Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — Page 4

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REPUBLICAN 'lfeMdillf. Of XB&UMpolis, will addrew Ujc j ulat tbe Public Square at one o’clock Everybody invited to Lear one of IndSasa** Terr ablest orator* discuss ******* issues of tbe Political CamCan For Re-assembling of County Convention tb* Jasper County Republican Convention, of May 31st, 18U2, are here-

The Piled gang of coarse di*u\ e» l di ©lare to be a lie the state “Oh «"e|t, jjtwrt m ire <nn get them to feetkro it until after th. i - I | »

in regai l to.tbimsr &Edtkius oonclosi rely the false apd slanderous cha> acter of all th 1 not gaug's previous assertions ml insinuations in regard Uiei 'U, had the result that tLe ganj, wbileTaoitiy admittir.j'Tho falsity »f their charges ,by abandoning them, now shift their ground and and make a feeble nrgu men t in favor of the proposition that ii would huvebeen a good tbingtohave permitted theinvestigation to have gone on according to the terms of the original contract, and. that it ywhto tprebeenagood investment to havwputd tKe above firm half of all sums they might have found *dne the county from the townships, on former erromoua settlements. This' is quite a different contention from their original claims that the investigation was interrupted for the purpose of covering up official

rascality. Even if we were to admit, which we do not, that this last claim of the gang-is light, namely that it would have been a good thing to pay Fleener & Perkins large sums for flailing money due from the township?, the fact would prove nothing worse against the commissioners than an error of judgement in thinking otherwise, and would furnish no excuse nor shadow ofexcuse for the sland-

erous assertions and insinuations the gang hive previously indulged in regarding this matter. If Jj’ieeuer & Perkins find any naouey dne the county from the state, it will be a good investment to pay them half for finding it, for in sodv iug it will cost no. e of our people anything. But if any money is due the county from the townships, it would be anything but a good investment to compel the people of those townships to pay a dollar to .Fleener k Tenons for each dollar that went back into the county treasury. If some cheaper menus than that can not lie found for discovering balances dne from the townships then it will be far better to let them remain undiscovered. And with this view of the case wo are ■ dialled that 99 out of every 100 taxpayers in the county will agree.

One of the meanest slanders of the campaign is now going the rounds of the Democratic papers of the state, being copied from the Indianapolis Sentinel ; the Rensselaer Democratic Sentinel copying it last week. The slander originated in the Winchester Democrat, and consisted in charging Governor Chase with uttering the following language in a speech at Union City, last April. Democrats are imps of boll. If I had a mind to swear I’d say God damn them to hell. They ought to be dead and mouldering iu the dust of (he earth, a.id the dust be scattered to the four winds of heaven that they might be completedly obliterated from the memory of man.

To suppose that Governor Chase made use of the above language is too preposterous for belief. As to’ what he really did say on that occasion, the following from the Winchester Herald,An reply to the first utterance of the slander in the Winchester Democrat is no doubt the whole truth. In reply to the “fling” at Governor Chase, we desire, iu the first place, to state that, we know what we are writing about when we say that the statement is au absolute lie. We candidly assure thp Democrat there were many old soldiers in the audience who heard what Governor Chase did say, and who applauded to the echo. This is a cheap attempt at turning6ome >f the soldiers against Governor Chase, and it (anuot succeed. What Governor Chase did say on that occasion was this:

For those who fought you in the the rear when yon" were in the front defending .|h« fl K g, and who 're now callmfTjou cetfeo-coolere, red-nosed patriots, bouuty-jump-•'ra, perjurers and cowards, I have no words in which to express my oondemnation. Yon fought for dsys where these scoundrels would not stand for ten minotes for this world if it were a (mil of gold. 3nch men are not lit to live in oich a community as ours, ami wheu they die their nsLei shoul 1 be blown by the winds of heaven to the four corners of the earth. Hiey cannot be patriots or Americans. . V ,»• tj .", * *♦ , - .- w ...

Factory Hands' Earrings.

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Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, of New York, the foremost Democratic union soldier of the whole country, and a recognized loader in the New York delegation at every democratic national convention since the war. has • openly repudiated Cleveland ami declares be . , r~ will support Harrison. Gen. Sadies’ deb c on is a terrible ‘‘deet 1 - oner” on the hopos of Cleveland in New York.

THIS IS WORTH READING.

A contributor signing himself “Senex” sums up the situation iu the following manner, in a late number of .the Inter Ocean. “The rich are growing richer and The poor-poorer.” Let u» see. In out country the majority of the rich commenced life jioor. This portion of the community are not growing poorer. A very large portiou of those who wealth, lose it, and so this class of the rich grows poorer. 'The man who takes a sober view of life and illustriously works on grows rich. The habits of industiy and economy whicb give liim a STart in life bear him on. He knows the value of money aud he does not heedlessly fritter it sway iu foolish undertaking aud iu personal indulgence. Never iu the history of our conn, try were the openings for business sj many as now. Never the call for earnest endeavor so great. Never was so large a pioportion of the poorer class likely to emerge from a bare livlihood to comfort and wealth as now; though tho dangers from betting ami gambling and driokiug keep, and wil 1 keep a host iu poverty. Why should not all prosper? Wages are higher, the demand for work is steady, the cost of the necessaries of life is lower. Savings bank hold millions of the earnings of

the common people. A large percentage of the people live iu their own homes. Almost every home has an organ or a sewing machine and carpets. People no more go to church in the rural districts in lumber wagons as fifty years ago. Tbe variety of food is greatly improved. Fruits of all kinds, aud all (he yeararouud, cheap. Workmen on farms do not get up at half past four in the morning to mow “while the dew is on.” Instead of that after breakfast they ride on npriug teats in doing much of ti e field work, while horses aud machines do most of the heavy labor. Meat three times a day. Bread froth tho finest of wheat. We live like Princes. Silks and broadcloth instead of liomcpptm. Schools free to the poorest. No one on the limits or in prison for debt. Up to date if a poor man wants a farm thegoverumentgives him free 100 acres. “Oh, but its on the frontiers!” Our ancestors landed in “a waste—a howling wilderness,” and did not compluin. Millions who came west are now in circumstances of ease in the vast interior. Millions more, in the newer West, will soon be in like happy condition if they get right down to business, and remand the calamity howlers to the rear.

INFORMATION WANTED.

Crown Toint Star. lIBIIROH, Ski-t. oth, ltK-2. Editor: —The people in this part of Porter county know nothing concerning the “Democratic nominee for congress, Thomas Hammond. Some claim he is the founder of Hammond, owning a controlling interest in the slaughter house there, and others say it is no such thing. Does the Star know anything to throw light on the subject? Reader

The founder of Hammond was Geo. H. Hammond, now dead, but the credit of building the town should go to M. M. Towle who sowed the seed for that prosperous yonng city. Thom as Hammond, candidate for congress, is a brother of Geo. H. Hammoud, sod came to Hammond about 17 years ago. He was given (in the language of butchers) the guts and tripe, and room in the company’s building to work them, all gratis, for a number of years, but after a time there was a kick by members of the firm and he bad to pay for them. He never had any interest iu G. 11. Hammond & Cods business, but at one time—later on—was ossistant superintendent for a time. A large part of his wealth was made in real estate which came indirectly through 8. F. Fogg. He has been elected mayor of Hammond three times, but ab the while he has lived there and got rich lias never made any improvemen's, always living in a rented house. We know of nothing bad, great, or noble that Mr. Hammond ever did. He is an average good citi-; zen for aught we know, but. Lad he not drawn the lncky number iu the way of riches at Hammond, hb would not have been a candidate for congress. He did not even aspire for the houor, but it was given to him to settle a tight tin* Democrats had in the south end of the district

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MORE TRUTH ABOUT LOCAL TAXATION.

ry _ f. • :.T • m-vWo propose giving a series of j nrticles showing the exact facts in ; regard to tax'-s in thiß county, for the years 188 L, fthe current year)' and IS9O, showing the umounts of increase or decrease a 3 the case may be, iu tbedilr >rcnt townships and corporations in The comity, and for the - various funds for which toxes are levied. The fficts about local taxation have been greatly and even most wickedly misstated and misrepresented by tbe unknown and irresponsible parties who conduct the organ of the Pepo-Democratic combination iu this county, th e People's JPitdt, and to a less extent by the straight democratic orgau, the Democratic Sentinel.

O wing to the operation of the new tax laws state taxes are practically twice as great for the tax year 1891 as they, were for the tax year 18901 Qnejcauas-of this increase, was the levy of an additional 6f cents state tax on each SIOO taxable property, but a much more potent cause was the iucrease in the assessment of property, made uecessaiy by the new law. This inereasCd- assessment -was very great oh some kinds of property; amounting in the case of farm lands, without the improvements aud after the Slate Board of Re,lew had put on an additional 10 per cent, to over 100 per cent. On lands with improvements it was about 82 per cent On hits and improvements it was about 72 per cent, aud on personal property, it was only about two per cent.

This increase iu assessment, while it nearly doubled the amount of state taxes paid by this county, did not materially affect the total of “local” taxes, such as county and the various forms of township taxes, for the county commissioners and township and town Trustees cut down the local levies to correapond, as near as might be judged according to the probable necessities of revenue, with the increased assessment. But while this assessment. But while this increased assessment did not increase (he sum total of local taxes, it did operate to thrown upou all kinds of real-estate, especially upon farms aud farming lands, a vastly increased proportion of all kinds of taxes, both local as well as state. Any person of common sense will see that this effect was certain t) result from tho operations of a law which increased the assessed vaiue of farm lands more than 100 per cent, and of personal property only 2 per cent. State taxes iu the county are increased $12,833.44, or almost exactly 100 per cent., aud by far the greeter portion of this increase falls upon real-estate. For these facts the new tax law is responsible. The increase in county taxes for which the county commissioners are responsible, is only $1648.80, or only a little more than 5 per cent. In point of fact, however, this increase is more than off-set by the increase of railroad assessments, and iu the aggregate the individuals and residents corporations, of the county are actually charged with considerably less county tax this year than last; although, owing to the operation of the tax law, landed property of alt kinds pays more county tax this year tliau last year, while with all kinds of personal property the reverse of this is true, aud on that species of property the county tax is much loss this year. Township school taxes, including township tuition, and special school have been iucreased a total of $7,205 33. For this increase township trustees and town boards are solely responsible; their right to levy those taxes being absolute and unqualified, any assertion of the Pilot gang to the contrary, notwitht-tnuding.

The other forms of township and town taxes, such as township and road taxes, have been increased $1397.42. These two taxes, in actual practice, are always levied solely by the township trustees and town boards, although the law provides that they are to have the “ail vice aml concurred o” of (he county commissioners in levying them. ± ’ * The total increase of local taxes is just $13,251.85, as may be proven by referring t > the tax books • * . * -j iu in© conn# nvu*. , nun ib was DllUWn vll” XawCM l(Qril| 111 110 ... r , - . .

mittee. All assertion* made by the P hoi gengkothe effect that ibis ii crease 131816,000 or SIB,OOO or S3C 000 are ill alike false, and knowi igly. rndhntentioaally false. Eq» ally la!bo and intentionally false : 3 every assertion of the sime gang *-> the effect that these increased local taxes were levied for improper purposes, either for robbery.official extravagance or for pfclitical effect. Wit fi these introductory remarks we will now proceed to take np the matter of taxes by townships, giving the total of taxes for the years 1890 and 1891, with the increase or decrease as the case may be. HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP. 1893 1891 Increase Decrease State taxes 8040.52 117X26 532.74 County IX 1473.23 1415.88 - 57.45 Tp. tax 390.26 314.61 75.62 Tuition tx 486.58 629.21 13J 7S Spc’l 6ch X>l 632.68 913.92 260 98 Road 477.8 1 622 28 150.45 Total net increase of local taxes, sllß.lO. Percent of increase of state taxes, 81. Per cent of increase of local taxes* 10.

The only items of local taxes in the above table showing an increase are the two school taxes, tuition and special: school, and- the road tax. Tlie tuition tax is larger because the people; very properly, want longer terms of school. The special school ta± is larger because a badly needed new school house is being built in the township. The road tax, which is mostly worked bat, is larger because the best sentiment of the people demanded that it should be. They want better roads, and it takes more money to make them better. The fact shown in the table that county taxes are decreased in the township, is proof of the truth of the statement that resident prop-, erty owners actually pay less county tax this yvaar than last. No railroad taxes are included in these figures.

In conclusion wo will ask if there is any fact in the above table of local taxes to give any shadow of justification for the slanderous charge that they were levied for purposes of robbery, or political effect? No honest man, of any party, will say there is. Next week we will lake up the other townships of the county, in the same manner. James T. Saunderson is a-first-class man, and wo believe would make an able and impartial judge. The same can be said for O. Z. Wiley, the republican candidate, and there is no reason to presume that Republicans will scratch their tickets. With a Republican majority of more than 1000 in the district, there can be but one result to the contest. Judge Wiley will be elected by the usual ma. jority.—Goodiatid Herald.

An Honest Democratic Opinion.

LaPorte Argos (Uem.) Tbe plan of doubling the assessment aud at the saoi© time increasing the rate of taxation 50 per cent, is the crowni ig niece of idiocy recorded in Ind^ana : legislation, which has never been sufficiently brilliant to command the plaudits, of the in tell; gen-, world. An increase of either ratt or the assessment was necessary, but the increase of both to the extent contemplated was not necessary to provide for the maintenance of the ii sane, and it was necessary to arrange for the gradual payment of the public debt, but there was no necessity for doubling the State tax at one jump.

For the Campaign. For the purpose of helping along the good cause of Republicanism in Jasper County, The Republican will besentfrom now untiUJovernber 15, to residents of Jasper County f<-r 20 cents, in advance, >md to persons ordering a number of copies some further reduction ill be mode. '.r,.-......, . . r: •j. ' • a straight Republican ticket st imp w ithin the square enclosing tbe eagle at the top of the ballot, and nowhere else. If any turn tothe la ge squu-. the ballot

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The Leading Hardware, Stoves, Tinware and Farm Implement Men in Jasper County, They Handle THE BIG INJUJi 3-WHEEL SULKY PLOW. ' The Best Plow on Earth, and the The best haying tools made. THE THOMAS •NN* HAY RAKES, AND—THE THOMAS HAY TEDDERS. Of Spiingfield, Ohio. Reliable Process Gasoline Stoves, The Newest, Safest Handiest aud Bob EARLY BIRD COOK Hie very best all-around kitchen stove ever sold in the ! • county. Austin, Tomlinson and Webster’s FINE FARM WAGONS And al) kinds of thelf and builders’ hardware.

WATER LOTS OF IT: llffiii T lam prepared to furnish wells the coming soason a the following rates: Swo-iiiclj Sublar dlell, ‘ Through dirt, measured from top of pump, 80 cts. p er foot 5-iijch Cylinder Sfell, , Through dirt, two and one-hal inch all solid brass cylinder. SI.OO per foot from top of , pomp. I use nothing but galvanized pipe in any weJs I may make. Wind Millay Grass Pipe, Water and Steam Fh.tures. TANKSandCISTERNS **,*s'*l *' *" * v' ' r '• ” > , *i-£r ,V” »■ * . . E * r , » irnru-T ■ ■ * * a dPECIALTY. yytiti ittith vs dfmcqci nud t ww I r Hi K K I lil\ r\£*ixoollmliL