Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1901 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

clusively how the republican party stands on the trust question, ’’ concluded the Senator.

The antediluvian nondescript who issues the Barnacle once in awhile—when certain republican attorneys can negotitate with him for a “legal” on terms that will make the investment a profitable one for themselves—has done lots of howling about tax-dodgers for an individual with so savory a record as his own. The Democrat recently published his delinquent tax account —some s39—notwithstanding he has been imbibing “pap” from the county treasury through republican officials for years and the law prohibits the payment of county orders in cash to anyone owing delinquent taxes. One of the late town assessors told us some years ago about the Cowpuncher of the Barnacle insisting on listing for assessment his old junk shop at a higher figure than any newspaper in Rensselaer, and he (the assessor) spoke to the then auditor about it. The latter, who by the way was a relative of the Cow-puncher-and a good church member, said: “O, it dosen’t make a bit of difference what it is assessed at, he never pays a d cent of taxes anyway.”