Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — Call For Town Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call For Town Convention.

The XfepuhHcan voter's of Rensselaer will meet in mass convention at the Court House, on Wednesday, April .3rd, 1895, at 7:30 o’clock P. M. to nominate candidates to be voted for at the ensuing election, Jfor the offices of Town Treasurer, Town Clerk, Town Marshal, and Trustees of the Third and Fifth Districts.

The Rochester Republican reprints from the Huntington Herald, an article condemning the alleged change in the election law, whereby the Republican ticket is placed first on the ballot, instead of the Democratic ticket. Our Huntington and Rochester contemporaries ought to know “where they are at'’before opening their columns to criticisms of that character. The Legislature did not pass any such law; nor any law changing or affecting the election law, ip anj" respect. In some respects some changes might have been made, very advajutageonsly, but the proposed act making these changes had one or two objectionable features, and they killed the whole bill.

The legislature very greatly qhapged the gravel road law of 1893, under which the Marion Tp. system of gravel roads were built last year. The most important oi these changes is one placing the care of the maintenance of these roads in the hands of the county commissioners, and at the expense of the whole county, the same as other free gravel roads. Another very commendiblo change extends the time for paying for these township-built mmls, over ten years, instead of six years, as the former law provided. The maximum rate of interest which bonds issued under" this law'shall pay is reduced from (i to 5 per cent. The only one of these . beneficial changes that can now benefit the people of Marion Tp., on the roads already built, is the one transferring the care and expense of maintenance from the township to the'count .

We c mmend both the frankness And the -business enterprise of the Walla Walla banker who gives his reason for being in favor of free c inage at the ratio of 16 to one in the following words: “Our bank has 8500,000 on deposit. Its loans are payable in gold, but our certificates of depos® it are not. Should "’the bill pass, we Will take our depositors’ gold and with it purchase enough silver bullion at 60 cents an ounce to coin 1,000,000 silver dollars at the ration of 16 to 1. We could then pay our depositors in silver, and still have 500,000 silver dollars left as a clear profit. Don’t you see why I am in favor of the bill?” It strikes us that this is the real argument of the free silver advocates of the silver producing states and that all other attempts to justify the doctrine, if intelligently made, are but quibblings of sophistry.

The tariff question has not been receiving much attention recently, owing to the prominence of other issues affecting the public welfare, but a repcrt has just been issued by the department of agriculture which is worthy of attention as indicating the loss the country has sustained in the single item relating to the sheep industry, owing to the hostile legislation accomplished by the late democratic free ftrfde cougress. The official report

referred to states that the average c s'lreejTln this Country on January 1 last, was $1.58: per head. The total number was 12,291,005; with a value of $617,685,707. In 1892 on the same date,- according to the department report, sheep were worth 82.58 each. They numbered 44 J 93Bj3T>5 1 and were worth in the aggregate $116,121,270. By a liitle further effort in the ljne of-niathenaaticfl-.it is thus •demonstrated that American herdsmen have lost $19,935,503 in three years as the direct result of the Democratic party’s bungling efforts'to put into practice the specious theories of experimenting politicians under the leadership of Cleveland, Carlisle and Wilson. This somewhat startling statement with reference to the enormous loss sustained by wool growers of the United States is only an example of the general rule of depreciation of valued of Rll products affected by the acts of the last congr ss. The impression seems to be gaining ground that the tariff will not be a prominent issue in the campaign of 1896, but when the subject is revived and the facts brought to the attention of the people by the simple process of quoting figures and making comparisons from the official records, it will doubtless result in arousing even more general and determined opposition to the democratic policy than has heretofore prevailed.