People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE]

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.