Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1898 — Page 4

‘Rensselaer Democrat Pnblinhed Every Friday by Shields & Dilley, Entered Ht the Pool-office at Reaaaelaer. lud. M second eiaas matter. TMOIH OF SUBACRIPTIONi ‘ ONE YEAR sl.**’ MX MONTHS S»e ' THREE >MONTHS ...... Jsc. Payable in Advance. Adverting rates made known on application OFFICE in the Murray building opposite court house.

The County Ticket.

For County Clerk, JOHN F. MAJOR, of Carpenter Township. For County Auditor, GEORGE O. STEMBEL, of Wheatfield Township. For County Treasurer, MARION O. ADAMS, of Marion Township. For County Sheriff, WILLIAM C. HUST< )N, of Milroy Township. For County Surveyor, DAVID E. HARRIOTT, of Union Township. For County Coroner, DR. P. F. POTHUSJE, of Carpenter Township. Commissioner Ist District, FRANK M. HERSHMAN. [ Commissioner 2nd District, LUCIUS STRONG.

Jasper county’s bonded indebtedness <m court house is $152,500 or $9.22 per inhabitant. Yet ■ Halleck points to “My record” as evidence he should be given one more term. -■ - - i II ri - • r It costs $5.64 per inhabitant to run the Jocal government in Jasper county. Benton county pays (but $1.98 per inhabitant and yet the present board wants to give Phetn just one more chance. | < Hon. Samuel L.Ralston will be candidate for the nomination for Secretary of State before the fourth Democratic state convention. He was the Democratic candidate two years ago and Siade a magnificent campaign against fearful odds. He should be given the nomination by acclamation. The Democrats of Montgomery jcounty in their county convention I held recently endorsed Joseph B. "Cheadle for congress. The Popkulists and Free Silver Republicans have already endorsed his kaadidacy which will unite all against Charley Landis. Judging from present indications Charley will be a’one termer.

Democratic Congressional temivention promises to be quite a large affair. Rates have been secured on the Monon, and a large jbrbwd is promised from Lafayette, El&tninoud, Monticello and other points. The candidates so far are 1L J. Bozarth, of Valparaiso, Hohbnes Kapelke, of Crown Point, judge tbach. of Hammond, with probably a candidate from Tippepmoe and one from Williamsport. flx-Lieut r ‘nant Governor Nye has eclined to be a candidate although Befriends are urging him to take Neither Halle.ck or Dowell is fepred to lower expenditures*©! Wu<c taxes. Halleck is running r record’’ and Powell ids ready to help him make e more of the <un kind. Record" can easily be gaged of the Keener townJgravel road problem, the for vitrefied sewer j ipe but pot least the new >u •> = rT.wp years ago the Singer facfe employes marched under the jSmMof the advance agent of and shouted- praises of

him who WM to open the mills and give everybody a chance to earn “honest 1 * dollars. Solidly these workmen voted against Bryan and his party of “repudiation.” Their votes were cast for the advance agent as against the apostle of a “fifty-cent dollar.” Immediatly after the election the price of the necessities of life began to go up and the wages of the Singer people to go down. Finally the wages were reduced so low that a livlihood was not possible. Several months ago several hundred joined in a petition asking a restoration of the wages of 1892, but nothing came of it. Then came another request for an increase, a refusal and the wage-earner will testify that he has profited by dearly purchased experience, He will deal with organized iniquity according to the deception practiced on him. Lafayette Journal.

Our friend A. Halleck’s boast that his action in compelling the contractors to take up the stone foundation wall for the stone coping around the court house yard will make him votes, is rather premature. The reason for the order was that the citizens made a determined kick against the work not being according to specifications and ’notified the commissioners that if their words were not heeded they would make an effective kick next November—one that Would count. The stone wall was constructed under the supervision of the Commissioners last fall and they were present every day from the time the work commenced until the last stone was laid, and even went so far as to direct the contractors not to remote the stone and brick that had been previously sunk along the line of the wall, stating as their reason that the foundation was better than any the contractors could make. Now, if the wall was defective when the citizens filed their protests last week, was it not defective at the time of its construction under the supervision of the Board, and was it not the duty of the Board to order it built properly and according to specifications at the time of its construction? Halleck now indignantly (?) asserts that the wall was only from 6 to 22 inches in depth while the specifications call for a depth of 32 inches. Now, if the wall lacks so much of coming up to the specifications why was the south wall allowed to remain? Why does the board try now to make “stfape graces” out of the contractors who did the work under their own supervision? The simple reason is that Halleck believes that his act will make him votes, as he has already stated confidentially to some of his f,riends(?). Now, if it was a Steal orVth'e part of the contractors, why was one-fourth of the wall, which of course, would represent one-fourth of the steal, allowed to remain?

He Can’t be Headed Off.

The efforts of the administration to keep William Jennings Bryan out of the army will fail. The refusal of the war department to accept the Nebraska regiment of which Mr. Bryan is now a private soldier but would when mustered become its colonel, was neatly checkmated by Gov. Stephens of Missouri, who tendered the democratic leader the colonelcy of one iof his regiments. BryJu did not , accept at once, but t wired that he j could not ask a better command than that compo e 1 of Mis: ourians. Mr. Bryan said privately that he j still has hopes of commanding a Nebraska regiment, but if any deliberate act on the part of the ’ 'Washington officials deprives him ! of that command he will then go 'to Missouri ami lead a regiment I “In any event.” he added, “I propose to serve my country in spite lof any injustice from official sources.”—Oarroll County Citizen. “Resolved that we commend the statesmanlike bearing of our. representative in the National Congress, E. D. Orumpacker.” Resolu-

■ tion adopted by Benton county Republican convention. We would like to inquire what particular act our Republican friend interpret as statesmanlike. Was it . the promises of patronage he made 1 prior to the convention in 189 G, which secured him the nomination ( over the Hon. J. Frank Hanley or j was it the position he took upon i the question of Hawaii’s annexation to the Unit cd States? His resolution oi>posing the policy of territorial acquisition brought forth such a storm of protests from the patriotic members of his own party in the district that at one ! time he could not have secured a renomination. His position would i require us to give back the Phil ip- ' pine Islands to Spain or any ■ other territory which we may acquire during the present war. Yet Benton county Republicans say he is a statesman. i ■ . ■ . ....... ,S=!= The price of silver is going np. ' Spai,n is in the market as a puri chaser using the gold reserve of ! the bank of Spain to purchase sil- ■ ver which it will coin immediatei ly. The silver so coined is used : to redeem her outstanding notes ( which have been issued to the amount of *SIO3,(XX),(XX) all of 'which is payable in coin 'and as gold and silver are both standards, ithe government choses to pay the I notes in silver. Now if the entrance of Spain on the markets as a purchaser increases the price of i silver to the extent is has, would not the free coinage of both metals increasethe value of silver so 1 that the market, value would equal its coinage value?

Mr. Bryan as a Soldier.

From the correspondence between the secretary of war and Gov. Holcomb of Nebraska it is probable that Mr. Bryan will soon be com missioned as a colonel in the volunteer army of the United States. It may be doubted if Mr. Bryaii as a candidate for a colonel’s commission has been less talked about than he was when an aspirant for the presidency. From the timer WSciFft v.aas first mentioned that he designed to raise a regiment In Nebraska his motives have been called in question, and of all the thousands who have tendered their services to the government Mr. Bryan almost alone has been singled out for unfavorable remark and ridicule. No one has the right to impugn the motives of any honorable man in offering himself for dangerous service to the government, and certainly Mr. Bryan may be credited with the ordinary sentiments of patriotism that he has shown, in common with thousands of other men who have received the warmest Commendations for their offers to serve their country. Mr. Bryan is entitled to the same treatment that any other private citizen has received for a similar act and no more.

But now there is a prospect that i he will be commissioned as colonel ■of one of the Nebraska regiments. I It is urged against him that he has never,had any military experience 'which is true. But it is alsolrue i that possibly half of the colonels i who will lead regiments to the i field are liable to the same i criticism. Roosevelt has no military experience, but no 'one uiged that as any reason why he should not lead his “rough riders” to Cuba. The major-gen-eral commanding the armies is not a West Pointer, and when he, a ■ Boston merchant, went to wmr, he j did not practically know a Gatling ' gun from a cotton gin. but be had ■ courage, patriotism, ambition and brains. Few of the officers in the revolutionary war, that of 1812 or the Mexican, had a military!training when they became soldiers. ' Technical education is an imporj tant thing for a soldier, as it is for I one in any other vocation, but many a West Pointer turned out a ■dismal failure in the last war. Mr. Bryan stand# on his own j merits as an American citizen, and ! he is entitled to no less praise and no more criticism than any other citizen who has done what he has in tendering his services to the government in time of war.

The Chicago Tribune, in a recent editorial, speaks the sentiments of a vast number of its readers. It said: as it means to the North to see a Lee and a Grant serving side by side under the same banner, it means still more to the South. It means the covering up and the forgetting of a sad and regrettable past. It means the renewal and cementing of a long interrupted brotherhood. For the first time in a generation it reopens to the gallant and naturally martial Southerns a chance to hold high positions in the army and to win glory on the battle field. Technically most disabilities had melted away before the the present year, but nothing had occurred to show the fact in practical form. It needed the Spanish war to finish the gocxl work and give the signal that the hopes of thirty years have bee realized.” > It will be the one chance in your life time to get anything in the buggy, harness or wagon line real cheap. Tuesday, June 14,1898, at Goodland Indiana, is the time and j dace. The First Special Sale Day of Judy & The Leif Buggy Co. is the event. It will be the introduction to their future business and the object will be to secure an immese trade at once with no attention paid to profit. Will trade in old buggies also. " Come and see our immense stock of goods whether you want to buy or not.

Pastwrer I will furnish pasture for your cows. Pasture inside corporation. 7-3 t. Andrew Ropp. Professionel Cards. ATTORNEYS. Hanley & Hunt. Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office in Hollinganorth BnildinK. Ist floor, rear of McCoy’s Bunk. J.L. Duvall, A ttorney-at-Law. All business profession carefully nnd thoroughly executed. Money to'loan on almost any terms. Real Estate bought and sold. Collections and abstracts carefully propounded. First door east of P. O. upstairs. Geo. K. Hol lings worth Arthur H. Hopkins Hollingsworth & Hopkins, at Law. second floor of Leopold’s Block. Corner Wushtnirton and Vanßensselaer sts. Praetice in all the courts, purchase, sell and lease real estate. Attorneys for Rensselaer B. L. & S. Association. James W. Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B< Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker. Attorney For The L. N. A. £ C. Ry, and Rensselaer W, L. A P. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. Chilcote & Dunn, Attorney s-at-Law. Attend to all business in the profession with promptness and dispatch. Office in second story of Makeever Block. RENSSELAER. IND. R. S.DWIGGINS, Counselor at Law. Rensselaer, Indiana. I have recovered my health nnd have again entered upon the practice of the law. Call and see me. ’Office in MakeeVer’s Bank Building.

BANKING. Alfred JfcCoy, Pres T. J. McCoy, Cash. A. R. Hopkins, Assistant Cashier. A. McCOY & CO’S BANK. RENSSELAER, IND. The Oldest Bank in Jasper County. ESTABLISHED IN 1854. Transacts u general Banking business, buys notes and loans money on long or short time on personal or real estate security. Fair and liberal treatment is promised to all. Interest paid on time deposits. Foreign exchange bought and sold. Your patronage issolicited. i Patrons having valuable papers may deposit | them pr safe keeping. Addis-m Parkinson. John M. Wasson. President. . Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank. 4, (North Side of Public Square. RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co. DIBKCTOJS. Addison Parkison, G. E. Murray, Jas.T. Randle. John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general hanking: business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. PHYSICIANS. :■ w ’--— .1. w : - -■ „,, , .1.,, ■„,, I. B. Washburn. E. C. English Wash burn & English. Physicians & Surgeons, Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Di«i'>ase&4>f the EyeJEar. Nose, Throat and Chronic Disi uses. J)r. English’will give special attention to Surgery in all Departments, and general medicine. Office over Ellis A Murray’s Telephone 48. x Job Printing. , All kinds pf Job Printing neatly and promptly executed at this office.

I have moved my Entire Stock of Goods, Into th© room formerly occupied by the Kennel Bros.’ Restaurant & Bakery Where we are still Selling at WHOLESALE PRIOES as before. Come and see us* and if we have what you want, you can save money by Buying of Us. C. D. NOWELS, One Door West of former Location. Nowels’Block. Rensselaer, Ind. Jack Warner. ■ v A* . Wagon and Carriage REPAIR SHOP. We do all kinds of repairing in Wood, Iron or Steel. All kinds of Repairing of all Kinds of Vehicles. We have a first class carriage blacksmith. • We paint carriages and other vehicles and make them as good as new. BICYCLES PAINTED to look like new ones, at reasonable prices. ALL OURWORKWARRANTED Give us a call, learn prices and inspect our work. Jack Warner. Shop on Front Street. 1 Block South Nowels House.

C. E. Powell, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Will be at office from 2 to 3p. m. Sundays. ' Calls promptly attended. Office over Commercial State Bank—Resi- ' dence one block north of school house. Office phone 80. Residence phone 81. < DENTIST. 11. L. BROWN, Dentist V Office over F. B. Meyer’s drug store. J. F. Warren J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, * ■ Real Estate, Abstracts, Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow', Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

George Goff, Lunch, Cream, Soda and Ices. Agent for Colli!is Ice Cream Co. [Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and oil Fat-1 ,ent business conducted for MooenaTE' Em. ;Ot»n office >' ofsositc u.s.PaTtirrOrr.cc ! and we can secure patent in less time than those ’ remote from Washington. ' Send model, drawing or photo., with description. We advise, if patentable or not, free of ’ charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A Pamphlet. “How to Obtain Patents,” with cost of same In the U.S. and foreign countries ! sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. Orr. PATENT Orrtcc, waaminaton, o. C. sn 1