Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1902 — GILLAM TP. CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

GILLAM TP. CONVENTION.

The Democratic voters of Utllam Township, Jasper (’oumy, Indiana, are requested to meet at Center school house in said Township, on SATURDAY, OCT, 11, 1902, at 2 o'clock p, m., for the purpose of nominating a township ticket to he voted for at the November election.

F. M. WAGGONER,

Cbm. •N

Three weeks from next Tuesday is election day.

Lost, Strayed or Wandered Away“ Honest Abe’s” tax-fer-rets’ who were to shake the sheckels out of the pockets of nil the alleged big money loaners of Rensselaer. Report all information to “Honest Abe,” Demotte, Ind,, and receive check on his Chicago Bank.

The "conference” of President Roosevelt with the anthracite coal barons produced one good result at least. Tt opened the eyes of a great many people to the power and arrogance of the millionaire corporations of the country, which have been fostered and grown up on the “protection” milk of the republican party.

Amt the county funds safe in the hands of a man who gambles, a man who has always been a failuro at everything he has undertaken, and whose $16,000 worth of laud is to-day covered with $21,000 in mortgages, 813,000 of which is a second mortgage held by the McCoys, the people who brought him out for treasurer that they might get even V Do you want to take the chances of putting such a man in charge of the county funds?

There never has been a time in the history of this county or the history of the judicial, representative or congressional district when a change would make for better, more efficient, more economical, more business like than at tho present time.' Nor has there been a time in the history of Jasper

county or of the 10th congressional district a cleaner, more moral, more intelligent or capable set of men nominated for the respective offices than those presented by the democratic party to be voted for the 4th day of November.

Tax levies for county purposes in .Jasper and adjoining counties, which includes bridge, gravel road, county bond and other expenses : Jasper County.. cents Benton County 30 a i Newton County 151* Pulaski County. 30>-6 “ Porter County 28ty White County 3714 “ If you want to reduce Jasper’s levy so that it will compare favorably with that of our neighbors, sandwich a few democrats in on the county council.

Two of the republican candidates for office were seen in the rear of one of the saloons here during the recent K. of P. carnival, busily engaged in trying to break the chuck-a-luck bank. One of these gentlemen wants to go down to the legislature, where they enact laws against gambling, while the other wants to be treasurer of Jasper county. The latter is said to have lost quite a sum at one sitting. Are gamblers or those who indulge in gambling tit men to place in charge of the public funds of this county?

The Democrat presents a cartoon this week taken from the last week’s issue of the Newton County Enterprise, the republican organ of Newton county, bearing on the judicial situation. We might add that since this cartoon appeared in the Enterprise, the oarsmen, the county chairman, also of Rensselaer, has announced himself a candidate for clerk. The gentleman in the sailor suit and “binocular” is supposed to be John O’Connor of Kniman, who has been feasting his eyes on the splendors of an office in the Jasper county court house for some little time.

News comes of very strange rumors that are afloat in the neighborhood of Lochiel. Stories of a man with a tine woman for a wife, a good family, running after a lowdown thing with a brazen face and putrid character. How strange that men with good sense, men of honor in all their transactions with fellowmen, will tramp in the mud and sink in the mire of sensualism! Truly, this is a strange world. —Fowler Republican.

Strange things happen occassionally, Hooligan. But to tho above might be added tho whiskey besotted, tobacco slobering, twofaced assinine who will accept “rebates” and “ads” and stand around the nigh corner with a deputy prosecutor badge pinned to his coat tails while a bucket shop around the other corner is taking in suckers, (Now we will bet a herring that Barce gets mad and says that we meant him.) Brook Reporter.

The Fulton county tax levy, for county purposes, is the lowest of any in this part of Indiana. And it is made possible by the economy of democratic officers. Township levies are tixed by advisory boards and trustees, and may, in some instances, be high, but that is no fault of the county officers. It only costs tax-payers 2<>£ cents on the hundred dollars to pay county officers’ salaries, buy oounty supplies, build bridges, keep the poor, etc., etc. Under republican management these expenses required a lev y of 60| cents on the hundred, If taxpayers want a continuation of low county taxes they will vote the democratic

county ticket. Rochester Sentinel.

Th e spectacle of the President of a great republic being lectured to by a few pious, hyprocrital theives, upon business duties, and in his own house, is not one to instill confidence in the great common people that anything will be done to benefit them by this great pretender. If the president is in earnest in his fight against trusts, why don’t he make an example of these antheracite coal thieves, by instructing his attorney general to proceed against them criminally? A half dozen of them dressed in prison garb with ten years of hard labor ahead of them would solve the coal problem in a very few moments and for all time. \et these fellow’s whom he knows officially to be theives and robbers, (having been so informed by the inter-state commerce commission and the industral commission—both commissions having been created for no other purpose than to determine whether these corporations were doing lawful business) demanded that federal troops be sent into the coal regions of Pennsylvania to protect them and their stolen property? What can be expected from one who so arranged matters that Neely and Rath bone, who looted Cuba under American occupation, should go free - ? Who done everything in his power to create the conditions that produced the coal famine and the high prices of nearly all other tariff-protected articles for that matter. These fellows own Roosevelt body and baggage, and he dare not do anything that will injure them, however much he may sputter around.