Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1878 — PUBLIC MEETING! [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC MEETING!

The citizens of Jasper county, li re spective of party, who me opposed to the Resumption Law, ani in favor of the Remonenization or Silver, will hold a meeting on SATURDAY, JANUARY 19.1878, at 2 o’clooo, p. m., at the Court House, in Rensselaer, with a view to express their sentiments on the fluulicial condition of the country. Turn Out! One and All!! MANY CITIZENS.

Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton Fins been • looted United States Senator by the Ohio Legislature. It should not be forgotten that 103 Democrats and only 28'Republicans voted for the reoeal of fho Resumption act when it was put on its final puseage in the House of Representatives. ”No machinery of election,” said Pen. Butler, of Mass., in the recent debate in the House on the BdtordPattersou contest, “ought, ever to put ,-i man in office who has not been elect'd by the vote of the people.” Heavy on Hayes. Professor Smart, Superintendent of Public Instruction, has recommended to the trustees going out of office in April, and before the newly elected trustee is qualified, to do the assessing, us the law authorizss fhd school enumeration to be muddr between March 1, and April 15, 187 s/ The speech of Senatoi Vooiliecs in the Senate, last Tuesday is said to, • ••ome up fully to what was expected i of the great orator. ITis exposition ; and denunciation of Sl.< rumn's ineonisfeneies and financial theories drew j fotth rounds of applause from the | galleries; and his warning to the gold traders, in their averieious grasping /or the possessions of others not to overleap themselves, foi in that they, might fail and in addition I‘se their own, was heartily applauded.

It was deemed advisable by the Democratic and Independent, meeting recently held in this place that a convention of all voters of Jasper eounty, of whatever political persuasion, either past or present, who are opposed to the ruinous management, if the radical republican party, be • •ailed to organize a County Central (’ommiftee, and to transact such other business as usually cutties before ,-uch conventions; and accordingly, On motion, Saturday, March 2d, 1878, was fixed upon as the day for fielding said convention, the meeting to be held in the court-house at 1 o’clock P. M. of said day.

The Indianapolis Herald. Rfpubli- , vn,u, says: “The'Demoeruts pavo tak- ■ on the bulge on the soft money lunacy and their triumph in this State at the next election is a foregone conclusion, if the Republicans had the ghost of a chance for the State election, they j could afford to throw it away for the -ake of being consistently right iu 1880. But they huve not. tic ghost of a chance and there is not even the poor excuse of policy for going wrong now.” The Newport Hooeier Staj e takes a despondent view of the situation. It says: “If the Republican State Convention refuse to engraft a resolution i in the platform demanding the repeal nl the resumption net, and that silver fie remonetized, makrngit payable for ill debts, both public nod privat , the , Democracy will snow us under next October by ai least 20,(KM majority.” The Martinsville Gazette, ra Heal, says: “No party in Indiana e.nu succeed on a ‘hard money platform.’ If any party should bej foolish enough to try it, it would bo the worst whipped oarty the history of the State Juts ever produced.” And any party that considers the intnrests of the money power as of greator moment than keeping faith with the people should be snowed un • ler so deep that* no resurrection, co'd restore it.

The Peru Republican don’t like the 'Life of Morton,” as published by the proprietor of an Indianapolis new - paper. The Republican speaks of the book as follow,: In size and appearance it resemblbs some elegant edition of a “second reader” more than the biography of a great statesman. The binding is ap patently substantial and the print is (dear, but tie book contains little more matter than some of the newspapers contained in their obituary notices of Senator Morton. And the fact that it is published in the interest of a newspaper is advertised conspicuously on the outside ot the cover! — The hook might be dignified by the title of a biographical sketch* or outline, of the public history of the subject it commemorates, but is too- im significant for the “biography”- of so busy, active and notable a man and statesman as Oliver P. Morton.