Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — THE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

THE TICKET.

For Secretary oTSinfe--JAMES F. COX. For Treasurer of State— JOHN ISENBARGER. For Auditor of State— MARION BAILEY. For Attorney General— WALTER J. LOTZ. For Clerk of Supreme Court—"“BURT NEW. For Superintendent Public Instruction— ROBERT J. ALEY. For State Geologist— EDWARD BARRETT. For State Statistician— DAVID N. CURRY. For Judge Supreme Court, Flrat District— EUGENE A. ELY. For Judge Supreme Court, Fourth Dlst.— RICHARD ERWIN. For Judgea Appellate Court, Firat Dlat.— MILTON B. HOTTEL. G. W. FELT. For Judgea Appellate Court, Second Dlst.RICHARD R. HARTFORD. HENRY G. ZIMMERMAN. HENRY A. BTEIB.

The Beef Barons are very insistent that their packing houses are perfectly clean and that no unwholsome meat is sold to the public. At the same time we hear that a desperate effort is being made “to clean up and renovate” the packing establishments. Why not abolish the tariff on beef aud cattle and so give the people competition with the trust and thus reduce the price to a reasonable basis?

It is not only our commerce but our national character that has been injured by the frauds and scandals now astonishing the world. If the laws had been faithfully executed, such scandals would have been impossible. The greatest and most damaging of all these scandals is that the laws of the United States have not been faithfully executed— thaUrant,and hypocrisy, and connivance at crime, and political partisan success won by criminals with stolen money and hush-money, stand in the place of duty and morality. The people may applaud the spectacular rogues for a time, but they will turn and rend them just-as soon as they are undeceived. * The question is frequently asked, what per cent of taxes the farmers pay in Indiana, and Joseph H. Stubbs, state statistician, has oompiled a statement which answers it. According to this table the total assessed valuation of all kinds of property in the state aggregates $1,578,132,946. Of this amount farm property, including live stock, is appraised at $951,. 286,101; city property at $490,156,784; town property at 563,881,444; all other not included in any of these classes at $72,708,615. From this it will be seen that farm prop-

erty pays a little more than sixty per cent of all the taxes collected in Indiana, considered as a whole, but this proportion of course varies iu different "counties. Referring editorially to the McCoy verdict, the Indianapolis News says: "The verdict in the McCoy case as far as it goes is right. We say as far as it goes, for it seems to us that the evidence proved clearly (hat both the McCoys were guilty. The jury, however .seemed to feel that the conviction of one of the men would serve to enforce the lesson, and also that the age of the elder McCoy ought to be allowed !to plead in his behalf. The bank, l as has been shown, was wrecked through the criminal practices of its managers. They d d precisely i what they wanted to do, and had no appreciation of their responsibility to their depositors. We doubt whether there has been in this State for years a more shameful bank failure.”

In his argument to (he jury in the McCoy trial last Friday attorney Haywood said, among other things: " When the time comes that a jury sends Alfred McCoy to the penitentiary or disgraces him with a connection you have hit the noE>lest Roman of them all. He stands head and shoulders above any man In Jasper county for honesty and charity. You can file all of the men in Jasper county on a twoacre lot, pack them like sardines, and put Alfred McCoy in their midst, and he stands above them all. No man iu Jasper county can equal him in hts charity, in his love for his fellow-man. He has given of his money to the poor and needy. He has looked up the poor and fed them. He has aided the poor widow*. When the needy oame to him, he did not turn a deaf ear and a closed hand to them. Alfred McCoy gare, in sweet charity. freely. He helped blrfelkrw-tnan. Amt you tell me a White county jury will send a man like that to the penitentiary. Ido not believe it.'’ "The noblest Roman of them all!” God save the mark. Why, this old hypocrite never gave away a penny iu his life but he had his “sheepskin band” aloug to proclaim the fact. It would seem that the few times he did give away some turkeys and Hour to the widows of Rensselaer it was for the purpose of gaining their confidence, friendship and good will, and when his rotten bank went busted the "poor widows,” every one of them who had a dollar saved up, had it in “McCoy’s bank,” and fared as badly as any of the other creditors. He banqueted the school teachers, too. And when the bank closed, every teacher in the city schools who had a dollar in the world had it in “McCoy’s Bank.” Prof. Sanders was so much impressed with the banqueting—-and the fact that “Tom” was a member of the school board—that he even prevailed on his old nAid sister in the southern parrkif the state who had SSOO saved up for a “rainy day,” to send it to him and let him deposit it in “McCoy’s Bank.”

All the credit for the “charity” the old man gave he took to himBelf, and advertised it through his political papers and with a fife and drum crops. But it was the depositors’ money that was paying these bills all the time, not McCoy’s. And this same “charity” brought more victims to his bank. When his brother-in-law, Addison Parkison, begged him to turn over every dollar of his property, as an honest man would have done—that part held out by his wife and which she is said to have been willing and anxious to turn over —he said, “By —, I won’t do it,” notwithstanding Parkison told him that he would personally give him SIO,OOO from his private means to keep him the rest of his life.

“The noblest Roman of them all,” indeed. Why, a man who would do what Alfred MoCoy did to the people of Rensselaer and Jusper county, who believed in him and hiß rotten bank, who has caused untold suffering and menanguish to hundreds of victims in Indiana and elsewhere, deserves to spend the remainder of his life in the darkest dungeon of the penitentiary, and he ought to have as many lives as a cat, too, if the punishment were made commensurate with the crime. Millet Seed for sale at residence of Joseph Koota, 31 miles west and $ mile north of Surrey.