People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — Page 4

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People’s Party Ticket.

State Ticket. Secretary of State, C. A. ROBINSON. Shelby County. Auditor of State, E. A. PERKINS, Marion County. State Treasurer, A. B. KEEPORT, Cass County. Attorney General, CY HOLCOMB, Gibson County. Clerk Supreme Court, J. H. MONTGOMERY, Lawrence County. Sup’t Public listruction, J. H. ALLEN, Vigo County. State Statistician, W. P. SMITH, ... Marion County. Geologist, EDWARD KINDLE, Johnson County. Judge Supreme Court 4th Dist., D. H. CHAMBERS, Henry County. I/Mvict Ticket. Representative in Congress, Su M. HATHORN, Carroll County. For Senator, PERRY WASHBURN, of county. For Joint Representative, DAVID B. NOWELS, of Jasper county. For Prosecuting Attorney, JACOB D. RICH, of Newton county.

Cuunty 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. For Commissioner. 2nd District, JOSEPH A. ROBINSON, of Marlon Township. For Commissioner, 3rd District, • GEORGE G. THOMPSON, of Carpenter Township B. F. Ferguson is agent for Gaar, Scott & Co.'s steam en srines and threshers and solicits correspondence.

Did Dr. Three X ever want office? Yes, and they say he actually changed his politics to get it. The day of • -voting for the devil, if he is on my ticket,” has passed. The intelligent citizen, the honest partisan has found out, that to down bad men and bad measures in his party is good politics. Dr. Three X gives long columns of figures; to show where all the money the taxpayers have paid in, is gone. We have never denied but that the money has been spedt. It is the chief business of the ring to see that it is the chief business of the ring to see that it is spent.

Dr. Three X says: “Better get somebody who knows how. to over haul the books for you.” Well, yes, how. would it do to let Flener & Perkins fulfiill their contract on that job? You said two years ago. just before the election, that they had been reemployed by the commissioners to attend to that matter but we have heard nothing more about it. And still we repeat it that the county tax is increasing year by year, last year it was 45 cents on the -MOO and the taxables in the county were *6,679,954 and this year we are paying 45 cents county tax on $6,923,089 worth of taxables. Is not the county tax increasing yearly? Here we have an increase in valuation of $243,135 and this sum at 45 cents on the SIOO makes $109.41 more county tax paid this year than last. Mind taxpayers, there ha?? been no reduction in the counts levy it is still 45 cents on the sl.

. Hon. T. H. Nelson labored long and hard with the tariff question in his speech here Tuesday. We are real sorry to say his effort was a great disappointment. I’he Pilot having been reproved by several for recommending Mr. Nelson in its last issue as being a very able man, has only now to say that it is sti‘l of the same opinion; the •>niy trouble is Mr. Nelson did not know'his audience and made tiie wrong speech. Such a confusion of ideas, such contradictor.; statements, such a wild illogical disconnected harrangue it was never our misfortune to hear.

Three X in last week’s Republican, says: “The Pilot for a little political capital is misrepresenting the money borrow,” etc. The Pilot had no intention or desire to misrepresent. It simply told what it knew to be true and nothing more. The tax payers, we think, have a right to know what becomes of the money they pay into the county treasury; have a right to know when and why the county borrows money. We cannot see,, that we have done anything wrong in giving the public the information we have. Facts are facts and they go a long ways, but opinions may be false as well as true. We know the money was borrowed, but whether or not it was bad management that reduced the county to the condition of a borrower is a question upon which men may differ. We are of the opinion that with the heavy, very heavy, county tax we pay, there should be no necessity for Jasper county paying 7 per cent, interest on 15,000 borrowed money. The last report of the auditor of state shows only twelve or fifteen counties in the state paying a higher county tax than we do, yet two months ago the commissioners said: “The county revenue is exhausted and the county is unable to cash its orders.” As we have had no losses, made no extra need improvements and still kept up our county levies, it really does seem, to many, as though we should not now be borrowing money.

That five thousand is st 11 drawing 7 per cent., taxpayers. Perry Washburn, our candidate for state senator was in town Friday. We find him to be a jovial, well-informed old farmer —just the kind of a man that should represent this senatorial district. We do not ask that every representative should be a farmer, but we do think that more of them should be farmers than are. Farmers should have representation in the law making power of this country in proportion to their numbers and the importance of their calling; just so much and no more. Three X in last week’s Republican, says: The Pilot sees a very large mare’s nest in the appointment of a superintendent of the gravel roads in Marion township. The law says he shall receive $1.50 per day and not $4.50. The superintendent receives ♦1.50 per day, he is allowed ♦1.50 per day for his team and his helper gets $1.50 per day, all of which amounts to $4.50 per day, just $2 more per day than the trustee had contracted to have the work done for, so we are told.

The Facts and the Law.

The Three X in his “Political Points,** in the last issue of the Republican, says the petitioners have to pay back the money expended for the Iroquois and Waukarusa ditches. The proceedings for the construction of the Iroquois and Waukarusa ditches were commenced under the provisions of the act approved March 7, 1891, known as the Timmons Law, but it is generally conceded that the law was prepared by ex-Senator Thompson, of Jasper county, Ind. The law is taken from an Ohio statute, leaving out all of the good features and retaining all of the bad. This accounts for its many inconsistent and contradictory provisions which render its interpretation difficult. Under the advice of the senator the board of commissioners appointed viewers at two dollars per day, and engineers at three dollars per day, and chainmen, axmen, and rodmen were called in, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per day, and these parties spent months viewing the lines of said ditches and filed their claims against tin county, which were allow till eight thousand dollars the people’s money has hern

paid out But at last the own-i ers of lands affected by the proposed ditches became alarmed and opposition manifested itself. The Waukarusa was arrested in the commissioners’ court by the action of the board of commissioners of White county, who refused to proceed further. Public opinion was aroused along the line of the Iroquois ditch, and the farmers came in a body and plead their own cases before the board. The board became alarmed and summarily threw the whole proceedings out of court. It should not be forgotten that a year previous to this many of the petitioners asked to be released from the petition in the Iroquois ditch, but under the advice of the senator they were denied the privilege. The board decided that after an individual commenced -a case he could not dismiss it. A new decision in the annals of jurisprudence. The two ditch proceedings are now pending in the Jasper circuit court. Eight thousand dollars of the people’s money is gone and not a foot of ditch excavated and there is no prospect of them ever being completed. “But,” says the Three X, “the petitioners will have to reimburse the county.” Senator Thompson says that the board of commissioners having found infavor of the construction of the ditch that that finding releases the petitioners from the payment of all cost now

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made. The senator has been tie trusted counsel of the board and if he is right and the ditches be not made, and the county reimbursed by assessments the people’s money is forever lost. But suppose he is wrong in his opinion, and the petititioners are liable? The supreme court will have to determine the question whether the petitioners are liable or not, and should the supreme court decide that they are liable, with their bondsmen, then suit will have to be brought against them and their bondsmen, and again the supreme court will have to declare they are, and an endless litigation will ensue. Every business man knows how difficult it is to recover money after it has once been paid out. But Three X may ask, how could the board of commissioners avoid paying out the money after the petitions are filed and the viewers appointed? Very easily indeed, by just simply refusing to pay any claim of any engineer, view er, rodman or axman.

The party aggrieved could appeal to the circuit court and then to the supreme court or possibly the party might be en titled to a writ of mandate. In either way the validity of the law could have been tested and every dollar of the eight thousand remained in the treasury. One of the most learned circuit judges in the state has decided that the law is so imperfect that it cannot be enforced. It is believed by a majority of the ’••ar of Indiana who have exam-■ ‘d the law that when the su- ; me court decides on its valid- i i y that it will send it where Judge Wiley sent the Gifford drainage district. But Three X may claim to have discovered a mare’s nest in section 14, where it provides for a criminal prosecution, in some . cases. Well, suppose they had i been arrested and fined they would only have been martyrs to thecause of the people. That would have been another way to test the validity of the law. That a court is criminally liable for an error in decision is something new in English or American jurisprudence. That sectic n was placed there as a scarecrow to frighten some board of commissioners who might hesitate to be lead by the senator. No lawyer considers it valid. The voters of Jasper county irrespective of party demand a board of commissioners who will hot squander the people’s money. The people are saying all over this county: “The eight thousand dollare are gone but where are the ditches?” The Republican evidently does not know that Joel F. Spriggs employed an attorney who filed papers before t the Board of Commissioners asking to be released from the Iroquois ditch petition, but under the advice of Senator Thompson, the request was not granted.

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People's Party State Platform.

In general terms wo endorse the principles aad declarations of the Omaha platform, and herewith submit the platform prepared by your committee on resolutions. THE nXAKCI.U. ISSUE. We demand a national currency oft-iOpcr Capita, including the free coinage of silver at the ratio of Hi to I. issued by the general government only, a lull legal tender for all debts both public and private distributed-lp the people direct without the intervention of banking aorporaliotis in payment of all obligations of the government, and demand the issue of non-interest bearing treasury notes of small denominations. declare our unalterable opposition, as a party, to banks of issue, state or national \\ e also denounce the past and continued use of the government flat by congress to create interest-bearing bonds. U e charge that the crime of demonetizing silver in ’<3, by the Republican party, further consummated by the joint action of both the old parties at the extra session of congress in ’93. has fully accomplished the purpose of the monied aristocracy of the United States and England, in placing American producers of our great staple crops on a level with the poorest paid pauper labor of the world under English control, by changing through this crime against American producers and laborers, the pricing instrument for all products and wages to the single standard of gold only. We demand a national graduate income tax on salaries or incomes in excess of reasonable expenditures for the comforts and necessities of life. We pledge the People’s party, whengiyen control of the government, that the gunholders, who put up life to save the Union from secession, shall be equalized witli the bondholders, who speculated in human life and the blood of our people, and their pensions shall be treated as 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 self-government and home rule, and demand of the next legislature the repeal of the metropolitan police law applied to cities. We also denounce the present unfair and unjust law that forbids minorities representa-

tion on election boards or witnesses to count of ballots, as a violation of the natural rights of the people; the entering wedge to the 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 stat" constitution and include therein reform in the metlious "vsithm and the initiative and referendum system c legislation, with the veto power of alt tilt important laws in the hands of the people. We demand such equitable adjustment of the statute for the listing of property for taxation that will permit the deduction of all 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 inheritances coming to citizens of Indiana, both direct and collateral, at 5 per cem. above UJO, for the benefltof the state sinking fund. We demand that must liocral educational facilities for the masses whhin the power of the state to provide, and a more, efficient ad ministration of the public school fund. We deffiand that convict labor shall be taken as far as possible away from competition with honest, free labor in.conducv of the state prisons, recommending that counties work their convicts building and improving publip roads. We demand a lawat the hand'p of the next legislature that will makt it optional rvith debtors in this state, to pay any le;’,a! obligation in gold.silver or other lawful money of the United States. We demand that our stat e natura l at ion laws conform to cur na'. .:al laws upon ihe subject. We view with alarm t’m evil inflmmce <>f the liquor traffic. W< ; , •-rrily endoi. the, initiative and ref<jiend'.. . system gtslntion. believing by this mt ms the pt Y c. n suppress this and othei :vl’s mulct . >.;ajiy titan by any other mode. We demand an elfecttvi riforcem, >.i of the laws prohibiting the employment oi child laltor. We demand that a system of arbitration bet established, whereby serious difficulties tietween employer and employesmav be speedily and impartially adjusted, before either party resort to measures detrimental to one and to both.

We favor a reduction of the working hours by 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 an efficient employer's liability law and the inspection of mines and factories for the protection of life and limb of the workingmen. 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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