Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1901 — Jasper County [ARTICLE]

Jasper County

Jasper is the second largest county in Indiana. having an area of 570 square miles. Population of Jasper C0unty.£14,292; Population of Rensselaer, the County Seat. 2,255. Jasper county has gained 3,107 in population since 1800; Rensselaer gained 800. Fine farming and stock raising county. Corn, Oats, Wheat and Hay are principal crops. Onion. Sugar Beet and slock 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 per acre in northern part of county, to SOS to SIOO per acre in central and southern portion.

The republican governor of Indiana took it upon himself to fiercely assail the high courts of Kentucky for convicting a republican for murdering a democrat. The Chicago American mildly criticised a 7x9 republican judge in Chicago for rendering a decision in a gas franchise case against the people and in favor of the corporations, and the judge sent the managing editor to jail for forty days for contempt of court!

Directly after Jack Beveridge was elected to the Senate House a man came out of the east and employed him to try a big case in Pennsylvania. This man told him that he had profound regard for his great and grand ability. Jack swallowed the bait. The next thing I heard of Jack he was writin’ over in China and the Philippines. Then he came back to the Senate House and made a speech in favor of the Ship Subsidy. Mr. Beveridge would have made a good persimmon if he had been left on the tree until after v the frost.- —Fowler Leader (rep.)

Let democrats make no mistake. Our ancient enemy still faces us. He is the same old kip coon he always was. Mighty cunning and mighty connoisseuring, but keen to bite, and vicious, quick to buy and able to buy, where money will turn the trick; willing to bulldoze and beat down where force is required, ever ready with the cry of fraud, ever present with some federal process, or machine to override home < rule, the people and the state; a time-ser-ver and an experimentalist, using the Hag for a party dish-clout, bending the constitution to every party exigency; here today and gone to morrow, a homeophatic free trader to the farmer, an allopath protectionist to the manufacturer; a Platt reformer in York, a Quay regular in Pennsylvania; all things by turns and nothing long except his pocket and his cheek; the same old zip coon, whether federalist, whig or republican, from old John Adams and his alien and sedition laws, to Theodore Roosevelt and the nigger.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

According to a census bulletin just issued there were 845,885 persons of school age, 5 to 20 years, in Indiana in 1900, 425,(><>♦» males and 418,219 females. Of this number 18,389 were colored. The colored males were 9,011, femnles 9.378. The total number of males of militia age in the state was 530,615, of which 14,147 were colored. The total number of males 9! voting ago was 720,206, (j 7 'which 18,186 were colored. (If the total numberof voters. 68(ln90 were literate; 40,016 illiterate! Of this number 616,889 were native born, and 32.933 of these wertfl I literate; 73,317 were foreign Ifjrn, and 7,083 of these were illi/ late. Of the 18,186 colored naM-es, 5,113 were illiterate. Of th j t>tal persons of school age in i°v state by native parents. Indian; Its 83 per cent, native whites, wli pt ]is equaled only by one other ut lte in the Union, West Virgini/ Jliich has 91.1 per cent, native unites. In literacy. Indiana sU pj 95.2 per cent. 31 states stnl si.g higher in the list, even T*- * w, Htanding 94.7. The highesj JjJ*j cent of literacy ia found ik .aka, and Washington, 99.5, A, t I(l gh Massachusetts is n I second with 99.6 percent; 1 501a99.3; Montana 99.3; «, 99-2; North Dakota, 998 luth Da-

kota, 99.4; and Connecticut and Wyoming, 99.1. The District of shows but 99 per cent.