Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1902 — DEMOCRATIC TICKET. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

STATE. For Secretary of State, ALBERT SCHOONOVER,:of Attica. For Attorney General, W. E. STILWELL, of Princeton. For Auditor, JAMES R. RIGGS, of Sullivan. For Treasurer, JEROME HERFF.of Peru. For Clerk of Supreme Court. ADAM HEIMBEROER, of New- Albany. For Supt. of Public Instruction, SAMUEL L. SCOTT, ofjJeffersonville. For State Statistician, MYRON D. KING, of Indianapolis. For State Geologist, EDWARD BARRETT, of Plainfield. For Judge of Supreme Court, sth District, TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, of South Bend. For Judges of Appellate Court. Southern District, JOHN R. EAST, of Bloomington, W. H. BRACKEN, of Booneville, JOHN D. MAGEE, of Rushville. For Judges of Apellate Court, Northern District, RICHARD H. HARTFORD, of Portland, HENRY G. ZIMMERMAN, qf Albion, JAMES T. SAUNDERSON, of Fowler. DISTRICT. For Member Congress, Tenth District, WILLIAM W. GUTHRIE, of Monticello. For Joint Representative, ARTHUR K. WHITKLAW, of Hammond. For Judge of the Circuit Court, WILLIAM DARROCH, of Newton County. For Prosecuting Attorney, AUGUSTUS D. BABCOCK, of Newton County COUNTY. For County Auditor, ALBERT UOUK, of Walker Tp. For County Sheriff. MASON KENTON, of Marion Tp. For County Treasurer, EfftlS JONES, of Carpenter Tp. For County Coroner, DR. W\ W. MERRILL, of Rensselaer. For County Surveyor, JOHN H, J ESSEN, of Rensselaer. For County Cnmiulsssoner, Ist Dist. EUGENE W. ALLEN, of Kankakee Tp. For County Commissioner,<2d Dlst. FRANCIS M. PARKER, of Marion Tp. For Coeinty Commissioner, 3d Dlst. FRANK WELSH, of Jordan Tp. For Members of County Council. JAMBS DAVIS, of Kankukee. GEO. W. CASEY, of Union. W. P. BAKER, of Marion. T, HARRINGTON, of Remington. AT LAIIOR. JOHN SHKIHER of Walker. OSCAR HAUTKR. of Marion. GUTHRIE MORRIS, of Carpenter. Election one week from Tuesday. A vote for the democratic county ticket is a vote for honest and economical local government. Do you want it?. The State ballot this year will contain six tickets—Democrat, Republican, Prohibition, Peoples, Socialist and Socialist Labor. If any of the out township republicans want a county or district office they should move to Rensselaer and get in with the ring. Twelve thousand dollars in salaries to republican county and district officers living in Rensselaer; $3,145 to all the rest of the county!

The republican ring’s howl about Newton county’s wanting to hog all the offices is indeed amusing. But once in 42 years has she had the judge! yW« wonder if "Honest Abe” will renew, for electioneering purposes, that promise of two years ago, to have an investigation of the county offices? The Rensselaer ring politicians are jubilant over the alleged “ratification” of the stolen nomination of Hanley for .Judge by a few politicians of Newton county who met at Morocco Inst Saturday. We always supposed ratifications were by the people. Wo want to hear from tho people over there. An exchange well says: "Every man should take both interest and part in politics. It is a duty he owes to his city, to his Stato and to his country. Tho bad men should not be permitted to run things according to their own sweet will, and the good ones content themselves with talking about the evils of politics.”

The non-partisan county council reduced the Jasper county tax levy to 34J cents on the hundred dollars; the all republican council raised it to 50£. Which rate do you prefer, Mr. Taxpayer? The republicans have all their spell-binder politicians out over the county, including “Honest Abe” and Charlie Blue. Don’t be misled by anything the politicians may say. Remember it is a personal matter with them and that they are in politics for what they can get out of it. Use your own judgement and vote as your conscience dictates, for the best men, those whom you feel will best serve the interests of all the people.

Judge James T. Saunderson, of Fowler, was in Monticello a few hours last week. Judge Saunderson is a candidate for appellate Judge. His opponent is Judge U. Z. Wiley, the man who refused some time ago to accompany a gentleman and move bis admission to practice at the bar because the man wore “overalls.” The "overalls” brigade should blackball Judge Wiley at the ballot box. If a Democratic Judge should exhibit such asinine qualities he would be bounced from his position and driven out of the party,—White County Democrat. Undor the present management of affairs, Jasper county pays exorbitant prices for her bridges. We wish to make a little comparison which is worthy the consideration of every taxpayer: At the October term of commissioners court, Newton county let the contract for a 34 foot span steel bridge, 14 foot roadway, to be erected just east of Goodland, to the Attica Bridge Co., for S2BO complete. At the same term in this county, our commissioners let the contract for al2 foot steel bridge in Jordan tp., to the Attica Bridge Co., for $458. If you want this thing to continue, vote for a retention of the republican candidates in the county commissioners’ office.

The Democrat would respectfully ask the voters of all parties to look about them and see who it is that is doing the shouting for Mr. Hanley for judge. Then look around and see who the people are in his own party who are opposing him, and the grounds for their opposition, part of which is found in the preceding sentence. The eulogy published in the Rensselaer Republican over the name of W. H. Parkison, who has the temerity to say that Hanley is a far better lawyer than Darroch, should be taken with a large grain of allowance for personal interestedness. Mr. Parkison is deputy prosecutor, and his long experience in lawsuits with Mr. Hanley cannot date back more than three years, when he (Parkison) was admitted to the bar, and since that time has had possibly three suits in the circuit court.

On the other hand, among the attorneys at the Jasper county bar (and most of them are republicans) more than one-half the number are opposing Mr. Hanley, some of them openly, and every one of them has had more years of experience than Mr. Parkison, some of them 15 to 30 years more. One of these, Frank Foltz, of the firm of Foltz, Spitler &Kurrie, of which Mr. Foltz is the principal attorney and who has been engaged in every case of consequence in this county for-years, and also many in Newton county, says that outside of Judge Thompson (whose legal knowledge is unquestioned by men of all parties) Judge Darroch is the most able and best posted lawyer in this circuit. He has had dozens of cases in which Judge Darroch wns on the opposing side and is therefore compe. tent to judge the qualifications of the two men who are nominees for this position. Mr. Foltz has handled hundreds of cases in the courts of this county, Newton and White, while Mr. Parkison, the gentleman who eulogizes Mr. Hanley, has, in his brief experience. hnd possibly three civil cases fa most liberal allowance is made here) in this county, and not one outside the county. Mr. Foltz and that class of experienced attorneys are opposing Mr. Hanley because they know him to bo incompetent for the jKisition he seeks. They do not consider the judgeship a purely political office, in which experience and competency cuts no figure, and, as the matter has resolved itself into a more matter of fitness between Mr, Hanley and Mr. Darroch, they will support the latter with their votes. The better and more thoughtful class of voters of both counties will do likewise.