Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — Wheatfield Township Convention. [ARTICLE]

Wheatfield Township Convention.

."Notice is hereby given to all the Republicans of Wheatfield township and all who wish to cooperate with us in the welfare of the good old party are requested to meet at the Wheatfield school house in the town of Wheatfield at 2 p. m., on SATURDAY, JUNE 30th, 1894. for the purpose of nominating the following officers. One Township Trustee. Two Justices of the Peace. Two Constables. One township Assessor. John Graves, Chairman. Wm. Miller, > ■becy. - T i__ ~ .

The Indianapolis Journal has compiled the spring election figures of seventeen Indiana cities with the following result: The democratic vote in these cities in 1892 wa-s 32,223; the Republican vote was 28,017. At the last election the Republican vote was 29,258 and the democratic v0te<..22,931. Thus the Republican vote increased over 1,200 while the democratic vote decreased almost 10,000. The change in these cities alone is sufficient to change the State.

I Here is the beauty of the Democratic Income Tax as it bears on the savings of the poor. A speaker in a New York protest meeting gives the figures we reprint: “Take for example one institution, the largest in deposits and assets of any in America or Europe, the Bowery Savings Bank, of which I have been a trustee for 30years which may be considered a fair sample for the comparison. We have 102,763 open accounts. Of these 31,304 are under SIOO and more than 25,000 are under $300; or say, 56,300 open accounts, in the Bowery Savings which have less than S3OO each to their credit. These deposits represent the total amount of the capital and are the entire savings of the 56,304 depositors. Please bear in mind that I speak of capital—total posessions, not income—and it is proposed that 2 per cent per annum shall be deducted from the small income of these little capitalists, who have toiled and denied themselves for years that they might h ve a nest egg to keep the wolf from the door in times like the present when work is scarce and they or - their children is hungry.” The income tax was made to catch capitalists with large incomes, but as usual in this class legislation the savings of the economical poor are the first and upon whom the blow falls heaviest. This is Democratic under the Sugar Trust.

Charles R. Pollard is uo longer a candidate for judge. He has switched. He is now on the congressional track, bason a full head of steam and is tearing along at the rate of sixty miles an hour, including stops for coal and water. Just how long Charley will remain on the congressional track no one can tell. He seems to have some trouble in massing his shots and a week hence he may be

aiming at an entirely different tnark. When Charley made up his mind to run for congress he hitched up and drove rapidly over to Monticello to see his erstwhile friend and confidential, adviser, Editor John Rothrock, of the Democrat—Rothrock had received a hint thaE Charley was off the judicial track and on the congressional track and he hustled over on the train to interview Charley They missed each other. When Charley found that John was in Delphi he tore back home. And when John learned that Charley was in Monticello he tore back home. And they missed each other “again.” And so Charley launched his boom, satisfied in fijs own mind that John loved him dearly and would sanction anything that he did. But here Charley missed it •Tagiii.” ................ For last week’s Monticello Dcnwcra,t fairly smoked, yea, sizzled. It took Charley Pollard up and combed the air with him. — Then it churned him up and down. Then it joust,ed him on the hard floor. 7 7"“ Then it jumped on him with both feet. And John and Charley are no ioiigtT friends. John is not for Charley for congress. The silver chord of their friendship is loosed. The golden bowl of their mutual love and affection is broken. They have been divorced. Neither gets alimony but each retains his maiden name. — Delphi Journal.