Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

An Illinois man has been arrested for trying to kiss a stenographer. Is he to be punished because he failed? The G. A. R. wants more pensions. Last year the civil war list increased nearly two thoussand names; thirty-six years after the last shot was fired. Secretary Long wants to present a loving cup to Admiral Cervera. Why not? It would lie only his second case of honoring a man who didn’t win the battle. President Koosevelt says that McKinley’s policy will be continued. Of course it will on its broad lines but it will continued in a far more strenuous way than it has been during the past few T years, Roosevelt’s hot-headedness is sure to come to the front. There are few indications as to the attitude that Roosevelt will take towards the trusts, but it is certain that lie will find himself as impotent as President McKinley was to restrict them. The trusts interests of the Republican party are too strong for nny man to handle. Three times within the memory of men now living has the assassin's hand stricken down the chief officer of the United States. Once for sectionalism, once for personal revenge, and now, a third time, for anarchy. Is it not time to take measures to protect our presidents? The request to the members of Cabinet to retain their portfolios is of course only a temporary thing, intended to tide over the change in government. Probably all the Secretaries will vacate some time this winter, most likely soon after Congress meets to confirm the nominations of their successors. President McKinley, a life-long office holder, was bound in many ways by his record; President Roosevelt is bound by nothing. Nominated against his will, he owes nothing to those who voted for him, either in respect to offices or to polices. Seldom indeed is any President so free to follow, for weal or woe, his own course. Bro. Dunghill devotes a 1 1 «1 fcolumn of space to coming down off the editorial perch of the Brook Reporter, while Prof. Hershmnn used up four columns in ascending the heights so intellectually filled by Brother Dunghill. With a new power press and other printers’ material and an able editor, the Reporter enters upon an era of prospective greatness unsurpassed by any paper in Newton county, It will continue politically as heretofore, republican.

The ‘ Gray ease” familiar to nil two or three years ago as the suit for title to 500 or more acres in Salem township traded by Thomas Gray to some Illinois men for land in Kansas, and which was tried here before Enoch Meyers of Rochester as special judge and decided in Gray'H favor, was reversed by the supreme court a short time ago and Sent back for re-trial. Mr. Moyers was here Tuesday, ns the old trial judge, to set a time for rehearing, but the plaintiffs asked a change of venue, and the case was sent to White county. It is not known here when it will be called for trial, but probably not soon. Pulaski County Democrat.