Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1891 — REPUBLICAN TOWN TICKET. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN TOWN TICKET.

For Councilmen Second District NORMAN H. WARNER. For Councilman Third District JAMES H. S. ELLIS. For Councilman Fifth District ANCIL WOODWORTH. For Town Treasurer CHARLES C. STARR. For Town Clerk CHARLES G. SPITLER. For Town Marshal MARSHALL L. WARREN. The danger of a war with Italy has pretty much subsided, and owing to the inconsiderate rashness of the Italian government and the superb diplomacy of Mr. Blaine, the honors of the controversy are all on our side. Bro. Kitt, of the Goodland Herald, says that he is not responsible for the article in his other paper, the Morocco Courier, ripping Carter Harrison up the back, he being only the publisher and not the editor {fof the Courier, The Republican admits its error in that matter.

The growing Democratic idea is that all taxes should be laid upon the land As a long step in- that direction Jasper County farmers who have, heretofore, paid about $6 peryear, state tax, on say $6,000 worth of land, actual value, will hereafter pay over S2O per year, as state taxes, on the same land

The latest from Chicago indicate f thfe almost certain election there Tuesday, of Hempstead Washburn, the regular Republican candidate for mayor. It will be a grand result, if so it proves. ClayjKiol, the only Republican member of the legislative committee that —formulated —the new tax law, urged the committee "not to-The reuse the farmers’ taxes but to, raise a special fund for state purposes by taxing the saloons 81,000 each, per year. If this-had been done it would have entirely obviated the necessity for increasing the levy for state purposes, and, also, the necessity for changing the: method of assess• ment, which will now catch all real estate at full value and leave g .me loop holes .as before for notes and mortgages; but Mr. Claypool’s Democratic colleagues w-rmld nor hear, for an instant, to Mr. .Claypool’s suggestion for an Increased tax on saloons. They preferred to take a long step in the - direction, of the now thoroughly Democratic doctrine of a single tax. Our pre-Jacksonian neighbor is grieved and wrathful because we so easily sized up and exposed his real motive, in his dirty little attempt to throw blame on th;; printer of those some-what celebrated theater dodgers. He now says that he did not know who printed them. Had hv said “he. did not Irnow it was loaded,” the excuse for ]iis course would have been ouite as plausible and much more truthful. In fact, his statement that he did not know who printed, the bills, is a fiat-footed and baldheaded lie. He knew perfectly well who printed tl'.e bills, and everybody who knows anything at all about the matter, knows that he knew who printed them, and knows too, that he lies when he says lie did not know. .Our prehistoric neighbor must exercise mo re judgement in his infractions of the truth or the little reputation he has left for good sense, will “go glimmering, down the dream of things that were,” after his long since vanished reputation for veracity.

One of the facts, and in truth the only fact, cited by the Democrats of Indiana in their recent osnlaught on the Federal Census, of last year, claiming that the population had been purposely undercounted, for partisan advantage, was that a considerable number of the counties of this state were returned as having a less population than ten years ago. The number of counties In Indiana showing a deceased population is 25; but if that decrease is owing to a fraudulent county, because Indiana is a Democratic state, how is the decrease to be accounted for in Republican states? In Ohio for instance, 28 ceunties show a decrease, in Illinois 30, in lowa 27, in Michigan 15, in Wisconsin 7, Minnesota and South Dakota each 6, &c. But we haven’t heard anything of the “fraudulent partisan census” since the Gerrymander fool legislature passed a buncomb resolution in regard to it. The pretense of a belief in its fraudulent character, was so evidently a humbug, that those who raised the cry are now thoroughly ashamed of it, and would gladly let the matter pass into oblivion.