Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1901 — Li Hung Chang is dead. [ARTICLE]

Li Hung Chang is dead.

Thanksgiving delicacies will come high this year. Governor Durbin, by his refusal to give up Taylor and Finley for trial to Kentucky, says, in effect, that it is no crime to murder a democrat. In the elections last Tuesday the democrats will gain one senator in Maryland and one in Kentucky. They will lose only the city of Greater New York, and a part of the fusion ticket then was democratic. The large democratic majority in Kentucky is attributed to the fact that many of the Kentucky republicans are fugitives from justice. Governor Durbin refuses to honor requisition of Governor Beckham of Kentucky for the return of Taylor and Finley for the al- ' 'iP'ged complicity in the cowardly political murder of Governor Goebel. Still some people wonder what makes anarchists! The election in New York City as usual, was a case of “dog eat dog.” The “overthrow of Tammany” simply means that one gang of shysters goes out and another is put in their place. Conditions will not be materially bettered, if at all, by the change. Much praise is being lavished, by ceriain republican editors, on democrats who helped smash the Tammany machine. The M. S Quay machine composed of the most shameless thieves, with a U. S. Senator at their head, having N triumphed at the polls. “Republican policies vindicated,” say these same oditors, and for once we believe they are right.

P. H. Fitzgerald of Indianapolis, who launched the town of Fitzgerald, Ga., several years ago, has been granted a territorial charter for the purpose of subdividing she lands comprising the Ft. Supply Military Reservation in Northwestern Oklahoma to open them to settlement. The reservation contains 40,(XX) acres, nnd has been abandoned by the Government.

The press of the country does not seem to understand Governor Durbin’s argument that, because there is a republican court of appeals in Kentucky, which reversed the decision of the lower court against Powers, it is impossible fora republican to have a fair trial in Kentucky. That is because they do not understand Durbin logic. He consileres anything unfair that result* in the conviction of a repulilioan, however guilty ho may bn. Indianapolis Sentinel. M '—-Jui The result of y*' various State elections last will lie variously construed • different puisons, accord political predelictions. Hu M ,no thing is already painfully (an Jent: The vast industrial oon vijationH whose center is tho U, i&.pHenate will and do construe thu wr> mean that the strangling hole dl,,H y now have on consumers ma retained and even slrengtj n "|l. Prices of trust coarnij, gl , nnd almost everything is/ '.Jn their grHwp—will be stiffed Nold the iron heel will be feltKJlJ.G* more severity than ever, r Nagcnits, however, should not J fpondent. Remember thaf l running wild

will soon destroy itself. The Dingley iniquity will undoubtedly.work its own ruin. Democratic success has always followed just suoh republican victories as those of last Tuesday. The letter of Governor Durbin of Indiana refusing to honor a requisition from Kentucky for Taylor and Finley is a weak document. It has a great many words in it, but scarcely a sound proposition. The manner of conducting criminal trials in Kentucky is not in accord with the bias of the Governor. The Governors elaborate statement is hardly worth reviewing, but the reading of it will strengthen the opinions of those who believe that Taylor and Fiidey should be delivered to jiistice in Kentucky. 11 is claimed that the men charged with conspiracy to murder William Goebel cannot get a fair trial in Kentucky. The construction of “a fair trial” by men of the type of the Governor of Indiana is to dismiss the fact that Goebel was killed, let bygones be bygones, and relieve everybody of •embarrassment.—Cincinnanati En quirer