Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1905 — FOR A PURE BILLOT [ARTICLE]

FOR A PURE BILLOT

Party Leaders Arranging to Banish Skullduggery from the Polls. USB Or MOKBY IS LIMITED Also No Promises of Jobs or Threats of the Grand Bounce Are Al lowa ble—l terns. Columbus, Ind., Oct 19.— A meeting of a committee composed of Republicans and Democrats, appointed to draft an agreement w'hich will be effective for the coming city election, was held in tbe mayor’s office in the city ball when three drafts of the proposed agreement were submitted. These drafts came from Judge W. C. Duncan, Republican, and James F. Cox and W. H. Everroad, Democrats, and Clarence E. Custer, Democrat, were appointed to go over tbe three and take out the best portions of each. Use of Money in the Election.

This work has now been completed and tbe revised agreement will be presented to the Republican and Democratic city committees for the signatures of the chairmen of each commltmtee. If the agreement is accepted, as both committees say it will be, the provisions will go into effect at once. The agreement provides that no money shall be used at the coming city election, except to pay legitimate expenses, and to determine what these expenses are each city committee is required to make a sworn statement on the 3d of November showing each cent collected and also showing to what use the money was put. After the election another statement must be made and sworn to. Where Cash Is Ruled Out.

The use of money Is not construed to mean the buying of votes alone, for it also prohibits either committee from sending transportation to absent voters or from paying house rent to keep a man from moving from his voting precinct. Candidates arte prohibited from promising voters positions and “jobs” or from threatening to depose a laboring man in case he does not vote for |he candidate who may be talking to him. Any form of Intimidation is prohibited.

Assessment Is Limited.

Another clause of the agreement prohibits the assessment of candidates, except for the payment of • legitimate expenses, such as taking the poll and paying poll-book holders and challengers.

GREAT DAY FOR “UNCLE JACK"

Ex-Consul General Gowdy Is to Have a Warm Reception When He Gets Home. Rushville. Ind., Oct. 19.--A reception committee consisting of a hundred men and women, headed by a band, will meet "Uncle Jack” Gowdy and family at the train on their arrival here Saturday afternoon, and will escort them to the hotel. A smaller committee, composed of members of the leading literary, musical and social clubs of the city, will receive at the public reception, to be held in the court house next Tuesday evening. Ex-Governor W. T. Durbin has chartered a special traction ear, and has invited a numtier of his friends, including Governor Hanly and Chairman Goodrich, to accompany him to this city, to join in the welcome to Gowdy. The invitation committee has issued no invitations. Any of Gowdy’s friends in the state will be cordially welcomed. It is the purpose to give “Oom Jack” and his family an oldfashioned welcome, informal and nonpartisan.

Students at Purdue. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 19. Professor A. M. Kenj on, registrar at Purdue university, has completed the count of enrolled students, and it is officially announced that Purdue has, exclusive of the medical college, at Indianapolis, 1,524 students, which is an increase over last year of 148, and a 10 per cent. gain, the largest in the history of the institution, Terre Haute Man Suicides. Indianapolis, Oct. 19. A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says: “G. R. Bookout, a vaudeville actor professionally known as Raymond Zel, committed suicide in a hotel here by shooting himself through the heart. Bookout’s home was in Terre Haute. Ind., where his mother lives.

Deal in Telephone Property. Indianapolis, Oct. 19. A special from Toledo, 0., says: Toledo capitalists have formed a syndicate to buy a controlling Interest in the Indianapolis Telephone company and the New Long-Distance Telephone company, capitalized at $1,400,000 for $710,000. Found Guilty of Murder. Bluffton, Ind., Oct. 19. Ernest Sanderson has been found guilty of being Implicated in the murder of Preston Sanderson, near Hartford City, Ind., a year ago, and given a life sentence. The Jury was out twelve hours. Productive Patch of Corn. New Albany, Ind., Oct. 19. From ten acres of land In Georgetown township, James Thornton, of Edwards ville, has gathered 1,100 bushels of corn, an average of 110 bushels to the acre. Has the Bom Radish. Peru, Ind., Oct 19. Jacob Whist-' ler has on exhibition a radish that weighs eight pounds.