Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

State Ticket.

SAMUEL RALSTON. Secretary of State. JOHN W. MINOR, Auditor of State. JOHN G. M'NUTT, . Attorney General. HENRY WARRUM, Clerk of Supreme Court. W. B. SINCLAIR. Superintendent Public Instruction. JAMES S. GUTHRIE, State Statistician. EDWARD BARRETT, State Geologist. JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT. LEONARD J. HACKNEY, Second District. JAMES M CABE, Third District. TIMOTHY E. HOWARD. Fouffli District. JUDGES OF APPELLATE COURT. EDWIN TAYLOR. First District. C.J. KOLLMEYER, Second District. EDGAR A. BROWN. Third District. J ' WILLIAM S. DIVEN. Fourth District. JOHONNES KOPELKE. ' Fifth District. The County Ticket. For County Clerk, JOHN F. MAJOR, of Carpenter Township. For C’ouijty Auditor, GEORGE O. STEMBEL, of Wheatfield Township. For County Treasurer. MARTON I. ADAMS, of Marion Township. For County Sheriff, WILLIAM C. HUSTON, of Milroy Township. For County Surveyor. DAVID E. GARRIOTT, of Union Township. For County Coroner, DR. P. J. POTHUSJE, of Carpenter Township. Commissioner Ist District, FRANK M. HERSHMAN. I Commissioner 2nd District, LUCIUS STRONG. For Congress. JOHN HOSS, of Tippecanoe County. For Joint Representative, DAVID H. YEOMAN, | • of Jasper County.

& Wherever an American soldier tails let the stars and stripes forc ever float. Clark’s eminent success as a 'Journalist and business man consists of running a sheet on money furnished by his relatives. We know whereof we speak. L The editor of the Democrat has conducted this paper for four months and has not been asked to sign a statement acknowledging himself a liar, Clark was compelled to do that after a journalistic career of about the same number of months. ■LvC / \ Hi’ - / Everyman on the Democratic [ ticket stands squarely on the Chi- ; eago platform and the people will | make no mistake by voting the whole ticket which is pledged to lower expenditures and reduce

With four republican papers and one that is trying to be, to apoligize for the wasteful extravagance of the board of commissioners for the past three years the republican party of the county ought to be happy —but it isn’t.

The corner stone of the new court house cost $486. The original cost of the stone to the contractors was $1.35 per cubic foot. The working and shaping of the stone required the labor of one man 8 days. The quality is the same furnished for the walls of the building and builds up the same as any other stone and the only extra that should have been asked and allowed was for the extra size and extra labor. The Rensselaer Marble works offered to furnish the stone of pure white marble for SSOO from material that cost $5.00 per cubic foot for the undressed material but their proposition was not considered and almost as large an amount was allowed for a stone that cost but $1.35 per cubic foot.

Editor Democrat:—l notice that you are still quoting from Bulletin No. 4 now while there is no doubt as to the correctness of your figures, yet they are not always a safe guide as to high or low taxes. Take a county where the people are all in moderately good circumstances, where there is a good sprinkling of millionaires, who can not dodge the assessor, and the per inhabitant tax will be high while the real tax (the tax per valuation) may be comparatively low. In Bulletin No. 4, from which you quote, Allen county’s " expenses are $10.32 per inhabitant and Jasper’s is $5.64, yet by the recent report of theaud-

itor of state Allen county pays, on the SIOO valuation, 17 cents less county tax than Jasper. By Bulletin No. 4 Jasper stands seventh in high expenses per inhabtant, and in real taxes (taxes on the valuation of property) about ninth or tenth. Persons who want to be honest, who wish to get at the real tax status of Jasper county, as compared with other counties, will if they examine the new report of the auditor of state, easily find that we are unjustly, unreasonably and ridiculously taxed. While this tax question is again before our people it is to be'hoped that it will have as little party politics mixed with it as While the republicans have fastened this burden upon us, here in Jasper, in other counties equally heavy loads have been imposed by continued democratic rule. The people of the tax ridden counties have mixed national and county politics together too much, w T e look too much to the government capital and too little to the county seat.