People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 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. B. KEEPORT, Cass County. Attorney General, CY HOLCOMB, Gibson County. Clerk Supreme Court, J. H. MONTGOMERY, Lawrence County. Sup’t Public Irstruction, 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

Grover Cleveland, John Sherman, the New York republican convention and the democratic candidate for governor of New York, D. B. Hill, are all outspoken in opposition to the income tax. Pretty good evidence that the people should favor it.—Chicago Express. After your ticket is stamped see that the blotter is properly used. Fold each ticket separately and so that the initials of the poll clerks can be seen. Should you blot, blur or destroy your ticket call for another. Be patient, take your time, satisfy yourself that you have your ticket just as you want it before you leave the booth.

It is not necessary to make your neighbor mad at you to induce him to think. Give us a chance to fire hot shot at him for a year and see the effect. Now don’t waste money on some “fool-idiot” that thinks that he knows more than all the balance of the world combined, for there are enough men who want to know the truth, if you will only pick them out and give ’em a chance.—Chicago Express. There are thirteen candidates on the county and district ticket to be voted for Tuesday. This is not a long ticket, every voter will have ample time to arrange hisballotto suit himself. When one wishes to vote for candidates on different tickets he should not stamp any of the party emblems in the large squares above the tickets, but just stamp the small squares opposite the names of the men he wishes to vote for on the different tickets.

We are sorry to learn that instructions have been given out to voters that they can not vote for candidates on but one ticket. Now while this might not come under the law of intimidation or bribery, yet it is equally as mean. Every voter has a right to vote for any candidate or candidates on each of the four tickets. In voting for men on different tickets, all the voters have to do is to just simply not stamp any of the party emblems in the big squares at the head of the different tickets, but just stamp the little squares opposite the names of the candidates he wishes to vote for on the different tickets.

In free trade England sheep are selling for from six to four teen dollars a head. Thorougbreds, fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars a head. Dairy cows and Stockers,fifty dollars a head. The above are not fancy or exceptional prices, but actual sales by the thousand, taken from a market report of recent date shown us by Adam Scott who gets the market reports every week. Call on him and get one and examine for yourself. These figures speak volumes in condemnation of the demoralized condition of our own markets. If the unjust and unreasonable trade barriers were removed; or if the circulating medium was what it ought to be, this or some other market would be available and our home market would equal any in the world. But no improvement need be expected while Wall street is in the saddle.—The Alliance News.

Three years ago when our county tax was raised to $30,000 —55,000 more than the commissioners expected, we had no interest bearing debt hanging over us. had no SB,OOO ditch survey expenses to meet and no more public improvements than usual demanding attention. The 45 cent county levy that year brought us $30,632, and this levy has never been reduced, but to-day Jasper county is paying 7 per cent, interest on $5,000 borrowed money. It was said by the county officers that $25,000 was a sufficient sum to carry on the county affairs in 1892, but they got $5,000 more than this sum and have been

getting this $5,000 every year now for three years. We have paid enough taxes to have met all reasonable county expenses and had a surplus of $15,000. This $15,000 would have paid the SB,OOO ditch expenses and still we would have $,093 in the treasury instead of a $5,000. 7 per cent, interest bearing debt. The affairs of Jasper county have not been managed economically, there has been extravagance; willful, uncalled for, profligate expenditures of the people’s money. How does ; t come that counties on each side of us, one with more taxables and one with less, manage to conduct county affairs with from $10,156 to $14,639 less than we do? We have built no new court house, no new jail; we have no large streams to bridge, have voted no railroad tax, made no appropriations to public enterprises. Then why are we one of the very highest taxed counties in the state? We do not like to complain, we will not complain without just cause. There is a leak somewhere. With the amount of county tax we pay there is no excuse for borrowing money even if we do throw SB,OOO into the ditch every year or two.

Voter, when you go in to vote Tuesday, one poll clerk will hand you a little stamp and the other poll clerk will hand you three ballots—a red one, which will be the state ballot; a white one, which will be the county and district ballot; and a yellow one, which will be the township ballot. Take all of them into the booth with you. If you know every man on each of the three tickets is just the man above ail his campetitors for the place he aspires to. just the man that will be the most credit to your party and the most useful to your state, your county, or your township; then stamp the emblem of your party on each of the three ballots, fold each ticket separ ately before you leave the booth, then return the stamp to the clerk and the three tickets to the inspector and you have done your duty as an American citizen. But if you know there are men on your ticket that will not by reason of lheir’natural makeup, or the counsels they seek,fill the offices they are asking for with credit to your party and profit to your state, your county or your township then it is your duty to leave the emblem of your party unstamped and vote for the men you think best fitted for the various places. Not hing short of this is patriotism; nothing short of this is really honest and just.

The campaign of 1894 is drawing to a close. Though an off year, never has the ruling party in this county been half so active. Years of time and barrels of money have been spent; speakers that no man could number have come from the four corners of the earth, and plead with the dear people in every school house and hay barn in the county. Why this great activity on the part of the Republican county committee? It is not for the State ticket that all this much speaking has been done; it is not to roll up a big majority for a congressional candidate that all this time and monej has been spent, but it is to still hold the purse strings of the county. The Republican state committee has been imposed upon. Its state ticket was in no more danger here than in any other county. There were no better openings here for Republican converts than there were in other counties. It was to save a ring that all this help has been called for. With a big hurrah, with a red hot campaign, it was thought that the people could be led to forget home affairs. This is not going to win, for many, many are the Republicans that

know that it is as good politics to down bad men and bad measures in their own party as it is to down them in other parties. Home affairs will be looked after this time and no man will be any less a Republican because he votes for a county candidate upon the Populist ticket, and state candidates upon the Republican ticket.