Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN . : . Thursday, November 1, 1894 IBSCKDKVKBY THCBHOAT BS GKSO. 33. M^3HALL. ; PUBLISHER AMD PBOPRIBTOB. _OfFiCK In Repablickn building, on o*ner of Washington anl Wf>«tou -trweis. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. O *e Year gl.no gg Three Months 60 Official Paper of Jasper County.

Whatever happens next Tuesday, don’t fail to turn out and vote. Fusion is Confusion. It is abandonment of principle for the hope of office. Now is the time to spot it. A vote against either Phares for senator or Spitler for representative, is a vote to continue the existence of the infamous gerrymander. Against the still-hunt, surreptitious, undcrhandc i, midnight methods of the fusionists, the Republicans Of Jasper county have made a grand, aggressive, open and above-board daylight campaign. They deserve success, and we dmi i, not will have it.

Voter, have you had enough of tariff smashing to suit you. J lf so vote for Jethro A. Hatch for congress. By returning him you help to swell the- Republican majority to the next hou&e of Representatives, and by so doing \ou check all further legislation on the tariff for the next two years. If you return a Demociatio house, tariff agitation will continue. Their leaders have said so.

. The great zeal of the Populists who as it is said, will go twelve miles to a school house meeting, is thought by some to be remarkable. It is not, however. The leaders all want office, and want them bail, an 1 the rank and file are well-meaning but deluded beings i can be made everlastingly rich and prosperous by acts of legislation—that the millenium can be inaugurated by a resolution of congress. :

Let no Republican so far forget himself as to be away from his precinct on November 6th. It sometimes happens that through forgetfulness, voters arrange trips that include election day, and fail to be at the polls in that way. Do not do that this time. Seldom before has an election been of so much importance to the state and nation as the coming one will be, and seldom before has it been of such importance that every Repub’ican should cast his vote and see that his neighbor does the j same.

The Republicans of Jasper county, have before now, been “bamboozled” into electing several so-called independents or third party men against the regular Republican nominers. "Where are thosa men TTow J--1 Every man Jack of them is now a rock-root* d Democia% of course. And when the inevitable break-up • comes of the Populist party, every man that gets office through it, will go to the DemOu ..tie party. Stick a pin here, Republicans. The couuty d: bt of Jasper county is $5,000. The average debt of 31 leading Democratic counties, is $115,000, just 23 times as large as Jasper’s. Each of these counties pays every year more interest, on the average, on their county debts, than the v hole of Jasper county’s debt Is there any Republican in Jaspfr county th e&n be deceived by the clamor \he l J ilot in this matter.

Above all things, Republicans, be on your gmfrd against campaign falsehoods, of Tall descriptions. The fusionists are desperate for offices and will Step at nothing to gain their ends.

Dan Yoorhees is a man of high rank in the senate in these three ■** respects, at least. He is the rankest demagogue ih the senate. He is the rankest copperhead in the senate. He is the rankest whiskey soak in the senate. ■——g, A vote for Perry Washburn for "BtHtenseuator is a vole Tor Dan Voorhees for United States senator. In no other one way, on earth, can Bny Republican (or Prohibibitionist either) more disgrace his political principles than by voting directly or indirectly for Dan Yoorhees for United States senator.

The county is in debt, temporarily at that,.#s,ooo, on an assessed valuation of over six million dollars. Thus the debt is less than one tenth of one per cent, of the property, or less than 10 cents on the SIOO. Will the fusion candidates, if they are elected do any better, or nearly as well ? If the way they have run their own jiffairs furnishes a pretty fair guide as to the way they will manage the affairs of the public, it is safe to say they will not do nearly as well. Some of them are good enough businessmen, but a considerable number of them are not. Even the bst of them could not do better than the Republican candidates will, and some of them will surely do much worse | §

State Chairman Taggart, of the Democratic committee, has been hooding the state with a circular printing in type made to resemble the letters of a type-writer, the intention being to make Democratic gulls believe, they were the recipients of a personal letter from Taggart. The circular is full of the most enormous and audacious li s, a sample of which being the statement that Congress has out down appropriations $60,000,000 a year. .1 he difference in the total appropriations of the last two sessions of Congress, the- first Republican and the last Democratic, as shown by official statements, is just S2B- - This is a good deal less than $60,000,00U in reduction, find a little more, came off from pension appropriations, it will BIT seen how much credit, or rather discredit, the Democrats are entitled to for their reductions of apptop nations. It may be that the Pilot and its crowd will succeed in making the, people believe that it is such a dreadful thing that our county is temporarily in debt the sum of $5,C00, but we think not. The people are of common sense. They consider that scores of fine iron bridges have been built. That large sums have recently been well spent on road grades and on ditches; on improvements to the court house, and on and about the public square, on the county poor farm, including s large addition to the land of the same. Also that the county has been compelled, by operation of law, to advance large sums for the preliminary expenses of proposed ditches. Furthermore, they consider the comparative financial condition of other counties of the state. Take 31 of the most reliably Democratic counties in Indiana. Figure up their county indebtedness, as shown by the last published report of the state statistician, and their aggregate county indebtedness is $3,653,000.00, and their average debt for each and every county will bo $115,000. This is just twenty-three times as large as Jasper’s county’s little $5,000. All of their debts are genuine county debts, no gravel road or ditch bonds boiugincluded. Most of it also is long time bonded debt, drawing large interest. The average yearly interest paid by everyone of these Democratic counties is more than Jasper county’s entire debt.

The Pilot’s Rank Dishonesty.

Our putatively populistic and palpably Democratic neighbor, the Pilot, answers our reference, of last week, to those sample high tax Democratic counties, Cart oil and LaPorte, by some misleading figures about two other strongly Democratic counties, Pulaski and Franklin. It quotes from the state auditor’s report of 1892. Now these two counties practice that very common Democratic dodge of dividing their county taxes up into several funds. Such as county tax, proper, bridge tax, road tax, bond tax, etc., all of which, in Jasper county are collected under one head, as county tax. Thus in Pulaski county, which it tays, pajs $14,639 less county tax than Jasper, if it had looked at the column headed “Miscellaneous Taxes” it would have found that the figures were as much higher than in Jasper as the figures under the head of “county tax” were lower. The same thing applies to Franklin county, only more so.

The last published report of the lodiaDa Bureau of statistics is the proper place to look for figures comparing the relatives expenses of counties. In that, for the very year the Pilot refers to, he will find, on pages 548 and 549 a table giving the exact official figures of county expenditures. And this is what he will find. Total expenditures, Jasper county . $25,079 Total expenditures, Pulaski county .$37,547 D fference inJasper’s favor $12,468 And when it is remembered that Jasper county has, not one million as the Pilot sa;> s, but very nearly two million dollars more property to levy taxes upon than has Pulaski, the comparative difference in Jasper’s favor becomes still greater. These official and undbputable figures show that Pulaslu county’s rate of county taxes is at least twice as high as in Jasper county.

The Pilot's figures for Franklin county are just a,3 wide of the truth. The county expenditures of Franklin for that year, 1892, were $38,471.

This, instead of being, as the Pilot Says, sl4 070 less than Jasper’s, is actually, $i3,230, more than Jasper. Did anyone ever hear of any moiv outrageous misstatements of the facts, for political purposes, than these of the Pilot, as here shown? And even for Republican Newton county, the Pilot mis-states the figures, for its nefarious purposes! The total county expenditures of Newton Co., for 1892, were only sl,325 less than Jasper’s, yet it says that Newton’s were $10,156 less. The stat'-ments about Pulaski and Franklin, were 100 per cent, false. This one about Newton is 800 per cent, false.'

It says, also, Newton’s total taxables are two millions more than Jasper. They are, as a matter of fact, less than a million more than Jasper’s.

Marion Township’s New Precincts.

Voters in Marion township ought to be able to remember the boundaries of their precincts very easily now, as the boundaries are the new gravel roads, which intersect at the crossing, corner of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, the most prominent street crossing in Rensselaer. Precinct No. 1, might also be called northwest precinct. It is bounded by LoDg Ridge and Poor Farm gravel roads, the macadamized streets from the Rensselaer depot to McCoy’s bank, being considered a psrt of Long Ridge road. Its voting place is the north sample room, in the Mukeever House.

Precinct No. 2, which might be call»d northeast precinct, is bounded by Lorg Ridge and Pleasant Ridge roads. Its voting place is the Sheriff’s office, in the court house. Precim t No. 3, or as it might be called, the southeast precinct, is bounded by Pleasant Ridge and Col lege roads. Its voting place is in the Rensstlarr town hall. Precinct No. 4, or the southwest precinct, is bounded by Poor Farm and College roads. Its voting place is Ijger’f carpenter shop.

WAGES AND BUSINESS.

AS AFFECTED B¥ THE TARIFF LAW, Opinions Direct From Many of the Leading Manufacturers of Indiana on the Prospect—Business Declining and Wages Ditto. South llend Tribune. A few weeks ago the Tribune in order to get a full, free and reliable opinion from different manufacturers of the state as to how the new tariff law affected the industries of Indiana sent out the following personal letter o f inquiry. “Wbat effect, present, and prospective, will the new tariff bill have on your wages and general business?” _ This brought many candid replies among them the fo’lowing which the voter, especially the workingman, will do well to read carefully and see how Democratic tinkering of the tariff has affected his interests.

A big plate glass manufacturing company of Kokomo says briefly and to the point; “With tariff reduced 30 per cent, manufacturers have all reduced wages from 16 to 20 per cent.” From the Goshen Woolen MilU Company, through J. L. Kerstetter, secretary: “We are offering goods at a price based on free wool and a reduction of 20 per cent, in wages. What the demand will be later on we have no idea. The p. and d. congress has so diminished the purchasing power of the people that it is impossible to have as good business as formerly.” » . The Pennsylvania Glass Company, of Andersori: “The fffect of the new tariff bill will be the"cause of materially reducing wages of blowers. The manufacturers are asking 30 per cent, reductions. Prospectively it is a little too early to say wbat iffect it will have.” The Marion Flint Glass Company, through R. E. Reed, business manager, says: “While wg are not inclined to at the present, go into a general discussion which the reply to your inquiry would call for, we would simply state that we do not think the recent chang's wili have any very greatly beneficial results. There is no question but what if rnamlf*cturers find they cm not. compete with foreign made goods, they must reduce there selling price and as this reduction can not be taken from the profits, there having been no profit in the business, for some two years p vst, the workers must accept less for their labor.”

In about the same strain writes the Anderson Flint Bottle Compan): “If, is vet too soon to be able to say just what effect th' new tariff bill will have on our business. While the class of goods we make are not directly affected, yet we oxject we will fe 1 its effects indirectly by the lowering of duties on a clegs of bottles we do not make, The duty on. soda ash was not lowered, thus leaving us top ly as much for our raw material as under the old tariff. We think that it will certainly affect the wages of our workmen. ” The Ball Bros/ Glass Manufacturing Company, of Muncie, through F. C. Ball, president: “The wages of the common laborers, carpenters, etc., excepting glass blowers, has declined during the last year about 25 per cent. The glass bottle blowers’ scale has been reduced for the coming blast 15 per cent, below the scale of the last blast. This, we consider, all due to the tariff reduction.”

The wool dealers and woolen goods manufacturers are outspoken in their opinion that the new tariff is a decided injury to the wool interests of the United States The following from C. E. Geisendorff <fe Co, wool dealers and manufacturers of flannels, etc., Indianapolis, is couched in no uncertain language: “We are of Jhe opinion that the passage of the free trade tariff bill will squelch the wool-growing interests in the United States, and our money will go into the hands of foreigners for wool. Our people cannot '•ompete with such countries as China, Russia, India, etc., where families live on $25 to SSO a year or starve. Woolen goods are so low and unietsetled that manufacturers are at a loss to know what to do. When things are adjusted to no-tariff price#, wages will undoubtedly have to suffer. If manuficturerß in this country get raw material and wages as cheap as in foreign countries, they can compete, not otherwise. Our opinion is that the passage of the free trade bill was an outrage on American workingmen. It is simply t king the bread out of their mouths and giving it to foreigners in whom we have no interest.” Here is another of the same kind from a big wool dealing and woolen manufacturing firm of the state who say it is neither pleasant nor profitable to be advertising their lack of busiue;s, nevertheless, in telling the truth they must say that because of the expected change in the tariff their sales have been only about half the usual amount this season. Then add: "We have only run our mill three daj Bin the week since Jan. 1. We have made no change in wages yet,

FENDIG’S FAIR! ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST! i-r---' ; :• 1 > ■ , r •• h , • w -J tt —-—,, •—, O" . - . .._ We have just opened to insp°ction a full line of MENS and BOYS OVERCOATS, all new late styles. Buying late and for spot cash we Becured them at the very lowest figures. We will give trade the benefit of this. WE ARE 0FFER1NG........ 1 Youth’s extra fine beavers $7.25 Youth’s long Ulsters 6 50 Boys heavy overcoats 2.50 Boys long Ulsters 425 Boys fine all wool 3.00 Gents all wool beavers 9-75 Gents all wool Meltons (extra long) 12-00 Gents heavy Ulsters, cashmere lined 12.00 Gents double breasted Beavers 950 Gents Meltons, good grade 7:50 Also a good line of SATINETS ranging from $3.50 up. Our gloves and mittens are strictly in it; and it is useless, to tell you the prices are right. In buying your winter supply, will be pleased to have you call and look through, our stock and get prices. Remember we save you money on every purchase. FENDIG’S FAIR.

but expect to be compelled to do so or go out of business, but the thought is so painful to us that we shall wait until we are sure where we stand before doing so. It, is important that you should keep it before the people that 90 per cent, of the woolen man-! ufacturers of tne country are opposed to five wool, and ihat if the senators from the wool growing states h >d advocated protection for the wool growers as faithfully as did the senators from the New England states, they could have secured protection as well as the rice farmer of the south.” The Seymour Woolen Company, byLouis Schenck, president and manager, now engaged in filling contracts under the workings of the McKinley law, which was in the company’s favor, and enabled it to do business at fairly remunerative prices, without reducing the wages of operatives to any extent, s-es great uncertainty in the future and cannot tell what the harvest will be when new contracts are made next December and January. “Any lower price we should be compelled to make in our product,” Mr. Schenck says, after stating that 'axes, insurance charges, machinery, d\e stuffs., have not receded much in cost, “would be at the expense of labor, which is not pleasant to contemplate.”

Read, Ponder and Reflect.

Every voter, who thinks of v.>ing the Populist-fusion ticket, should seriously ask himself what he will gain by bo doii.g? Have Populists proven themselves more honest and capable in office than other men? Study their record in Kansas and Colorado and make note of what that record reveals. Below we give an extract sent to the Republican congressional committee at Washington and signed by the executive committee of the Denver Business Men’s League, consisting of 5,000 business men — partly Republicans, partly Democrats, and partly r scent Populists. This extract shows what Populists rule has done for Colorado, and from this we can judge of what it would do in other states. We invite every voter to read what this extract contains and to ponder it most seriously: Populist rule in Colorado has been like a devastating forest fire. By destroying our credit, which is the life of commerce, it has consumed for the time being not less than $300,000,000 of values in thiß state. Colorado’s credit was so high that the borrowing power of her property ranked in the late census next to that of New York. This borrowing power, this mainspring of our splendid progress, has been temporarily paralyzed by the accidental ascendency of a party which stands for repudiation and fiatism, and is not a true friend to hard silver money. The property of Denver was as sessed for $100,000,000, and was worth three times that sum when the Populists came into power. Notwithstanding the city’s inevitably brilliant future, the average selling price of this property,

pending the overthrow of Waiteism, has shrunk two-thirds. Silver has declined only 25 per cent, or less than the average pro-, darts of the other states, while the increased value and output of gold, together with our bountiful crop have moi-e than made up the shortage. Therefore, not over onehalf of our shrinkage of values can be charged to the panic, and the universal depreciation resulting from the gold standard. The other one-half of loss is due directly and wholly to the destruction of confidence by Populist misrule. So withering has this been that at the present moment even a gold mine cannot borrow $1 on $5 worth of gold ore actually in sight with which to extract that ore ans j send it to the smelter . Lenders are anxious to reap the rich harvest offered, -but hold aloof until the election in November decides whether we are to have anarchy or civilized government. Two hundred thousand farmers from the drought stricken states to the east of us are anxioui to come : here and farm by irrigation, but | under Populist rule we can borrow no more money with which to build irrigating canals. Manufacturing is most profitable here, but capital shuns Populism as a pestilence. The people of Colorado are loyal to their contracts, and they are lightiug up the camp flies on every hill for a campaign, regard less of party, which is to overthrow Populism and re-establish the credit of the state.

The Inspector of El actions of each precinct in this county is required by law to be at the Clerk’s office on Saturday, Nov, 3rd, 1894, to receive the ballots from the Election Commissioners. If he ( fail to appear in person or by deputy on that day he is liable to prosecution. Inspectors please take notice.

In Marion L. Kpitler the Republicans of Jasper and Newton counties have a candidate for joint representative well worthy of their unanimous support. Hehasfived here all his life and is personally known to more people in both counties than almost any other man in either of them, and is popular wherever known. He is a good thinker and a good speaker. He is not a political nondescript but is a square-toed. Republican; and he is also an eminently fair, broad and liberal minded man. He is a patriot, always, and in our great war, served his country faithfully as a soldier in the Union cause.

STRICTLY CASH—Mrs. L M. lines wishes to give notice to all that she has adopted the rule of doing a strictly cush business, on and after Sept. Ist. This rule applies to all, so pleaee do uot ask for credit. L. M. Tubs.