Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1904 — DEMOCRATIC TICKET, 1904. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC TICKET, 1904.

For President, ALTON B. BARKER. of New York. For Vice-President, HENRY G, DAVIS, of West Virginia. STATE TICKET. For Governor. JOHN W, KERN, of Indianapolis. For Lieutenant Governor. WARDER W. STEVENS, of Salem. For Secretary of State. EDWARD .1. FOGARTY,of South Bend. For State Treasurer. P F. ALLEN, of Frankfort. H For Auditor of State. | JAMES R. UIGGS, of Sullivan. For Attorney-General, JOSEPH H. SHEA, of Seymour. For Reporter of Supreme Court, WALTER S. CHAMBERS, of Newcastle. For State Statistician, JESSE D. SMITH, of Indianapolis. For Supt. of Public Instruction. LEVI H. SCOTT, of New Albany. For Judge of Supreme Court,2d District. r GEORGE E. DOWNEY, of Aurora. For Judge of Supreme Court, 3d District, FRANK E. GAVIN, of Indianapolis. COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, CAREY L. CARR, of Newton Tp. For Recorder, WILLIAM LOCKE, of Carpenter Tp. For Sheriff. jr*HN A. McFARLAND, of Marion Tp. For County Assessor, W. D. BRINGLE, of Jordan Tp. For Surveyor, THOMAS J. MALLATT, of Union Tp. For Coroner, Da. A. J. MILLER, of Marion Tp. For Commissioner, Ist District. W. S. DeARMOND, of Kankakee Tp. For Commissioner 2d District. JOHN RYAN, of Gillam Tp For Commissioner 3d District. KAKAH L. MoKILLIP, of MilroyTp. TOWNSHIP TICKETS. Hanging Grove— W. R. WILLET. Trustee; ALBERT WARNER, Assessor. GiIIam—THEODORE PHILLIPS. Trustee; JAMES CULP; Assessor. Walker-ALBERT HOUR. Trustee; CHAS. ARMSTRONG, Assessor. Barkley—GßANT DAVISSON, Trustee; JOSEPH PULLINS, Assessor. Marion-C. K. STACKHOUSE, Trustee; PETER HORDEMANWr.; Assessor. Jordan CHARLES E. SAGE, Trustee; BBNJ. WELSH. Assessor. Newton-W. B. YEOMAN, Trustee; EDWARD LANE, Assessor. Kankakee- FRANK W. FISHER. Trustee: BERT VANDERCAB, Assessor. Wheatfield-WM. C. SCHWIER. Trustee; HARMON CLARK. Assessor. MUroy - W. C.*HUSTON( Trustee; WM. CULP. Assessor. Carpenter-GEORGE B. FOX, Trustee; MOSES SIGO, Assessor, Onion— HAKYEY DAVISSON, Trustee; EDWARD LAKIN, Assessor.

Yog, the are out of ix>litics this year. They are also out of the penitentiary, at present writing. J. A. McFarland is making such a race in his candidacy that the boys are already calling him Sheriff McFarland. Don’t vote for a continuation of McCoy methods of conducting county and township affairs —vote for your own interests. Considerable of our space is taken up this week with the letters of acceptance of Hons. Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis, democratic nominees for the presidency and vice-presidency, respectively. But we take it all democrats want to read these letters and it will not hurt republicans to read them also. Pulaski county democrats nominated their county ticket last week by a primary election. The following named gentlemen were elected to grace the ticket: Recorder, Joseph M. Stipp; treasurer, Henry Weaver; sheriff, William Sanders; coroner, John J. Thomas; surveyer, George Pugh; commissioners, Fred Eckert, Andrew J. Baughman. The re-election of Nichols to the county treasurership means that the shortage occasioned by losses in the McCoy bank will be patched up and fixed up—if at all — at the convenience and leisure of the parties concerned. His defeat means a full and complete settlement of every dollar due the county at the expiration of his present term. It should not be bard for the taxpayers to determine which is the better for the public good.

The democrats have been particularly fortunate this year in the selection of candidates for public office in Jasper county. Headed by a good, clean, honest, able and responsible set of candidates on the county ticket, you may follow down the line of township candidates and an equally good showing is made—good, conservative business i men, men who will safeguard the people’s interests—heads every one of the various tickets. Carey L. Carr, the democratic candidate for county treasurer, is a well-to-do farmer, straight as a string, honest and upright in every wav. He is not a candidate of any bank, and has no strings tied to him in any manner. He can and will if elected fill a bond among the horny-handed farmers —the best and safest bond in the world. He doesn’t drink, doesn’t gamble, doesn’t speculate, and is a safe and careful man to be entrusted with the county funds. Mr. Taxpayer, for the next few weeks just ponder over what The Demociat in years gone by has been telling you about the management of our local affairs under republican ring rule. Think the the matter over carefully, consider well all the truths it has told you—also the falsehoods, if you can find any—then vote your local ticket 89 your conscience and better judgment tells you you should. If you do this, there will be a change for the better in our local government.

Some four or five years ago a petition for an investigation of the county records of Jasper county, signed by more than one thousand representative taxpayers of the county-—members of both political parties—was filed with the county commissioners, but was turned down. If an investigation could have had been made as to the condition of the McCoy bank several years ago perhaps there would not be hundreds of farmers, widows, orphans and working people to-day mourning the loss of all their money in that institution. The McCoys have run Jasper county and their bank also. Perhaps the former methods need investigation; at least it will do no harm to have it done. Elect a democratic board of commissioners next month and we’el guarantee that an honest and non-parti-san investigation of the county records will be made. If the McCoy management of county affairs has been as rotten as the management of their bank, you ought to know it and have things start out on a new, clean and honest basis.