Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION, [ARTICLE]

REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION,

The Democratic Joint-Repre-sentative convention for the counties of Lake and Jasper will be held in Huehn opera house, at Hammond, SATURDAY, JULY 2<>, at 2 o’clock p. in., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Joint-Representative of the counties of Laker and Jasper. E. I*. Honan. Clirn. Jasper Co. Fi.ovd M. Pierce, ('hm. Lake Co. Newton county commissioners have approved the plans for the new court house at (ioodland and will now advertise for bids for its construction The architect claims it will not cost to exceed S4S,(JOG. The charge will no doubt soon be made that the ruin caused byrain is wholly due to the wicked democratic agitation for'reform of, the robber tariff, or fear that the election,*ill result in democratic success this fall. The Newton County Enterprise, the republican organ of that county, in its republican ticket, carried at the head of the editorial column, omits the office of prosecuting attorney entirely, and for Judge makes the following entry: F<|# Judge of tin* Thirtieth Judicial Circuit. NO NOMINATION. Men do not strike in prosperous times. When the conditions get so desperate that laborers are compelled to strike, it is a question, generally, of starving while trying to get enough to eat and clothe a family, or quitting work and byconcerted action trying to comJ>el a swinish employer to pay iving wages. Can some of the republican brethern point to one instance where a strike is now on or threatened that the employers are not earning exorbitant proifi s?

Property owners in Laporte and Starke counties along the Kankakee river are behind a project to straigten part of the river. The course proposed to be straightened is 40 miles. By digging a large waterway it will be (hade but 17 miles and 100,000 acres of swamp land will be reclaimed. The Pontiac, 111., syndicate, which owns 20,000 acres in Laporte county, is pushing the project. It is hard to estimate the great value the carrying out of this gigantic project will be to the two counties in question.—Winamac Republican. A “North End Republican,” writing to the Brook Reporter on the judicial situation, says among other things: Jasper county Republicans have for years adopted the precinct method of selecting candidates at its conventions, and nine-tenths of the Republicans of Jasper county believe in that method 10-day. The Republican machinery of Jasper county to-day is in the hands of a gang who have no respect for the rights oi others, they propose to rule or ruin. Prior to the so-called judicail convention they “didn't care a d for Newton county," since the convention; however, they have discovered that Newton is on the map, and is full of Republican voters, and they want them so bad that it is alleged they are trying to trade the senatorship two years in the future, for some of them this fall.

It is said that a temporary republican paper .is to be started at Goodland for the purpose of supporting the judicial “ticket.” As the matter now stands not one of the three republican papers of that county are supporting the judicial “nominees,” owing to the ring methods by which “the nominations” were secured, and ninety per cent, of the republicans over there also refuse to support them. When it reaches a point where the politicians in another county are obliged to “establish” temporary papers in a county of their district in order to get any newspaper support at all for their candidates, they must be in dire straights indeed. Regarding the judicial situation the Goodland Herald (republican) says: The republican local and district will appear in the Herald next week and remain until after election,. It is the ticket which this paper will support, and we hope another convention, with delegates fairly selected, will nominate a republican judicial ticket. Newton county Republicans have no candidate for judge, and are under no obligations to support Mr. Hanley, nor will they do it in any considerable numbers, even though he had a dozen temporary organs in Goodland and other points in the county. Many times in the past the republican party has rode into power on false issues. By dint of monumental gall it has turned the tide from disastrous defeat to a glorious victory. And ail because a confiding people have believed the false vaporings of republicans like Pat O’Donnell et al and in the face of facts which they could have easily known to be the opposite as stated. This same policy is to be pursued this fall, in fact it is now well under way. Notwithstanding the average prices of everything one is compelled tp buy—Hour excepted—is the highest ever known; notwithstanding the fact that the vast industral trusts are extorting the most exorbitant profits from everything which they hold in their devil-fish grasp; notwithstanding the earning power of t he average man is nogreater —and in j many instances less—than formerly, we hoar from republican sources that the most prosperous 1 times in the history of the world i are now prevailing. In many | instances this is the true. J. P. j Morgan, «J. D. Rockefeller, 11. (). Havemeyer and a few thousand | smaller fry trust managers are piling up such stupendeous sums !of money that the common man iis appalled Rt their immensity, i But about the common man? i He who wields the hammer, the | plane, the shovel and the plow for wages, and the small tradesman? The vast proportion of the people lof the country belong to these classes. Does his condition grow fetter as the years roll by? Are I his conditions better now than they were five years ago? These | men know they are not, and the numerous strikes now on show j conclusively that these men are i aware of this fact and are trying Ito better their condition. The rerepublicans are trying to convince these men that they are mistaken; that they are doing exceedingly well, in fact better than they ever did before. It m«y I succeed in doing so. It has succeedeil in doing so many times before, but an empty stomach is at times more potent than republican falsehoods. We shall see what we shall see.