Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — RENSSELAER, Ind., July 19th, 1877. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER, Ind., July 19th, 1877.

The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention will meet August Bth, I*7*7. The Republican Governors of Ohio and Wisconsin both decline nomiiia- J t.ion for re-election. Sign ificant! Six hundred superfluous people, mostly women, have been discharged from the printing bureau at Washing- ! ton. __ The Clerk of the National House of Representatives, we believe, places the Democratic majority in tliar. body nt 8. - _ Though repudiated by lowa, the banner Republican Sfate of the West, and cold-shouldered by New Hampshire, Hayes may console himself v.i;h the reflection that he has the » ndorseraent of Rhode Island. Grant’s late Navy Clerk, known ns | "Secretary Robeson,” recently held a j banquet—cost paid out of tin* steal- j ings—and Blaine attended, and was ' introduced by one of his lacqueys as the “mailed warrior,” and the Nashville American is so unkind a.s to inquire if it was Mulligan's mail {natter was meant —meaning them letters “our Jim” stole from Mulligan our readers Vj-ill remember In speaking of the indictment found against the returning hoard , rascals of Louisiana the, Journal says: ; “In the first place it shows that there ; is a class of democrats down there i "ho do not want peace nhd quiet.” They do not want perjurers and forgers to go unwhipt of justice, and if in punishing them those who got the stolen swag arc brought into unenviable notoriety so much the better. Perjury and forgery as well as treason must be made odious.” -Indianapolis Sentinel. The Louisiana Returning Board has been indicted in New Orleans for forgery and perjury, for their misdeeds in December lasr. They complain that this is a violation of faith, and that they were to have immunity as part of the adjustment which remitted the government of the State U> those legally chosen. There is ro truth in this. Immunity for mere political offenses was tacitly conceded, imt formed no special feature in the negotiations. Immunity for crime, fraud and perjury was never thought of-, and would not have been listened to. Let the ball go’on. The President seems to understand the situation pretty well. He said last week to a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial-. “There are men who are making a gr at' fuss about the Southern policy, when they don’t cure two cents wlmt the Southern policy is, so they got s nn iffiices to distribute. A Congressman, for instance, will promise a lot or local offices in his district in repayment for setting up a Convention and giving him a renomination. Under this vicious system we are likely to have indifferent Congressmen and bad Civil Service. The system works an evil both ways. Because I want to try to do something toward reformation in this particular, to divorce local politics Lorn Federal office-holding, there is an out-cry against the Southern policy from men who are ashamed to give the true grounds of their opposition to my Administration, for I am trying to carry out the Civil Service Reforms that we as Republicans have been promising so long. The Southerh policy is a fixed fact, and every day democrats declare it was the wisest course, all things considered, that could have been taken. Bui it is realty amusing to find this assailed by those who don’t really care anything about it, using it simply as a chunk to cover up their disgust for Civil Service Reform.”

The Rensselaer Union shows a difficulty there about the publication of the agricultural premium list, a seeming effort being made by the committee to deceive and wrong the Union and thus give the Sentinel the printiag.—Vidette. Thegentlemen composing the Board of Directors, Messrs. Geo. H. Brown, Wm. K. Parkison, Ira W. Yeoman, C. C. Starr, Norman Warner, Allen J. Yeoman, Charles Boroughs, Berry Paris, and David Nowles, me so well and favorably known, that Lhe showing of a “seeming effort,” on the part of the committee, “to deceive aud wrong the Union” has no weight. In this county, the showing of the Union is received as an exjxerted and appropriate display of disappointment and spite on the part of the consul, who foolishly imagines that he is entitled to and must receive special privileges and consideration. In this land of equal rights the masses do not entertain that idea, and it is about time Mr. James should /ease to cherish it.

“Justice” in the Laporte Chronicle says, speaking of Mr. Fraser, ex-post-master and applicant to be continued iu the office: “He (Fraser) was made the particular victim of the duplicity of our present member of Congress We do not forget that Major Calkins told Fraser aud others, af'er he had been to Washington and had an interview with the President, that he (Calk ns) had nothing whatever to dt with the appointment of posl-master at this city, and that, he was heartily glad to be relieved of the resj onsibility, and that Fraser would no doubt be entertained. We must not forgot that Calkins discouraged a number ol wor thy soldiers, and other aspirants, from making an effort before the I eople, Powell being the only man of them all that remained on the track. We will not forget that Calkins in the lae* of the above wrote to Washing-

ton when he sent Powell's petition ‘he should be glad to aid in the selection of a post master at Laporte.” He also afterwards wrote and recommended Powell very strongly fox the position, and secured his appointment regardless of the protests of our people.” And this is the man elected from this Congressional District over a gentleman of Dr. Huymond’s character, hour sty and ability. And the people of Jasper County, “do not forget” that Horace E. James aided in the election of Calkins after having taken part in the nomination of Haymond The Crown Point Star pays SSO for exclusive right to print the list of premiums for Lake county Agricultural Society, and both the Keg inter and Cosmos have consented that it be so. Vidette. That looks something like printing at “less than cost of the raw material.” Go for the Star, Bro. James. Gentlemen, usually, after having engaged in a newspaper follow the original text. Mr. James fails to do so when he attacks the personal character of Mr. Yeoman. Cornered, he can /reply to Mr. Yeo. man’s answer in no other way. In liis response to the feast tendered him in the attacks of the Laporte Herald upon the Laporte Chronicle, Mr. James displays the spirit of the “model man” as designated by the Valparaiso Vidette, but in his reply to Mr. Yeoman he exhibits the characteristics of the “mud-sucker.”

The Chicago Tribune says: “There is one thing by the way, that ex-Gov. Chamberlain forgot to mention in his Woodstock viz: That there have been no political murders in Louisiana and South Carolina since Packard and Chamberlain stepped aside, and that the negroes have not made any complaint of being maltreated or abused in any way. Can bo say as much for his own adminis tration ?

Editor Bentinil : In to-day’s “Union” appears a squib that indicates that Bro. James has “shot his wad.” Well, we are satisfied now, and we might-add that we are happy, because, you will observe, that the fire is withdrawn from the officers of the Society and directed toward me. And those “wads” are harmless, you know, when intended for an individual, and perhaps they are not dangerous when directed towards the Jasper county Agricultural and Mechanical Association. In the article above referred to he says, “Two things he (Yeonmn) seems to bo oblivious of.” “The first is, that half the energy devoted weekly to the duties of his official position would relieve the Secretary of the charge of inefficiency.” Well, there has no one made the charge except Bro. James, the truthfulness of which we are willing to submit to a “candid world.” Tha other thing be refers to is “experimenting with mixed beverages,” ‘ wrecking brilliant possil iiities” and scattering them along the shores “of a raging sea.”— Well, we know of no brilliant possibilities we ever had and scattered on cither side of the “briny deep.” We have been informed that Bro. James has had. and has now a few of t' ose possil ilities he had better watch or they may scatter; or, rather, are they not already'scattered, Horace? And did you not scatter a little when you penned the article? How about the motto of ths State of Kentucky?- “ United we stand; divided we fall.” Horace, this is acruel world. Don’t you “want to be an angel,” or County Clerk, or Deputy Auditor, or Postmaster, or, lust, but not least., a Consul'to the Guano Islands ? where yt u can ongags iu your favorite pastime of stirring up—well, tne great commercial product of the empire. Or, would you “rather be a dog and bay the moon?” Respectfully.

IRA W YEOMAN.

While Mr. Watterson, editor of the Courier-Journal, and Gen. Roger A. Pryor, two gallant ex-Confederates, "ore delivering memorial addresses on Thursday',in which they paid kihd and beautiful tributes to the valor and rectitude of the soldiers of both armies, advised oblivion of the animosity that existed during and since the war, and expressed the hope of a revival of good feeling between the sections. ex-Senator Boutwell, who was comfortable all through the war, was making a bloody-shirt speech, in which he exerted all his power to rekindle the hate which twelve years of peace have not been sufficient to appease. The addresses alluded to give a correct estimate of the feeling that actuate * the two political parties in the country.—Alexandria (Ya.)Gazette.