People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE]

People’s Party Ticket.

Htate Ticket. Secretary of State. C. A. ROBINSON-, Shelby Cpvmty. Auditor of State, E. A. PERKINS. Marion County. State Treasurer, A. B. KEEPORT, Cass County. Attorney General, CY HOLCOMB, Gibson County. f Clerk Supreme Court, J. H. MONTGOMERY, Lawrence County. Sup’t Public Instruction, J. 11. ALLEN, Vigo County. State Statistician, W. P. SMITH, Marion County. Geologist, EDWARD KINDLE, Johnson County. ./ uilge Supreme Court 4th Dist., D. H. CHAMBERS, Henry County.

Dlatrivt Tick**. Representative in Cangress, S. M. HATHORN, Carroll County. For Senator, PERRY WASHBURN, of Benton county. For Joint Representative, DAVID B. NOWELS, of Jasper county. For Prosecuting Attorney, J. D. RICH, of Newton county. County Ticket^ For County Clerkv. JOHN A. McFARLANDv of Jordan Township. *■ For County Auditor, THOMAS H. ROBINSON, of Gillam Township. For County Treasurer, JOHN L. NICHOLS, of Barkley Township. For County Sheriff, ELLIS JONES, of Carpenter Township For County Surveyor, WALTER HARRINGTON,, of Union Townships . For County Coroner, MARTIN Y. SLAUGHTER, of Marion Township. For Commissioner, Ist District JOEL F. SPRIGGS, of Walker Township. For Commissioner. 2nd District, JOSEPH A. ROBINSON, of Marion Township., For Commissioner, 3rd .Dist rict, GEORGE O, THOMPSON, es Carpenter Town shi p. It F. Ferguson is agent for Gaar, Scott & Co.’s steamer, g ues and threshers and solicits H rrcspondence.

Everybody in New York excepting the Republicans want Hill to take the race for governor. Ip high taxes will make a people rich as some argue, the residents of Marion township will soon be millionaires. If Al. Rainey had needed a team of horses and bought them of the right man, doubtless, he would not have been bounced from his gravel road job. He must learn to pull the right man’s leg. Uncle Billy is too honest. Thompson & Buo. received a total allowance of §164.85 at the last term of the commissioners' court foi legal services. While the rest of the attorneys in Rensselaer did not receive a red copper. Verily “our Simon,” standeth in.

Trustee Greenfield caD hire a good honest competent man and team for *2.50 per day to work on the gravel roads, but that is too eeaupmical and business like to.,.quit the county comjtfPftSionbrs,' So they go and hire one for *4.50 per day. No wonder the county is having to borrow money. The Ohio Democratic State Platform declares, for free silver, and the Bryan silverites in Nebrarka, are having things their own way, but wait till a national democratic convention is heard from, and Ohio and Nebraska democrats won’t know where they are.

If the §B,OOO of our county funds had not been squandered cn the Iroquois and fVakarusa ditches the county would not now be put to the humiliation of having to borrow the *5,000 negotiated a few days since to make both ends meet, till more can be squeezed out of the publip. Down with sucli rascally management. Uncle Billy Greignfield. our trustee, is one of the most mild mannered and good natured old gentlemen to be- met with in a day’s journey. But there is a limit at which iorbasarance ceases to be a virtue axd he in some mighty plaiu words informed tlie county commissioners, the other day that he had just reached that limit with them. Look out, gentlemen, you may wake up the wrong passenger.

Fra’sx Foltz whs suggested for prosecuting a 1 torncy in this district, and he would have made a good one but he was told to stand aside. -Frank Chilcoto deserved and was—if long and faithful service to party counts! for anything—entitled to the nomination for state senator, but he wws turned down ftr the I comparatively recent and not J very valuable acquisition from the Democracy of Benton coun - ty. C. E. Mills was. likewise turned down. Why, gentienwjn, were you not in it? Was it because a certain great apostle of drainage had certain thin'gs he wanted done in a* certain ’way in a certain plase? We do not know. Time -frill tell.

Jasper county is paying 7 per cent., interest on ss*, 000 borrowed money. There ys a $6,000 judgment, ag&mat the county, drawing 6 per interest. This judgment may b*o over-ruled by, the supreme cou/.-tl but there is uo possible way "to avoid payment of the $6,000 and the 7 per cent, interest thereon. Should this judgment be sustained by the supreane court, we will have an interest bearing debt hanging over us that will amount to $4 per capita for the entire voting population of the county. Very fiw counties in tiho state pay a higher tax than Jasper, yet the last? two years our county fund has run behind and this year we are forced to borrow. W«e have had no losses and have made no extra improvements,,, still we

are behind, paying interest on *5,000. Only a few years ago the county was out of debt, paid all its bills promptly, and collected from the taxpayers less county tax than it now does. What is the matter?

The farmer who thinks protection or free trade, democratic or republican rule, has a world to do in fixing the price of his produce will do well to examine the following figures we have taken from the tiles of the Rensselaer Republican. We compare prices of Sept. 16, 1860 with prices of Sept. 8, 1894; prices when the Harrison administration was 18 months old and prices when the Cleveland administration was 18 months old. Just the highest prices are given. Indianapolis- market report for Sept. 16, 1890, and Sept. 8, 1894: Wheat in 1890, 981 cents. Wheat in 1894, 49 cents. Corn in 1890, 48 cents. Corn in 1894. 56 cents. Oats in 1890, 39 cents. Oats in 1894. 321 cents. Cattle In 1890, *4.30. Cattle in 1894, §4.60. Hogs in 1890, *4.57. Hogs in 1894, *6.40. The farmer who went to the ludianapolis market, Sypt. 16, 1890, with a bushel of wheat, a bushel of corn, a bushel of oats, 100 pounds of live pork, 100 pounds of live beef got for the whole, §10.721. The farmer who went to the same market, Sept. 8, 1894, got for the same kind and amount of products, *12.371. See how close the markets keep together under the two different party administrations. There is in these figures a slight difference in favor of the Deinocrats v but, after all, we all know that prices are regulated by the volume of money, supply and demand.