Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — Political Points. [ARTICLE]

Political Points.

The Democratic Bureau of Misinformation, at Indianapolis,seems to be editing the Democratic Sentinel at present. They jpire dealing out some awful stuff to their readers. * * * Old soldiers should not vote for the Democratic candidate for congress, no matter what he may promise. They claim to have saved $29,000,000 the past year. Seventeen millions were saved by cutting down and withholding pensions from your comrades. They did not cut down the salary of - exGov. Gray’s son, bnt raised it When the deficiency bill is brought in will be time for them to crow over their great economy. * * * According to the Pilot the Populists in New York want D. B. Hill for governor. It says: “Everybody in New York excepting the Republicans want Hill to take the race for governor.” That goes to show there is very little difference between Democrats and Populists.

The Pilot sees a very large mare’s nest in the appointment of a superintendent of the gravel roads in Marion township. The law sayshe shall receive $1.50 per day and not $4.50. * * * Frank Foltz would not accept a nomination for prosecuting attorney. He was not told “to stand aside.” * * * The Pilot, for a little political capital, is misrepresenting the money borrowed to purchase the bridges needed at once in this county. The commissioners saved money by borrowing because they could purchase the bridges cheaper for cash than on time. Some people do not know what economy is when they see it. * * * The Pilot Company is in sore distress if reports are true. They hope to capture county offices enough to obtain some cash jobs they need in order to keep from having to assess the stockholders so often. The people of Jasper count}' will hardly turn the business over to the tender mercies of a lot of financial failures to run its affairs. * * * The new iron bridge across the Iroquois river east of town is to be 110 feet long and 18 feet wide, and will cost $1,500 spot cash. It is the cheapest bridge ever purchased in Jasper county. There are some financiers in Jasper county who know that it pays to borrow money, and not be considered “rascally.”

The Pilot is something wonder ful in figures. It says SB,OOO of our county funds have been squandered on the Iroquois and Wuakarusa ditches, and a $6,000 judgment, and a $5,000 loan, will make “an interest bearing debt of $4 per capita for the entire voting population of the county.” The petitioners have to pay back the money expended for the Iroquois and Waukarusa ditches, SB,OOO. The $6,000 judgment has not been affirmed by the higher court just yet. So our real debt is about $5,000. * * * Have you heard how many populist officials are defaulters in Kansas since that party came into power in that part of Uncle Sam’s dominion? Populists who are badly in debt and need office in Jasper county are not talking about that just now. ’* * «

“The voice of the calamity howler is hushed.”—Dem. Sentinel. Yes, his voice has been hushed since Cleveland and a Democratic congress came into power. Smokeless chimneys, quiet foi-ges, wages down, prices down. Yes, the Democratic calamity howler’s voice is hushed. * * * mi 1 ‘ The most popular man in the United States to-day is not Grover Cleveland, nor Hoke Smith, nor David B. Hill, nor David B. Nowels, but William McKinley, of Ohio. There are now four Democrats