Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — Bear These bates in Mind. [ARTICLE]

Bear These bates in Mind.

To the RepublieansTrf Indianar Anv voter who moves from one : County to another, or from one 1 Township to another, after Sept. 5, or who moves fr< ni one pffecinct to another after October sth, will thereby lose bi> vote. The election will KedleldrTuesday, November 4, ’ We request the Republicans of Indiana to keep these dates in mind, | to see that all our friends whocon’template moving are fully advised before moving, and to notify the local committeemen of all changes of residence which may be made by members of other Parties after ni sher On the uuivs in s t uieuuoned. L. T. Micheneb, Chairman. F. M. Millikan. Secretary. j To vote against a really bad man | on the party ticket is to rebuke the party for iginating him, and to teach it better things. To vote i against good men is to rebuke the partv for nominating good men, and to encourage the nomination | ■of bad men. There is not a man, 1 mot a single one, any place on the j Republican ticket this year, f who is not a good, capable and deserving man, and fairly nominated. The Republican who votes against any of these men is not only, to that extent, a traitor to his. party, but he is also striking a blow at purity in politics and fairness and honesty in nominations.

There are lots of good men among the Republicans of Jasper county, and the Republican county ticket is crowedad full of them, in fact it is a phenomenally fine ticket in that respect, even for a Republican ticket, which is saying a good deal, and there is no better man, on of off of that ticket, than Mark H. Hemphill, the candidate for county treasurer. He is a man whose sterling honesty and cleanness of heart and tongue and hand, is palpable at the first view. He is courteous and obliging in the highest degree, honest as the day is long, honorable as he is honest, and would not do or Hunk of doing an underhanded or unfair thing, on any considera- . tion. Square and pure in politics not a singb' suspicion of unfairness in the manner in which he. obtained

his nomination. If the Republicans of Jasper county go back upon and defeat such a man as he, it will be a sin against pure politics and good goverment, and a shame almost without parallel in the politics of the county. The Western Rural, which is pre-eminently the advocate of farmers’ org n’zations, like the Alliance, congratulates the farmers because their organizations have been the means of securing to them a full and just recognition in the matter of election to offices. This remark of ‘he Rural’s carries with it the implication that, heretofore, the farmers have not been fairly treated in this respect. Whatever truth there may be in this implication, and there doubtless is a great deal in some portions of the country, especially in the South, it does not apply in even a slight degree to the treatment the farmers have received from the Republicans of Jasper county. The.present county ticket is proof of the truth of this statement. So also are all the present and all the past county officials. Our candidates for audtor and treasurer are both farmers and always have been. Both our candidates for commissioners are farmers. Our candidate for

sheriff has been a farmer most of his life and until failing health, brought on by army hardships, compelled him to seek some less laborious occupation. And our present ticket is a fair criterion of what the past has been. The. farmers have received full and just recognition from the Republicans of Jasper county, and they know this to be the case and give i ncuiu gement to interested schemers and marplots who would like to disorganize the party by a farmers, ticket.

Rochester Republican.—There four candidates before the Monon Democratic convention —Dr. Paton, V. Zimmerman, Thos. J. W< cd, and Robert Gregory. The hi st named resides at the little village of Remington, where he has . been an unsuccessfull pill peddler for. several years, and he wabchosea becausehe wasa soldier. The Democrats are disposed to conclude that the soldiers* will not support the Republican nominee and that the soldiers disaffection is sufficient to elect Patton. But it’s a delusion. The Democratic nominee possesses no political ability and is wholly incapable of telling what little he does know about any matter upon the stump. An unknown village doctor will make a sorry out at competing in a congressional race against one of Indiana's ablest statesmen. Patton, your name is Dennis. All of which is about true except our ■Rochester coutemporary ’s allusion to Dr. Patton’s standing as a physician. As a doctor and as a citizen, Mr. Patton stands well in his home com- - - -

That Momence rock commission is either having a tremendous big job on their hands, or they are men unfitted tor the work. It will soon be a year and a half since they were commissioned to superintend the work of removing the rock, and up to this date they have accomplished just nothing. The probabilities are they will succeed in frittering away their time until their offices will cease to exist by limitations placed upon them by law’. The commission has been receiving bids lately Only three were filed. Two of these were greater thau the appropriation, while the third came within the limits, but was postponed until a futher discussion of the opposition which the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad is making, is had. It is not believed the wdTk required can be done for the amount of the appropriation, and it is understood that the man who gets the contract will receive a large additional sum from the benefited land owners. He will also get the rock taken from the channel, which it is estimated may be worth several thousand dollars. —Valparaiso Vidette. We are positive that the Vidette does great injustice to the members of the fiTdinence rock commission, in the above article. Instead of deserving censure we believe the commiesieners deserve -great cred it for the w iso and careful p'«in'pr >n which they Ixive managed the difficult and cbmpli--c ated affair placed in their charge. They were required to do a specified work for a specified sum, and a sum far too small for the work to be done tvith it. They alsa were confronted with a great demand for damages from a powerful railroad company, with the prospect of an expensive and long course of litigation if they began work on the rock without satisfying the claim, which they were not authorized to pay a single dollar towards satisfying. By shrewd management, the commission has, at last, driven the large land owners, who are chiefly to be benefitted by the enterprise, to not only stand good for the cost of the improvement above what the state appropriated, but also to stand between the railroad company and the state of Indiana for any expense that, may arise from litigation. It has taken a long, hard struggle and most careful and shrewd management to get the land owners into this position, but it has been done at last, and great should be the credit to the commissioners, therefor.