Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 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. STATE 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, of Frankfort. For Auditor of State. JAMES R. RIGGS, 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, LI VI H. SCOTT, of New Albatiy. For Judge of Supreme Court,2d District. ' GEORGE K. DOWNEY, of Aurora. Forjudge of Supreme Court, 3d District. FRANK E. GAVIN, of Indinnupolis. DISTRICT TICKET. For Member of Congress WORTH W. PBPPLE, of Laporte County. For Stale Senator, JOHN WILDASIN, of Kentland. For Joint-Representative, S. E. S ( WAIM, of Hammond. For Prosecuting Attorney, COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, CAREY L. CARR, of Newton Tp. For Recorder, WILLIAM LOCKE, of Carpenter Tp. For Sheriff, J'IHV A. Mc FARLAND, of Marion Tp. For County Assessor, W. D. HRINGLE, 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. DkARMONI), of Kankakee Tp. For Commissioner 2d District. JOHN RYAN, of Gillum Tp. For Commissioner 3d District, KARAH L. McKILLIP, of MilroyTp. TOWNSHIP TICKETS. Hanging Grove —W. R. WILLKT, Trustee; CHARLES LKFLKR, Assessor. GIIIam—THEODORE PHILLIPS, Trustee; JAMES CULP, Assessor. Walker—ALBERT BOUK, Trustee; CHAS. ARMSTRONG, Assessor. Barkley—GßANT DAVISSON, Trustee; JOSEPH PULLINS, Assessor. Marion-C. F. STACKHOUSE, Trustee; PETER HOUDKMAN, Jr.; Assessor. Jordan CHARLES K. SAGE, Trustee; BENJ. WELSH. Assessor. Newton-W. B. YEOMAN, Trustee; EDWARD LANE, Assessor. Kankakee- FRANK W. FISHER. Trustee: BERT VANDERCAR, Assessor. Wheatfleld—WM. C. SCHWIER. Trustee; HARMON CLARK. Assessor. Milrov W. C.IHUSTON, Trustee; WM, CITLP. Assessoi. Carpenter^-GEORGE B. FOX. Trustee; MOSKS SIGO, Assessor. Union—HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee: EDWARD LAKIN, Assessor. Many republicans who saw Mr. Bryan for the first time last Wednesday were agreeably surprised to see that be did not have horns and the cloven foot, that has been attributed so long by republican newspapers, and that instead he was one of the best “lookers” that ever caoie down the pike.

Remember that the election of Carey L. Carr as county treasurer means that the people of Jasper county will have a treasurer in fact as well as in name. He will not hold the office by proxy. The Democrat has always labored for what it has considered the best interests of the whole people of Jasper county, and in once more urging the election of democrats to office it does so with the consciousness that a change in the management of public affairs in this county will be very beneficial to the taxpayers thereof. Charles F. Stackhouse, the democratic candidate for trustee of Marion township, is a careful and conservative man in the conduct of business matters, is a successful farmer and in every way qualified to make the best and most popular trustee this township ever has had. You will make no mistake, voters, if you elect Charley Stackhouse. The election is only one week from next Tuesday. Have you made up your mind, Mr. Republican taxpayer, how you are going to vote the local ticket? Will you vote for Nichols for county treasurer again, knowing, as you must know at this time that he was a mere tool, elected by the McCoys that they might get their pay out of him for the thousands of dollars he owed them? If again elected he will be elected for a like purpose. Do you want Jasper county to act as collecting agent for any bank or individual? These are questions that you must decide at this election.

That W. J. Bryan has lost non 6 of the prestige he enjoyed in former camjjaigns, and that he is the best drawing card on the stump to-day, was again demonstrated last Wednesday when he spoke here to a crowd larger than all the people who have listened to republican spellbinders in the two last presidential campaigns in this town, and, while not as demonstrative as some enthusiasms might have desired, his every word was eagerly sought by thousands of willing ears. One who was not turned, or at least does not stop and think before further pursuing his phantom chase after martial glory, to the paths of peace and tranquility, is indeed lost to the voice of reason. We are even constiained to believe that John P. Carr of the Fowler Leader, hardened as he is in the pursuit of republican lusts, would have b en mightily moved to repentance, if indeed his complete conversion had not been fully consumated. Mr. Bryan’s wit, his straight-forward presentation of facts, his biting sarcasm, his convincing logic will not fail to convince the most skeptical that he is in earnest and means what he says when he urges every one who voted for him in the two last campaigns to vote the democratic electoral, state, congressional, legislative, and local tickets at the polls Nov Bth. The comments of friend >and political foe were alike complimentary, and in any future visit Mr. Bryan’s presence will attract the crowd of the season.

Taxpayers of Jasper county, it will soon be up to you once more to decide whether or not you want any change in the management of your local affairs. If you are satisfied with the enormous taxes you are paying and the extravagant and profligate waste of public money that is being made —a la Tom McCoy—vote for its continuance by again electing the entire republican ticket, most of which is the old ring ticket and will be subject to ring control. If, on the other hand, you have at last got your eyes opened to the truths The Democrat has been pounding into your ears for the past six years and desire a lower tax rate and a more rigid economy in the administration of your county affairs —without in any way jeopardizing the public good—vote to put a few democrats in .’the court house. This matter is for you to decide. Think it over seriously and then do as your conscience and better judgment tells you.

Taxpayers of Jasper county who read the figures of a few items of supplies bought and paid for during the past nine months for the county poor farm, published last week, should bear in mind the number of people who are supposed to have consumed this enormous amount of supplies. Taking the average number of inmates of the poor asylum at 13— which has, we believe, been the average during this time as shown from the quarterly reports, Supt. Blue and wife and hired girl (their daughter, ats3 per week) and two hired men—we don’t know that there were two men, but as we desire to be perfectly fair in this matter we will allow him two — and we have a total of 18 people. Now the supplies run practically the same right along, and this is what each one must have)consumed, dividing up the supplies evenly among these eighteen people: Granulated Sugar 95 lhs. Tea 3 “ Coffee n “ Beans 8 “ Rolled Oats 8 “ Crackers 7'A“ Raisins 2 •* Wheat flour (1 barrel) 196 “ But don’t think for a moment that this was all the groceries bought for this expensive institution during the past jiine months. In addition to this there has been 20 bushels of potatoes ;JlO pounds of pulverized sugar; 12 gals, molasses; 2 pounds of tapioca; 1 pound of nutmegs; 2 pounds of cinnamon; 1 pound of cloves; 4 pounds of mustard; 10 dozen cans of corn; 10 dozen cans of peas; 20 dozen lemons; 90 pounds of dried peaches; 85 pounds of prunes; 80 pounds of hominy; 30 pounds of cheese; 12 bottles Jof vanilla; 4 cakes bakers chocolate ;v 15 cans cocoa; 2 cans cocoanut; 50 pounds buckwheat flour; 22 pounds of soda; 16 pounds baking powder; 7 pounds comUstarch; 28 gals, cider vinegar; several cases of strawberries; 1 barrel and 10 sacks fine salt; bushel of onions; some two hundred dollars worth of fresh meat, etc., etc., bought and paid for out of the taxpayers’ money. The auditor’s report for the calender year 1903 shows that the expense of conductingjthe farm last year was $3,661.78! If you want this thing to continue, Mr. Taxpayer, vote to keep the ring politicians in power. But if you do so vote, don’t growl about your high taxes when you go to pay them.