Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — Subscribe for THE DEMOCRAT. [ARTICLE]

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The political grafter’s motto is: “While your getting, get a plenty.”

The Brook Reporter favors ending the county seat squabble in Newton county and advocates the building of a new court house at Kentland.

Perhaps the county’s poor charges are being fed on "fudges,” which might account for the annual consumption oi 111 pounds of granulated sugar per head.

The criminal libel case of “Honest Abe” vs. The Democrat man, set for trial last Monday in the Newton circuit court, was continued for the term because of defendant’s attorney, E. P. Honan, not being able to attend to the case at this time.

Judge Downey of the Dearborn circuit court gave the republican, reapportionment law another whack Wednesday by declaring the act unconstitutional It only remains now for the supreme court to ratify the decisions of Judges Artman and Downey.

Through the efforts of the antisaloon people, every saloon in Fowler has been driven out of the town, the last one closing Saturday night last. At the beginning of the temperance crusade there were nine saloons in Fowler.

And now Comes the Hon. Addison C. Harris, one of the king bees of the republican party, and says another "law” passed by the legislature of 1903, that extending the terms of various connty officers, is unconstitutional. What better could have been expected of the lot of impetuous boys who comprised that legislature, however?

Chairman H|fnenway, rep., of the Appropriations Committee, has allowed $145,000 for “mileage” for the present session of Congress althongh the members were in Washington when it began. This pays the representatives forty cents a mile, although traveling costs not more than three cents a mile, and although the members had free passes in their pockets, and although they did not travel a rod. Is this what might be called boodle —a graft—a rake-off ? What sort of public scandal shall it be named?

The Democrat commends to the careful reading of the tax-payers of Jasper bounty, the poor farm requisitions published in another part of this paper. The itemß contained therein are copied from the official requisitions of the superintendent, which are approved by the board of commissioners and for the furnishing of all of which contracts are let and Jasper county pays. If you are a republican doubter, don’t say this is “another lie of The Democrat’s” but do a little estimating yourself and go to the auditor’s office and read the requisitions.

The Democrats have drawn first blood in their fight against the present apportionment for legislative purposes. Judge Artman, of the Boone Circuit Court, Monday,’held that the apportionment law was unconstitutional. Judge Artman is a strong repqblican, and was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1901, so he at least had no bias against the law. This is a severe blow to the republican partisans who passed the act, to have a republican judge and an active party man go back on them. There are many more measures passed by the notorious legislature of 1903 that will never stand a test in the courts.

The administration has distinguished itself by doing another extraordinary and unheard of thing: On the retirement of Secretary Root it has published at government expenses a biography of him of a thousand pages, painting in pictorial detail his heroism in directing affairs in Cuba, the Philippines and Panama. Are Hay, Moody, Hitchcock, Wood, Ifuston, and the rest to have thousand page (auto?) biographies at the expenses of the people? And what is the matter with the thrilling career of Hades-Roaring

Jake Smith ? Are annual histories of strenuosities to be the thing hereafter?

The melodious voice of Abe.” as heard through' the medium of the $2,300 court house clock, has not been manifest for several weeks. Ever since the machine politicians got together and decided to extend the terms of Commissioners Waymire and Denham Several years, and not to extend Abe’s, the clock has refused to strike a stroke. Some people have suggested that it might be a good idea to send for those “experts” who are alleged to have accompanied the junketing expedition from Chicago to Milwaukee when the clock was bought. They are said to have been warm numbers, and perhaps they conld inject a little life in this expensive piece of machinery.

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