People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Page 4

The People' Pilot. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE mi PUBLISHING (WANT (Lhnited)., OF A orh Western Indiana. t David H. Yeoman. . .President. Wm. AV ash bu rn Vice Pres. Lee E. Glazebrook .. Secretary J. A. McFarland. . .Treasurer. LEK. E. GLAZEBROOK. EDITOR. Tbi People's Pilot's theoflici.nl orjran of Le Jasper am l Nc wtou County Alliances,and ft published evet's Frida v at O.Mi !>(;..LAK « ..it ANNI-l It paid in advance. If not paid in advance, $1.25 per year will be rl.arged to all subscribers. K.Vi FS Oi A !•’. F.imsiNG. Diaplayrd Advert Isr;>ients Iflc inch L(». aJ Notices ..5c line. I'ni. n d us tte. ond class nii.'tcr at the post <>lll ’.‘fii Kensselat r. Ind lletiKsel.ief, Aridity. Oft. I'i. t Htt-4

People’s Party Ticket.

.Sftsfe Tift ft Secretary of State, i’. A. ROBINSON. Shelby County. • Auditor of State, E. A. PERKINS. Marion County. State Treasurer, A. B. KEEPORT, Cass County. Attorney (ioneral, C’Y HOL' IOMB, Gibson County. Clerk Supreme Court, J. H. MONTGOMERY, Lawrence County. •Sup’t Public Instruction, J. 11. ALLEN. \ igo County. State Statistician, V.. I*. SMITH, Marion County. Geologist, EDWARD KINDLE, Johnson County. Judgo Supreme Court 4th Dist., D 11. CHAMBERS, Henrv Countv. •» V

Dintrict Ticket. Reprv ontative in Congress, S. M. HATHORN, Carroll County. For Senator, PF.KRY WASHBURN. <>f Benton county. For Joint Representative. DAVID B. NOWELS, of Jasper county. For Prosecuting Attorney. JACOB D. RICH, of Newton county. County Ticket. For County Clerk, JOHN A. McFARLAND, . 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 Township. For County Coroner, MARTIN Y. SLAUGHTER, of Marion Township. For Commissioner, Ist District JOEL F. SPRIGGS, of Walker Township. '• •’ i-4, k- > • For Commissioner. 2nd District. JOSEPH A. ROBINSON, of Marion Township. ■ For Commissioner, 3rd District, GEORGE G. THOMPSON. of Carpenter Township. A.—* g ■ B. F. Ferguson is agent for Gaar, Scott & Co.’s steam er' • vines and threshers and solicits correspondence. ; V'. " :■

It was never the intention of the court house officials that the voters of this county should know that the county had borrowed ss.(o*. The Republican meeting Tuesday night at the court house was rather the best meeting they have had for a week. The speaker confined himself to that new and deep question, ‘•tariff taxation." The men elected t o our county offices this fall, will in the discharge of their official duties, have nothing whatever to do with free silver or the single gold standard: their work will be in Jasper county.

With a yearly increase of county taxes and a yearly increase of county indebtedness can not even the blindest man see that bankruptcy will soon overtake us unless there is a change made somehow or somewhere. With eight thousand dollars of their money in ditches that never were and never will be dug, and with a five th'ousand dollar, seven per coni interest bearing debt against them, the people are beginning to think that things in Jasper are not “just like they used to was.’’ The chronic grumbler, the constitutional faultfinder, the soured man who sees nothing going right, is really no more harmful than the happy go easy who sees nothing wrong, who is satisfied with present conditions and therefore sees nothing to change or correct.

In 1891 our commissioners thought about $25,000 was necessary to meet the needed expenses of the county, but their levies some how. that year, brought them over $30,000, $5,000 more than they expected. This was suoh an agreeabe surprise to them that every year since, they have been surprising themselves about the same way. Rensselaer is fast becoming a great distributing center; within the last month and a half a thousand hogs have been unloaded at the stock pens here, and live hundred, more or less, republican campaign orators have been imported by the republican county cent ral com mi Ltee. Hogs and republican speakers seem to be in great demand just now in Jasper county.

The meetings of B. F. Shively and one, B. Harrison, of Indianapolis, seems to have got a little mixed at Lafayette and to settle matters a joint debate was proposed by the Democrats, imt the wiley Ben, or his friends said nay. The Democrats, even the common Democrats, seem ready to meet in joint debate anything the Republicans will bring out, but their bravery is all gone when a Populist challenges them for joint discussion. The new i?‘on bridge across the Iroquois river east of town is to be 110 feet long and IS feet wide, and will cost $1,500 spot cash. It is the cheapest bridge ever purchased in Jasper county, there are some financiers in Jasper county who do not know that it. pays to borrow money, and not be’ considered •■rascally.’'—Three X in this week’s Republican. Why borrow $5,000 to build a $1,500 bridge? Economy, economy at 7 per cent.

The Pilot, for a little political capital, is misrepresenting the money borrowed to purchase the bridges needed at once in this county. The commissioners saved money by borrowing because they could purchase the bridges cheaper for cash than on time. Some people do not know what economy is “When they see it.— - Three X in Republican. \ No misrepresentation whatever Mr. Three X, the 15,000 were borrowed and never a word appeared in the Republican’s I published reports of the pro- J

ceedings of the commissioners* court-. Not a dozen men in the county knew of this *s.of 0 loan till the Pilot made it public last week*. Why were you keeping it so still. geiV’emen, if it such a good thing for the county? If it took* 3 cents on sl'}o for gravel road repairs on (j miles of road in 1*93. and L cent on the in B'.U for the same road: how are we now to keep tip 23 miles with 2 cents on the *10o? If three cents were necessary for six miles, surely 2 cents is not enough for 23 miles. Say Commissioners, is the 2 cent grave! road tax this year intended for all the gravel roads in the county? Say yes or no.

•‘Money borrowed to pur-, chase the bridges needed at once in this county." says three X. The order issued by the commissioners authorising this lone begins as follows: “The Board now makes the following order: Whereas, the county revenue is exhausted.and the county is unable to cash its orders. ” County revenue exhausted! Gentlemen, you were out of “stuff,” whether there were bridges to bo built or not, you had by your extravagance exhausted the county revenue and Could not cash its orders, bridges or no bridges.

The venerable Lyman Trumble’s speech Saturday night, in Chicage. at the great Populist meeting in Music Hall, has been commented upon by every daily between the two oceans. Judge Trumble by reason of his age. political experience and natural powers of mind, perhaps knows as much of his country and its institution as any other one man in it. For 18 years of our country’s most trying times Lyman Trumble was a I’. 8. Senator, a leader in his party and that party the ruling power in the nation. Fifty years ago he was one of Illinois’ state office rs, and before the birthday of the republican party, he was a member of congress. The people have honored him, trusted him. and well has lie served them. With bis own right hand he wrote the 15th amendment to our national constitution, and now in the evening of life, with no political future before him, he is raising his voice against the oppressive power of concentrated wealth. Into the ranks.of the Populist party comes Lyman Trumble who is neither a crank, communist or anarchist, but a jurist, a statesman, a wise useful honest man. whoso life’s labor has brought many blessings to his country.

The Reason For Populism.

Populism is a significant and. The Times believes, a healthy factor in politics today. It means that an enormous body of the people have become convinced that neither of the two old parties is tit to meet the issues of the day or has the welfare of the plain people sufficiently at heart to stand as their champion. There is a great measure of reason and of justice pn this repudiation of both ■ parties. The Times has more ! than once, pointed out that oh I questions of the most vital irnj portance to the people the two I old parties are a unit. It was a i democratic president who orderled out United States troops to • break down a strike and who i permittedhis attorney-general—-himself a hireling of railroads—to employ all the machinery of the department of justice for the purpose of crushing the people who had presumed to revolt against the tyranny of corporations. Yet the republican party is equally committed ,to this policy of oligarchy, for its chief spokesmen in congress and its foremost newspapers applauded the president’s action. On the vital question of the currency, too, the two old parties are at

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one. There is here and there a free-silver republican, and there are many free silver democrats, but the dominant forces in both parties take their cue from Wall street and stand for a single gold standard. It is because of the folly of democratic loaders that the populist party exists. There must be a “poor man's party" in this nation, but ytSar by year the democracy has. been drifting further and further from that position. In it there are many clear-sighted, sincere truly democratic men whom it would be a national misfortune to have retired from public life, but its leaders—its Clavelands, Brices, Gormans, and Olneys—are out of touch with the people and in close communion with the trusts and the privileged classes. Populism is a revolt against this alliance It is a revolt which deserves to prosper so long as the conditions creating it continue.— Chicago Times. If you have not yet procured one of those pretty watch case openers, get one from your jeweler, or send to Philiadelphia. They are furnished free by the Keystone Watch Case Company. Besides making a handsome charm for your chain, they save your finger-nails and knifeblades. The Keystone Company is the largest of its kink in the world, and makes all kinds of cases, from the low-priced nickel to the most expensive solid gold. Its great specialty is the Jas. Boss filled case. Jas. Boss invented and made the first tilled case in 1859, and many of the cases then made and worn since are still intact. Later the Boss patents passed into the hands of the Keystone Watch Case Company. which has the sole right to make these cases. Boss cases are known to all jewelers ss the standard, alter which all other filled cases arc patterned. Ail Keystone cases, Boss cases included, have the far-famed Non-pull-out bow or ring. It is the only bow that is securely fastened to the case, and can only be had on cases made by this Company. It prevents loss of the watch by theft or injury by dropping. These cases are handled by all jewelers, as the Company itself does not retail.

Bargain Store, Call and g p Q . Coal Chisels and Files, Axes and Handles. Stoves and Wash-boilers, Saws and Saw-sets. Potato Forks and Scoops, Hinges and Locks, Braces and Bits, Tin and Glassware, Knives and Forks, Shot and Powder, Loaded Shells and Primers, Groceries and Confectionaries. Don’t forget that I make new tariff prices on oil stoves and the rest of this list. C. E. Hershman.

THE CHICAGO TIMES.

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Two Lives Saved

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Police of Final Settlement ol Estate. In tie- Jasper Circuit Court. October term. In the matter of the estate of Knicely Ben nep, Ik-ceased. Notice is hereby given that the underligned. as administrator of the estate of Knicely Bennett-, deceased, has presented and filed his account- and vouchers in final set tiemeiit of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 25th day of October, 1894. at which time all persons interested in said estate are require*! to appear in said court and show ca use, if any there be. why said account and vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs of said estate, and all others interested therein, are also hereby required, at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate. Nelson Randle, Mordecai F. Chilcote, Administrator. Attorney for Administrator. Commodore W. Snow and Sarah. M. Hurley, Bryant W. Hammonds and Jane Rogers. Charles Asham and Kate Conway, William Geary and Sarah E. Cooper,'Thomas A. Haysand Eva Gasoway have been granted marriage licenses.

People's Party State Platform.

hi g<-m-ral term.-. we e«Hl<M>e <he prim-ipk-s and <!«-.-| a nil ions of the Om.-tli.-i platfi.j . ami hi-iewUh sulnnit the piriform pit pand by yiHtr i-oiimihtoevn M-solut-ous. Tilt: fIXAXCIAI. I-SIE. We demand a nalional curreii.-y of pt-r Capiia x fn-hiding tue free coinage of silver atlheratioofl.it., I. is,u-.l by th • gen r:il trovi-nn.jem oply. a lull legul r .-n.hr for alt debts ho; h public ami prh ate dlstributi-d-io Illi- |M <>;ii. <iirei-i without the int.-rv-.-ri! ion of banking corporation- in p.iymeni of all obligations of tin- govt-rnmi-ii*. and d-tnami the issue of iion-itite;-. >t bearing tna.-ury mmof small 'ic-nominathms. Ve declare our unalterable opp-ishiim. as a party, to banssof issue, state or nation.;! W e al'o dt-nounthe past am! ci.n.inui >1 tixe.Oftbe government fiat by congress to create iaterest-ta-a ing bonds. IVe charge that the crime of th-monctizitis filter in «.J. by the Republican party, further Consummated by the joint action of both t he olti piirttcsat lilt* vxtrii sc.s»io*i ot congress in S 3, has fully accomplished the purpose of the, monied aristocracy of the United States anil England. ;n placing American prodin--ers of our great staple crops on a level with the poorest paid pauper lalior of the world under English control, by changing through thi.'erime against American produce) s and laborers, the pricing instrument for all products and wages to the single standard of gold only.

We demand a national graduate income tux on salaries or incomes in excess of reasonable expenditures for the comforts and necessities of life. >W t* pledge the People’s party, when given control of tho government. that the gunholders, who put up life to save the Union front secession, shall be equalized with the bondholders, who speculated in human life and the blood of our people, and their pensions shall be treated us a vested right. We favor the election of United States senators and all postmasters by direct vote of the people. STATE ISSUES: We believe the people are yet capable of s.Blf-gdvernment and home rille. and demand Ilf tiie iiext leg!-Idthre tile repeal of the hietropolitan police law applied to cities. We also denounce the present unfair and unjust law that forbids minorities representation on election boards or witnesses to count of ballots, as a violation of the natural rights of the people; the entering wedge to tiie destruction of free government; the very essence of party tyranny and taxation without representation, laws that no honest man can defend. We demand a constitutional convention to revise our si ;.t-> const it. iition and include therein refor.ni in the methou.v svntion and the initiative and referendum systemc legislation, with the veto power of all the important laws in the hands of tiie people. We demand such equitable adjustment, of the statute for the listing of property for taxation that will permit the deduction of ail bona tide indebtedness from sum total listed. We demand a reasonable homestead law that no process of any court can touch. We demand a law taxing all Inheritance' coming to citizens of Indiana, both direct and collate vai. at 5 per cent, above $2,000, for tiie benefit of the state sinking fund. We demand that most liberal educat ion al facilities for the masses witbin the power of the state to,provide, and a more efficient ad ministration of the public school fund We demand that convict labor shall be taken as far as possible away from competition with honest, free labor in conduct of the state prisons, recommending that counties work their can vitts building and improving public roads. We demand a law at the hands of the next legislature that will make it optional with debtors in this state, to pay any legal obligation in gold, silver Qj' other lawful money of the United States. We demand that our state naturalization laws conform to our national laws upon tiie subject. We view with alarm the evil influence of the liquor traffic. We heartily endorse the initiative and refetendum system of legislation, believing by this means the people can suppress this and other evils more effectually than by any other mode. W e demand an effectiveenforcement of the law prohibiting the employment of child labor.

U e demand that a system of arbitration be established, whereby serious difficulties between employer and employes m.ay be speedily and impartial]}- adjusted, before either party resort to measures- detrimental to one and to both. We favor a reduction of the working hoursby law in mines and factories in conformity with the progress of industry. We demand that cities be specially empowered to assume ownership and control of public water, transportation and lighting plants, in such manner as to operate wholly in the interest of the people, without imposing burdensome taxation. We are against the giving out of public works under contract to the lowest bidder, state and the communities should carry out. such work themselves under the supervision of experienced officers. We favor.-tn efficient employer's liabHit y law and the inspection of mines and factories for the protection of life and limb of the workingnjen. The right to vote is inherent in citizenship irrespective of sex. Lakey and Sayler, the new bakers, are prepared to do all kinds of fancy baking. Give them a call if you are needing anything in this line.

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