People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE]

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.