Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRATIC STANDARD BEARERS.

ALTON H. I’AKKER.

jispeh m pepm. 11 BIBCOCK, EDITOR B PIIBIISHIR U « 0..T«0. | S".'°.V.O.* •«. Official Democratic Paper of Jaaper County. St.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rates made known on application Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. o as second class matter. Office on Van Renaeeiaer Street, North of Murray’s Store. SATURDAY, OCT. 15,1904.

DEMOCRATIC TICKET, 1904.

For President, ALTON B. PARKER, of New York. For Vice-President, HENRY G. DAVIS, of West Virginia. STATS TICKET. For Governor, JOHN W. KERN, of Indianapolis. For Lieutenant Governor, WARDER W. STEVENS, of Salem. For Secretary of State, EDWARD J. FOGARTY, of South Bend. For State Treasurer, D. F. ALLEN, ofFraukfort. For Auditor of State. JAMES R. RIGGS, of Sullivan. For Attorney-Generul, 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. U-VI H. SCOTT, of New Albany. For Judge of Suprcisii< Court,2d District. GEORGE E. DOWNEY, of Aurora. For Judge of Supreme Court, :id District, FRANK E. GAVIN, of Indianapolis.

DISTRICT TICKET. For Member of Congreie* WORTH W. PEPPLK, of Laporte County. For State Senator, JOHN WILDASIN, of Kentlatid. For Joint-Representative, S. E. KWAIM, of Hammond. For Prosecuting Attorney, EDWARD P. HONAN, of Reusselaer. COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, CAREY L. CARR, of Newton Tp. , For Recorder, WILLIAM LOCKE, of Carpenter Tp. For Sheriff, JOHN A. McFARLANI), of Marion Tp. For County Assessor, W. D. BRINGLK, of Jordan Tp. For Surveyor, THOMAS J. MALLATT, of Union Tp. For Coroner, Db. A. J. MILLER, of Marion Tp. For Commissioner, Ist District, W. S. DkARMOND, of Kankakee Tp. For Commissioner 2d District. JOHN RYAN, of Glllam Tp. For Commissioner 3d District, KARAH L. McKILLIP, of MiiroyTp.

TOWNSHIP TICKETS. Hanging Grove—W. R. WILLET, Trustee; ALBERT WARNER, Assessor. GIIIam—THEODORE PHILLIPS, Trustee: JAMES CULP, Assessor. Walker—ALBERT BOUK, Trustee; CHAS. ARMSTRONG, Assessor. Barkley-GRANT DAVISSON, Trustee; JOSEPH PULLINS, Assessor. Marion—C. F. STACKHOUSE, Trustee; PETER HORDEMAN, Jr.; Assessor. Jordan—CHARLES E. SAGE, Trustee; BENJ. WELSH, Assessor. Newton-W. B. YEOMAN, Trustee; EDWARD LANE, Assessor. Kankakee—FßANK W. FISHER. Trustee; BERT VANDBRCAR, Assessor. Wheatfleld—WM, C. SCHWIER, Trustee; HARMON CLARK, Assessor. Mllroy - W. C.IHUSTON, Trustee; WM. CULP, Assessor. Carpenter— GEORGE B. FOX. Trustee; MOSES SIGO, Assessor. Union—HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee; BDWARD LAKIN. Assessor.

DR. CHAS. VICK. EYE SPECIALIST. This is an age of Specialists to do one and do it well is inoro !»■ omitnended and is of more benefit to humanity than to do many tbintra and none equal to it best. We limit our practice on the eye bo errors of refraction, of which we have sade a Special Study for over thirty years. Office in C. H. Vick's fruit store.- next door to exprew office

HENRY O. DAVIS.

Come out and hear Bryan next Wednesday. By the way, what has become of that tax-ferret investigation which we heard so much about during the closing days of the campaign two years ago, and which was to lighten up taxes on everybody except the tax-dodger? Have your taxes been lightened any, Mr. Taxpayer? If so, hold up your hand. If the votes of Jasper county see tit to elect Carey L. Carr for county treasurer they will have a treasurer in fact as well as in name, and a bond will be filled with dozens of the best and most responsible men in the county, not by bankers to whom he is under obligations, for he is under financial obligations to none. While the victims of the McCoy bank failure have had great provocation from the McCoys, yet all good -citizens must condemn the destruction of property, and if some poor devil who lost his all in the McCoy “confidence shop” really did blow up Tom’s house withjdynamite, he would, if caught, have to suffer the penalty of the law. Such acts must not be condoned, and for the good name of Rensselaer and Jasper county, as the home of a peaceful and lawabiding people, we greatly deplore this blot on ou r good name. It is said that the McCoys had a good offer for their banking business some two or three years ago, but they didn’t sell because a change in owners and managers would have revealed the rotten manner in which its affairs had been conducted and showed up the enormous overdrafts of the McCoys themselves and their political henchmen. The denouement had to come finally, however, and it would no doubt have been better for the deluded depositors had it come some years ago. It might also be good financial policy to change managers of the county affairs occasionally to see how matters have been going, don’t you think, Mr. Taxpayer?

While looking over the poor farm records in the oounty auditor’s office the other day we jotted down a few items of the grocery supplies bought and paid for by the taxpayers of Jasper county for that expensive institution for the past nine months: Granulated Sugar, i,7oolbs. Tea . 45 •• Coffee 195 Beans 140 “ Rolled oats ......... t . 150 “ Crackers 135 " Raisins 35 “ Tobacco... ................ 68 “ Wheat Flour (18 barrels;... 3,600 “ Other items, both in groceries and dry goods, are equally enormous, considering the fact that the average number of inmates during this time has been about 13, and the further fact that this period carries through the summer season, when much of the supplies for the table should come from the garden and farm itself. Is it any wonder that this big, well improved and productive farm (if properly handled) rolls up n big deficit every three months when such an enormous amount of “supplies” are purchased for the larder? Will the taxpayers of Jasper county ever tumble to the fact that too many political hang-

era-on are being nursed and fostered at their expense? The Democrat challenges any newspaper, public officer or individual to disprove its statement that the action of the State Board of Tax Commissioners in raising the valuation of real estate and improvements in Jasper county in 1903 was not ten days to, three weeks before the county levy was made here, and that the county officers were cognizant of this raise in valuation on and before the levy was made, therefore the action in not reducing, the jlevy proportionately is indefensible. The best paying and cheapest office to run in Jasper county is the recorder’s office, and the present recorder got the salary raised after his acceptance of the nomination at the old salary of $1,200 four years ago. It now pays a straight salary of $1,700 and 50 per cent of all fees in excess of salary taken in, making over $2,000 per year. In view of the political free-booting in raising the salary of this office the taxpayers of the county would be doing the proper thing to resent such action by turning the office over to a democrat for ont> term and teach these tax-eating freebooters where to get off at. Mr. Locke is a capable young man and would fill the office to the entire satisfaction of all.

Mrs. A. McCoy is said to have been ready and anxious to sign over to the bank creditors her interest in all real estate owned by her husband, but “Mac” would not hear to her doing anything of the sort, and after paying their lawyers for keeping them out of the penitentiary the McCoys will no doubt come out of this failure with more money than they ever possessed of their own at any time in their lives. And this old man McCoy, Mr. Republican taxpayer, you have bpen blindly following politically in the management of your county affairs for years, and some of his victims you are now helping to support at county expense. Don’t it make you ashamed (or mad) to think about it? : i It is well said that a man is best known by his neighbors and in his own bailiwick, and a candidate for public office may well feel proud of the vote he receives in his home township if that vote is greater than that accorded to the head of his party tciket. Two years ago Barkley township,* the home township of S. R. Nichols, candidate for county treasurer, and who is now a candidate for re-election, gave a republican majority for the head of the ticket (Secretary of State) of 45, but turned Nichols down by giving his opponent a majority of 16. It will thus be seen that his neighbors and associates, who had known him for years, thought him unfit for the office, or he would not have run 61 behind his party vote out of total of only 300 votes cast in the whole township. These are indisputable facts, and no further comment is necessary.

Mr. Bryan’s trip through Indiana has demonstrated the high regard that the people have for him, and this is not confined to Democrats alone. Republicans admit that he la honest, fearless, brave and manly. Life Is too Important, time too precious to carry a load of revenge.—William Jennings Bryan. ♦ ♦ <9> ♦ <9 & <s> ® Q Increase in land assessments <s> <B> In 1903, $27,952,101. <9> ♦ Reduction in railroad assess- <*> <$ ments from 1894 to 1904, $16,W 297,989. ♦ <f> Reduction* in assessments $> ♦ of telegraph, express and trans- ♦ portatlon companies In 1904, $> ♦ $931,265. «■ I can always depend on my newspaper coming to the support of the party ticket when I give the word.— Charles W. Fairbanks. Mr. Bryan declares that “Peabodyism In Colorado Is t4e legitimate fruit of imperialism and militarism in the Philippines."

BEVERIDGE'S SPEECH

Commenting on the speech of Ben* •tor Beveridge;, opening the Republican campaign in Marlon county, the Indianapolis News said: “He thought that the fact that Judge Parker voted twice for Mr. BryAn proved him to be weak, and not qn«L fled for the office of President. Yet almost 7,000,000 American citizens followed the course adopted by Judge Parker. And if we are honest with ourselvds we must admit that most Republicans would have Voted for their ticket In 1896 even if it had stood on a' free silver platform. The partisan habit is strong—far too strong. Mr. Roosevelt himself has voted for protectionist candidates at a time when he himself was a believer in free trade. So we should all of us try to be charitable to partisan zeal, for we can never tell when we may need charity ourselves." And the News might have added that there has been no more hide-bound partisan in the Senate than Mr. Beveridge. He has supported every measure advanced by bis party and has shown no independence whatever in that body. Continuing, the News says: “Senator Beveridge in his discussion of the relation of the tariff to trusts said that the Standard Oil company could not be the product of the tariff, as there is no tariff on oil. But there is a tariff on oil imported from countries that impose a duty on our oil. Further than this, the Standard company gets a rebate on the tins in

| ANOTHER REASON WHY TAXES ARE HI6H. £ Jasper County tax payers will no doubt relish the follow- * ing. It shows that the corporations have the common people 5 by the throat: £ Increase in assessments on lands and itnprove- * -merits on lands by the Republican State Board of i $ Tax Commissioners in 1903 in Jasper County.... $ 839,069 $ 5: Decrease in assessments of railroads of Indi- i $ ana in nine years by the same board. 16,297,989 ! Decrease iu assessments of express, telegraph £ and transportation companies in Indiana in 1904 931,265

which it exports its oil. The Rockefeller company is pretty well protected. In 1892 the sugar trust paid a dividend of 1014 per cent on its common and 7 per cent on Its preferred stock, and in 1895 the diivdends were per cent on its common and 7 per cent on its preferred. Since August, 1894, the prices of sugar have risen from 2.69, 2.12 and 4.35 cents a pound j to 3.69, 4.25 and 4.95 cents a pound—which is a decided increase.” The people should hear in mind that the General Assembly, under Republican majorities, shows an alarming increase in expenses every two years over the preceding session. And this in the face of the fact that there has been no increase in the number of senators and members of the house nor in the length of the sessions. The party came into power in 1895 and the legislative session cost the people $99,722. In 1897 the expenditures were increased to $105,817, and two years later they jumped to $114,768. This would be supposed to be the high water mark, but it was not so, for in 1901 they were boosted to $125,791, and in 1903 they were $120,999. Republican majorities In the legislature and reckless extravagance have come to be synonymous terms. There are Indications that the Republican leaders are trying to arrange for the importation of colored voters from Kentucky and Tennessee, and Democrats In the cities and especially in the Ohio river counties, should be on their guard against such frauds. The sixty-day poll will show whether the voter was In the precinct at the legal time, and no man, whether he be white or black, who is disqualified under the law, ought to be allowed to vote. Republicans have become so used to practicing frauds at elections that the greatest vigilance may be necessary to prevent their repetition on November 8. Qf course, it was eipected that the News would declare for Roosevelt and Fairbanks before the election, and the expectation has been realized. Mr. Fairbanks permits his newspaper to flirt with political situations till the real battle is on, and then he brings it around to the support of the Republican party. He thinks Democrats may be led to believe that the News Is Independent, and therefore yhen its choice is finally made, its influence will be enhanced. The game has been often played and has lost its charm as well as Its power to deceive. Over long-distance telephone from California: “Hello, is this the News?” “Yes, this is the News." "Well, this Is Fairbanks.” "Hello, Fairbanks, what is it?” "You’d better come out for the ticket. Things ain’t looking well, and you might hold off too long.” "All right. The editorial is written and we’ll slap her in today.” "Don’t make it too strong at first” "Oh, no; we understand. Good by.” "Goodby.” Harry New came down from Chicago last week to look after ..the campaign in Indiana. He took the precaution to announce, without any apparent reason for it, that he was not here to make suggestions tp Chairman Good-

rich, and then he went into conference with that individual and said trtngs. • Of course everyone knows that the Republicans are uneasy over Indiana, and Slew’s attempt to conceal the cause of his visit only made him ridiculous. T

The Republicans are putting up a game of bluff in an effort to inspire the party with confidence, yet many of the men who are now claiming the state for Roosevelt were equally as loud in proclaiming that he would prove a weak candidate. It was not expected that Governor Durbin aiid other Indiana Republicans of the office-holding variety would like Judge Parker’s letter. Well, hardly. The average citizen would say that It is an outrage to override the decision of the local boards of review and, increase the assessments ona land In a county 50 per cent and at the same time take the Judgment of railroad corporations on the value of their property and fix the appraisements accordingly. But this is what a Republican tax board has done, and one of the consequences is that railroad property is assessed on a valuation of $23,000,000 less than It should be. But, worse than this, the board has really reduced these assessments $16,000,000, when Increases In trackage are considered, in the past nine years. When a Republican speaker advocates the increase of our merchant marine he means to subsidize certain large corporations, and when he talks

of industrial combinations he means the trusts. These are but the polite terms that the “grafters” require the Republican orators to use when speaking of them. The words “trust” and “ship subsidy” have come to be obnoxious to the people, and the Republicans are now employing the milder terms. Every Democrat admires William Jennings Bryan and the most zealous of his followers will feel on election day as Mr. Bryan feels now when he says: “If Judge Parker could vote for me when the money question was paramount. I can vote for him when we are confronted with another and greater-issue than the money question.” The State Grange of Pennsylvania has asked Republican politicians the following question: “Will you, if elected, assist in passing legislation which will enable American citizens to buy Amercan products as cheaply, at home as they are sold abroad?” Why don’t the farmers of Indiana ask the same question? Senator Fairbanks declares that the Republican party may be trusted to deal with the subject of a ship subsidy “in a- patriotic and sensible way.” Unfortunately the two Indiana Senators have demonstrated by their votes for the ship subsidy steal just what a “patriotic and sensible way” is. It was President Roosevelt who declared that a cowboy 1s a better companion than small farmers, mechanics or laborers, but Mr. Roosevelt was not * candidate then.

Edwin St. George Rogers, the well known Indianapolis lawyer whom the Populists recently placed upon their state ticket as the candidate for attorney general, has sent a letter to the cahirman of the Populist committee declining to make the race. Mr, Rogers is a Democrat and favors the election of Judge Parker. He to also conscious of the fact that it Is the duty of every Democrat to stand by his party and attempt to bring the country back to the recognition of those great principles of governtqent that obtained before the Republicllns came into power. Mr. Rogers also recognizes the fact thkt every vote cast for a third party by men who are in no sense in sympathy with the Republican principles Is *n aid to the Republicans and against the Democrats. The honor of a nomination under such circumstances has do attractions for him. Hon. Iffcnry G. Davis touches on many important questions in his letter of acceptance, but his utterances on imperialism are specially cogent and should bo borne In mind by every lover of his country. "Imperialism,” he declares, “Is hurtful and abhorrent in a free government and subversive of free institutions. The policy of imperialism—ls It can be said to have a policy—ls always dangerous to liberty. Its powers are first exercised In faroff territory and on conquered people, but once adopted for acquired and distant* possessions, it becomes, sooner or later, the rule, of the home government. Liberty and free government have always been secured at the cost of great sacrifices, but history teaches us that both can be easily 'lost without the knowledge of the people." '

A MILK ROOM.

raeflltlM For Boldin* the Milk on Ms 1 | ■ M w Generally speaking, there is aimoat an entire lack of facilities for holding cream on the western farm, flfc majority of farms have wind pumps at or near the house. The pump furnishes qn excellent location for an ideal milk 'bouse. On many farms visited the owner had built around the windmill tower, or at one-side of it, a building, usually t$ by 8 feet, In which was placed a tank deep enough to set the milk cans and hpve water come up to their necks. All of the water pumped for stock and other purposes of the farm is run through this tank and* then out Into the stock tank. This room often .'contains the separator and a worktable. In fact, here is done the dairy work of the farm. With an arrangement of this kind the cream should he kept without difficulty from forty-eight to seventy-two hours iu the hottest weather. Such a building costs but little, and the convenience of having a place for the milk, cream and dairy utensils is in itself enough to justify the expense of building It. As a matter of fact, the farmer who is going to get the best price for his cream will have to provide himself with a place in which to keep it cool until it can be delivered to the station. Keep it as cool as possible without freezing up to the time it is delivered. Keep the milk room for milk and nothing else, and above all have plenty of windows to admit sunshine when wanted and use plenty Of “elbow grease” In keeping it sweet and clean. —Bureau of Animal Industry. One Thins and Another. “It has been found by actual test that the state of Illinois in its upper half is eminently fitted for beet growing. With its fuel supply, transportation facilities and market advantages, it goes without saying that it is fitted for manufacturing,” says Suger Beet Expert Saylor. Spraying with bordeaux mixture decreases the amount of blight in sugar beet fields. The ripening that takes place between the picking of the apple and its cold storage makes it more susceptible to scald, and delay in storing the fruit in hot weather is particularly injurious. Cream should be, separated at once after milking, while the milk still has animal beat in it. Copperas water not too strong is said to be the best thing to heal barbed wire cuts. Webworms have been very destructive in lowa plum trees this season. Water applied with great force will rid maple trees of the “cottony scale,” according to very good authority

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