Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — Page 4

TUB REPUBLICAN Thursday, March 8, 1894. IfISBSbCTSBT THURSDAY HV GEO. 33. PUBLISHER AND PBOPRIXTOB. OFFICE In Repnbli<*n building, on orner of Washington and Weston streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Tear ...*1.50 Six Mouths 75 Three Months ... 60 Official Paper of Jasper County.

WALKER TOWNSHIP.

The Republicans of Walker township will meet at the Kniman school house at 2 o’clock p.m., on March the 17th, 1894, to select delegates to the county republican convention of March, 19, 1894. G. E. Meyers, John O'Connor. Secy. ; Chairman.

Gen. Harrison, in his eloquent speech before the Lincoln league at Indianapolis, gave utterance to some thoughts on national questions calculated to inspire republicans to action. In the course of his remarks he said: “The present state of the country is net one of prosperity. There was a nation recently prosperous, but this was not clue to anyone man. It was the result of a definite policy adopted and put into force. The present distress we are now enjoying is not due to any one man but is due to the threat th ■>t this old established policy is .to.be reversed and a new one instituted. That is the cause of the trouble. I am not one of the ancient land marks but my memory runs back to when such men as Thomas A. Hendricks and Joseph E. McDonald were the leading spirits in Indiana democracy and the exponents of that party ! g principles in the state. Often have I heard my late late lamented friend Mr. McD mild, expound the principles of the democratic party. He often and often said that one of the most important principles of tli© democratic party in this state was that the natioual revenue of this great government of ours should be raised by customs duties, levied upon such articles as not to Jiarm the interests of the laboring man or the agricultural classes. These were the words of the great McDonald. Had the Wilson bill been constructed upon a principle such as this there would have been no harm done nud our national calamity would have been averted.

Candidates’ Announcements. 1 COUNTY CLERK. WILLLAM it COOVER, We niv authorized to aim. unce the name of William H. (;oover,of Carpenter township, as a Candida e lor the office of County Clerk, subject to the ac.iou of the Republican county convention. COUNTY AUDITOR.^— — HENRY B. MURRAY. We are authorized to announce the name of Hem y B. Murray, of Barkley township, as. a candidate for the office of County Auditor, subject to the action of the Republican county convention. COUNTY TREASURER. JESSE C. GWIN. We are authorized to present to the voters of Jasper county the name of Jesse C. -Gwin, of Hanglnfr Grove township, as a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the decision ■ f the Repub ican countv convention of Murcli lsnli, Im4. J J. M. WASSON. We are authorized lo announce that J. M. Wasson, of Marion tp., is a candidate for the office nf Comity Tr, asurer. Subject to the decision of the Republican county convention. [COUNTY SHERIFF. CHARLES tV. HANLEY, we are authorized to announce the name Of Charles W. Hanley, of Walker township as a candidate for the office of County Sheriff, subnet io the action of the Republican county convention COUNTY SURVEYOR. s JOHN E ALTER..□ r~ nf VV inim e w aU A t ?i‘ annonneethe name of Jolir R. Allfr, ot Umon ip., as a candivevor° r re ' e * ecli ° l ' «>e office of County SurSubjeet to the action of the Republican county convention 1 _ o COMMISSIONER-FIRST DISTRICT. J. F. BRUNER. “J* S” t " oriz ''} V- the name of * ° b " f , Bruner of Keener township, as a candid ato for (he office of County Commissioner for he first I) strict, subject to the tio'n ° i ße P’ ,bl,cuu County ConvenJ. N. WHITE. We are nnihorizrd to announce the name ms"? I *. Whiu-, of Kanlttkee tp., as a County Commissioner from the l Snbject »° Cie action of the Republican county county convention. : JOHN GRAVES.TTT We are authorized to announce that John i« A candidate for ,roin first District. Cowrty Convention C Bi ° n ° f the R ' l>ub!lcftn OOMMIBSIONER-THIRD DISTRICT. DT XTER R. JONES. We are authorized lo announce the’name of Dext r K Jones, of Carpenter township d datto for county commlsjlonea for ti.. Third District. Subject totne action of l he i upubl can county convention.

Republican County Convention.

The Republicans of jasper county, who will be legally to vote at the general election of ISTriv fill 1 RQI nrn to/t n tyt ao , t/j Atjuij ttt v 3 1 C\J UvOCvtl TA/ lilvC in preciuct mass convention on SATURDAY, MARCH 17th, 1894, at 2 o’clock r. M. to elect delegates and alternate delegates to represent the precinct or township at the Republican County Nominating Convention, herein called. The number of such delegates and alternate delegates, apportioned ou the basis of one delegate for each 15 votes, or fraction of five or over, cast for Benjamin Harrison in 1892, is for the several townships and precincts as follows:

Hanging Grove 4 delegates. Gillam.... 5 delegates. Walker G delegates. Barkley, East 4 delegates. Barkley, West 4 delegates. Marion, South 6 delegates. Marion, East 8 delegates. Marion, West 11 delegates. Jordan 3 delegates. ■ Newton 4 delegates. Keener 5 delegates. Kankakee 3 delegates. Wheatfield ... 5 delegates. Carpenter, South... 8 delegates. Carp-mter, East 7 delegates. Carpenter, West.... 6 delegates. Milroy 2 delegates. Union ■;.. 5 delegates. The places of meeting for the above precinct mass conventions shall be the usual voting places, exthe following: Walker, the Kniman school house. Marion, South, the Town Hall. Marion, East, Court Room. Marion West, Court Room. Carpenter, South, room over Allman's & Sheetz I hard ware store. Carpenter, East, Town 11-: I ]. Carpenter, West, Excl.au, 3 Hall. county content::’ . The delegates elected is above provided, will meet in t ie Court House in Rensselaer, on MONDAY, MARCH 19th, 1894, at one o’clock P. M. to nominate candidates to be voted for at the election of Nov. 6, 1894, as follows: County Clerk. County Auditor. County Treasurer.

County Sheriff. County Surveyor. County Coroner. Commissioner, Ist District. Commissioner, 2nd District. Commissioner, 3rd District. Also to elect 9 delegates and 9 alternate delegates v to represent the county at the State convention . By order of the Jasper county Republican Committee. Thos. J. McGoy, C. E. Mills, Chairman. Secretary.

OUR CLUBBING TERMS. Republican and Inter Ocean.. .$1.75 Republican and N. Y. Tribune. 1.75 Republican and both others... 2.00 Republican and Ind. Journal.. 2.00 Republican and the three others 2.50 Patronize the Home N ursery. F. A. Woodin, the well known and reliable nursery-man, of the neigh boring town of Goodland, has appointed John Callow as his local agent. Give him your orders for anything wanted in the nursery line —fruit and shade trees, shrubs, flowers, <fcc. PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer at Public Sale at his farm 3 miles west and £ mile south of DeMotte, Jasper county Ind. beginning at 10 a. m., on MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1894, the following property to-wit: 10 head of horses and colts, (1 eight-year old mare with foal, 1 nineyear old with foal, „1. six-year old with foal, 2 colts coming 2 years old, 1 coming 2, and 4 coming one.), thirteen head of cattle, (8 cows, 3 calves coming 1 year old, l full blood Galloway bull coming 2, and 2 full blood heifers coming two. 5 shoals, 5 stands of bees, 1 new wagon, 1 cultivator, 1 Big Injin sulky plow. 1 Deering mower 1 barrow, 1 walking plow, 1 Nichols Shepherd 'pparator, 1 set harness, and other things. terms: —9 months credit without inte rest on sums over $5. Less than $5 cash in hand. David D. Gleason.

Lo! Here Is Richness.

The People i.f Rensselaer to be Assessed for Having Their River Ruined. The construction of the proposed Iroquois ditch contemplates the cutting of a big channel through the rocky bed of the river at Rensselaer. This cut will *be 36 feet wide, extend from a little below the creamery to above Starr’s ice house. It will be from one to five feet deep, and have, perpendicular banks. The present pleasing and safe contour of the river bed will be changed into a thing ugly to look upon and dangerous to approach. The present bed of the river through town is about 80 feet wide. A cross section as it now is, looks about like this:

A cross section after this proposed channel is cut will look about like this:

Owing to the peculiar contour of the present channel, .'through town, together with its rapid current, the fall being 5 feet or more in half a mile, the river is now admirably adapted to washing away all kinds of sewage and refuse that gets iuto it. And when it does dry out, as it sometimes does, it dries out clean, with nothing to poison the air with its effluvium. There is no question but that the phenomenal healthfulness of our town is largely owing to the rocky and rapidly descending bed of our river.

When this proposed channel is cut, the river bed, instead of falling five feet in half a mile, will fall only 8 inches in hhat distance. This, except in occasional intervals of high water, will give a very sluggish current, much better adapted to deposit sewage, muck and dirt of all kinds than to carry it away. Every time the river goes dry, which will then be a much more frequent occurrence, it will leave on the bottom a reeking coating of filth, to poison the people with its noxious exhalation#.

Those portions of the present bed of the river which will be left “high and dry” when the channel is cut, being strips about 20 feet wide along eacfh side of the river, will have water over them only at rare intervals, and will have a tendency to gather soil and silt and to grow up with weeds and water plants, which with their rotting will furnish further sources for atmospheric pollution. Moreover, all the sewers in the town now discharge their contents upon these portions of the river which will be usually dry after the channel is cut, and the sewage which is now washed away by the water of the river will then be left to rot in the sun and “smell to heaven.” The idea that has been held out that the cutting of this channel, combined with the Iroquois and Gifford ditching operations, above, will have the effect to'fnake a permanent stream in the river, is an “irridescent dream.” It is contrary to common Bense and contrary to all experience. The more you drain a country, the sooner its surplus water runs away, ancf the greater the tendency of its channels to go dry in dry weather. The water which falls in the upper regions of the Iroquois and Pinkamink valleys, now seeps down slowly through bogs, bullrushes, sand and soil, and thus, except in very dry times, makes a continuous stream through our town. When all these drainage projects are completed; when all thei swamps and bogs are drained; and when all the under-ground streams fed from item are ex-

hausted, which will be in . a very few years, at most, then, it is safe to say, the river bed at Rensselaer will go dry a dozen times when it now goes dry a single time. And, what is much worse, instead of leaving a clean and harmless bed, as now, it will then leave a slimy, filthy bottom, to breed diseases among our people. Otheyr minor disadvantages to result from the cutting of this channel, will be"”that all the deepr and permanent water supplies just above the town will be drained out, and thus forever destroyed the opportunity for a cheap and pure ice supply. It will also ruin the several convenient fording places in town and result in the great inconvenience of many people, and probably the construction of one or more expensive new bridges. Below town, the river will so fill

up, and for miles below, will henceforth be only a shifting sand-bar, like the Platt in Nebraska and the Red River, in the south west. In view of all this inju ~y to result to the town from the cutting of this channel, the fact remains, incredible as it may see'nr, that the property of the town is to be assessed to make this channel. This is a fact and the report of the viewers and engineer of the Iroquois ditch, to be filed this week, will show it to be a fact. With some few trifling exceptions, every lot in town will be assessed, besides a general assessment upon the corporation, on account of benefits (better say damages) to roads and bridges. We knownothing about the total amount of these assessments.,' and mighty few people do, but be it 810 or 810,000, it is just that much more than it ought to be. Except one or two small, sometimes overflowed, tracts, there is not a foot of land in town in which the direct damages of this channel will not greatly exceed the direct benefits. As to the indirect benefits resulting from the developement of ! the surrounding country, it is doubtful if they offset the direct injuries; but whether they do or do not, they are not a proper basis of assessment. You might with as much reason make Smith pay for the benefit he derives from the fine house Jones builds across the street; or to lax Barkley township land, for macadamizing the streets of Rensselaer. The claim that the channel will improve the drainage of Rensselaer by cutting off the “seepage” of water from *the river above town, has no more in it than the claim that' the channel will give the river a constant current. Water don’t “seep” up hill and down dale, through open ditches and over railroad beds, to any great extent. There is nothing in this "seepage” pretext; absolutely nothing, except its use as a means to “seep” money out of the people to drain some one else’s land. Nor will this new channel have any beneficial • effect upon the drainage of the town in any more direct way. The sewers of the town are already constructed and have all the fall that they can use and more too. In fact every sewer in the town throws away several feet of fall, within the first 200 feet from the river, in order to > avoid cutting through the rock that lays so near the surface. These sewers will not carry off a single drop more water, nor carry it a second faster, after this channel is cut than they do now.. Neither will any future sewers be any better on account of this proposed channel. »

Even conceding that the people of Rensselaer ought to submit willingly to the damages they will sustain from the cutting of this channel, on account of the general benefit to the community at large, especially to the people of the Pmkamink and upper Iroquois valleys, that they should be expected to consent to be taxed for its construction seems to jus a most unreasonable and unjust, a preposterous proposition.

Thirt ecn-btop, full walnut case or gan, $35. C. B. Steward.

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PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer at Public Sale on the Donnelly farm 2 miles north of Rensselaer, Jasper Co. Ind. beginning at 10 o’clock a. m. on TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1894, the following property. 10 head of work horses, ranging from one to five years old, 2 good milch cows, 1 steer coming two years old, 10 head of shoats, 2 sets double work harness, 2 two-horse wagons, 500 bushels corn in crib, 50 bushels seed oats, 1 harrow and many other articles. Terms.—B months credit without interest or 8 per cent, discount for cash, on sums over $5. Sums of $5 or less cash. Elias Gingericii. Simon Phillips, Auctioneer. M. L. Spitler, Clerk. In these hard times a majority of our people are practicing a more rigid economy than for many years. Nearly every family has a supply of old gar ments or goods, which can be used to advantage in such times, and made to look almost like new by coloring over with Magic Dyes. You can depend on them for fast colors that will not crock or fade out, like most other dyes, and unlike other brands nearly all the colors will dye cotton, wool, silk or linen with same package instead of a separate package for cottons which rehders them far superior for coloring mixed goods. Simple directions. At A F. Long & Co. 9 Buy your farm wagons of B. F Ferguson, and save money. Call onC. B Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from $25 to $l3O. Still Open. The Republican’s remarkable offer of three papers for $2.00 or two for $1.75 lid not close with the year 1893, but it will not be open indefinately, as our contract with the Inter Ocean and TYibune is limited. Those who want these papers on these unusual terms should secure them now and get the benefit of them while they have time to read.

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