Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1902 — THE STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State— DANIEL E. STORMS. Huditor of State— DAVID E. SHERRICK. •{Treasurer of State— NAT U. HILL. (Attorney General — CHARLES W. MILLER. IjClerk Supreme Court — ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction— F. A. COTTON. 'State Statistician— BENJ. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist— W. S. BLATCHLEY. Judge Supreme Court, Fifth District— JOHN H. GILLETT. Judges Appellate Court— FRANK R. ROBY. U. Z. WILEY. W. J. HENLEY. JAMES R. BLACK. D. W. COMSTOCK. ’ W. E. ROBINSON. DISTRICT TICKET. For Congress, EDGAR D. CRUM PACKER. For Judge 30th Judicial Circuit, CHARLES W. HANLEY. For Prosecuting Att'y. 301,1 Judicial Circuit. JOHN I). SINK. For loint Representative, JESSE E WILSON COUNTY TICKET. Fir Auditor, JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. For Treasurer. SAMUEL R. NICHOLS For Sheriff. ABRAHAM HARDY. For Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE. For Coroner. .. W. J. WRIGHT. For Commissioner Ist District, ABRAHAM G. HALLECK For Commissioner 2nd District, FREDERICK WAYMIRE. For Commissioner 3rd District, CHARLES T. DENHAM. For County Councilmen, Kst district ..JOHN HAHN 2nd district HARVEY E PARKISON 3 rd district JOHN MARTINDALE 4th district... v .. .WALTER y. PORTER f ED T. BIGGS At Large 4 . .ERHARDT WEURTHNER ( ANDREW J. HICKS One year ago the Democratic press charged that the Republican administration had no intention of fullfilling itß pledges to give Cuba independence. Behold, Cuba is free! Democrats have cons, quent ly dropped this issue, and are now cl arging that the Republican administration does not intend to keep its pledge that the fu 11«8t measure of self-government shall be given to the 'Philippines

The Democratic Lebanon Pioneer says: “It is estimated that during the past five years the average increase in the value of farm lands in Boone county has been $25 an acre. This means an Increase of over six and a half million dollars In the wealth. The farmer who five years ago owned farms of 80 acres is today $2,000 better oft by the Increase in the price of his holdings.”

Mr. Bryan has always been an advocate of Cuban independence and he was down there on the ground the other day to see that there was no slip up, but that the goods were properly delivered The Hon. Coin Harvey appears to have been omitted from the Cuban Independence Reportorial Party. Most of the other back numbers were down there. Senator James K. Jones, too, h?s been making predictions about Cuba. Hon. Charles L. Jewett, of New Albany, a former chairman of the democratic state central committee, read the platform to the republican state convention, and his appearance upon the stage brought great applause from the audience. Mr. Jewett left the Democratic party In 1896 and cast, his lot with the party of sound money end protection, the party of progress and prosperity.—Rockport Journal. A Michigan man in his will made a special bequest of $60,000 for the establishment of a home for “indignant” women. Now his heirs are contesting the will and seeking to invalidate it, claiming that the deceased had meant “indigent” women. The will should stand. The deceased doubt less had in mind many of the “indignant” Democratic aunties in Congress who are now politically dead and are in need of a home somewhere, since their party cannot afford to house them longer. Cuban reciprocity is in the throes of adjustment. Some of the Republican leaders of the senate are working upon a measure which will give a measure of relief to Cuba, and, at the same time, work the least injury to our beet sugar interests, which everyone recognizrs as a future source of national wealth. One thing all factions of the Republican party are agreed upon, and that is that no portion of the relief which is to be meted out to the Cubans shall fall into the hands of either the sugar trust or to wealthy American corporations raising sugar in Cuba. The Democratic party might just as well abandon its battle-cry that the Republican party is a friend of the sugar trust. Self-respecting Democrats, as well as Republicans, have a cause for congratulation in the fact that Senator Wellington, of Maryland, will soon be a thing of the past. He was elected to the senate as a Republican, but after attacking the McKinley administration, because of personal troubles with the President, he announced himself for Bryan in 1900. Since that time he has lost no opportunity to revile the Republican administration. His brutal remark upon being informed that President McKinley was shot w 7 as only a shade worse than his remarks in the senate the other day, in which he compared the march of the American army in restoring order to the Philippines with the marshaling by Satan of the hosts of hell against Ood. He will be succeeded in the Senate by former Senator Gorman, able and respectable Democrat. The position of the president that congress should not adjourn without giving the country assurance that the three important questions, the Philippines, the Nicaraguan canal, the Cuban reciprocity, should at least be settled to the extent of giving the country a definite knowledge of what is intended on each subject, is meeting with approval. The question of a local government for the Philippine Islands will within the next three weeks be settled, and the intelligent people of the Philippines will be able to enjoy its provisions and to see that in the due course of time local selfgovernment in those islands will be as much of a reality as Cuban independence. The position of the senate on the Isthmian canal will then have been so largely outlined as to give all nations knowledge as to what this country intends on that subject, although the bill will not become a law uptil next session.