Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — Democratic Judicial Convention. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Judicial Convention.

The Democrats of Jasper and Newton Counties will meet in joint convention at the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, on the 22d DAY OF MAY 1902, at 12:30 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating one candidate for the office of Judge of the Circuit Court, and one candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney, for the Thirtieth Judicial District of the State of Indiana, comprising said counties of Jasper and Newton. The representation of each of said counties shall be one vote for every one hundred votes or a major fraction thereof, east for Alien Zollars, Elector at Large, at the election held in the year 1900. Dated this the Ist day of May, 1902. E. P. Honan, Chin. Jasper Co. T. B. Cunningham, Chm. Newton Co.

J. P. Morgan’s fees for organizing five trusts is stated to have been 1172,000,000! Of course not a dollar of this vast sum represents anything but water, and must be made up out of advances in prices of products of these trusts. The consumers, then, pay this outrageous fee! This is a fair sample of the Immense prosperity we are now enjoying that is, Morgan and other trust promoters. The gospel of starvation is a strange argument for the republican party to use. It must grate harshly on the ears of those who but recently heard nothing but the “full dinner pail.” The beef trust having, in order to exact more profit on beef, boosted the price clear out of reason, the “full dinner pail” brigade find it impossible to supply their respective tables with beef, even when the most durndest infernal prosparity is present that ever happaned. He is now advised to eschew beef entirely, by his repubfriends(?)and theieby hit the beef trust square betue n the eyes. In 1884 A. McCoy’s battle-cry was “♦2 00 a day and roast beef, or 50 cents a day and sow-belly.” Now even sow-belly is beyond the reach of the “full dinner pail”

brigade of McCoy’s party. If the Broncho-Buster remains -in the saddle much longer, that ’democratic soup, of which McCoy is often wont to refer, will be a luxury even with the prosperity party The administration is said to be much alarmed over the developments in the army now in the Philippines. It fears that the people will fail to distinguish a difference between a butcher Smith and a butcher Weyler, simply because one disgraces the U. S., and the other Spain. Let the truth be told, and the whole truth It will make quite a number of “heroes” very uncomfortable, but let it be told, and all of it.

The Democrat desires to call the attention of the taxpayers of Jasper county to the claim of Louis H. Hamilton for services as county superintendent for the month of April, 1902, which was allowed in full by the board of commissioners at their May term. The law provides that this office shall receive $4 per day for each day’s actual services. This claim is for every working day during April, 26 days at $4 per day, $lO4, and was sworn to by Mr. Hamilton and filed April 29, 1902. What we wish to call the special attention of the taxpayers to is the fact that Mr. Hamilton on April 10th attended the republican judicial convention at Brook, and practically all of that day.was spent in Brook and in making the trip to and from that place. April 10th is included in this bill at $4 Do you, taxpayers of Jasper county, think that you should be charged $4 per day for a county officer’s services in attending political conventions? Is it honest? Is it right?.