Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Now will Marshall and the CowPuncher be good?

W. C. Babcock will not be a candidate re-nomination for auditor, but James Leatherman, at present employed in the former’s grain office, will seek the place. He has no announced opposition as yet.

The republican congressional convention at Monticello Wednesday “endorsed” everything from Roosevelt to Crumpacker, and, like Alexander of old, wept because there was nothing more to “endorse.”

It is not likely that a few townships in Jasper county will want to hold a railroad election for each “Jim Crow” railroad that comes along every new moon if they have to bear the expense themselves instead of saddling it onto the taxpayers of the whole county.

The republicans will hold their city convention March 26. J. H. Ellis has announced himself as a candidate for Mayor. The present clerk and treasurer will be candidates for re-election, we understand, while almost every ablebodied republican in town, now out of office, wants to be marshal

We would like to know when Marshall is going to “pay back” that $57.25 that he received a couple of years ago for publishing the annual notice to taxpayers, after the board of commissioners had allowed a month before $54.25 to the Journal for the same identical notice? Come, cough up, Marshall. You know you got this money and you can not deny the fact.

Brother Babcock* of the Jasper Co., Democrat, is making life a burden for some of the officials of Jasper county. Over in Newton it is different. If our taxes are several dollars higher than we think they ought to be. we simply work off along, steel-gray streak of harsh, boisterous language, kick a jagged hole in the wall and there the matter ends. However, we believe, if the affairs of a county were conducted along strict business lines, the same as a good business man would conduct his private affairs, the tax payers would have considerable more money to wnste on bread and butter.—Morocco Courier.

The Democrat said that the county commissioners hnd allowed and paid an illegal claim of sl(> for publication of notice of the Barkley tp., railroad election, and that fact was proved by the deputy auditor and the county records. Judge Thompson not only held that it was an illegal claim but that all claims of whatsoever nature arising out of any of those township railroad elections were illegal allowances if made from the county treasury, but that the commissioners were “not criminally liable” for having made such allowances. The Democrat’s contention was rnofe than proved, for instead of slb illegally allowed and paid out of the county treasury, nearly one hundred times that sum has been so allowed and paid

The report circulated here and published by the republican papers that “Babcock will have all the costs to pay in his case against the conuty commissioners because the judgment was for less thnn $50,” is the veriest kind of rot and has nothing to base such an assertion upou. True, Mr. Hanley—who went into court with a case which he now publicly admits he knew he was beaten upon months ago, when he had the legal in controversy measured—moved to tax costs to plaintiff, after plaintiff and bis attorneys had left the court room, but this was not done nor is there any law justifying such a proceeding. Had we recovered only the amonnt allowed by the commissioners, then we would have had to pay the costa of the suit, but a judgment of one cent more than that allowance would carry oosts with it.