Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

dollars in this “confidence shop” to a few of these notes and overdrafts, and add that so far as we could determine the political complection of those owing notes and overdrafts in the schedules filed, nearly every democrat’s note and over-draft was appraised at one hundred cents on the dollar, and there were, too, several democrats in the list. We do not mean from this that democrats generally are bo much more responsible in financial matters than are republicans, but we do mean that business methods were used with democrats and few of them not responsible were given money on their own personal notes or allowed to over-draw their accounts beyond all reason, while the republican politician and wardheeler could apparently get anything he wanted, and he was not slow in wanting, either: There are six notes aggregating $28,761.59, and one over-draft of $1,502.55, by S. R. Nichols, the republican county treasurer, who is now a candidate for re-election on the republican county ticket, that are appraised as absolutely worthless.. The grand total of these notes and the overdraft is $29,964.14. There are four notes against Philip Blue, present superintendent of the poor farm and who has had some political job in Jasper county for the past 25 or 30 years, aggregating $274,16, and the appraised value placed on them is the same as on Nichols’, and reads “000 00.” One note of $1,400 of a former chairman of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee is reported of no value. ? There is an over-draft of sl,855.43 by F. B. Meyer, the republican postmaster of Rensselaer, appraised “0,000.00.” There is an over-draft of $717.60 by A. the republican sheriff of Jasper county, also appraised “000.00.” Three notes of H. E. Hartley, a former g. o. p. shouter and politician of Remington, aggregating $1,430; appraised value “0000,00.” Some notes given by H. B. Murray, ex-auditor of Jasper county and a would-be politician, aggregating $182.00; valued by the appraisers in ciphers only, thus, “000,00.” There is an over-draft by the Jasper County Republican Central Committee of $159.16, but its appraised value is “000.00.” Two ex-chairmen of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee were over drawn for $552.81 and $1,609.61, respectively, and both are valueless according to the appraisers. Another republican who lately sought the nomination for a high office is over-drawn over SIOO, and the valuation placed opposite the amount by the appraisers reads “000,00.” And so we might go on and enumerate note after note and over-draft after over-draft of republican office-holders and politicians (not including the $300,000 owed by A. McCoy and T. J. McCoy, the king bee politicians of northern Indiana) showing that politics did have something to do with wrecking this bank and causing hundreds of poor people to lose the few dollars they had accumulated by a life-time of toil, and making some of them practically public charges upon the taxpayers of the county.

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