Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — REPUBLICAN TICKETS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPUBLICAN TICKETS.

STATE TICKET. Secretary of State, WILLIAM D. OWEN, of Cass. Auditor of State. AMERICUS C. DAILY, of Boone. Treasurer of State, P. J. SCHOLZ, of Vanderburg. Attorney-General. WILLIAM A. KETCHAM, of Marion, Clerk 'of the Supreme Court. ALEXANDER HESS, of Wabash. Superintendent of Public Instruction. DAVID M. GEETING, of Jefferson. State Statistician. SIMEON J ; THOMPSON, of Shelby. State Geologist. W. S. BLATOIILEY. of Vigo. • DISTRICT TICKET. For Representative in Congress, JETIIItO A. HATCH, Of Newton County. i or'State Senator. ISAAC H. PH A RES. of Benton C.ounty. For Prosecuting Attorney, T. 0. ANNABAL. of Newton County, For Joint Representative, MARION L. SPITLER, of Jasper County. COUNTY TICKET. For County Clerk, WILLIAM H. COOVER,. of Carpenter Township. For County Auditor, HENRY B. MURRAY. Of Barkley Township. For 0< unty Treasurer, JESSE C. GWIN, of Hanging Grove Township, For County Sheriff, CHARLES W. HANLEY, of Walker Township. For County Surveyor, JOHNE. ALTER, of Union Township. For County Coroner, TRUITT P. of Marion Township. ! Commissioner—First District. WILLIAM DAHNCKE, of V\ heatfleld Township. Commissioner—Second District, JOHN C. MARTINDALE, of Newton Township. Commissioner—Third District, DEXTER R. JONES, of Carpenter Township.

Jesse Gwin, is an old soldier, a tried and competent man, and a Republican on principle, and not for revenue, and one who never changed his politics because he did cot get the nomination he wanted. He ought to get the solid Republican vote, and a good many besidea - :■]' Two or three of the candidates on the tusion-for-revenue tickets are trying to draw votes from their Republican competitors, who are candidates for re-election, by claiming that one term is enough, and promising that if elected they, (the fubionists) will not be candidates for re-election. This dodge has been tried many times in this county, and in several cases has succeeded. But in every instance when it has succeeded, the person has beeiy* candidate for' re-elec-kon, going square back on his promises not to ask for a second tprm. And it will be the same this time, if any of the fusionists are elected, they will be after the •eoond term, as sure as fate.

Let every Republican in the county make up his mind to stand by the Republican ticket and vote for every man on it. No member of our party can afford to vote a scratched ticket. Not this year, at least, of all years, when an unprincipled combination of free trade democracy and fiat money populism is trying to wrest the control of the county from the party which has managed it so long, so honestly, and so efficientTyT~ When a man has been tried in office and has made a good record, this fact should be put down to his credit. John E. Alter has held the office of county surveyor and has demonstrated his fitness for the place, by the admirable manner in which he has discharged the duties of his office. Jasper county never had a better surveyor than Mr. Alter, and every Republican shotild vote for his reelection.

Yon can not run amiss of connties whose public affairs have been worse, mnch worse managed than Jasper county’s, in fact, there is probably not a single Democratic county in the state, that this is not true of; but you can search far and wide and not find a county whose affairs are better managed than our’s. In fact, the Pilot itself, though unwittingly, gives testimony to this fact, by finding nothing in our county administration to kick about, except that the large, but unavoidable expenses for proposed ditches, has caused a temporary deficiency of a few thousand dollars, in the county treasury, —a thing by the way, that lias not occurred before, for many years. Our taxes are very moderate, and public improvements are many and wisely and cheaply made.

The Twentieth Century, a Pop ulist periodical published in New York, turns upon the veterans in a recent issue in true Union sol-dier-hating style. It says: Thirty years ago a majority of the.-e men were idealists, risking life and sacrificing homes for the realiz ition of a thought. To-day they are the most practical of business men; a political brigade organized exclusively for spoils, feeders at the public crib who pro sent annually to the American people a bill larger than that exacted by any European army. Decidedly the appetite has grown by what it feeds on, but happily the number of the feeders is becoming beautifully less. Last year the membership of the G. A. R. was 397,223; this year it is only 369,683. ■*

If there is a veteran who has a sympton of Populism the foregoing would doubtless prove a radical remedy. Nothing more brutal has been said in a Northern publication for months. —Indianapolis Journal.

The Prohibitionists filed their county ticket at the clerk’s office, last Saturday, the last but one upon which it could be legally filed. Their candidates are: Clerk, Sam B. Thornton, of Newton tp. Auditor, James Yeoman, Newton. Treasurer, John A. Grant, Barkley. Sheriff, John Mason, Gillam. Surveyor, Charles E. Hershman, Rensselaer. Coroner, Ambrose L. Willis, Rensselaer. Commissioners, John M. Helmick, Wheatfield; Wm. T. Perkins, Rensselaer; Stearri Iliff, Jordan. The Prohibitionists now have a full local ticket, from Congressman to Commissioners, except a prosecuting attorney, and also, to some extent, excepting a state senator, for although the name of Perry Washburn, the Dem-Pop candidate has been legally filed as their candidate and must therefore so appear on the official ballots, yet the fact remains that the Prohibitionists of Jasper and Newton counties, assembled in convention at Goodland, have formally repudiated Washburn’s so-called nomination as the Prohibition candidate, as appears elsewhere, by the official report of Rev. D. J. Huston, secretary of the convention.

Wm. H. Ooover, Republican candidate for county clerk, is a man of the strictest personal and official integrity. A courteous? honorable gentleman, a thoroughly efficient official. A man, in short, of the most sterling qualities. Every Republican in the county should feel it a pleasure as well as a duty to vote for him at at the ensuing election.

Mr. Ad Robinson denies that he ever favored the Iroquois ditch. We are quiet willing to admit that we were mistaken on this point. The matter is no importance* anyhow, as there were plenty of leading populists who did favor it, including Joel Spriggs, thejfirst petitioner, to Bhow the inconsistency, not to say rank dishonesty, of the Pilot, in trying to make political capital out of the matter, because the commissioners whom the law compelled to advance the preliminary expenses on the ditch, happened to be Republicans. The fact that the Robinson brothers generally were so active and persistent in favor of the Iroquois ditch, and also took such an active part in helping Messrs. Gifford and Thompson organize this and the Gifford enterprises, largely accounts for our readiness to believe that Mr. Ad Robinson had lent his help to the Iroquois as well as to the Gifford movements.

Wm. Dahncke, candidate for Commissioner from the first district, is the only representative from the “north tier” on the ticket. He is a sound, careful, conservative man of business. One who has demonstrated, by his success in managing his own affairs, that he is well qualified to manage with equal success, the affairs or the public. Personally, he is a strictly honest and strictly honorable man. Is a German by nationality, but by long residence in this country, is a thorough American in sentiments. While we do not think that a man’s religion ought to cut any figure in politics, yet inasmuch as an incorrect report in regard to the matter has been circulated, we will add further, that Mr. Dahncke is a respected member of tho Lutheran church, at Wheatfield, and one of the recognized pillars of the congregation.

The Pilot suggests that perhaps The Republican is not aware that Joel Spriggs, fusion candidate for commissioner, and first petitioner for the Iroquois ditch, tried to withdraw his name from that petition. The Republican is certainly very well aware of the fact that he did not try to withdraw his name until after he had done his full share in causing the heavy expense for the preliminary work, which the Pilot is now making its hypocritical howl about. The petitioners fairly tumbled over one another in their rush to get off the petition, when the viewera’ report showed that the cost of the ditch would be so large in proportion to the benefits, and we do not blame them for it, but that fact does not release them from the responsibility for causing tho previous great expense.

PeopltTwEcTkick about the management of the public business of Jasper county, do so without cause, and don’t know • when they are well off. They ought to be compelled to live and pay taxes in some of our Democratic counties awhile. In Carroll or LaPorte, for instance. Both of those counties have vastly more taxable property than ours, and their tax rates ought to ba much less. Instead, however, they are much higher. The total levies for all county purposes in Jasper county is 45 cents on the SIOO valuation. In Carroll county the county levies for all purposes, are 62 cents. In LaPorte county, with vastly more taxable property, even than Carroll, the county levy is 53 conts. In Republican Jasper, we get good reliable public improvements, at fair prices. In Democratic Carroll aid Laporte, they pay two prices and get unreliable improvements.

The above are plain facta, and we challenge the Dem-Pop Pilot to disprove them.