Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — The County Ticket. [ARTICLE]

The County Ticket.

For Prosecuting-Attorney, ALBERT E. CHIZUM, .of Newton County. For County Clerk, ESTIL E. PIERSON, of Union Township. For County Auditor, WILLIAM C. BABCOCK, of Marion Township. For County Treasurer, ROBERT A. PARKISON, Barkley Township. For County Sheriff, NATE J. REED, ■of Carpenter Township. For County Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE, of Carpenter Township. For County Coroner, TRUITT P. WRIGHT, of Marion Township. Commissioner Ist District. ABRAHAM HALLECK, x)f Keener Township. Commissioner 2nd District, SIMEON A, DOWELL, of Marion Township.

There is a good deal of fun and sarcasm, and to some extent, bitter’ ■censure, being levelled at the 500 or 600 militiamen who took advantage of Gov. Mount’s offer and went home from Camp Mount. In many cases, perhaps, this censure is deserved but in many other, cases it is not. There were so few men needed at this first call in comparison with the great numbers who wished to go, that any man whose family needed him badly, or whose business interests would suffer greatly, were justified in going home. For instance a young man who felt hurt at the indiscimmate criticism that the “quitters” have been , subjected to makes this statement in the Indianapolis News: “I have a wife and two children at home. I earn sl2 a week at my trade. 1 came into camp because the Governor commanded that the members of the National Guard should report here, and then elect as to whether they would enlist.

After I got here my impulse was to enlist, but my wife wrote me and nsked what was to become of her, wnd the children if I went away ••from home and earned only sl3 a month. There were, as it then appeared, hundreds of men anxious to go whose enlistment involved no sacrifice and who were without home obligations to detainthem; my presence was not demanded by the conditions. Now, I object to being criticised by the Governor because I went home.” Under such circumstances as these, surely all fair minded men will agree, the man was justified in quitting, and so wojild be any others in the same or similar circumstances. The mistake men in such circumstances make is in staying in the militia at all. Men' who do not. for family or business considerations, want to go to war when the war comes, ought, to stay out of the military organization.