Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1892 — Page 4

THE Hi 'Ul’.l.ll AN. Thursday, September 15,1892. ISBUKDKVWT THT7MDAT BT 3EO. S. PCBLBHBB AND FhoFRITTOB. OFFTCF— —In Rep’-h’i-»n bntldlnr. on corner of Wuhlarton and Wenton street!. Terms of Subscription. ■ejn*r - fIBO lx month. . ... ts hreemontbs ’ so The Official Paper of Jasper County.

DIBECTOBT CORPORATION OFFICERS Mttahal.... .\.’....,M. L. WiRRtN. CIWIrA ; ....CHARLES G. SPITLItK. Treasurer -G.C. Starr -- M. BAlter I id Ward ~.* J. C. Fortkr. Oonaeilmen' fa Ward . J. H s Ellis I 4th Ward..........T. M. Wasson . I sth Ward;. Ancil Woolworth. JASPER COUNTY BOAR O OF EDUCATION. J. C. Gwin Trnstee,.: ... Han ring Grove tp. M iCt Kobin son. TrusUs ■... Gillam tp. Franc's M. Hershnian . Trustee Walker tp J. F. lliff. Trustee ..... Barkley tp. Wa. Greenfield .Trust ><■ Marlon tp. James II Carr. Trustee...... Jordan tp. Nehemiah Hopkins Trustee Newton tp. J. F. Bruner Trustee.... ....Keener tp. Haus Paulson .Trustee Kankakee tp S. D.-Clark . Trustee Wheatfle.d tp Wm O. Roadi.fer.Trustee.Carnentei tp. Zibe McCashen. Trustee,. : Milroy tp. Wm. Oxtper. Trustee,.... ...UnionTp. ?• H._ Coovet .'... ....Remlnirton. Eus L, Clark .... Rensselaer. J. F. Warren.. County Supt UDI CIA I. Circuit Juoae Edwin P. Hammond Prosecuting A’tornev Jons T, BROWN, potirf—Fin*t Mondjtv in January; Third Mendsy in March; First Monday in June; Third Monday in 'ctober. COUNTY OFFICERS Cl«rk ; William h. Ccover Sherin Philipblvk Auditor .... Hrnrwß. Mt'Kkar Treawrer, ...Mark h.HemphiLl Recorder James f. Antrim. Burveyor ; ames Coroner R. P Benjamin. Superintendent Public- Schools . J'. F Warren OWnmiisioners «<i District .. .J .F. WatsoH. '3d District . '. .O .P.Tabob. crttmmwstoner* L'ourt—A >r«t Jfonrfoys in March June, nnd Dece.irJt«r

An intelligent and prosperous farmer of Carpenter township was talking with some calamity party people, not long ago, and he challenged them to name a single farmer in Jasper County, who, for the last twenty years, had followed his vocation intelligently and industriously, and engaged in no outside speculations, who was not in good enough circumstances financially but that he could live without working any longer, if he wished to do so. He further challenged them to name a Jasper county merchant of whom the same could be truthfully said. The challenges were neither of them accepted. •‘Oh well, just so we can get them to belivvc it uh til after election.” The above was the brazen ami shameless reply made by one of the Pilot's gang when expostulated with by a citizen for their course in publish! ug their outrageous and slanderous lies in regard to our county officials and local taxation. Not one man of all this slanderous Pilot gang has the courage to try to defend their villainous course in the face of the direct questions of intelligent citizens. Like the guerrillas of war times, to whom they Lm aptly compared, and with whom and whose methods some of them were in sympathy, they try to assassinate the characters of better men from behind the safe ambusn of anonymity. Out upon such skulking, dastardly, villainous methods! The midnight assassin of character is as great a villain at heart of the midnight assassin of life, only usually a greater coward and dastard.

The republican meeting last Saturday was a mighty thin affair. It looki-. . nviigh private Cheadle was holding a private discussion. A large number of people were in town, as usual on Saturdays, but the Republican meeting was not, n~ yer rs past, the drawing card.—Private Cheadle offered an excuse for the empty seats, and The Republican adopts and reiterates it -Democratic SentineL Now it befall that at the very hour when onr esteemed and veracious contemporary was printing the paper rivm which the above paragraph is quoted, that a democratic met ding was in progress in the court house. A meeting addressed b» .he leading democratic orator of northwest Indiana, Hon. T. J. Wood, of Crown Point, and

also by a gentleman from Indianapolis, T. J. Hudson, by name. Much longer notice had been given of the coming of these speakers than in Mr. Cheadle’s cage.— also had the benefit of advertising

in two depux-ratic papers, the Sentinel and the Pilot. In their ease the statement that the town was fall of people, as usual on Saturdays, is true, as it is not'true in regard to the. Saturday previous when Mr. Cheadle was here. With all these things in the Democratic speakers’ favor, the utmost extent of their audience, at any one time, was not niore ages and sexes included, and to the truth of this statement, several good men would make affidavit, if necessary. And of this audience At least one’third wereEepublicans; while of Mr. Cheadle’s hearers not over hart a dozen at the outside were Democrats or Peoples Party men. If Mr. Cheadle’s meeting, with 100 voters in his audience, not to speak of those not voters, was “a mighty thin ‘ affair,” as Neighbor McEwen says, how will he describe-the extemely diaphaneous character of last Saturday’s “gathering of the faithful?”

Mr. Mills Hits the Gang Again.

Editor Republican:—ln the Pilot of Sept 9, 1892, we find the following: “Now here Mr. Intelligent and Efficient” figure out the fraud “place the responsibility where it belongs.” Well, here, it is. The records of Jasper county show, that every dollar that the people have paid into the Treasury, has been expended as required by law, and every cent has been accounted for; that there is no fraud in county affairs.

There is only diminutive little delusiun, that found its origin in the overtaxed and distracted brains of the Pilot's “Farmer editorial staff.” The same who labor at “physical toil from fourteen to sixteen hours per day,” and who, encroach upon God’s and nature’s laws, as well as the social laws that are recognized by society and oui statute books,|by employing the unseemly hours of midnight darkness, that should be devoted to “natures sweet restorer” balmy sleep, “and Sunday,” a day of divine inspiration and needed rest, to conjure up uncanny schemes, to wreck the reputations o!|men, more honest and law abiding than are themselves.

Again the Pilot says; “Somebody is responsible for our large, uncalled for, unreasonable loca tax increase.” “This increase” i; quotes” is more than $16,000. “No reasonable excuse for this has ever been offered.” In the first place the increase as quoted does not exist. In the second place there is no necessity, either iu fancy or fact for any excuse. The levies as made for the county, by the County Commissioners, and the taxes collected in pursuance thereof, are no greater than are actually needed by the county for the economical administration of her affairs, and for the necessary improvements that have been so badly needed these many years, and which, now that the county is out of debt, she is able to make. There was not a dollar collected for “Campaign purposes.”

There has not been a dollar fraudulently expended. There is not a cent that is not accounted for, nor is there a surplus in the Treasury over approximated requirements. The whole matter is simply “sop thrown out to catch votes,” in the interest of a set of individuals who want office, and who have not even the ability to come to the records and investigate the alleged frauds, at least one would suppose that this is the case, after reading the following; “Mr. Mills and the ring organ make it a point to invite the people to make an investigation of the records, knowing full well that farmers and the people generally have but a limited knowledge of book-keeping and but little time toMspare out-side their ordinary work for such purposes.” It would indeed be a sad misfortune should the voters of Jasper county he mis-lead by this gang of corruption, who, from managing editor to lowliest scribe, occupy that den of political vice, known as the Pilot office.

For The G. A. R. Encampment.

The Monon Route will sell tickets to Washington and Baltimore, occasion of National Encampment G. A. R. Sep. 15 to 19, at *15.20 for round trip from,Rensselaer. Return tickets good till Oct. 10.

THAT FLEENER & PERKINS MATTER.

WHICH THE PILOT GANG HAS HARPEI) SO MUCH ABO CT. Early in the present year two agents of Fleener & Perkins, a law firm of Lebanon, Ind., began examining certain of the county records of this county, under a contract previously entered into with the county commissioners, whereby Fleener & Perkins were to receive one half of all collectible sums they found due the county, on former erronious settlements. The firm represented and no doubt truly, that they often found large sums due the counties from the .state, and that they were making a specialty of such investigations. They did not look for money due f com individuals, that not being in their line. The proposition they made was a very plausible one; as it seemed the county had everything to gain and nothing to lose by it, and it was accepted. By the way the contract was drawn up it gave Fleener &. Perkins all they found due to the county “from the state and other sources.”

And in that little phrase “and other sources” proved to be “where the gazelle comes in,” to use a familiar saying. For the gentlemen had been engaged on our county books but a short time when information was received from the adjoining county, Newton, that the same firm had been working there for some time anc soon found that 8600 was due the county from the state, and that $1,200 was due the county from the different townships of the county, and they put in their bil for S9OO, accordingly. Now the sum found coming from the state was all right, but not even one es the “dog and poll” tax-paying howlers of the People's Pilot would claim that it was not a very losing investment for the people of Newton county to compel them to raise an extra $1,200 in township taxes for the sake of putting half of that sum into the county treasury and the other half into the pockets of those astute gentlemen, Messrs. Fleener Perkins.

At the June term the County Commissioners having the knowledge of what had just transpired in Newton county, wisely decided not to allow Fleener & Perkins to further investigate the books, as the contract then was, and they entered an order accordingly.

Very soon thereafter, the People’s Pilot gang began a most dishonest and malignant howl about this restraining order of the commissioners, trying to make people believe that it had been made for the purpose of covering up official wrong-doing, of some kind. This howl the dirty and dishonest Gang has kept up, even after they had been fully informed of the nature of the contract and of the very good and sufficient reasons why the restraining order was made.

The final sequel of the matter has been that Mr. Fleener, the head of the firm, met with the commissioners this week and agrees to go on with the investigation in all respects according to original contract, with the very important exception that no claim shall be made for any sums that may be found due from the townships to the county. In this whole matter our county commissioners have acted rightly and conscientiously and for the jest interest of the people of the county; and this plain and absolutely truthful statement of the facts ought to bring the blushes of shame to the countenances of the ■ Pilot gang, if they are not incapable of shame, which is probably * the case.

C. E. MILLS.

Two Harvest Excursions. August 80 and Sept. 27, 1892 via the Wabash Line. One fare for the round trip to points in Kansas, Nehraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas, etc. For further particular write to J.M. McConnell, passenger Agwnf W\. BASH RAILROAD CO. LAFAY-I ETTE, IND. |

HON. WILLIAM johnstoh, Republican Caudia- for Representative in Congreft. from the Tenth Indiana District, will speak upon the political issues of the Campaign, at the following times and places:

Monday Sep. 19 WHEATFIELD, At 2 o’clock, P. M. WEST VERNON, School House, G-illam tp. at 7:30 P- M- *•" ■ ; —r • Tues. Sept. 20, SANDRIDGE School House, Barkley to., at 7:30 P. MWED. SEPT. 21, Fair Oaks At 2 o’clock P. M. Surrey,

THU. SEPT. 22 Marlborough At 2 o’clock P. M. mi 11 HOUSE, Gillam tp. 7:30 P. M. FBI. SEP. 23, fSStELstI EE 7:30 P. M.

SAT. SEP. 24, REMIMGTOM At2PM> / * • EGYPT SCHOOL HOUSE. Jdrdantp- 7:30 P. M-

G.W. GALI SHIER. ARCADE BLOCK. Furniture,j Barps. Th fin the wide gaps made in our ranks of Furniture, we have placed a NEW ARRAY OF THIS SEASON’S BEST PRODUCTS Secured from the leading factories, at prices which are bound to be “ITSF IT.” SPLENDID BATONS and EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IS O”R MOTTO. .' . .. j- ____ NEW STORE. NEW GOODS. NEW PRICES, i Trial ttl Convince You he L

N, WARNER&SONS The Leading Hardware, Stoves, Tinware and Farm Implement Men in Jasper County, They Handle IKE EIG INJUN 3-WHEEL SULKY PLOW. * The Best Plow on Earth, and the The best haying tools made. —— ' THE THOMAS HAY RAKES THE THOMAS HAY TEDDERS. Of Springfield, Ohio. Reliable Process Gasoline Stoves, The Newest, Safest Handiest and Bes EARLY BIRD COOK The very best all-around kitchen stove ever sold in th e county. Austin, Tomlinson and Webster’s FINE FARM WAGONS -X And all kinds of shelf and builders’ hardware.

Ag water fiffijSWAND lots of it. WffiK I am prepared to furnish wells the coming season a the following rates: Swo-iijcli tubular (dell, Through dirt, measured from top of pump, 80 cis. per foot 3-incb Cylinder (Hell, Through dirt, two and one-hal inch all solid brass cylinder, SI.OO per foot from top of 4 pump. I use nothing but galvanized pipe in any weds I may make, WlndMills, Gas Pipe, Water and Steam Fixtures. TANKS and CISTERNS A SPECIALTY. W, T. PERKINS,