Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — THE WHEATFIELD ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

THE WHEATFIELD ELECTION.

The Catholic Benevolent. League of Indiana, a fraternal insurance society, at its state convention at Ft. Wayne this week decided to admit women to membership on equal terms with men, and to bar men engaged in the liquor business.

The people of Jasper county can make up thier minds that the taxferret “investigation” is ended in this county. All the widows and orphans and those people who did not want to go into court to defend their rights, but had rather pay something to avoid a lawsuit, have been held up, and none remain now except the big fish, and it is very evident that there will be no further efforts of the taxferret to make a re-assessement in their cases. The “tax investigation” in Jasper county, the greatest imposition ever perpetrated on the people of a community, is done with.

The Indiana Democratic Editorial association will hold its mid-summer meeting June 18 and 19 at Ft. Wayne. A banquet and entertainment will be given the evening of June 18. The business meeting will be held at 8:30 a. m., June 19. There will then be an entertainment at the theater in Robinson’s park, one of the attractions of the city of Ft. Wayne, followed by sight seeing in and about the city, including a visit to the Allen county court house, one of the most remarkable pieces of architecture in the West. Senator Stephen B. Fleming and the local committee promise the editors a warm reception and that Ft. Wayne will do herself proud on this occasion. They urge every democratic editor in the state to come and bring his wife or his intended.

President Roosevelt has been baffled in his attempt to override the wishes of the entire white population of Charleston, S. C., and disregard the wishes of the Senate by appointing “Dr.” Crum, colored, to the position of collector of the Port of that city. It will be remembered that the President twice sent the Crum nomination to the Senate and the Senate as often failed to confirm it, in one instance practically voting toreport on it unfavorably. After the Senate adjourned, Mr. Roosevelt appointed Crum as a recess appointment but now the Treasury Department refuses to allow him any fees on the ground that he has been illegally appointed, a contention clearly upheld by an explicit law. The only hope which Crum can entertain of receiving pay for the time he has served is through a special act of Congress which is regarded as most remote. If the Senate will confirm him * next winter he can draw his fees from the date of such confirmation, but there is no more reason to anticipate that the Senate will confirm him in the future than there wbb when he was first nominated*

Wheatfield, May ii, 1903. Ed. Democrat: Having just read the elegant “ squib” in the “Wheatfield Gimlet,” regarding the recent town election, I wish to correct the impression intended to be conveyed to the few readers of said “Gjmlet.” The editor (and candidate) blames his own party for letting him down hard, when there was no party issue at all. It was saloon or no saloon, and a few republican candidates made the mistake of championing the saloon while the temperance element, republicans, democrats and prohibitionists, joined forces to clean up the town. All the republicans do not have to be led by the nose, by a 7x9 editor, who loves the saloon because it ’’prevents bootleging!" Some men think more of their homes and children than they do of their party, and have backbone enough to say so at the polls. Nemo.