People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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. . EEPORT, Cass County. Attorn* y General, CY HOLCOMB, Gibson County. Clerk Supreme Court, J. H. MONTGOMERY, Lawrence County. Sup’t Public li. struction, 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.

District Ticket. Representative in Congress, S. M. HATHORN, Carroll County. For Senator, PERRY WASHBURN, of 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. For Commissioner, 2nd District, JOSEPH A. ROBINSON, of Marion Township. . For Commissioner, 3rd District, GEORGE G. THOMPSON, of Carpenter Township

The melancholy days are come; The weather is getting cool; Three X should stop hi« lying now. And attend his Sunday school. Again we ask our county officials, is the 2 cent gravel road repair levy for al) the gravel roads in the county? Can you not say j es or no? The Republican this week says, “The total levies for all county purposes in Jasper county are 45 cents on the SIOO valuation.” Now, the Republican and Pilot both are against Three X on this subject; wonder who is right.

Neighbor last week was calling voters’ attention to the “goodest” men on his ticket. Oil! such slobbering and gush; the “most bestest” auditor and the “superbest” sheriff Jasper county ever had. Our candidates are just men,like othermen. The people of this county know them.

These federal judges, like sappers and miners, have for years steadily enlarged their jurisdiction, and unless checked by legislation they will soon undermine the very pillars of the constitution and bury the liberties of the people beneath their ruin.—Extract from Judge Trumbull’s speech. In thirteen out of the fourteen states west of the Mississippi, the Democratic party is the third party; the contest being between the Populists and the Republicans. In nine of the fourteen southern slates, the Republicans will be the third party; the contest there being between the Democrats and Populists. The statement that men prefer idleness to honest labor 1 consider a slander on the working classes. They are the statements of the political philosophers of the gold standard, resorted to in order to account for the enormous proportion of men whom the gold standard relegates to idleness and keeps there.—John P. Jones. A thief picked Congressman Bynum's pocket the other day at Huntington, and threw away his pocketbook which was afterwards found and in it were several railroad passes. Bynum nets 20 cents mileage going to and from Washington and it costs him not a cent. Such congressmen are opposed to the government ownership of i ailroads.

In this land of plenty,the fairest of earth, with a soil and climate adapted to supply the wants of man, under a free and enlightened government, where every man is supposed to be the architect of his own fortune and entitled to an equal start in the world, why is it that a feeling of dissatisfaction and distrust prevails among the masses of our people? —Extract from Judge Trumbull’s Chicago address. “Therefore when thou doest thine alms do not sound a trumpet, but when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know w’hat thy right hand doeth.” Our commissioners and other county officers interested, doubtless were trying to follow the above scriptural injunctions when they decided to say nothing about the great and lasting good they were doing Jasper county when they borrowed that $5,000.

We call the attention of taxpayers to that little item in the expenditures of the county for 1893, given in last week’s Republican by Three X. It says: “For implements on the poor farm $1,200.” Now this may have been a typographical error, if so. Three X will please make the corrections next week. $1,200 for implements on the poor farm for one year; how is that, farmers, think of it a little,

The American Banker’s Association met at Baltimore last week, and arranged to have congress to amend the national banking law, so that they will not be required to deposit any bonds to secure their notes, and to reduce the tax on national bank notes from one per cent, to one-half of one per cent. That is, by paying one-half of one per cent, to the government, they will be allowed to issue to the amount of 50 per cent, of their capital stock, and in emergencies to 75 per cent, of their capital stock in national bank notes, without securing them at all. If this is not Wild Cat, what kind of a cat is it?

The democratic meeting at the court house last Friday w T as in point of numbers a slim affair. Mr. B. F. Shively was present, and from a democratic standpoint made beyond doubt the ablest speech that has yet been delivered in the county. Mr. Shively is an orator equal to any man in the state. His speech was logical and fair, free from abuse and in the main unanswerable. Unlike most speakers we have this year heard he appealed to reason. In the main we agree with what this gentleman said, but we are sorry to say his speech and his party’s practices do not altogether harmonize. If there be a future for the democracy of Indiana, this young man Shively will be bette; known. This was undoubtedly a remarkable speech, remarkable in what the gentleman said and much more remarkable in wha; he did not say. The great ques tionsof money, land, transporta t ion etc. he left untouched —lit was a democrat and of cours* must talk tariff.

The net revenue of the rail roads of the United States aftei paying all expenses for the year 1893, according to Poor’s manual, was $475,880,041. The total value of the wheat crop for the same year was $342,491,707. The total value of the cotton crop for same year $292,139,209. It will thus be seen that the net profits of the railroads each year exceed the total valuation of either of the above great staples. No wonder the railway presidents draw forty and fifty thousand dollar salaries, and ride in private cars fitted up with all the modern conveniences and supplied with all the luxuries of life while the farmer rides in his old spring wagon, for the farmer votes the old party ticket and thinks it’s all on account of the tariff. Will the honest toilers ever wake up and vote for conditions that will give them a share of the comforts and luxuries of life?—Nonconformist.

The first man -who signs a petition is always considered the most responsible, and Mr. Sprigg is that man. What will the Pilot do about that?—Rensselaer Republican. If the Republican is correct, that “the first man who signs a petition is always considered the most responsible,” then the most responsible man is S. P. Thompson, for his name is first on the petition. Joel F. Spriggs comes ninth and not first as above stated by the Republican. Now what can be the inducement for a man to tell what is positively untrue, and to tell it when he knows that anybody who can read can go to the County Clerk’s office and in one half minute see that he has made a positive misstatement of recorded facts? Upon the Iroquois ditch petition are the names of many of the best citizens of the county. These men with no bad intent petitioned for the ditch, but e’er it had gone far enough to work any serious damage, they began to see that it was not what they thought it was to be and steps were taken to stop its progress. Had the Commissioners acted promptly, had they done

then what the majority of the petitioners and parties interested wanted thdta te do, had they done then what they could do. and what they really, finally did do, the greater part of all this useless survey expenses would have been saved. Going to make the petitioners reitn burse the county, eh. When, how? If as the Republican says “the first man on the petition is the responsible man, ah know that he has said the petitioners are not responsible, he will see to it that he never pays one cent.