Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 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 Stute Statistician. jEs.SK D. SMITH, of Indianapolis. For Supt. of Public Instruction, LEVI H, SCOTT, of New Albany. For Judge of Supreme Court, 2d District. GEORGE E. DOWNEY, of Aurora: For Judge of Supreme Court, lid District, FRANK E. GAVIN, of IndiauupoliH. DISTRICT TICKET. For Member of Congress WORTH W. PEPPLE, of Laporte County. For Stute Senator, JOHN WILDASIN, of Kentland. For Joint-Representative, S. E. SWAIM, of Hammond. For Prosecuting Attorney, COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, CAREY L. CARR, of Newton Tp. For Recorder, WILLIAM LOCKE, of Carpenter Tp. For Sheriff. JOHN A. McFARLAND, of Marion Tp. For County Assessor, W. D. BRINGLE, of Jordan Tp. For Surveyor, THOMAS J. MALLATT, of Union Tp. For Coroner, Du. A. J. MILLER, of Marion Tp. For Commissioner, Ist District, W. S. DeARMOND, of Kankakee Tp. For Commissioner 2d District. JOHN RYAN, of Gillum Tp. For Commissioner 3d District, KARAH L. McKILLIP, of Milroy Tp. TOWNSHIP TIOKETS. Hanging Grove—W. R. WILLET, Trustee; CHARLES LEFLER, Assessor. GIUam—THEODORE PHILLIPS, Trustee; JAMES CULP, Assessor. Walker— ALBERT BOUK, Trustee; CHAS. ARMSTRONG, Assessor. Barkley-GRANT DAVISSON, Trustee; JOSEPH PULLINS, Assessor. Marlon—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-FRANK W. FISHER, Trustee: BERT VANDERCAR, Assessor. Wheatfleld-WM. C. SCHWIER, Trustee; HARMON CLARK, Assessor. Milroy - W. C.JHUSTON, Trustee; WM. CULP, Assessoi. Carpenter—GEOßGE B. FOX, Trustee; MOSES SIGO, Assessor. Union—HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee; HOWARD LAKIN, Assessor. Don’t fail to come out and vote next Tuesday, and see that your neighbor does likewise. If you want to eliminate the McCoys from dictating public affaire in Jasper county, vote for a change in the county treasurer’s office.

Before another issue of the Democrat comeß from the press another election will have come and gone. Probably all the readers of this paper have ere this made up their minds how they will vote the national and state tickets, and it is not our purpose to refer to these tickets in this article. But one thing every taxpayer should always bear in mind in deciding whom be will support for the county and township offices, and that is, that the great bulk of the money levied for taxation and which he is called upon to pay, is the township and county tax. Therefore politics ought not to cut much figure in these offices. Consider the personality of the of the candidates themselves, and if the minority party —which in Jasper county is the democratic party —have men on their ticket whom your better judgment tells you are better fitted for the office to which they aspire, or if your own common sense convinces you that it is not to the best interests of the taxpayers to continue the same old set of officers —or those controlled by the same influences —in power indefinitely; that such act enables them to cover up all irregularities, if any, in the conduct of the county business; that scores of political pets grow up and are fed at the public crib under such long-continued-in-pow-er conditions —it is a duty you owe to yourself and to your family to lay politics aside and /vote for THE MAN. The Democrat earnestly believes that a change in some of the public oflices in Jasper county would be very beneficial to the taxpayers, and to this end it urges the independent voter and those republicans who care for a mqre careful and economical administration, free from McCoy or ring domination, with lower taxes and better results from the money expended, to support the democratic local ticket.

Vcte for Carey L. Carr for county treasurer. The overdrafts and unsecured notes of the McCoy ring politicians contributed very largely to the failure of the McCoy bank, by which hundreds of poor people lost their meager savings, with a very poor prospect of getting back over 10 to 15 per cent of the same. Bear this in mind, you unfortunate victims, when you go to the polls to vote next Tuesday. Four years ago and again two years ago The Democrat urged the taxpayers of Jasper county to elect at least a part of the democratic candidates for members of the County Council, believing that it would be much better to have democrats on this board as well as republicans; that it would mean a more economical administration of county business and lower taxes. This advise was not acted upon, and notwithstanding the fact that there have been no cause for increased cost of county government and that the valuation of the taxable property of the county has been increased onethird, taxes are higher than ever. This year we again urge you, if you want lower taxes and more rigid economy in the expenditure of public money, to vote to pat a few democrats in the oonnty offices

this year. If you again disregard this well meant advioe, don't growl about high taxes, but remeibber that it was what you voted fqr and had reason to expect.

If you have had enough of McCoy methods in the conduct of your county affairs, show it by your vote next Tuesday. You thought the bank was as sound as tbe Rock of Gibraltar, but it wasn’t. You may also think that tbe publio affairs of Jasper oounty have been carried on with the utmost honor and integrity, but perhaps you are to be just as badly taken in on one as the other. In any event, the sooner you find out for sure the better it will be for everybody.

It is always better to elect responsible men to office rather than depend too much on the bond they are required to give. People who go on bonds don’t like to have to pay them, and will stave the settlement off as long as possible. We are told on good authority that the State of South Dakota, whose treasurer, (Taylor, a broth-er-in-law of Tom McCoy’s) who got away with about a half million of dollars a few years ago, is still out $250,d00 of the amount, notwithstanding Taylor also gave a “good bond.”

Don’t be fooled again, taxpayers of Jasper county. Don’t let any tax-ferret “investigation” or other blessing (?) in disguise influence your vote this time. Yon all know how it was worked to perfection in the closing days of the three last local campaigns. You likewise know what came of it. Notwithstanding the statements made to you that the tax-ferret investigation would place so much omitted property on the tax duplicate that your own itaxes would become a mere bagatelle, the “investigation” only investigated the widows and orphans, the aged and infirm, and your taxes have been doubled. Don’t be deceived again.

The books of James H. Chapman, trustee of the defunct McCoy bank, show that S. R. Nichols treasurer of Jasper county, and who is again asking you to re-elect him to this office, had $23,146.98 of county funds deposited in said bank at the time of its failure. The reports of said Chapman as assignee, filed in the circuit court here, shows that Nichols’ personal over-draft to said bank (that is, that he had overdrawn his personal bank account that much) was $1,202.55. Said reports also show that there were personal notes of Nichols to the McCoy bank aggregating over $28,000! The report of the appraisers, appointed by the court to appraise the value of the bank’s assets, shows that in the opinion of the appraiers these notes and the overdraft are absolutely worthless! Nichols made many conflicting statements about the amount of county funds on deposit in the McCoy bank after its failure, to some saying there was but $3,000 or $4,000, to others $7,000, etc. Why was this? If everything was all straight and right in the matter, why did he not admit at once that he had over $23,000 there?