Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Corn King Phillips is in financial trouble. The board of trade finally gets them all if they but stay with it. James P. Goodrich has succeeded Charles F. Hernley as chairman of the republican state committee, the latter resigning. Joseph Sleeper, of Oxford, was in Goodland Wednesday. We understand that he will be a candidate for T. J. McCoy’s position as district chairman. He is a wheelhorse of the party and a shrewd politicain.—Goodland Herald. The annual estimates of expenditures and tax-levies for the calendar year 1902 by the six democratic township trustees of Jasper county, and two republican trustees, appears elsewhere in this issue of The Democrat. The law requires that these estimates shall be published in the two leading papers of the county representing the two political parties casting the highest number of votes at the last general election. As the Democrat is the only democratic paper published in the county, so recognized by all democratic officers and laymen, all publications of this character, to be legal, should be made in this paper. The intent of the law is to give publicity, and The Democrat has the largest circulation in Jasper county of any paper published within, its borders.

Another bank wrecker has been -pardoned by President McKinley. This time it is no less a personage than John F. Johnson, who got away with $600,000 of the funds of the State national bank of Lotansport, of which he was presient, in 1897, and was sent up for ten years. Johnson had served four years, and, by many people, $150,000 per year will not be considered so bad. In the same paper in which we read the annoucement of President McKinley’s pardon of Johnson we find a brief item stating that J. B. Johnson (he wasn’t a bank president) was sent up several years ago for 12 years for stealing $22. While serving his term he made an unsuccessful effort to escape, and for over sixteen years was kept in solitary confinement. He was parponed last December, after having served 18 years and 2 months. John F. Johnson stole $600,000 and served four years in prison, as a high-toned guest, it is alleged; J. B. Johnson stole $22 and 16 years of his 18 years of confinement was in a dungeon!

The Democrat this week completes the publication of the personal assesament list of Rensselaer, and next week will take up that of Marion township. We are pleased to see the lively interest taken by the public in this publication. No publication of public matters for years has provoked more discussion than this, and The Democrat’s enterprise in placing these figures before its readers is commended on every hand. A great many people of opposite politics who are not regular readers of this paper have shown their interest in the publication by calling at the office and buying copies containing the list, while others have had their names enrolled as regular subscribers. To those who have not yet become sufficiently interested to secure all the numbers containing the assessment list we desire to say that we have a limited number of extra copies of The Democrat of these issues, and the entire Rensselaer list, numbering three issues, can be had for 15 cents .» cents per copy. On completion of the Marion tp., list we shall begin the publication of Remington and Carpenter’s assessment, and after they are completed shall probably take up Wheatfield and other townships.