Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1892 — The Tenth District. [ARTICLE]

The Tenth District.

3he Pifqt editors last week forfat, in their great joy over the ). luocrai-ic victory, to keep up the thin disguise of People’s ty auvocacj, auu fcu y aiioapod and hurrahed over the election just like any other Democratic sheet

Lawyer Douthit took occasion to grossly insult the .Republican members of the couhty canvassing board, last Thursday, intimating that they had been bulldozed by S. P. Thompson etc. The eminent legal gentleman was very roperly compelled to shut his bazoo, after forbearance upon the part of the Republican members, had ceased to bo a virtue.

Ihe Pilot its campaign c.f eland*, r lit down th" Repubi 601 in IoBS to 427 in io92.it wouid probably be much nearer the truth, as certainly it would be much more to the credit of- the voters of Jasp r county, to ascribe f e the Pilot’s inaiico the increase oI the Republican majority of 345 in 1890 to the 427 in 18921

Our esteemed townsman, Mr. D. B. Now els, was about the happiest looking man in town, after the result uL ike election became known, last week. It is strange that so earnest and sincere an advocate of the People’s Party as Mr. Nowels, should find so unmixed a source of rejoicing in an overwhelming Bi-mocratic victory. Apt! there are hundreds of other Jasper county pre-eieclion Populists that are just as happy over the election as the most ultra Democrats.

• It may be true, as the Pilot claims, that that paper’s campaign of slander had some effect in reducing the vote of tui Bi.puUiCan candidates in this county, but we do not think that it did. The case of M°.rk fTemphi 1, Bonn 6 .ca». candidate for treasurer, is a good illustration of the failure of the Pilot's methods. Mr. Hem' hill was, above uh tlv- e;.- can object of the Pilot's malice. He was one of the “ringsters” the ‘‘boodlers” ;he “emirt-house gang,” the “men who ought to be wearing stripes. fi/‘ &<; jv>w n mih r tiot's slanders had been the cause of the local scratching, Mr. Hemphill would most Lvrldiai) have -nn . the worst flcmieuni who uu sch^ 1 ticket. Instead he actually! Jed the county ti6M. *>nd he* t' latgbOk UitkjUl Ujf Ui. U.HJ ...JW | oieoted,. 1

J Bbper comity is wtu ahead as the bamler Republican county of Northwest Indiana. Even Porter county, which gave Johnston a little the larger plurality for Congressman, is no-where in sight on the national ticket; the plurality only 250, whereas in Jasper county it is 427.

It would be a conserative estimate t< • say that at least 400 Jasier county Democratic voters shouted for Weaver but voted for Cleveland. And that of the 365 Wea er votes in this county, at east 230 were cast by former Republicans, the most of whom were led to do so by the fnlse promises of Democratic neighbors ;hat they too would vote for the Populists’ candidates —promises which were never meant to be kept

We have carefully examined Ihe election returns for Jnsper County and with the whole field organized against the local ticket, the difference between the vote of. John Martindale and Ben Harrison was only thirty-sev.en, while Mr. Parker only received eight more votes than the trust combination on which he ran. The two false charges made against our Board were extravagant levies and corrupt expenditures. Now is the time to prove them or confess that those starting them “make auc t elieve a lie.” Slanders and libels grow fat on refutation during the heat of a campaign. Now if the into t was not simply to poison credulous minds, action should be aken to prove tho assertions made against our hftneat—Rnd worthy county officials.

J J. Hunt, the Democrat-pop-ulist (Democrat with a big D and populist with a small p) recorder elect, hustled down to Indianapolis, last week, as soon as the official count showed that he was elected, and obtained his commission. The next move was a demand, made by Lawyer Douthit, that the auditor call a special session of the commissioners, today (Nov. 17) to accept Mr. Hunt’s bond, so that he could take his office. The scheme was, no doubt, to get Mr. Hunt in possession of his office before the 10 days allowed for filing contests expired, and then to begin contests against the Republicans who are elected. The grounds on which they threatened to eoußst was that the p iOllb at the west precinct in Marion Tp., were closed an hour too early. But inasmnch as the Republicans have equally good grounds for “contests becausedhe pollsTn GIT

lam, Union and Jordan were opened too late, the Democrats so long 83 they failed to get their man into office in advance of the others, will probably not venture upon any contests. The auditor very properly declined to cui; a apeeiai session for Mr. Hunt’s sole benefit, but will convene the commissioner’s njxt Monday, on and after which day no one will object to Mr. Hunt’s enjoying to their full extent, the honors and emoluments of the office to which he has been elected.

A dispatch from Logansport in last Saturday’s Indianapolis Journal says that the official account gives Hammond, Dem., for Congress in the Tenth Indiana district 52 plurality, as follows: Cass 446; Pulaski 324; White 109; Ful'ton 190; Carroll 127, Lake 62; Less Johnßton majorities, as follows: Porter 471; Jasper 456; Newton 279- The district went Democratic by 400 on the national ticket.