Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1904 — DEMOCRATIC TICKET, 1904. [ARTICLE]

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.

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.