Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1874 — Our Candidates. [ARTICLE]

Our Candidates.

For Clerk of the Circuit Court, Ezra L. Clark, Mr. Clark was born in Columbiana CO., Ohio 35 years ago and has been a resident of Jasper County for 20 years, during which time he was engaged in fanning, and teaching school in winter till the spring of 1861 when he enlisted In Co. “G.” of the 9th Ind. Yols. and in a skirmish at Green Briar, West Va., l)ec. 12th, 1861, was crippled for life. — He has twice been elected Recorder, the last time running largely ahead of his ticket. For Auditor, Frank W. Babcock. Capt. Babcock was born at Tippecanoe Battle Ground 31 years ago and has resided in Jasper county 11 years, been in 111. nearly 2 years, served in the 6th 111. Cav. a little more than 4 years. lie was was wounded first at Belmont, Tenn., receiving five buck-shot in left hip and thigh—two of which are still retained as remembrances of the struggle for a nation’s life. Second, a gunshot wound at West Point, Miss., the ball passing diagonally through the left hand, from knuckle of first finger to the outer and under side of wrist-joint, completely stiffening the wrist and disabling the hand. At the elese of the war he returnd to Jasper county, and engaged in his former occupation—farming—to the limited extent his crippled condition would admit of.— At the election of 1870 he was elected Auditor of Jasper county and has filled that office in a manner that is entirely satisfactory to the Republican party and the people generally. For Treasurer, Lemuel C. Janes. Mr. Janes was born in London co., Ya. Moved to Ind. in 1836—the year that the town of Rensselaer was started, and to Jasper co. in 1861, and settled on a farm in Kankakee tp. He served as Superintendent of Land Transportation under Department Quartermaster Boggs, in the late war of the rebellion from 1862 to the close of the war. The retaining of such office for such length of time is of itself a strong recommendation for his business qualifications and goes far to explain his complete success as Treasurer of Jasper county, which office he was called from his firm in Kankakee, to fill and which be has filled so acceptably to the people that they propose to keep him there another term. For Recorder, Harvey W. Wood. Mr. Wood was born in Montgomery co., Ohio, on t farm, and from the time he was large enough to work at all, he followed the business of farming till Aug. 7th, ’62, when he enlisted in the 93d Ohio Yols. In this regiment he served in the Army of the Cumberland and at Chtcamauga, Ga., on the 20th of Sept., 1863, received a fracture of the left thighbone, from which he still suffers greatly. He was discharged at the close of the war, and came to Jasper co. in the spring of 1866. He went to farming here, which business he followed till elected Recorder. He is a member of the Methodist Church and apparently as worthy a man and true a Christian gentleman as the Church possesses. For Sheriff, Lewis L. Daugherty.

Mr. Daugherty was born in Tippecanoe co., Ind., and came to Jasper co. 30 years *go. He has always been a farmer. Enlisted in Co. “G.” 9th Ind. for the 3 mos. service in 1861, after which he enlisted in Co. “K." 48th Ind., in which he served 3 years. Was wounded at Vieksbnrg in the assault of May 22d, 1863. Returning from the army he engaged in farming till elected to his present unerpired term of Sheriff. Mr. Daugherty has for years been a member of the Baptist Church. These are the men whom the Republicans elected to office and now propose to support for re-election. They are men well known to the communities where they have resided and now reside, as men who are honest, upright and capable.— Part of them are known as upright members of churches, And all are known as leading, influential members of the best part of society. When persons who are cognisant of the above facts will so debase and stultify themselves, in their inordinate and shameless greed for office and its spoils, (especially the spoils) as to denounce those men as “corrupt,” “ring,” “court-house clique.” “court-house ring;” when they say the “farmers’ interests” are not taken into consideration ; that farmers are not elected to office; when their wicked, malicious and false statements are known to be such by all persons at all conversant with the facts —these things may well be considered sufficient evidence to justify all persons in the belief that all their statements, resolutions, platitudes, cries of “reform,” “corruption of parties, ’ etc., a d infinitum, are wholly and unqualifiedly insincere and disingenuous. , It will be a sad day for any country or community when it turns its back upon its faithful servants and turns over its offices to the manipulations and control of the most impudent and daring blackmailers. This we are confident the people of Jasper county do not intend to do.— When the tide of rebellion rolled its black billows of war upon a happy and prosperous country threatening desolation and destruction, the people said to these men : “Go stem the tide—stand in the breach—if you fall we’ll stand by your families —if you return we’ll stand by you.' 1 In fulfillment of that obligation the people have placed these men in offices which they have filled faithfully, honestly, capably and creditably, at the same time they have identified themselves with organizations for the social uplifting of the less fortunate portion of humanity. The people will not now eat their words and, at the behest of demagogues whose only stock in trade is the manufacture of falsehoods and calumny, turn from these men in such a way as to say: “We have tried you and you have failed.— You’re weighed in the balance and found wanting.” . In October, these men will be put in the scale against the candidates of their calumniators. Get your glasaea ready for a long look—therc’lfte no trembling in the balance.