Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — Page 4

THE RENSSELAER UNION. Thursday, October 8. 1874.

Independent State Ticket. For Secretary of Stnfe, ISAAC C. STOUT, Of Jefferson County, for .Auditor of Stale. THOMAS J. TRUSCOTT, Of Posey County. For Treasurer. (if Stair. NORRIS S. BENNETT, —- : Of Steuben County. JPor Superintendent of Ftihiic Instruction , ANDREW H. GRAHAM, Of Bartholomew County,, , For Attorney dene rat. WILLIAM A. PEKLE. Of W»yne County. For Judge of Supreme Court, HORACE r. BIDDLE, Of Cass County. For State Senator, george major, Of Jasper County. For Representative in Genera] Assembly, GEORGE 11. BROWN, ~Of Jasper Comity. People** County Ticket. For Cleik of Cirmit Co fir 1 1 f CHARLES H. PRICE. - —— For Awmtor, - ■ ; ■ HENRY A.BARKLEY. For Treasurer, „• ROBERT PARKER. For Recorder. JOHN M. I’ELMICK. For S/ier’jf, B. 11. PATTON, Foi Surveyor, JOHN MILLER, For Coron'r, —• —- JAMES S. IRWIN. For County Assessor, CHARLES BOROUGHS. For Commissioner ftom Id District, For Commissi over from St/ District, FREDERICK HOOVER.

Next week we sluill not issue Tue Union* until Friday, in order to give our readers the result of the election as far as possil le. The Independents of Jasper county confidently expect to beat the King ticket by a handsome majority, and to carry the county for their candidates for Representative and State Senator. Mr. William Lakin informs us that lie attended a Grange picnic at Kenney, 111 , on the 24th of September. which was a grand affair. Twenty-five Granges were represented, ami it Mas estimated 1 1 1 a t <3,000 persons were present. The Master of the Illinois State Grange and the Lecturer of the National Grange were speakers. People over there go into Grange matters in good faith,.and a great deal of interest is manifested. Perhaps when they come to vote it may be well enough for taxpayers to recollect that Messrs Charles 31. Watson and George 11. Brown, opposing candidates tor Representative in the General Assembly, were Commissioners of Jasper county for several years and at the same time. If our memory is Tight some time in the fall of 1 SOD, not many months after 3lr. Benjamin was elected and had taken his seat as a member of the Board, *3l ajor Schermerbdrn, oCDelphi, presented a bill to them for surveying the route ol the proposed Indianapolis, Delphi tfc Chicago railroad across Jasper county, the distance being about forty miles. Mr. Benjamin, in a recent conversation, tells* us that Mr. Brown protested against paying the bill, hit that kin self and Mon, Charles M. WpUson allowed the - claim over Mr. Brown's protest, and directed the auditor to issue a warrant I for ssuo in favor of Scheruurhorn, to be paid out of the county f unds. ’This act illustrates the difference in the judgment of these gentlemen. Mr. David H. 3' roman attended a meeting of the Executive Committee of the State Grange at Indianapolis last week, and reports the Order in a prosperous condition. The State Grange will .meet on the fourth Tuesday of November—the 24th day. Each county is entitled to one delegate at large, m that meeting, one delegate for every fifteen Subordinate Granges in the county, and one for a fraction of fifteen over ten. Jasper county will be entitled to three representatives under this apportionment.— All Masters of Granges and their Wives and all Past Masters and their wives, are also entitled to seats in that body, but do not re-1 ccire compensation as delegates.— t

On account of the electionof to Guafigg being a part of the business to be transacted, it is desired to have as large an attendance as possible at the next meeting of the Jasper ' Comity-Central Association, which will be held in the Court House at Rensselaer on Saturday the 31st day of this present month. - - ---J—----1 -T-j-; 1 /; V■■ | Friends liavihg asked why we have not noticed the columns of abuse heaped aganst us in the Jusper Republican , we submit these reasons for our silence: ... t. They do not injure the Pco» pie's Movement, nor build up the , King which boasted its design to ! crush us out. While they attack us they can not hurt our friends, i ‘J. The proprietor and ostensible editor of that paper Itas bad no experience in Apolitical matters, lie is a comparative stranger in the county, and knows absolutely ! nothing about its public affairs; : hence all he says will be taken cum tjrano sails, B, He is simply a hireling, devoid of principle, who espoused the People's cause while at Remington, and is now sold to the King who pay him to do their dirty work. He is following his profess ional business, with which we have no desire to interfere. A faithful servant is an object of admiration. Reader, it you please, listen to just a word for Peter Rhoads. He has been a resident of Jasper county for nearly twenty years ; he is a worthy man, competent to perform the duties of the Sheriff’s office, has a large family to support, is a hard-working mechanic, is honest, fair and upright in all his dealings, and if elected no doubt will give satisfaction. He has been a Republican in politic*, not bitter nor violent, but consistent and conservative. 11c did not seek the nomination of the People’s Primary Election, because he preferred to be independent; he did not seek the Republican nomination for the same reason and because lie was convinced that that matter was already set up; he is a candidate upon his ow n merits alone, without of~ -either party,, running independently of all polil.ieal organizations. It is not on r object to electioneer for him in any' manner—the Independents have their candidates to vote for, and the Ring has already dictated to Republicans how they shall vote —bid ave simp 1 y propose by this U> tell our readers exactly Mr. Rhoads' position politically, and his standing in community, in as few words as possible. He is light, ing this battle by himself, without all “organ” to publish his pedigree, and our love of justice prompts us see that lie has fair play.

QUESTION>

The legislature winter before last passed a law by which the apprais- : ed value of all property in Indiana | was increased 80 pec cent., and also increasing the rate of taxation for State purposes from five cents on SIOO io fifteen cents. To illustrate: Property which was then returned by the assessor as valued at SI,OOO, from which the State would de- ! rive a revenue of 50 cents, is now returned at BI,SOO and the tax assessed upon it is $2.70. One year ago this property would return a revenue to the.county of So, now it is made to pay $9. Then, for State and county purposes together, the tax was $5.50; now on the same property the tax is $11.70, or more titan doubled, on these two items aiont , and the same rate is good oil ail kinds of taxes. Yei there have been no public works either in the State or county. The - party now in power, and the men now holding office, are responsible fur this state of things. Are the pcSjxle satisfied with it? and will they endorse it‘2 are questions to be determined next Tuesday. Ou. the one hand in Jasper county is a King, calljug themselves Tiepublicai.s, who defend the necessity for increased taxes and high official salaries; and* ou the other side are men earnestly opposing extravagance and promising retrenchment. Whicli.wiii you have in power, Republicans and high taxes together wjth official extravagance, or Independents, low taxes and economy?; • . - . _ . ' *'■ -•

MR. BABCOCK'S SALARY GRAB.

In the issue of Tiie Union of September 2*4th it was said that last year the auditor of Jasper county charged the trustees of The several townships for making out their road tax lists.' The law regulating the pay of county auditors at that time is to be found on page 38 of the acts of 1871, section, 28 of the general laws, and reads: The auditor of each county shall be allowed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for his services, ami no more, except as provided in this aety when the population of the county exceeds ten thousand, the additional sum of one hundred dollars for each one thousand ot inhabitants of such county over ten thousand, or fraction thereof over live hundred,’ shall be allowed such auditor to pay for depuTtesrand in addition thereto, lie shall be allowed the fees arising out of the management of the school fund, and tiie lees for transfers of land, and for transferring each tract of land or town lot, he shall be entitled to receive of the party for whom the Transfer is made, ten cents" — -- —-■ It was also further provided that all other fees than those allowed for services arising out of the management of the school fund, and fees for jbe transfers of land (which are enumerated in section 18 same act) should be collected and paid to the county treasurer on the first Monday in each month. As Avas stated in the article above referred to, Mr. Babcock charged the trustees of the several toAvnships for making out their road tax lists and collected pay-froth David. Gray, imsfoeofdia ll ging Grove township, John Querry, trustee of Gill a m township, John lierslimau, trustee of Walker township, Henry I. Adams, trustee of Jordan township, Lucius Strong, trustee of Newton township, Alexander A. Tyler, trustee qf Keener township, Alfred G’lazybrook, trustee of Kankakee township, Stilman Gates, trustee of Wheatfield township, James F. Trwin, trustee of Carpenter townwhip, Janies W. Smith, trustee of JVlilroy township, and Isaac V. Alter, trustee of Union township, giving each his receipt for., such fees collected, and each of whom probably lias that receipt still in his possession and probably Avould show it to any person who might apply to see it. Henry A. Barkley,, "trustee erf Barkley —township, and David T. Halstead, trustee of Marion township, refused to pay Mr. Babcock’s demands for the reason that he was working under a salary (as shown by the section of law above quoted,) and the law specifed that he was nbt entitled to any other fees for his services. in order to collect the demand upon Mr. Barkley, Mr. Babcock commenced proceedings against him inTlfe Circuit Court. But Judge Hammond ruled that the complaint was "faulty and that action would not lie thereon; whereupon the plaintiff (Mr. Babcoek) asked permission to amend . his complaint; w hich permission ! Avas granted,, and Barkley towu'sliip was substituted for Henry A. Barkley. Mr. Barkley waived service of notice and announced himself ready lor* trial, when Mr. Babcock asked permisssion to dismiss the case. As the Ring, which favors salary-grabbing and advocates the election of salary-grab-bers to office, have been very busy trying to put another construction upon this matter, and have denied ! that these proceedings were had in J court, we append the following ! document, which may be seen at I this office: ,i

State of Indiana, \ Jasper Bounty, j Ss j Frank W. Babcock j Jasper Circuit ’ vs. >■ Court, Deelfor- | Henry A. Barkley. J ber term, 1574. Be it remembered that on the 9th day of December, 1873, the same befog tile 7th judicial day of 'the 'December term of the Jasper Circuit j i Court, begun, held and continued at | the court house in Rensselaer, Imli- i ana, commencing ou Monday, the Ist f day of December, 1573, before the j Honorable Edwin B. Hammond,- j Judge of said Court, the following i proceedings in the above j entitled cause, to-wit: —Y —- : Tuesday, December 9tli, 1573. 1 Frank \Y. Babcock ) No. 630.—Judg- ' ■ ■ vs. — 1 oiuent against Henry A. Barkley. J Pltff for costs. ” Comes nownpiaintitf and. tiles his amended complaint herein, by Dwiggins A Co. his attorneys, substituting Barkley Township as Defendant herein, which complaint reads as follows, (insert!, and Plaintiff now dismisses his cause of action herein as to De* - feudanc Barkley. 'lt is therefore considered bv 'the Coilrt that the Defendant Barkley do have and re- j cover of and from the Plaintiff Bab-1 cock the costs and. charges hereih taxed at dollars. An 4 conies now the Defendant; Barkley township, by Thompson & >

Kpitler her attorneys, and files her sejwrate demurrer of \U») I’laintiff’s complaint as follows, (insert), which demurrer the Court sustains as to first paragraph and overrules as to second paragraph; whereupon Defendant files her answer herein, as follows, (insert), to which answer Plaintiff now files his reply herein as follows, -(insert), and the issue herein being joined, comes now the Plaintiff and by leave of Court dismisses his cause of action herein. It is therefore considered by the Court that this cause he dismissed, and that the Defendant ritarkley township do have andrecover of a ll d from Hie Plaintiff his costs Land charges herein, taxed at dollars. „

Costs- all paid. M. L. Spitler, . Clerk J. C. C. State of Indiana, 1 Jasper County, /*’"• I, Marion L. Spitler, Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, of the County of Jasper, in the State of Indiana, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true anti complete copy of the proceedings and judgment of said Court, in the above entitled cause,,on the day and year first aforesaid, as appears on record in my oftice. lo testimony AATiereof, 1 ( seat* jliereunto subscribe my name hereto affix the seal of the said Court, at my office Rensselaer, Did,, tiiis liftli day of October, A. D. 1874. Marion L. Spitler, Clerk of Jasper Circuit Court.

j The fore g.oing transcript, certified to under the seal of the Clerk of Jasper county as a “true and complete cbpy x>f the proceedings and judgement” of the court in this c.ase, proves conclusively, beyond possibility of cavil, that Mr. Babcock did not gain his suit, and did not collect his demand upon the public funds in Mr. Barkley’s custody ; and that as the losing party in the action he was coinpell- | ed to, and did, pay, the costs of " the suit. — • Mr. Halstead had been county auditor eight years, and was con versant with tiie duties of tffe office; he knew' well enough w hether Mr. Babcock was entitled to the fees under consideration; and every person in this community knows that his integrity and love .of justice is unimpeachable, and that he Avould have paid Mr. Babcock all he was entitled to receive, i The law expressly stated that the I auditor should not have extra fees for services connected with his ; office, except in certain specified Leases; and it also provided that ■all-other fees which it recognized the auditor’s, right to collect, should be paid over to the treasurer of the county. a (See section 18, page 34, last paragraph of general laws-of 1871.) -r-e - Mr. Babcock collected fees which he had no right to from eleven township trustees, lie collected these fees on work, done as county auditor, ami to which he attached the seal of his office. — And he put (he rntmey into his puckei contrary to late-. He sued Mr. Barkley for illegal fees that neither Mr. Barkley nor. Mr. Halstead would pay;'he found he was beaten, dismissed the suit, and paid the costs' a* the beaten party, in accordance leith the findings of the court.— Alter Mr. BabcocK was beaten it would seem that discretion, justice and honesty should have prompted him to have returned his il'gotten fees to the trustees from whom he had illegally taken them. But he has never done so yet.

FEE-GRABBING.

The j retenSe of 3lr. Sheriff Daugherty that he “guardctU’ Patrick Barton is one of the • most grotesque absurdities that can be conceived. Everybody in this, community who has any knowledge of the matter, knows that Patrick Barton was not Jle spent his, time as he pleased and where he pleased, ohly he was on parole not to leave the neighborhood. He loafed about the streets, the stores and the offices of Rensselaer, alone, by the hour, day after "day; he fished along the river; he drove out with the Sheriff's children; he cut wood for the Sheriff, he worked in his garden, he cared for his horses, he drove his cows up from the prairie and milked them, and he done chores enough for the Sheriff to pay for his keeping, and more too. Noth withstanding this, Mr. Daugherty swore that Jasper county justly owed him $1.73 a day for “guarding*’ this man, and Messrs. Benjamin and McCullough, as Commissioners, allowed his bill.— Last Saturday, in sis office, in the presence of witnesses, 3lr. Benjamin tpld us that in addition to what the'county has paid him in this matter Mr. Daugherty has an account of thirty cents a day for

file against the McCarthy estate.— Thi s is the sublimity of fee-grabbing Extortion. The law (Ist Gavin <fc Hord, p. 310, c. 85, sec 4), provides that sheriff’s may have thirty cents a day, ibr “keeping”-prisoneis in civil actions, but Mr. Daugherty demands of the county, and receives, §1.73 a day for “guarding” and demands from the plaintiff ’thirty cents a day for “boarding,” or- for “keeping” this prisoner two i dollars and three cents a day L j But this is not an isolated case jof his fee-grabbing. Last March the Jasper Circuit Court and the Commissioners’ Court convened at the same time. The records of the Commissioners show that Sheriff Daugherty opened, their court and j was paid §ls for five days’ attend - | ance. The facts are : Ist. That he i opened court; 2d. He detailed Mr. ; Smoot to attend the Board, while lie peffbrmeffiiffirtesHmThe Circuit Court; 3d. He paid Mr. Smoot §5 for the week, and put into his own pocket $lO for services his deputy performed. it was either at that term i of court or a preceding one that ! Mr. Isaac Sayler (Sheriff Daughj erty’s father-in-law) testified ! that Mr. George M. Johnson, County Assessor, had employed him (Sayler) as Deputy Assessor and paid him §2 a day for his services, while he (Johnson) collected from the county §2.50 a day for the work. Mr. Johnson was fined §5. n Sheriff ■—— • . ■ ~ . ,/ . - • .. Daugherty knew of This cireumstance in his official capacity, yet afterwards committed a similar offense! A year ago last spring one of the justices of the peace at Remington committed a prisoner, who had been convicted of an offense against the laws of Indiana, into the custody of the sheriff Mr. Daugherty turned him over to Mr. Smoot. — That prisoner escaped and was never retaken, and probably neuer pursued. Mr. Daugherty’s friends reported that it was owing to Mr. Smoot’s carelessness that theprisoner got away, but we are told that three witnesses will testify that they know 7 Mr. Daugherty told" Mr. Smoot to let the man escape, because his keeping urns running up a bill against the county. Section 4of an act ’approved June 7tlf, 1§32, (2d GaviiT & Hord; page-rFS,)-say-s-t-hftt sheriffs - shall be responsible for the acts of ! their deputies as such. Section 43, page 471 second volume of Gavin & Hord, reads as follows: If any officer, whose duty it may be to have the custody of prisoners, charged with or convicted of any offense against airy law of tiiis state, shall negligently suffer any such prisoner to escape out ot his custody lie | shall be lined not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

I A special dispatch to the Chicago ; Tribune, from Lata)ette, says: | The Independent mass-meeting I on the third was the event of the ; campaign, being the largest in i point of numbers and the most ; enthusiastic assemblage thus far in i the campaign. Early m the forenoon the people commenced coining jin from the ..country, and, by 10 ! o'clock it became-evident that the j Independents of this vicinity are ; neither few nor ldjp. At 11 a profession was. formed ana paraded , through the city, led by the Star i City Band. Another part of the ! procession was led by the Dayton Band. Almost every wagon displayed a motto of some significance pertaining to the present eampaigip. Scattered through the procession were various representations of industry—husking corn, threshing grain, splitting staves, making cider, blacksmith’s forge, and a log cabin on wheels, which, with its occupants, looked fresh from the prairie. About 2p. in., the meeting was called to order by Mark Jones, Esq. Capt. Rice, of Lafayette, made the first speech, scoring both the Republican and Democratic parties fearfully. He was followed by the Rev. C. J. Bowles, Independent candidate for Congress from this district. He handled the questions at issue in a fair, earnest, and busiuess-like manner His speech was well received. He was evidently Tn favor with his audience. After the conclusion of his speech, Col. .Wilson was called for, and Responded in one of his characteristic speeches. He assailed the Administration in -unmeasured terms, and told the .farmers the fault was their own in having such men in power. They should not allow themselves to be led about by professional politicians when it is in their power to elect men who have full sympathy with their own peculiar views. Everything passed off pleasantly and very satisfactory to the parties interested. ' 1

The Chicago and South Atlantic Railway Company have secured the right-of-way bv an almost unanimous vote of the board of trustees, through the town ot Lake, near Chicago. It was stated before the board that over 880,000 was in hand to expend in the construction of eight miles at that terminus of the road as soon as the right-of-way was granted.— The work in' this county is progressing in a most satisfactory manner. Work, avp hear, has commenced at Dyer, and it will be but a few 7 weeks, at the rate the work now progresses, till the grading and bridging is completed between Lowell and Dyer, a distance of eighteen miles. The contracts have been closed for grading beo o tween Monticello and Delphi, and the work was to nave commenced this week, and to be finished in ninety days.— Lowell Star. A short time since the editor of this paper went to Chicago to see about purchasing supplements for the Herald, containing miscfflaneous reading matter, and he was informed that the Postal Law had ; been So construed that- letter posti age Avould have to be paid upon ; them unless part of them was printed in the office herein Crown Point. Now, ho*vever, nearly every Republican paper in the state is sending out 24-column supplements i Avithout the name of the paper even 1 being printed upon them, the said ! supplements being printed at the Journal office in Indianapolis. Do the papers pay letter postage upon them? Do they pay any postage upon theih at all? If not, why not?— Crown Point Herald. - The Fowle r Herald (Repub lie an) says that Benton county will giver i 500 majority against Jethro A. Hatch,-the Republican salary-grab-bing candidate for State Senator. It says: “We know four townships alone that will do that much, and yet these same townships will give 200 or iSGO majority ioy the Republican State ticket.” In another article it says: “We cite one township in this county that has 104 good and true Republicans in it, a thorough, careful canvass of the township reveals the fact that not.one man will vote for Hatch. “It this fraud on Benton county is . not l-iglitedUshe AVill give ,600 matjority for Mr Major.” S• t■ 1 1 a fixed detrmination lias taken hold of the people that they are as one man. resolved that economy shall be the rule, and not the exception, and t hat this law increasing salaries'shall be repealed. Go through a neighborhood and it seems- eveuv-rntHi j* for t tie clnde- | pendent movement. “We want,’’ they say, “no mure salary grabbers, no more eiglit-dollar-a-day-men —we want a man that will staml by the people, and stand fast, one that we can trust.”— Crown Point Herald. “I am doing good enough busii ness without advertising. ’’ No doubt you are doing well "enough for your present needs, but do you forget the panics, the exciting elections, the times of war or pestilence or any of those many causes which create dull terms ot business ? These must be calculated for and disco untied if you would bridge them o\ 7 er. One must make more than he needs, to make a fortune, and advertising is a powerful auxiliary in moneymaking. — Newspaper Reporter.

FARMERS’ FACTORY AT MONTICELLO. The undersigned having taken charge of the TIPPECANOE WOOLEN MILLS: have tbis season entered upon a “New Departure” in their line of business, and if sustained by the farmers will continue the same from year to year. We have employed the most SKIFFFUL WORKMEN, manufacture the VERY BEST GOODS, and propose to sell them exclusively to the cpnsumei, thereby saving to him all expense of passing the go ids through the hands of_ retail dealers. H e make every yard of goods toe sell, ana guarantee everything as represented. We have the past year T s productions now ready Tor the trade, in finer quality and lover prices than ever before offered in this community. We pay the HIGHEST PRICES FOR WOOL IN CASH OR GOODS. ' Come and see us and we guarantee you will opbivyour eyes in astonishment at the fine display of goods. Give u-s yOur trade, and we will save money for yon and make money for ourselves. , ■ Factory and salesroom at the east end of the old wagon bi idge over the Tippecanoo river, which is now free and in good repair. Monticello, Ind.. May. 1874. . , '\■ 35 3m *■ . - n.P.A'O.S. iVat.f.. --f 1 i.;V*..