Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1902 — THE STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State— DANIEL E. STORMS. _ \ Auditor of State— DAVID E. SHERRICK. treasurer of State — NAT U. HILL. Attorney General— CHARLES W. MILLER. Clark Supreme Court — * ROBERT A. BROWN. (Superintendent of Public Instruction — F. A. COTTON. ©tate Statistician— BENJ. F. JOHNSON. ©tate Geologist— W. S. BLATCHLEY. 4Tudge Supreme Court, Fifth District— JOHN H. GILLETT. fudges 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. CRUMPACKER. a-'or Judge 30th Judicial Circuit, CHARLES W. HANLEY. For Prosecuting Att’y. 30th Judicial Circuit. JOHN D. SINK. For Toint Representative, JESSE E. WILSON. COUNTY TICKET. For 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. HALLECIv For Commissioner 2nd District, FREDERICK WAYMIRE. For Commissioner 3rd District CHARLES T. DENHAM. ’ For County Councilmen, Rst district... JOHN HAHN ■.2nd district HARVEY E PARKISON 3rd district JOHN MARTINDALE 4th district....... .WALTER V. PORTER „ T f .ED T. BIGGS -■At. Large \ . ERHARDT WEURTHNER l ANDREW J. HICKS Those statesmen who are loudest in their demands for a searching investi. gation of American accounts in Cuba, Aipon the unsupported allegation that the Cubans were robbe t on every side J>y the American occupancy of the island, are the same ones who have insisted that the Cubans were nothing but a ragged lot of murder rs, bandits, •3<ud make-believe warriors It is fsomewhat amusing to see such derision jeers tumid suddenly to warm '.solicitude and friendly fervor.

President Palma’s first message to the Cuban Congress seems to be a businesslike document. Acknowledgments are made to the United States for its great services and friendship. Both the sanitary and educational work which has been done by this country in Cuba are praised and recommendations made for its continuance. In effect the message states that the Cuban Republic is a model moulded after the fashion of its great sister Republic, and the recommendations urge continuance along such lines as have been followed by the United States. Those Democrats who would soothe their followers into the belief that Bryan is a back-number, and that the old time element of the Democratic party will come into full control this year and sweep things along toward a great harmonious national Democratic victory, will be interested to learn that the Tennessee Democrats in shaping up their State platform found the Bryan element in control, and the platform as it now reads fully endorses the principles as set down in the Kansas City platform of 1900. The Bryan element is still a very live dead one. The statement of Sergeant O’Brien, who made a variety of charges against the army and his officers in the Philippines, have been absolutely discredited and disproven by the testimony of his immediate officer, Captain McDonald, who produced official evidence to show that O’Brien was absent from the scenes he described as personally witnessing. It is a significant indication of the way the opposition Senators are carrying on their campaign, that those Democrats who listened attentively to everything O’Brien had to say, drawing him out by frequent questions, thought that it was quite unnecessary that Captain McDonald should go into any of the details of disproving the grave and outrageous charges made against him. How would it do for some of the Democratic organs to editorialiy admit that they were wrong in their predictions and assertions that the commercial interests of the United States would never let go of Cuba; that the Democratic stock-in-trade arguments of last year to the effect that Cuba was too rich a field for American money interests to give up, and that their statements that thf> interests were uppermost which put the “dollar before the man” were erroneous, and that their predictions that the Cubans would be cheated of their liberty in spite ot American promises and the Teller resolution, and that the Republican hypocrisy would stand fully revealed was a false one? As a matter of fact these charges and prophesies were all made over and over again, yet Cuba stands free to day.

Buencamino, who was known as “Brains of the Aguinaldo Government,” is in Washington, and has conversed with the President on the Philippine situation. He told the President that the civil government is doing wonderful work for good in the islands, and that it has been ably seconded by the army. The stories of cruelty practiced by American soldiers, he said, were either wholly untrue or else greatly exaggerated. The army had conducted itself in a way to elicit praise from all rightthinking Filipinos, and this in the face of the greatest of provocations and temptations. The Taft Commission, he told Mr. Roosevelt, has the entire confidence of all honestly disposed natives, and Senor Buencamino himself hopes, he says, that Governor Taft will remain an indefinite time at the head of the civil government. The Filipinos, he declared, love Governor Taft, for he has never deceived them and they know him to be their friend. While the people of Indiana are cursing the beef trust, and howling about the price of meat, it may have something of a consoling effect to read the prices at which meat sells in Manila, P. I. The supply of beef, mutton, pork and lamb comes mostly from Australia, and the consumer pays as follows: Sirloin steak, 55 cents a pound; mutton, 40 cents; fresh pork, 55 cents; lamb, 55 cents. Other prices are: Smoked cod, 60 cents a pound; bacon, 60 cents; ham, 65 cents; cheese, 50 cents; lard, 40 cents; turkey 65 cents; salmon, 35 cents; mullet, 30 cents; lobsters, |2 each; butter, $1 a pound; grouse, $5.50 each; rabbits, 60 cents; hares, $1.25; fowl, $1.50; tame j duck, $1.50; condensed milk, 75 cents a pint.