Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — CALL TO DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

CALL TO DEMOCRATS.

Democratic voters of the City of Rensselaer are hereby requested to meet at the law office of E. P. Honan, on Wednesday, Mch, 12, 1902. at 7:30 p. m., for the purpose of reorganizing the Democratic Central Committee of the City of Rensselaer, and to set a date for holding the city convention. Lucius Strong, Chairman. And now Bro. Dunghill of the Brook Reporter calls Charley Hanley a ‘‘cheap skate politician.” This do settle it, and Charlie should go way backTetc. State Chairman O’Brien has issued the official call for the democratic state convention, which meets in Indianapolis June 4. Under the apportionment Jasper county will be entitled to 8 delegates. The democrats of Newton county have reorganized their county central committee by electing Charles Spinney, chairman; S. R. Gilmore, secretary; and Paul Weishaar, treasurer. All reside at Goodland. And now S. R. Nichols, late trustee of Barkley tp., and local promoter, of the “Rensselaer branch” of the Gifford railroad, has made formal announcement of his eagerness to look after the county treasury for the next few years. “Honest Abe” wants to ba “vindicated” f< r building the Keener tp., gravel roads and scores of other reprehensible acts as county commissioner. Well, we know of no one who needs a “vindication” more than Abe, but his record, like Blanco’s ghost, will not down. While prices for corn and its meat products have ruled high of late, they still do not yet touch the top notch figures of 1882. In that year beef reached $9.30 and the average price for the whole year was ♦6.25 while corn touched 81 cents in July and that on a crop considerably in excess of that produced in 1901. Hogs went up to $9.35, and the average price for the year was $7.63, Present conditions would seem to favor a still higher range of prices on these products than now prevails before a new crop is ready for market. Farmers' Guide. With the salary of $225 per year which each : county commissioner now receives in Jasper county, there is no big money in the office for an honest man. True, ho receives ample compensation for the t me actually expended in the service of the county. But, if he is an honest man, a man who looks for nor receives no rebates from stationery, bridge or other contracts, there is no big thing in the office. For this position men of unsullied character, men of known honor and integrity should be selected. It is the most important office to the taxpayer that we have. The supreme court held last Friday that the mortgage deduction law of 1899 is valid and constitutional. This law exempts S7OO of mortgage from taxation on real estate assessed for $1,400 or more, and one-half on the amount of assessment less than that sum. For example, if your farm or residence property is assessed at $1,400 or more, mortgaged for S7OO or more, you have a right to an exemption of $70(1 from the assessment fixed by the assessor; if assessed at SIOO or more and mortgaged for any sum, you have the right to take off onehalf the amount of said mortgage up to ♦ i(X) or one-half the assessment. Applications for exemp- ' lion must be made and filed with the county auditor between April Ist and June Ist of each and every year.

The Apologist editor has come out in a long editorial endorsing the method adopted by the Jasper county republican machine of selecting delegates to the judicial convention. Certainly he would endorse it. No political skullduggery of his party is too base for the Apologist man to “heartily endorse.”