Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 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. PD»rt Supreme Court — ROBERT A. BROWN. [Superintendent of Public Instruction — F. A. COTTON. State Statistician — BENJ. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist— W. S. BLATCHLEY. Budge Supreme Court, Fifth District— JOHN H. GILLETT. Budges Appellate Court— FRANK R. RCBY. U. Z. WILEY. W. J. HENLEY. JAMES R. BLACK. D. W. COMSTOCK. J W. E. ROBINSON.

DISTRICT TICKET. For Congress, EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER. For Judge loth Judicial Circuit, CHARLES W. HANLEY. Ter Prosecuting Att’y. 30th Judicial Circuit, JOHN 1). SINK. For loint 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. HALLECK For Commissioner 2nd District, FREDERICK WAYMIRE. For Commissioner 3rd District, CHARI.ES T. DENHAM. For County Councilmen, J3t districtJOHN HAHN and districtHAßVEV E PARK ISON 3rd districtJOHN MARTINDALE 4* districtWALTEß V. PORTER lED T. BIGGS At Large J . .ERIIARDT WEL'RTHNER (ANDREW J. HICKS

Th£' Kansas newspapers are cotn taenting upon the fact that not been a bank failure in K msas this year. It is, indeed, a sad day for Kansas calamity criers It would seem to have been a foolhardy piece of business for Mr Bryan io start a newspaper enterprise just st the time when the country is dashing to ruin both through the money and the imperial routes

The Indianapolis Journal says that “the last four years of Democratic rule left the country plunged in disaster and almost despair, but after six years of Republican rule, traffic is so congested that the greatest railroad systems in the world cannot handle it.” Theke was no “scuttle” in the sentiments expressed by Henry Wat terson in his remarks at the Sunday exercises of the Tippecanoe Battlefield Association celebrated on that historic battle ground, “We should go forward,” he said, “rather than backward. The Constitution in one hand, the Bible in the other. The flag overhead carrying to all lands and all peopleft the message alike of civilization and religion, the ark and the covenant of American freedom, along with the word of God.” The expression of such lofty and partiotic sentiments must come as a shock to those opposition statesmen who have been counting upon the brilliant Kentuckian as a bulwark of the antiimperialistic structure.

The proposition to change the date of the inauguration has become mixed up with the provision to at the same time change the date of adjournment of the short session of Congress, and on this latter point there has been some disagreement. There is no reason why the proposed inauguration change should fail to receive consideration at the hands of Congress, because an agreement cannot be reached at this time on the adjournment question. Every one has practically agreed that March 4th is an un safe and unsuitable time for inaugurating the President. Congress proposes to adjourn within the next five or six weeks. The two questions should be separated and prompt action taken to prevent a possible delay in action on the principal question of perhaps four years.

Dispatches state that the negroes of southern Illinois, in the section which is known as “Egypt,” are being shamefully treated, have had their churches and houses burned, and have been driven out of the country, A contemporary remarks that possibly Senator Tillman has recently passed through that section. And this calls to mind one of Secretary Hay’s early poems, in which the hero was a different kind of a Tillman. Tillman Joy returned from the war of the sixth s to this section of southern Illinois known as “Egypt.” He brought a negrd boy who had saved his life. Then, as now, the inhabitants of “Egypt” disliked negroes and they concluded to dispose of this negro lad. But Tillman Jov was faithful to his black friend, and as the poem goes, said: “Ye may resoloot till the cows come home, But if one of ye teches the boy, He’ll rastle his hash in hell to-night Or my name’s not Tillman Joy.”

A recent dispatch from Manila states that the bodies of five American soldiers who had been carried off by Ladrones on May 30th, have been found so mutilated by bolos as to be unrecognizable. Nine of the men who butchered the Americans have been caught. Now leaving the subject of an approaching Democratic campaign out of the question, what would Senator Carmack, for instance, do with these men if their disposition rested in his hands? Following his recent arguments, he would say that the same spirit of fierce patriotism actuated the brigands which burned in the bosoms of the American patriots of 1776; that these soldiers in the Philippines received what was their just due, and that their murderers and mutilators should be at once released to continue their patriotic labors. In speaking of this incident, the Chicago Tribune says that if Senator Carmack were in the Philippines and could the dismembered bodies of American soldiers, he probably would understand why the “water cure” has been administered, and why soldiers, goaded on by the sight of their comrades dismembered and weltering in btood, have forced confessions of the whereabouts of the murderers from conniving natives.

Nothing better indicates the prosFerity of the people than the patronage accorded to the newspaper. When Hard Times comes to a community the first place he hunts up is the newspaper office. There js significance in the fact that despite four years of exceedingly “hard sledding” for Indiana publishers during the deCade ending with 1900, there are now nearly twice as many wage-earners employed in the printing and publication of newspapers and periodicals in this state as there were in 1890. In 1890, 2,628 persons were employed in this industry; in 1900, 4,485;' in 1890 there was Invested in the business $3,589,513; in 1900, $6,093,191.

The state debt in 1895, when the Republican party gained control of the fiscal management of Indiana was $7,520,615.12. After seven years of Republican administration the state debt is today: > $3,887,615.12. 1