Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1902 — GOME, LET'S BE REASONABLE. [ARTICLE]

GOME, LET'S BE REASONABLE.

On next Tuesday the voters will select servants to represent them for the next two, three and six years. The candidates whose pictures appear herewith are those for the purely local offices—officials whom we are all deeply interested in because their acts, ability and official integrity comes right home to us. The average voter has come to look upon a state, congressional or county election ns a matter to be'ignored entirely or, if participated in, only in a half-hearted, desultorj’ way, and this feeling seems to be gaining ground to an alarming extent. This neglect has cost the taxpayers of .Jasper county thousands upon thousands of dollars! With a non-partisan or, more properly speaking, a bipartisan county council the tax rate for county purposes alone was reduced from 501; cents on the hundred dollars to 34£ cents, and county business was not interrupted nor was it delayed in the least'! With a partisan county council the tax rate for county purposes has been increased from 34J to SCH; cents, or to where it was. If county affairs are to continue as at present, if thousands of dol-

lars are to be needlessly collected for no other purpose than to satiate the omnivorous appetite of the tax-eaters. you will have no one to blame but yourselves. The democrats of Jasper county have placed a ticket in the field iu which confidence can be placed. Those of them who have held public office have been strictly true to the trust reposed in them. As citizens they are industrious, sober, honest and capable. If elected to office they will discharge the duties of their respective offices honestly and with due regard for t heir official oaths. ( wine out to the polls next Tuesday and vote for the men whom your better judgment tells you will best serve the people of the whole county. \V.< regret very much that we are unable to present the honest face of Frank Welsh of Jordan tp . our candidate for commissioner from the Third district, but Mr. Welsh is so modest we could not get him to sit for a picture. He is “all right,’’ tfiough, and as we have before remarked, the entire county might be searched from one end to the other and no better county commissioner timber than Frank Welsh could be found anywhere.