Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1893 — THIS DO SETTLE IT. [ARTICLE]

THIS DO SETTLE IT.

The anything-to-beat-Honan-and-McEwen candidates held a secret caucus lately, presumably on the back stairs of the Pilot office, at which it was agreed that a vote should be taken and that all the “ring” and “gang” candidates except the one

having the highest vote, should withdraw, and work his head off in securing the appointment of the biggest vote man. The participants in the caucus were the three “gang” candidates, Bates, C. D. Nowels and Mr. Crock O’ Dyle Smyler, with a sufficient number of self-appointed distributors of Democratic patron age, to prevent a hopeless deadlock caused by each candidate voting for himself indefinitely. The details of the ballot have not been made public, but Mr. Nowels came out on top, and the Smiler probably got his own vote and no other. All hands are now hust-

ling for Nowels, and a committee of the cancussing statesmen has, it is stated, been appointed to wait upon Congressman Elect Hammond to break to him gently the information that Mr. Nowels is the yponanimous choice of the Democracy of Jasper county for postmaster at Rensselaer. The caucus appointed a committee on resolutions, and thje first rough draft of their report read about as follows:' honerble tom Ilamond Sur We the dimecratic party of America surtefy that Dal nouls is the yoonaniymus choice of de gang for posm&ster and what de gang says 'goes see The report was adopted with some slight verbal alteration^. In the meantime Honan and McEwen are still sawing away on their respective wood piles.

Edwin Bond, of this place, was down at Elwood, a few days last week, prospecting for a business location. He found Eiwood, which a few years ago was an obscure country village, was now a booming city of 8,000 inhabitants. Many immense manufacturing establishments are located there, among which one at the most important is the American Tin Plate Works. They employ several hundred hands, among whom are Very many women and girls. Mr. Bond visited these works, and in talking with the employes, he learned

that the girls and women earned from $8 to sl7 per week; which is more, by the ;way, than the skilled male workmen can earn in Wales. These tin works, by the way, are the Swine that the Democrats, during their late campaign for free trade, denounced as a sham and a fraud, established by Republican campaign money, to run only until after the election. j It is said that a couple of smooth citizens have been selling “patches of blue sky ” oi something about as valu - able, for several weeks past in various parts of the county. They

sell for a certain sum, said to be six dollars, bqit probably for anything they can get, the right to buy goods at alleged wholesale prices of some pretended farmers, or alliance establishment, in Chicago. A right just as valuable perhaps, but not more so, than the right to buy of Seigel <fe Cooper, Montgomery Ward &C 6. The Fair, or several other similar general stores in that city; and which right is free to anyone that will send 10 or 15 cents for a catalogue. The most ready victims of these, blue sky dealers are found among the rabid People’s Party people; Who have been deluded by demagogues into the belief that their home merchants are a set of thieves and scoundrels, and who, therefore, have no use for slid merchants, except when they want to buy on credit, or to bulldoze them into advertising in the pestilential organ of anarchy down the street

I A box social and valentine party last Saturday evening at the Guest school, in Jordan Tp, Miss Carrie Welsh, teacher, netted $9.50 for reading circle books; and was a pleasant time, besides. In all sadness it most be admitted that the citizen who, a few days ago, declared that Uncle Alfred McCoy was “a reckless old duck” was truthful, even if somewhat disrespectful. One of his latest performances waslast Thursday, when, wanting to see how some repairs then being made on the roof of his bank building were progressing, he got upon the rooi by means of the iron fire-escape, in the rear of Long’s drug store building, an ascent which very few even young and vigorous men would attempt without strong necessity. Having gotten upon the roof, the next thing was to begin throwing over waste lumber, in a manner which would discount a number 4 Kansas cyclone, and of coarse without stopping to think where the lumber might fall. One very heavy piece did give Alfred Thompson a pretty close shave, when it struck the side-walk, and in falling it struck and broke the elect-

ric light wire leading into the bank. Other parties on the building then stayed Uncle Mac’s rash hand, before he could put the lives of any more capitalists in danger. If Uncle Mac had been on top of the Kansas State House last week, with a load or two of waste lumber, he would have raised the Populists’ siege of the building, in 15 minutes, without firing a gun.