Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — Page 2

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JKPEK JOilH nil F t. BIBCOCI. EBITOS HI WILIMEt. Official Democratic Paper of Jaeper County. *I.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Entered at the Postoffice at Rensselaer, Ind., a* second class matter. Office on Van Rensselaer Street. Long Distance Telephones: Office 315. Residence 311. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1908.

STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Governor THOMAS R. MARSHALL. For Lieutenant-Governor _ . . FRANK J. HALL. For Secretary of State JAMES F. COX. For Auditor of State MARION BAILEY. For Treasurer of State JOHN ISENBARGER. For Attorney General WALTER J. LOTZ. For Reporter of Supreme Court BURT NEW. For Judge of Supreme Court M. B. LAIRY. For Judge of Appellate Court E. W. FELT. For State Statistician P. J. KELLEHER. For Supt. Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

For Treasurer ALFRED PETERS of Marion tp. For Recorder CHARLES W. HARNER of Carpenter tp. For Sheriff WILLIAM I. HOOVER of Marion tp. For Surveyor FRANK GARRIOTT of Union tp. For Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER of Rensselaer. For Commissioner, Ist Dist. THOMAS F. MALONEY of Kankakee tp. For Commissioner 3rd Dist. GEORGE B. FOX of Carpenter tp. ._Li_

A prominent republican from one of the townships adjacent to Marion was overheard to remark the other day: “I am a republican but 1 will never vote for Halleck for state senator, and 1 have heard at least twenty other republicans of my township say the same. We believe it would be very much against the people's Interest to send such a man to the legislature, and we will vote for most anyone who may be on the democratic ticket before we will support him.” This seems to be the general sentiment of the better class of republicans who know the fellow.

It Is said that the Beveridge forces, who were behind the candidacy of C. W. Miller for governor, are sore to the very marrow of their bones. They know that they were beaten by their old enemies, the cohorts of Vice-President Fairbanks. How "solid'* the Fairbanks delegation to the Republican national convention will be from now on remains to be seen. It is known that Beveridge has many friends on the delegation and human nature will have to change in a hurry If some of those men do not go to Chicago with knives sharpened for the slaughter of the boss who. by trick and machine power, overthrew them in the state convention. ... . . , . ...... ..

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

It will take the people of Indiana a long time to find out just what the temperance plank In the Republican platform means. It starts out by telling of the passage of the Nicholson law, and the subsequent adoption of the Moore amendment to it, and the sustaining of both by the supreme court. After reciting these well-known historical matters, the Republican temperance plank gets down to its local option provision, which, is that, as supplementary to the existing law “we favor the enactment of a county local option law extending to the people of the respective counties of the state, the right to exclude the saloon therefrom by vote at a special election.” Just note the language—“the right to exclude the saloon.” Nothing is said about the right to vote by counties or otherwise on the question as to whether the sale of liquor shall be licensed, or whether other places of sale shall be permitted. Only the “saloon” apparently is to be excluded or retained by vote. What does it mean? What is the purpose of making the declaration so evasive and indefinite? There were five men on the resolutions committee, it is said, who were opposed to any locaal option plank at all. As there was no minority report it looks as if these men were satisfied with the wording of the plank as adopted by the convention.

THE DEVIL AND THE MONK.

The Republican party has been in absolute control in the state for twelve years. Up to the present year the leaders of that party felt that their hold was unshakable. They believed that the people would overlook or condone any extravagance of which Republican legislatures and Republican officials might be guilty. No effort was made to reduce expenses or to cut down the tax burdens of the people. Everything went, and nothing so rapidly as the public funds. Needless offices were created at every session of the legislature. Extraordinary commissions were provided for. Official salaries of all kinds were made higher and higher. Armies of “inspectors,” “examiners,” “experts,” and so on and so forth were marshalled before the door of the treasury. “All sorts” of public jobs for "all sorts” of party favorites and disappointed office-seekers were manufactured. The people would “stand for it,” and that was enough for the Republican managers. It was only a part of the “business administration” that the party orators talked about and the party editors, wrote about.

But now, in 1908, with the political skies darkened and defeat staring them In the face, the Republican leaders bring a platform Into their state convention in which they say that they are “opposed to the creation of unnecessary public offices” and are “opposed to the increase of the salary of any public officer in the state for the term fdr which he has been nominated or elected," Just think of the nerve of it!

The devil wanted to be a monk when he got sick, but he was a devil of a monk when his liver went to work on schedule time. Feeling politically sick just now, the Republican managers are willing to promise to be good. But they don’t mean it. Two years ago the Democrats denounced them for the reckless waste of the public revenues for unnecessary offices and higher salaries, but when the legislature met it immediately made a lot of new jobs and raised salaries calling for an additional expenditure of >320,000. A change of parties is the only remedy for these evils.

AN INDEPENDENT VIEW.

The Indianapolis Daily Sun (independent In politics) has the following to say about Watson and the political outlook: The Republicans of Indiana are not unanimously • joyful over the candidate for governor chosen at Thursday’s convention. The Watson delegates are glad, and their followers are shouting. But a large and militant minority of the convention, and in the Republican party, is disappointed. They are good losers, these minority leaders, but they are uncertain when they consider November. W. L. Taylor and C. W. Miller have been saying, and their friends have been insisting, that the nomination of James E. Watson would be a fatal mistake to the party In the state. Yet James E. Watson is the nominee. Labor men -in the Republican party have sworn that they would oppose Mr. Watson's election. The Republican party, by its action in convention, has boldly called on these labor men to do their worst. This is one of the conditions which causes forebodings. 1 Mr. Watson is the nominee of the statehouse crowd and the state

central committee. Governor J. Frank Hanly's opposition to Wataon was considered a sham, worn at Mr. Watson’s personal request, in order to prevent the candidate from becoming enmeshed in Hanlyism, This was proved when the Hanly delegates went to Watson on the convention floor. Mr. Watson is nominated over the protest of organized labor. Mr. Watson is called on to make his race on local option by election with the county as a unit. This is in his own party considered a handicap. The Democrats have an advantage in this important issue. The Republicans are divided and rent asunder on the proposition. The Democrats acted with reason. The Republicans went further than the calm reason of the times demanded. The Democrats ask for home rule; for a fair expression in ward and township, of the local will. The Republican cry is for dictation by the county of a policy for each individual ward and township. It is not easy to see how Mr. Watson will be able to unite his party on the temperance question. It is not easy to see how he will rally the Republican workingmen to his cause. The labor men have denounced his record on labor issues. Even his Republican opponents have accused Mr. Watson bitterly of many sins. These opponents are sore to-day and they are strong politically. How are they to be placated? Mr. Watson’s election means new and further power to the state machine, which is more than ever hated and feared by the anti-Watson forces. All in all, it looks as if Mr. Watson’s election would mean the politican ruin of certain leading independent Republicans in Indiana. Also it appears that Mr. Watson’s defeat next November might be the “making” of certain distinguished and ambitious but now defeated Republican leaders. What will be the outcome? Friends of Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic nominee for governor, can see but one end, and that the triumph of the Democratic party in Indiana. Watson enters the campaign on the defensive even in his own party. Marshajj goes into the campaign with not a word spoken against him from any quarter and with all factions of his party united, solidly in his support.

HOW IS YOUR STOMACH.

Easy Way to Strengthen It and Get Well. A good digestive system, one that acts so that you do not know that you have a stomach, is God’s birthright to every man—to every woman. If digestion is weak, if food turns into gas, if you suffer after eating, if you are sleepless, nervous and out of sorts—then the stomach is diseased and prompt action should be taken. W. A. Ennis, a well-known builder in Syracuse, tells an easy way to strengthen the stomach and get well when he writes: “Mi-o-na Stomach Tablets have done more for me in one week than all the doctors the two years I was under their care. Thanks to Mi-o-na, I can work once more, the first time in over a year.” . It is an easy thing to strengthen the stomach«and cure indigestion by using Mi-o-na. Get a 50-cent box from B. F. Fendig with his guarantee to refund the money unless the remedy does all that is claimed for it.

COMMISSIONERS’ ALLOWANCES. Following are the allowances made, bv the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, at the regular April term. 1908: Ohio Paint & Varnish Co., supplies Co. farm..... $13.00 Burt-Terry-Wilson Co., sup. Aud 17.00 Same, supplies Assessor 12.25 J D Allman, salary Co. Treas... 562.50 Burroughs Add. M. Co., sup. C. T. 4.25 Burt-Terry-Wilson Co., sup. Treas. 12.14 C C Warner, postage Clerk’s office 5.0 Q Burt-Terry-Wilson Co., sup. Clerk 5.00 Same, supplies Recorder 10.20 J Q salary Assessor 150.00 Same. exp. Assessor’s meeting... 15.00 Same, postage.....,-...-.... 1.00 J N Leatherman, drayage supplies .25 F E Babcock, supplies Assessor.. 2.00 W S Parks, per diem Truant of. 74.00 Ernest Lamson, per diem Co. Supt. 135.00 Burt-Terry-Wilson Co., sup. Sur. 10.20 Ernest Umson, exp. Co. Supt 2.40 M D Gwin, sal. sec. B. of H 52.09 Same, ex. sec. B. of H 3.50 Myrt B. Price, per diem Surveyor 64.00 Nettie Price, deputy Surveyor.... 16.00 Donnelly Bros., sup. Sur. office... 25.00 Burt-Terry-Wilson Co., sup. Sur. 10.50 Estle Markin, labor Co. farm 23.00 Wm Richmond, repairs Co. farm 39.00 Jas F Irwin, same.,.., 46.32 Bessie Doll, labor Cd. farm 14.00 John O’Connor, stamps Sheriff... 2.00 Same, boarding prisoners 13.55 Fred Hemphill, repairs, Jail 1.00 Maines & Hamilton, fuel jail.... 12.0? J L Griggs, fireman boiler house 45.00 Chas Morlan, expense C. H 90 Same, janitor C. H.. 45.00 City of Rensselaer, lights CH.. 50.77 Same, lights jail.. 10.44 Same, water court house 87.50 Fred Hemphill, repairs boiler h.. .75 Jesse Gates, expense court house 32.40 J D Allman, Treas., frt. on coal.. 79.64 Shirley Hill Coal Co., fuel CH.. 164.26 Casparls Stone Co., rep. r. 1. g. r. 41.16 D T Crease, same 89.00 Eli Gerber, rep. Keener g. r 12.50 John Shirer. rep. Stalbaum s. r... 17.00 John Biggs, same 13.00 Chas Stalbaum Trustee, same.... 11.16 A Woodworth, rep. Marion tp. g r 33.60 George Smith, same 4.50 Harry Magee, same 28.60 John Murrey, same.... 3.00 William Wilkins, 5ame......; 3.00 J W McEwen, public printing.... 3.00 Same, same 3.00 F E Babcock, same...., 5.05 Remington Press, same 2.00 Ind. Child. Home Soc., exp. child 28.85 R A Parktaon Tr.. sup. poor child. 3.60 B E Stiller, refund err. tax..i.... 19.13 Lewis 8 Alter. Gillam g. r 16.25 J P Gwin. Supt. H. Grove s. r

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The 99 CENT RACKET STORE Over Eight Years in Business in Rensselaer. The Store made Famous by selling the “Same Goods for Less Money or More and Better Goods for Same Money,” besides sharing a part of our profits with our customers, has made the Racket Store of today. We feel justly proud of our trade and we are always striving to better the same, looking for bargains whereby we can save our trade money. We have just received a shipment of over 500 sets of Holland Cups and Saucers, also Plates, JJL which we have placed on sale, at Per Set of 6 Cups and Saucers or Plates, as you wish. ■ Just think what a saving! You never in all your life was able to buy the same class of goods for less than 10 cents each, which would make them 60 cents per set. Now you can get the same goods for 49 cents, less than the common ordinary white ware. Do not let a bargain like this slip through your fingers. There are only 500 sets to sell at 49 cents. First come, first served. See our windows. Sale lasts as long as Hie ware lasts. . i ■ .... y ■ Other bargains equally as good. See our new Spring Goods which are arriving daily. We handle everything that everybody else does and that little something that no one else handles can always be found at the Racket Store. E. V. RANSFORD, Prop. KatHnr Bank Building. I.mhn, Ind.

Same, same 14.00 H L Gamble, eng. H. Grove g. r... 15.00 Treas Jasper Co., Iroquois ditch b. 55.0 q J D Allman Tr., bonds Haslett d. 460.0 ff Robert A Mannan Tr., burial soldier’s widow 50.00 ' JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor of Jasper Co. BICYCLE REPAIRING. T. W. Blssenden, the well known bicycle repairer, is with ub this year and will give special attention to this line of work. .. Bring in your “bikes” and get thorn-'put in good running order for the season. RENSSELAER GARAGE. If you haven’t seen those new spring models in Kuppenheimer clothing, we want to ahowi them, to you. ROWLES & PARKER.

NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of John E- Medworth, deceased., In the Jasper Circuit Court, April Term, 1908. Notice is hereby given to the creditors. heirs and legatees of John E. Medworth, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 4th day of May, 190(8. being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Lena Medworth, Executrix of said decedent, and show cause if any, why sueh final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. LENA MEDWORTH. Executrix. Geo. A. Williams, Attorney for Estate. ■ • ■ - - . . ' An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

.NOTICE OF DITCH LETTING. “ WUERTHNER DITCH. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Superintendent appointed by the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, at the April term, 1908, will receive bids for the construction of the Wuerthner Ditch In Newton township, at the office of Irwin & Irwin, in Rensselaer Indiana, on SATURDAY. MAY 9, 1908, at 10 o’clock a m. Said ditch is to be constructed according to the specifications set out in the report of the Drainagel Commissioners r on file in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County Bidders will be required to file seoarsectiom of said improvement and to file with their bids a bond pr certified check for the sum of S3OO, conditioned for the execution of a bond for double the srsjf &• aj&r- - - WILLIAM AUSPURGER. Superintendent.