Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1898 — The County Ticket. [ARTICLE]

The County Ticket.

| For County Clerk, I John f. major, Inf Carpenter Township. I For County Auditor, B'eorge o. stembel, bf Wheatfield Township. I For County Treasurer, [MARION I. ADAMS, I of Marion Township. I » w I • For County Sheriff, EILLIAM C. HUSTON, [of Milroy Township. [ For County Surveyor, DAVID E. HARRIOTT, r of Union Township. For County Coroner, >R. P. F. POTHUSJE, it Carpenter Township. iunmissioner Ist District, lank m. heMshman. Fnnnissioner 2nd District, STRONG. I Democratic State Convensyi'il build astrong and logiatform. r r~—r-— —— ic silver coinage and free Avill make a good campaign ). the Democracy of Indins year. I - _

b Halleck tells the people of townships that he is maae tax dodgery of Rensse|fsgorge.and then he comes tells the defendants in ;tx cases that he is not resible for the filing of the and that they were filed jut his knowledge and conThe people may rest asi that the cases will never to trial if Halleck can preit.

| B. Sinclair, of Knox, will be Kdidate for the nomination for K Superintendent of Public Suction before the Democratic K Convention. Mr. Sinclair Ehe nominee in 18DG and dels the re-nomination. Any aidate who accepted the nomi|n two years ago when the |‘Des for election were so much him should be re-nomina-tis year if he choses to be a &te. Bgressman Cr u m pack cr s a letter to a citizen of MoVhieh is published in the last ■ of the Monon News setting El his reasons for opposing ■annexation of Hawaii. He I that McKinley has been misIla the matter and that “Reed £»y far the ablest man convith the administration is to annexation.” Some congressman’s supporters who have lately assert* it Crumpacker has changed ind on the subject will do o read the letter. He stands &d to territorial acquisition my source. i “tax dodger” cases have continued until the next >f the circuit court at which they will be taken from the F on change r of venue, will carry them over until election when they will Wy be dismissed. The fil- ■ the caws was a political jent oa the part of Halleck |»xuin for political advan* They thought that by fit-

itig the cases that they would so work on the prejudice of the people that they would secure a renomination and re-election. It has never been the intention of Mr. Chizum or Mr. Halleck to have the cases come to trial. “It is better to open the mills of labor than to open the mints of free coinage,” was a pet expression of our republican friends in 1896, yet before McKinley had been in the office one "year we witnessed the closing of every cotton factory in New England and the enforced idleness of 25,000 employees who prefered to go out rather thaft stand a cut of 10 per cent in their wages. This occurred to in the district represented by the father of the Dingley bill.

The U. S. Government bonds are payable, at the option of the Government, “in silver dollars of the coinage of the United States containing 412| grains each, of standard silver.” That is the law. Every member of the U. S Senate knows it is the law. Yet thirty-two of them hadn’t the grit, nerve and backbone or sense of common honesty, to vote for the Teller Resolution, a resolution that was simply declaratory of the fact. And one of the thirty-two was a Democratic. Good Lord deliver us! What will the Democrats of Louisana do to Caffery when he goes home? Draw the curtain.