Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1904 — DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET.

#/Fhe democratic city convention was held Thursday night at the court house, as per call. There was a dearth of candidates for most of the offices, owing to the overwhelming majority of the opposition in the city and the further reason that many democrats seemed to feel that the republicans have got the city in a terrible financial condition, and that they should be allowed to work out their own salvation, i/' The only contest ftßaki Marshal, where the names of John Hordeman and Abraham Simpson were presented. On ballot being taken Mr. Hordeman received 26 votes and Mr. Simpson 11. The former was declared the nominee of the convention. There were no nominations made in the Third Ward for councilmen and the city committee was empowered to fill any vacancies that might occur on the ticket. Some of the nominees were not present and later declined for private reasons to allow their names to be used. The city committee, therefore, met yesterday morning and filled up the ticket, and as finally made up it is as follows: Mayor— George H. Maines. Clerk— Joseph Jeffries. Treasurer—U. M. Baughman. Marshal —John Hordeman. Councilmen: Ist Ward i J - A - McFarland. Ist w ard j g MITH Newell . 2d Ward \ jOHN SOHANLAUB. -a Yv ara jj, JJJiglßsbach. 1 Bruce White. 3 d Wil'd j Moses Tuteub.

After the convention proper was over addresses were made by Hon. E. P. Honan and Prof. G. W. Michael. Mr. Honan produced figures showing the deplorable financial condition of the city at the present time as the result of republican misrule; that city orders were outstanding and unpaid for want of funds to the amount of about $6,000; that the man who worked on the streets at $1.50 per day could not get his money after his work was done, without hawking his city order around town and submitting to a cut if disposed of at all to some money loaner; that the democrats proposed to bring the city out of the quagmire of bankruptcy, and thus enable the man who earned his money by the sweat of his brow to get pay for his labor direct from the city treasury and at full face value. Mr. Honan was followed by Prof. Michael, whose remarks were more general in a political way and were listened to with close atattention by the audience. Mr. Michael warned his hearers against keeping one party in power too long, stating that long lease of power and continued party success made careless and corrupt officials. We think citizens generally will agree with us that the ticket is an exceptionally good one. Later The Democrat will have something to say as to the personnel of the candidates and about our present state of financial affairs in Rensselaer.