W. L. A P. Co. Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. Indiana. PRANK VOLTS. C. O. SPITLBR. HARRY R. KURRIB. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only’ set of Abstract Books ia the County. ‘ RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law. Real Estate. Insurance. Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over J. Makeever's dank, on Washington street. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Moses Leopold, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND INSURANCE, Office over Ellis & Murray’s Rensselaer, - - Indiana. J. F. Irwin S.C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows'Block. . RENSSELAER. INDIANA! ) Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, - - . Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. H. O. Harris. E. T. Harris. J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Share of Your Business. Addison Parkinson. John M. Wasson. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co. DIUCTOBS. Addison Parkison. G. E. Murray, Jas.T. Randle, John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general banking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. Ferm Loans at 5 per Cent Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. H. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for tfluMiieM. Office Tilifhoni No. 41. Riiidinci Phoms No. >7. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over lines' Millinery store. Rensselaer. Ofpios Rhomb, 177, Rbbioimc* Pmombi lie. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store,