Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1905 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The private bankers of the state held a meeting at Indianapolis Monday and decided to “Btand pat,” and want no change in the banking laws of the state. Union B. Hunt, former Secretary of State and late candidate for the republican nomination for governor, is now serving as secretary to Gov. Hanly, we understand. How the mighty do fall sometimes. Judge C. R. Pollard, of Delphi, is an active candidate for democratic member of the board of state tax commissioners. Parks Martin, present incumbent, is also a candidate for re-appointment. Judge Pollard has strong endorsements for the place. The prospects are that the present legislature will amend the Nicholson temperance law by making a remonstrance against “any and all applicants” for licence or against the* business, rather, effective for a period of two years, “instead of requiring a seperate remonstrance to be filed against each and every applicant. We notice that Trustee Chapman has begun suits against several of those who owed the McCoy bank, but we have failed to hear of any suits being commenced to oollect the 11,200 overdraft of republican county treasurer Nichols nor the SI,BOO overdraft of the republican postmaster, nor the big overdraft of the republican exsheriff, nor any action been begun to foreclose the second mortgages held on the former’s lands. Why is this thusly? No one has yet come forward with any proposed relief for the hundreds of poor widows, orphans and laboring men who lost their all in McCoy’s sheepskin bank. Why ought they not be relieved as well as the bondsmen of the county treasurer, who is believed to have been paying a political debt and his own personal debts in depositing county funds in this rotton institution? The old grandmother who is ending her days at the county poor asylum, a public charge upon the taxpayers of Jasper county, is not to be recompensed for the loss of the few hundred dollars she had deposited in this rotten bank, and which would have saved her from accepting the charity of a public almshouse. Remember that it is not Nichols who is being “relieved” should the legislature enact a measure relieving him from loss of county funds deposited in the McCoy sheepskin bank,' but Nichols’ bondsmen. Nichols is generally understood and believed to be mortgaged for several thousand dollars more than all his property ia worth, and so far as dollars and cents is concerned this matter would make no difference to him The people who signed his bond did so for cold blooded business reason only. There was no sentiment whatever nor were they impelled byjfany regard that they felt for Nichols in the matter. It was simply a matter of making money out of the county funds with them, and if they have been Chadwicked they have no one but themselves to blame. The Remington Press timidly ventures the opinion that the move to reimburse the bondsmen