Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — DOUCHTY DOUTHIT DICTATES DEMOCRACY. [ARTICLE]

DOUCHTY DOUTHIT DICTATES DEMOCRACY.

Democratic party of Jasper county has publicly, in convenbea party of spoils and not of r principle. It nominated a ticket H kst Saturday every man of which % professed adherent of princi pies tbat&re diametrically opposed tamest of those to which Deino‘ejcacy adheres,' and nearly every man of which has always been, as they still are, opponents of Demo- ■ "■■■ . Mr. Gilman defend bis vote l&r the tax law'-—Democratic Gilman, we are glad to say has no vote in favor*of the tax law to defend. He voted against the tax law and the Senate record shows that 'he did. Ti e 'statements of th e Pilot and Sentinel in this reject are wholly false, and thh more inexcusable for the fact that this paper published the fact that Mr. Gilman had voted ligawßt the tax law, as far back as April of the present year. Tbe new tax law passed the last legislature as a non-partisan measure. Every Republican or that body \ oud fear it on the final passage. The only if imposition to its passage came from four Democratic senators who voted against the bill.—People’s Pilot. The above is another unmitigated lie. In the Senate alone there were nine votes ’against (he law on its final passage. One of these 9 was Senator Gilman, of this, district, who opposed . Aakv< first last and all the time. Republican senator who voted against the bill on its final passage liana Mr. Skockney, now Republican paqrfirfato for Lieutenant governor. The full teste vote on the fma] passage of the bill is recorded on page 867, Senate Record of 1891, and may he seen at the office of the county Cornered at every point on the loeal tax inrausSS* brothers Marshall and Mills now Insist that the Demorustet- made the largest levies, last year. Ip connection with this they have heretofore told us ilm every dolhfir would be needed, and would be hOMetiy expended. Further the Republican, {September 10, 1892, action, in ttertbUouing^-terms: “The levies were cut dowa to agree with the greatly increased assessment, but nil 1 were evidently made with a view to yielding enough revenue for toe regular towniiup expenses,” and adds: “The Democratic trustees, to their ■'credit be it said, did not take the advice of the state central con mitten. llbjMJked ill) ty fijirDemocratic .v ,P/«. ’ V.'to pttt the levlcs way down to the AfHfes sa:uo,tf they }>utthm r levies down to their estimated th-n publican, after the declaration that a was deserving of credit, should SOtseek to attach disc edit, is c

while fiho. Jig thal Uae 1 i'V.- Jcifllic trustees to.ve increased th 1r taxes RapUbllcai truitecs, we ir '*- takeiF care, in ev ry case, to po it out reasOas for suci increase, t< s*2tc that tea,tevs,asw - puW n trusteesas they understood them. Our object in showing that the Democratic trustees had made the larger average vr»a i :: So tlf most effectually dtd, the outrageously the People's Pilot , that these local tag increase! were made in the interests of a Republican tax conspiracy. .Tab Ru-chucan has dja l with thia - whole auojsct in c , »piett-Hot truth, justness and tiprM s, u rd? to say Tagarding the doaneclloa of our- Democratic trustees, therewith; whiles in contrast with our conduct in that regard his beea the false, unjust and outrageously slanderous course of th© Piht and in a less degree, of the 'Dendcratic Sentinel. . •- ; i Truth, justice and fairness have all been exclusively upon our side ih this local tax matter, add all fair minded and well informed people of all parties, know that it has. ] Uncle John Makeover is an admirer of the new D emccratic tax law, about which a plank in the Democratic state platform; “The increased revenues necessary for the support of the state government are raided entirely from the corporations of the state.” He owns a fine body of many h undreds of acres in extent of land in Newton township, upon which, last year, before the said tax law had got in its work, he-paid state taxes ■ to the total amount of $30.00. This year, upon exactly the same land,; he pays state taxes to the amount of sßs.lland all owing to the new tax law. His is not an ; exceptional case. There is probably not4o acres of land in Jasper county that d es not pay from 75 per cent to 200 per cent more state taxes than it did last year. In Mr. Makeever’s case the increase is only a little more than 166 per cent., or almost exactly two and one half times as much this year as last year. ! 7— rBut this particular case, only a sample of hundreds like it in Jasper county, besides showing what a monstrous and most audacious lie the Democratic convention was guilty of when it put the- assertion above quoted in its platform, may also be used to aptly illustrate a statement we made last week* to the effect that the new tax law takes the taxes off the capitalist and puts it upon the laud owner. This land was assessed in 1890 at to be assessed in 1891 at $24,318, or an increase of more than 14D per cent The total taxes upon the same for 189 f) were $280.68. For 1891 the total taxes were $117.52, au increase of more than 70 per cent. Mr. Makeever is also the principal owner of the Farmers’ Bank, in Bensselaer, a solid and prosperous institution. The assessment of the bank was, For 1890, $21,125. For 1891, $21,150. The increase in the assessment of the bank is only a little more than One tenth of one per cent. The per cent of the increase in the assessment of the land is thus fourteen hundred times larger than the per cent, of increase of the bank’s assessment. The state taxes on the bank were For 1890, $60.21 For 1891, $74.09 . The per cent of increase of state taxes were, Upon the bank 23 per cent Upon the land 166 per cent The total tuxes upon the , bank for the two years were For 1890, $367.68 Foflß9l, $285.52 The decrease for the latter year is $82.09 or over 22 per cent , Thus this “benificont” new tax law, while it nearly DOUBLES the taxes on land, reduces those on

Jasper c-.unty, and then such of you as are fools t übugh u> r believe the declaration of the Lemocj atic humbugged U-y what the alfegbij brganibi me People’s party and JOemeeratic rtfiner teti ycm about .this law, wiH. ; welli. : siifiire to be the end of year , t

Ht discounts Green Smith itr 'Apply* ■ ing the Gag Rate. -■- The alleged Democratic county convehtton met in the court house last Saturday, and carried out the; program of the bosses, by nomih* 'ating*the .&ifi"dr(late3 on the People’s Partv ticket. * -vs* _ r . James W. DouTlift, pt Rensselaer, was chosen chairman, and he applied the gag rule most effectually. No sooner had the preliminery organization been effected, and the real work of the convention begun, [indorsing the People’s party Hicket] than the true animus of the proceedings began to materialize. The Treasurer being the first office on the ticket Walter Ponsler was put in nomina] tion for the office. No sooner had his name been mentioned than Mr. DeArmond, an old time Democrat from Kankakee township, and a delegate to the convention, arose and inquired if Mr. Ponsler was a Democrat,- protes[jng that, as a Democrat, he had the right to insist that only those who were Democrats should be placed upon the Democratic ticket. That as a delegate he had the right to know the political faith of those who were presented for the consideration of delegates of this convention. The chairman promptly informed Mr. DeArmond that If he had a Candidate to name, to name him, otherwise to hold bis peace. It was noticable that this slap was resented not only by Mr. DeArmond, but by a large number of other delegates who favored putting fi ticket irt the field that was representative of their political beliefs. . Chairman Douthit, however gave, them to understand that he was running the convention, and fearing that things would not work altogether as he wished, he requested that somebody make a motion tibat Mr. Ponsler he chosen by this being done Mr. Douthit declared Ponsler the nominee Of the Democratic party for for Treasurer. It now being evident that it was the intention of the doughty chairman to name the Peope’s ticket intact, the farce assumed a very ludicrous aspect, as man after man was named by perhaps 16 or 16 very feeble ayes. Everything went "lovety until lfieSurve3*or-was reached, when no one responded to the request for a motion by acclamation, whereupon King Douthit ordered to make This Mr. Paxton declined to do; but some one else, just at this jnnoture, came’to the chairman’s relief. .Not to be caught in a predicament of this kind again. Chairman Douthit dispensed with the formality of -a motion at the next nomination, and even dispensed with the negative vote, and after putting the affirmative side of the question declared the man named as the nominee of the conveniton. From this on until the tieket was complete, as fast as the names were presented they were declared the nominees of the convention as soon as the affirmative vote was taken. j As soon as the work of the convetion was completed and the PeopoDemo ticket,named the orator of the day was introduced. He dealt in the usual generalities and in addition to these, declared-that there were only two parties, that there never had been arid never would be but two parties in this country. This he proceeded to prove in great shape, aud fyqm the lack of enthusiasm manifested, one would judge much to the disgust of the people’s parly adherents, who were present. . : 1-O ■