Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — Page 2

FRIDAY, ajShl 12,1878,

Democratic State TickEt.

SKCUBTARY OF STATE. JOHN G. BHAFKLIN,of Vaoderborg. AUDITOR or ETATE. MAHLON D. MANSON, of Montgomery. TREASURER OF STATE. WILLIAM FLEMING, of Allen. ATTOBHEV GENERAL, THOMAS W. WOOLEN, of Johnson. EVFIRIXTENDEST OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. JAMES H. SMART, of Allen.

INDEPENDENT CREENBCK MASS CONVENTION!

A mass convention of the In.’epend-<-tit Greenback voters of Jasper county will be held at the Court House in Rensselaer, Indiana, on Saturday. April 20th, 1878, at 10 o'clock F. M. Ist. To select delegates to the In<ie pendent Greenback State Convention. 2nd. To select tielegates to the Independent Greenback Congressinal Convention, for the Tenth District. 3rd. To select tielegates to the Independent Greenback Senatorial Con vention, f >r th- Twenty-fourth District. 4th. To select delegates to the Independent Graenbaek Representative Convention, for the Forty-fifth Ids 1 rict. sth. To fix the time and place for holding an Independent Greenback county Convention to nominate a county ticket. Cth, To organize an Independent Greenback County Central Committee, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the c invention. All vot* rs who are opposed to the financial policy of the democratic and republican parties, as defined in their j ittonal idatform, and who arc in 1 .vor of the principles enunciated in the platform of the National Green Lick party, are cordially invited to be [■resent. Titos. Borrotghs, O B. Mclntire, Sampson Erwin, Parley Finney, Wm. C Pierce, Jed. D. Hopkins, Sam'lW.Ritchey, Hope B. Miller, Henr ’ Welsh, Elliot R. Bi rk, James Peffley, Arthur Clinton, I Javid V. G arrison, Wm McGlynn, John M. Helmick, B W. Harrington, John H. Shields, Abe. Sparling, Joseph Bray, B F. Shields, Chas. P. Hopkins, H. Z. Leonard, Sam’l M. Black, Jacob Owens, William Major, Lorenzo Tinkham, j Charles H. Price, Jessie Wilcox, George H. Brown, William Beck, and others. At Indianapolis, Sunday inorn’ng, William Bradley was arrested for burglary, taken before the .mayor Monday morning, and bound over before the grand jury. Before 11 o’clock that body had found an iodictment against him. and he was taken befoie Judge Buskirk and given five years in the penitentiary. Quick work. Bro. James talks very flippantly 1 abouta“demoeratic county-seat ring," In the coniie of the canvass there may be several chapters written ! about rings We have the material,) and in due time there will be a howl- ' ing among the hosts of Africa, The ! allusion of the Union to rings is ini very bad taste —very, It is a boome- ; rang, certain, “We (the open countenanced would- i be imitator of Nnsby, whose lovely profileembelishes our Ntisby-like productions) coaxed the republicans to vote against Babcock and Clark who were crippled by democratic bullets,” and you too, dear Horace, sought to be the opponent of Mr. Clark, for whom you now profess so much sympathy, and you either voted against the crippled Babcock for whom you shed so many crocodile tears, or belied your declarations. Poor fellow, how profusely he melts. Babcock’s loss did not prove his gain, ami he sincerely melts. He would, no doubt, melt away if h« knew what little faith his readers placed in bis protestations. They are acquainted with his political chess-board, remember the moves he made, and the stakes for which he played. Bro. James, your ear a minute! When you say wo figured conspicuously in the Bradford convention two years ago. you 1- fib like h— thunder. The fact is Mr. Brown was per sonally our choice, but then we had no part in the convention. However, you would have “sat down" upon Mr. 8,, had he received the nomination. You possibly intended wed, but then things didn’t conspire to work out foi you “a more exceeding weight o! glory,” and you flopped! That flop would have proved disasterous to Mr. Brown, and in that event what could you say in extenuation? We believe you are a friend of Mr. B’s., notwithstanding that little allusion about the officials of the agricultural associa- ' ion associating with blacklegs, gamblers, pimps and thieves, etc., and everlasting. But then you'were grieved because they would not pay you a izig borin'; for their printing. CircumitMDcea arc extenuating. Don’t you whh you were our cousin? Th® ra/ls inz.ongicsi, and in the administrative department of Government, have had n.my positions to dispose of, and might hav.« done handsomely with Gen. Shields, who is deserving •vjthout re'eretiec to hi/. party affiliations, but they never could sec it until an opportunity tiresented to manufacture a litt|y oheap political capital. The other day, they a*tempt<•4 to impress upmi the democrats ol the Mouse thy nceessiiy and propriety

■of electing him for doot keeper. The democratic members of that body, I however, considered that Gen. Shields was more deserving a place and pay j on the retired list than many cow I placed there, and it would be better and more in harmony with right towards the gallant General of two I wars, and immediately put radicals to the test. The bill passed the House I by a large majority, but in the Senate it met with partisan factions opposition from radicals of the Edmunds strife. “The greenback was of republican birth, and republicans will take good care of a child that has been so serviceable.”— Union. Well. yes--it was of republican i birth, but it has had a very unnatural ) parent. It was “farmed out” by its ; authors, depreciated in the hands of the people, but was made valuable by ths unnatural parent to the money sharks. That parent permitted it to { be used, at par, in t le purthase of bonds, but would not permit it to be used in the »edeniption of the same. By this means it has been made to ; operate disastrously with the people. Besides, Bro. James, you remember i only u ;very few y *ars ago you and ' yours taunted and jeered it with be ing a “rao baby!” How unnatural!— I and now you would take care of it ; would you? Well, you’ll not be peri mitted to do so. To-day, your party 1 is opposed to it, and in your opposiI tion to it you are but carrying out i the behests of the paity. The allusion to the stand taken by the Indiana ) delegation, is a little bit of sarcasm. 1 Everybody knows it is “policy” that dictates their action. A few short I years ago, when you voted (if you did) tor George Major, and Charley Price, ! and Henry A. Barkley, and against ) Mr. Clark and tho cripple, Babcock, ' you were possibly in favor of greenbacks, but you were more in favor of Horace E. James. I _ The Sentinel, the able democratic organ at the native home of ourself and Hon. J. B. Belford, ex-member of congress from Colorado, copies the following extract of a recent contribution of Mr. B. to the discussion of finance, fro ji the Neic York Observer: I “And now, in conclusion, permit me to say tiiat the disease of this nation to-day is its vast indebtedness; its indebtedness growing out of the war; its indebtedness incurred by bad speculations ami unprofitable ventures; its indebtedness born in the fever of extravagance for foreign silks, velvets, laces, and gewgaws; its indebtedness incurred in the constructing of railroads managed adversely to the interests of those who paid for their construction; indebtedness contracted in erecting gorgeous church tern pies where religion has every grace except the heart. For this disease experience can suggest < ut one cure industry, economy, and time. This cure disregarded, the fever and deletion! will incieas until universal bankruptcy overtakes us all. This cure applied, though slow, will be absolutely certain.” To make recovery “absolutely certain," further steps will be required. “Jim” should also have recommended the complete and absolute abolition of all thieves in the employ of the Government, and the co-operation of the radical Senate and administration with the democratic House in its effort- to ieduce the expenditu.es; and 1 then the recovery by the Government of vast sums stolen. Add to this the policy of paying the public debt according to the original contract, thus dealing honestly with the people, and justly with the money changers. These recommendations added to “industry, economy, and time,” will eventually bring relief, but nothing short of these.

MR. VOORHEES. While <>u ii visit to his home at Terre Haute, re I •ceutly. addressed his fellow citizens on the finau. 1 cial issues, aud lhe responsibility of parties. W e i make the following extracts: Tiie uppermost theme at the present time in j tin- public mind is the distressed condition of the country. It has been iu my mind constantly; it is henidon ail sides, aud I have discussed it somewhat iu my place iu congress. I propose to-night to speak of the responsibility of parties, aud to consider the attitude of the parties at present. I stand to-night, as 1 have stood for years—for lite democratic party; and iu saying that, 1 speak with tiie utniuet kindness and respect ol all other parties. J have lived to that time in life when 1 •>ppredate, my friends, tiiat the motives ol all par- , les are patriotic. '1 he Amencux people, wi o;h. r , iney are Known by one party name or anoti er, as I a genera) rule, desire the public good, aud are , struggling to obtain the same result, the hetter- ] meut of our condition. So that when 1 say I : stand lor lhe democratic party to-night, I do it as i a man claiming simply what I concede to cveryI body else; but 1 have said this for a purpose, aud I wish to say to-night, tuy democratic neighbors and friends, that you and I can congratulate our--elves thai iu no sense are we responsible for the .lark clouds tiiat lower upon this laud. [Applause.] 1 intend to consider THE KEHI-ONSnill.lTY OF PARTIES, ! somewhat, because I know how sore and restless I oecouies the heart of man under trial, and this soreness aud restlessness afilicts democrats sometimes as well, as those of other parties. It has been seventeen years, gentlemen, since the democratic party has had the power either to enact a iaw or defeat a bill in the American congress. So that, without dwelling upo-s the calamities and miseries tiiat have alllicted the laud, and have brought bankruptcy, miser.* aud want, I say that every bit of it lias arisen without your complicity or mine; every law on the statute books ou tire great paramount question now in the public mind, tire finances, has Deen enacted by our republican friends. Not one was ever placed there by democratic votes. The law of 1862, that founded the uatioual debt, originating the bonded system; the iaw which changed the contract in 1869 from the wall known terms, by which the people could have paid this debt iu the same money with which they paid lire soldier lor ills life and blood, that law and all subsequent legislation that has brought paralysis. ruin, distress aud misery upon the land, is to ou charged uot to you aud myself, my democratic Irieuds. thank God. It would be a load 1 would not w tit to hear. It is to be charged to the repubi. in party. And in saying this 1 say nothing unkiu .co my republican nergauors. lam speaktug of those who have been iu power aud have abused power, and against whom vour wrath is turned to-night perhaps as strongly as mine. I'here is one parly, anil ONE PARTY ALONE, that has brought afllction to the poor man in this country. Tell me where, t 11 me when, the democratic party has had the power to shape the financial policy of the country. Tell me where aud tell me naeti it uas by any vote fastened any of these evils upou lhe country, aud th.u 1 will be prepared to listen to men who are saying that our shirts are stained with wrong and crime as well us the skirts of the republican party. American history upon this subject is plain. The money loving, money getting power of the United States have changed tiie laws when they did not suit them. They have done this, not by democratic votes, but in spite of them.and 1 challenge a single instance in the record ol the country to the contrary, so that I feel that iu standing as I stood iu the senate of the United States during the last winter 1 uave been acting iu harmony with the record of tiie democratic party in opposing from the beginning tua financial policy that has brought Xi your homes the misery with which you are afflicted. [Applause.] When men ask me whether, in taken tne stand I have taken, I expect toremain iu tne democratic party (and 1 have been written to on tuat point) 1 tell them that when this issue was first made in 1866. and made by a democrat. Geo. H. Pendleton, 1 took my stand in that year and canvassed Indiana upon it. uud ' again iu 1868. I never made such a canvass in n<y 111.- as 1 did of this district upou tliutsubject. when i 1 i-jirried it by about 150 majority, overcoming a | republican majority of about 1,500. 1 have made . my record inside the democratic party. Do I need i io go outside ol the democratic part v to sustain u I have made within its ranks, upou this great question during the past twelve years, cxer 1 -im-e it was inaugurated? 1 think not—l think I that what 1 have built tip as a democrat I can ; •liiml by ns a democrat. [Applause.j But, mv I leilow citizens, while it is sometimes said that I .ndlaiia Is all right, and while the humble speak- ; :r who is ail<lr<-.siHg you is all right, we do not .snow •vn-im-r w? i-i ! trust to th-fntnre; we do

i net know whether we cm treat thia pabiic man or that, and suBH-umos 1 have heard It said they du not know WUZTHEB TSET CAM TRUST M. Thia always cornea from men who have been ac' tire upon wbat is called the greenback policy only about two years. I tell them lam a pioneer. I Marled eat oa that line when moat of them were denouncing and battling the democratic party. 1 reared aloft the banner in thia district, when you who are now loudest in saying vou cannot treat me were lighting to atwtaia the republican party in all its enonnotta legislation that has now brought ruin and desolation to the country. I think, gentlemen, if I could treat them they might trust me. [Applause.] But, mv fellow citizens, let ua take a little broader view of thia question. Democrats are appealed to and approached often in thia way: while Indiana is all right, and while certain public men are all right, still the national democratic party cannot be trusted on this question. The great national democratic party is ' NOT IN UNISON upou it. You must remember that the democratic party is a very large part. It would be strange if there was not some variety of opinion. What is th- vote of the United states? In 1870 the American people polled 8.00,000 votes. Us these votes the democratic party polled four million, two hundred and some odd thousand. They cast 150.000 votes more than the republican iiarty. They cast 75.000 votes more than were cast lor the other candidates combined. Four millions and a quarter of men comprised the democratic party at the last election. It will be over five millions next time. [Applause.] As 1 have aald. we have not bad power in the federal congress for 17 years; but let us see what progress we have been making in opposing the republican party, which has brought the country to its present condition. Have we made progress, my democratic brethren ? Are yon satisfied mat we are approaching power, and that we will soon enter into the fruition of all our hopes, or are we so far from accomplishing auytliiug that you must look in some other direction? Last October, a year ago, we uot only polled more votes than all other parties put togethor, as I have said, but out us the 37 States of this Union there were 21 in which there are democratic governors. But. say you, are you harmonious in principle? Reasonably so. [Applause.] 1 tell you here to-night, upou my personal responsibility. that if it be true that eastern influences have, in times gone by, shaped the policy of the democratic party, the engine is now reversed and TUI WEST AND SOUTH W.U O.IVEBM and shape the ptMicy of the democratic party as evinced ny recent votes that I saw recorded thia winter. The great agricultural valley of the Mississippi is united now, from the everlasting snows of its fountain to the everlasting summer of its mouth. When the votes came this winter I watched them closely, and saw the great valley states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan, these norteweutern states upon these great questions of domestic economy aud the policv of our home afl'airs, easting their votes almost, if not entirely, solidly togeteer, enough so to insure the future control of the democratic partv in the interests of the laboring people of the Ouited States. But (t is not sectional; no, gentlemen, in that respect even it will not be sectional. The democratic patty of Pennsylvania, in its heart, stands just as you do te-night. Aye, further, and I speak wyrds that will go beyond your ears, seven-tenths ot the voting population of New York, and more than half of New England, thia night on these questions that are now paramount in the public mind—the questions of finance —the questions of luxation, the policy that should our relations to our public creditors, stand to-night as we do, and I have reason to know it. Instead of being a disunited partv, the democratic party is substantially X UNITED PARTY. The majority has declared itself, and as we. when we were in the minority in national conventions, have submitted and gone together for a common fob a common purpose, so will those that are outnumbered now. bv the policy I speak of, governed by tne west and the south.'submit, and 1 predict such a movement oi the people under the policy ol‘ the democratic party, from this time forward, as has not been seen, tny old friends, since Jackson made his war on tke money power in the name of the people. [Applause.] I have shown you the popular vote of the democratic partv. 1 have shown you the number of siutes which we control. How have we obtained this ascendency ? It has been by antagonizing thet party by whose policy, and whose policy alone, the country has been brought to its paralyzed and distressed condition. Two years ago last December one branch of Congress became democratic for the first time in fifteen years. Listen to me. if there is a dissatisfied democrat here to-night. It was then for the first time that any serious agitation of financial reform aud financial relief commenced in high places of power. Says some one. perhaps: ‘‘You fell short of your duty, even then. - ' When you consider tiiat the senate was overwhelmingly republican at that time you could not expect one branch of congress to bring you relief from the evils which the republican partv had piled up in fifteen years. [Speaker here referred at some length to the work oi the democratic house in reducing expenditures, aud the opposition by the republican senate.] But that was not all; for the first time in the history of the government A VOICE WAS RAISED in congress against the financial legislation of the republican party. It came in this wav: In January. 1875. the republican party met in caucus. They had omniscience, and could see. as they thought, as far as the Almighty. They thought by January. 1879. you would be able to pay all your debts In gold. They had already stricken down the silver dollar, and left only the gold dollar as a legal tender, and they looked into the bosom of the future and saw down the stream of time to to the first day ot January. 1879. and sold that all of the American people that were in debt upon that day would be ready with a gold dollar to pay every dollar they owed. So they drew up a bill known as the act lor the resumption of specie payments. The next day they brought that act in from the caucus room, and so far as the senate was concerned it lay over one day under an objection made by a democratic senator. That is all he could do; and the next day the republican majority took it up aud passed it; se tmt when tlh democratic congress met in the fol lowing December that law was on the statute book. But before that democratic congress adjourned it passed a bill to repeal thia resumption act, and sent the bill to the republican senate, where it died of course, the senate adjourning without any action. That was the first move in the right direction. Silver had been demonetized, and a democratic member from Indiana, Franklin Landers, of Indianapolis, to his honor be it said.'iutroduced a bill to restore the old silver dollar. The truth is the subject wss not very well understood then bv anvbody but those who were interested in striking ‘it down. It had been done in such a SURREPTITIOUS AND SNEAKING WAY that not one congressman in ten knew how it was down; and even the congress in which Mr. Landers offered this bill didn't take it up aud act upon it. but fliey did upon the other question of the repeal ol the resumption act. Tho repeal of therefiumptiou aat is really a more important measure than the restoration of the silver dollar. The proposed resumption oi specie payment was a threat to a 1 the business of t tie country, and provided forasvstemof contraction tiiat was destroying the money of the people. No greater crime can be coniinilted on earth than for a government toabstract from its own people the currency that is in their hand-, aud whice is needed for the lives of their wives and childreu and for the prosperity of their homes.— jiurdcr is light ih csuipansou with it; for all' the crimes follow such a state of affairs. This measure then —the resumption act—was so tar as the Democratic party could do it repealed two years ago and sent to the republican senate; and had the republican senate been inspired bv the same love of right aud justice aud by the same devotion to the people's rights and interests as the democratic house, that bill would have been wiped fram the statute books two years ago aud business would have revived. The speaker here referred to the action of THE PRESENT HOUSE of representatives on the financial question, and said that h irdiy two weeks had passed after the meeting oi the house until again the democratic party in the house of representatives repealed the resumption act that was cursing the country, and it was scarcely two w<ecs until the same democrat.c house passed a bill saving that the people should again have the old silver dollar. The speaker had referred to the amendment of the above bill in the senate. He said that he fought for free and unlimited coinage. I don t believe we will get too much money. Taut is mv judgment. Ido not believe we ever had too much. I do not believe there was ever any need of contraction. I believe the people of Terre Haute were happier, better off, less oppressed with care aud anxiety when the currency was. as they say now, inflated. So, gentlemen, on the restoration of the silver dollar, I was not alarmed as to the danger of there being too much of it. Let the democratic paaty grt into power in both branches of congress, aud you will see bills passed without limitations that will bring substantial relief to the country. The senate is a republican body, but on the fourth day of next March, even though you should lose a democratic senator in Indiana (it does not depend on that) the senate will be democratic as well as the house. [Applause.] The die is cast, the edict has gone forth, that on the fourth of March the democratic party will take possession, without a contingency. Thep I will be willing for the party to be tested; then I will be willing for the responsibility to come. Thus far vou can form only an imperfect judgment. Thus'far you can only say that the democratic party where it has been trusteu has done the best it could. It' could not bring relief, for it has uot had full power. W hen we obtain both branches of congress | then we will be ready to MEET FULL RESPONSIBILITY, I and I am not afraid to meet the responsibility- I ! am not afraid but that will be met with courage . wisdom and goodness; I am not afraid butthat the policy of the government will be placed perI inanently on the side of the industrious interests ' of the land, on the side of the toiler aud the pro- ] ductr; for the wealth ol this country arises from ; those who labor on the land and on the sea, and a government that docs not place its policy on their side and in their interests is accursed of God aud ought uot to stand. [Great applause.] Aud, gen- , tleinen, we will succeed uot only in obtaining I ccntrol of the legislative department of the govI vernineut on the 41h day of March next, but do not I be mistaken about the signs ol" the times; the I steady march of this old party, that has won a popular majority over all other parties combined, . that survived defeat and won its way back to vici tory and the confidence of the people, bv its sub--1 lime patience and wisdom, which has won not I merely a popular majority, but a majority of the i state government buck from radical ruld, witl iu- ; augurate the next president of the United States. , [Applause.] We elected one president, but we j lulled to inaugurate him. Next time we will elect and inaugurate, too. AV e will lake western mate- . rial next time, aud a western man goes in when i he knows that he hits a right to go in. [Applause.] And then, my friuuds, one and all. you sore-heart- . cd, oppresseu, distressed and honest men of the I democratic party. I believe will have reason to thunk God tor a beneficent administration of your i government iu the interests oi the people; not of I the rings of the money power, of banks aud the ; money changers, but «>f lhe people. THE SILVER BILL. Four mouths ago the democratic house passed I that bill. It came to the finance committee of the ■ senate about the time I became a member of that ; committee. A good while was occupied iu the ! dimension of the silver bill.during which time there ' was a truce on all other questions. The silver bill passed some live or six weeks ago. and since i that every effort has been made consistent with . propriety to pbtain a report from the finance committee on the house bill to repeal the resumption ! act. as yet without success. I hope to have better success next week. lum going back immediately to resume my efforts in that direction. 1 ■ Hunk the bill for the repeal of the r aumpth-nact ! w.H puss the s'-uaf . But the man in tile white

botiM. who is keeping house for Tilden—w. not for Tilden, hut for the next man, and A BBTTKB MAN THAN KITMBH of them—l hope [applause and laughter]. General Hayes, will veto the bill aa ite did the sliver bill. Then, my friends, I have great fears aa to whether we have two thirds iu the senate to pass it over the veto. But if we bad a democratic senate we would do it. [Applaus.] Now, my feHow-citi-zena, there arc other matters in lhe democratic platform of the State of Indiana of which we nave reason to lie proud, and nothing should deter us from closing up the ranks aud lighting our battles to the end, encouraged with the certainty of success before us. May I say that there is no other organization that has the shadow of a prospect for years and years of entering Into power and accomplishing anything. My good Irieuds us lhe national party, may I say this to you: Eighteen mouths age—aiid 1 respect you with all my heart- you cast HI.UUU votes lor Peter Cooper at an election in which tjje democratic party cast fifty times as many and more. Now, even conceding that YOU HAVE COKKZCT PRINCIPLES (in many respects you have)—if we have correct principles, with nearly live millions us vutes, with both branches of congress on the fourth ol next March, and a certainty with the record we have made in the right direction on these great questions of popular relief, with a popular mvjuriiv that is certain to elect the next president, I Ih‘lisve that 1 have a better right to ask vou most kiudiy, must respectfully lu co-operate with us than you have to ask us to go with v hi. [Great Applaus.] I believe 1 have a tx-ller' pros|>eci to show to you than yon have to show to us. I believe I can show you the goal of popular relief, nearer in sight than you can. I l»eliv.c 1 can show and have shown you facta that can justify your confidence that when we reach that goal we will carry out the pledges we are making to you both in Indiana and elsewhere. I return in a few days to my duties. I had no expectation when I left Washington of making a political speech; and when my kind and partial friends here desired me to talk some to the people, in casting about in mv mind as to what I should say, I thought perhaps I could say nothing more useful than what I have said here to-night. 1 have said it in that way in which a man talks who is just recovering from an excessively severe cold. 1 thank you most kiudlv for your attention.

SPECIAL DEPOSITS IN BANKS.

A QuMtlon m to Thoir Liability to Taxation in Certain •"•Opinion ot the State Auditor. The following correspondence on the subject of taxation of special deposits in banks will be found of public interest: Fowler, Ind., April 4, 1878. Hon. E. Henderson, Auditor of State, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dear Sir —At the last session of the Newton circuit court a judgment was taken against one Edward C. Sumner, of Benton county, on change of venue to Newton county, for the sum of i $175. Said judgment was taken as a j fine imposed on said Sumner for fail- ) ure to list certain money for taxation. ' During tne trial the following facts were developed: That some tim? in September or October, 18G2, the said Sumner placed on special deposit at the National State bank of Lafayett“, Ind., the sum of twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000) in silver coin; that the said coin remained on deposit as | the property of said Sumner until March 4, 1874, and on last said date the said Sumner sold the said money to one William B Fowler, his (Sumner's) son-in-law; that said Fowler left said money on deposit in said bank up to the time of said trial; that ! neither ;he sai l Sumner nor the said ) Fowler ever listed the said money for taxation while it remained on deposit ) at said bank. The money was not i placed to the credit of either Sumner or Fowler on the books of said bank, j but merely lay in the vaults of the same. Now, what I desire to know is this: ' Can I charge each of said parties with taxes on said amount of money on ; our duplicate for 1877 to an amount i equal to the taxes, penalty and interest on said money for the years it was owred by them? Please send irst.ruc iot s how to proceed in the pr - rn l ses, as it is rather an tinu ual proceeding. and Ddo not like to under- : t»Ke it withaut I am, respectfully yours, Jamks S. Bradley, Auditor Benton county. the decision. Indianapolis, April 8. i Jas. S. Bradley, Esq , Auditor of Ben- I ton County: Dear Sir: Yours us the 4th inst. in ) reference to E. C. t-umner’s failure to : report certain money, etther in posses- i sion or depo:it with banks. Is subject ' to taxation, unless it be greenbacks, and can only escape by perjury. As a | special deposit and not appearing up- I on the bank books, it is money in possesssion and must be reported for ) taxation. If Mr. Sumner sold his mo- ■ ney to Mr. Fowler and it remained on I special deposit, it would be taxable to ) Mr. Fowler, and Sumner would be taxable on Mr, Fowler’s obligation or proceeds of the sale. This money, in my judgment, is liable for taxation each year since it was placed in the bank, and you are legally authorized to place it on the books as delinquent taxes in the aggregate, adding 10 per cent, penalty for each current year’s i taxes, together with 6 per cent, inter- i est compounded annually. Very re- i

spectfully,

Auditor of State.

Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria.

These dreadful diseases have all times and places for their own, any suggestions for avoidance and of precaution are never out of place. This prompts us to reprint in our columns the following recommendations, in a circular from the Brooklyn Board of Health, called out by the prevalence of these diseases in that city, for their sanitary treatment. “Scarlet ftjyer and diphtheria are like small-pox in their power to spread rapidly from person to person; they are highly coutageous. When scarlet fever or diphtheria occurs, sick persons should be placed in a room apart from the other inmates of the house, and should be nursed by as few persons as possible. The sick room should be comfortably warm, exposed to sunlight, aud well aired. At .he cominencement of the sickness only such furniture, bedding, clothes, &c., as are absolutely necessary should be left in the room. Carpets and window curtains should especially be removed, as the germs of disease find a lodgment in them, aud are difficult to displace. The family should not mingle with other people. The clothing and bedding of nurss and patient should be frequently changed, and after being moistened with a solution of carbolic acid, placed in boiling water for one hour.’ No other clothing or bedding should be washed at the same time with that which is infected. The clothing and bedding while in use, and the carpets, floors, walls, and ceilings, and the halls of the house should be sprinkled once or twice a day during sickness and convalescence wish a solution of carbolic acid. When the patient has recovered, the walls of the room should be rubbed with a dry doth, burned at once without shaking. The ceiling should be scraped and whitened. The floor should be washed be washed with soap and hot water, and carbolic acid added to the water (one pint to three i gallons.) for the purpose of fumigating, the I windows and doors of the room and the flreplaee should be tightly closed. Everything that was in the room during the sickness should be left in it. If the carpet was not removed, it should be taken up and raised as far as possible from the floor on chairs, or in any other manner; one board of the floor should be taken up."

There is danger in scarlet fever as long as there is any roughness or peeling off of the skin, and diphtheria until the patient is declared free of the disease by the physician. The Sauitory code of Brookly forbids public funerds in case of death 1 from these diseases, and requires a thorough inspection, and if necessary a quarantine of the premises where they do occur. From the New York Sun we quote the ennexed paragraphs bearing upon this topic, and suggst that this whole matter be preserved by the reader against the evil day, (and may it never come), any of their households may be invaded by either of them: “Ignorant persons often have the funeral services conducted in the room in whch the patient died, and with the coflin open. They even bend over and kiss the infected corpse. Thirty or forty persons are thus exposed to contagion, and the practice has proved u fruitful source of disease. Kissing the sick-'Children is a! great, mistake—a surer way of catch- • ing the infection could not be devised. This is an important point, as the great majority of cases being among children, their parents aie apt to sonI die them. The kiss may not infect i the parent, but tne infection may ' thereby be carried to the next child. In regard to medical treatment of diphtheria there is much disagreement. Some favor local applications, others dose their patients. Dr. E. N. Chapman, an old physician of Brooklyn, who has devoted many years to the study of diphtheria, and who has had much success in his practice recommends the administration of alAlchohol, he says, is a poison antagonistic to the poison of diphtheria. He avers that the percentage of deaths can be reduced to one in fifty. It neutralizes, he says, the diphtheritic poison, sets free the nerves of animal life, subdues the fever and inflamtnaj tion, destroys the pabulum that sustains that membrane, rind cuts short i the disease. Like any other antidote ! it must be given promptly at the out--1 set. It does not as a stimulant, nor ; produce any of its ordinary effects, i Dr. Chapman sustains his position by ■ citing numerous cases in which this i treatment has been successful. He , says that during the past winter he i has only lost one ease out of forty.”

Mrs- Douglas and the Backwoodsmen.

During the life of the Little Giant there was no wife in America more devotea to a husband’s interests than the slender little beauty whom Douglas won for his second, after he had well start-id on the road to fame. A politician, an intriguer, a diplomat, she lent the aid of her woman’s tact to the cause of her leiege lord. She traveled with him on his electioneertours; she showed her sweet face at the country hustings; she kissed the country babies and praised the ruddy cheeked girls; she listened to the coarse jokes of the backwoodsmen, and took no offense at their honest familiarity; she reigned a very queen in his elegant home in Washington; she advised with wisdom, she counseled with shrewdness. I have heard that once while in the cars, two gentlemen having heard her ’mention to a passing friend that she was on her way from Washington to Pennsylvania, asked her if she had lived in Washington long. “Several years,” she replied. “Well, how is Douglas getting on now? I’ve heard that he was going to the dogs, drinking and carousing.” “I think you have been misinformed. I am sure his habits are no worse than they have been heretofore.” The gentleman during the conversation told many scandals that had been circulated relative to the sena tor from Illinois; the lady heard them with calmness, sometimes asserting that things they said were not correct, at other times answering that she knew nothing of the follies they discussed. “Your names, gentlemen?” said the traveler, sweetly, gathering her things together, at her jerney’s end. The names were given. “To whom aie we indebted for our present hour’s conversation?” returned the enraptured gents. The lady handed them each a card, on which v.uis the name “Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas.” I heard one of the gentleman relate this incident. “Maybe we didn’t feel mean,” he said. "Maybe I wouldn’t run a mile any time to keep from meeting that angelic wife of Douglas’. Maybe I didn’t learn a lesson that day; I rather think I did.”

The democracy of the state of In diana assembled in delegate convention declare: That national bank notes shall be retired, an I in lieu thereof, there shall be issued by the government an equal amount of treasury notes withfulllegal tender quality. That we are in favor of making the United Staff’s notos, commonly called greenbacks, a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except such obligations only as are by the terms of the original contracts under which they were issued, expressly payable in coin. That the right to issue paper money as well as coin is the exclusive prerogative of ihe government, and such money should be issued in such amounts as the sound business interests of the country may from time to time require. We are in favor or such legislation by congress as will authorize the taxation by the states of the United States notes in common with all other money. That we deem it unwise and inexpedient to enact any further legislation for the funding of the national debt abroad, through the means of home syndicat or other methods; and we belicvt the true policy of the government ami the best interests of the people would be subservod by legislating so as to distribute said debt among our people at home —affording them the most, favorable and practical opportunities for the investment of their savings in the funded debt of iheUnited States. That we are in favor of such legislation which shall fix the legal rate of interest at not exceeding six per centum per annum. We demand the restoration of the silver dollar, of 412| grains, to the coin of the country, and with full legal tender quality in the payment of all debts, both public and private; ami that the coinage thereof shall be unlimited, and upon the same terms and conditions as may be wrovided for the coinage of gold. That we are in favor of the immediate and unconditional repeal of the resumption act. We are in favor of thef most rigid economy in public expenditures, and we declare that the fees and salaries ot all oublic officers should be reduced. That we are in favor of the repeal of the bankrupt act. That we sincerely deplore the recent violent collision between labor and capital, and to prevent the recurrence thereof and to protect the future public order and security we believe that the wages of corporations

E. HENDERSON,

THE PLATFORM.

engaged in the business of mining, manufacturing and transportation should be a first lien upon the property, receipts and earnings of said corporations, and that such lien sho’d be declared, defined and enforced by appropriate legislation. That we favor the passage of a law for the ventilation of coal mines—one that would be just to M e miner and owner. The dei»ycratic party is the friend of the eommon school system, and will in every legitima e way labor for its success, and will oppose any attempt to divert any portion of the common school fund to any sectarian purpose. That the last apportionment of the state for legislative ru. poses was grossly unjust and dishonorable, »nd we demand that the next legislature, in apportioning the state for legislative purposes, as will be their imperative duty, shall have regard alone to population and contiguity of territory. That the jurisdiction claimed and exercised by the circuit courts of the United States over questions of corporate and individual rights arising under the laws of the states tends to oppress and burden litigants to such an extent as to amount to a practical denial of justice in many eases; and we consider the legislation which has conferred such jurisdiction as unwise and hurtful to the true interests of che people. And we demand such legislation as will restrict and limit the jurisdiction of such courts to such matters as are clearly contemplat d by the constitution and expressed in the judiciary act of 1789. We are opposed to class legislation, and protest against the grant of subsidies by the federal government,either in lands, bonds, money or by the pledge of the public credit. That we abhor and hold up to public detestation the leaders in the republican party who secretly connived, and with barefaced effrontery, carried out the scheme, by and through venal returning boards, whereby Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, the people’s choice for president and vice president, were wrongfully kept out of the positions to which a free people had called them. We hold it up as the monster crime of the age, a crime against frec govern ment a eri me against the elective franchise, and a crime that can only be condoned when the malefactors who seated a fraud in the presidential chair are driven from power and consigned to everlasting infamy by the people whom they have ontraged. And we denounce the act of the president of the United States in appointing to high and lucrative positions the corrupt members of the returning boards, and condemn the acts ot federal officers in attempting to interfere with the rights and powers of the state courts in the prosecution of these criminals. That our senators and representatives in congress be and are hereby requested to secure the passage of a law giving to the soldiers of the Mexican war a pension similar to that now given to the soldiers of the of 1812.

Sale of School Land. XrOTICE is hereby Riven that the uniler1N signed Auditor and Treasurer of the County of Jasper. State of Indiana, will offer for sale, at Public Auction, at the door of the Court House, in Rensselaer, on WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of MAY, 1878. the following lands, situated in said county, which have been sold as School Lands, and are forfeited to the State of Indiana for the non-payment of interest due thereon, towit: The northwest quarter; the west half of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter; the north ha'f of the southwest quarter, and the west half of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section sixteen (Ifi], township twenty-eight (28) north range six ir.i west, containing2Bo acres. Forfeited by William (.'. Cozzens. Principal $1865 ou— Interest $283 05. Also, the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section sixteen (H>j township thirty-two <32* north -ange six [’>) west., containing io a -res Forfeited by Willard P. VanHorn. Principal $37 50-rlnterest $5 15 These lands will be sold for not less than the full amount of principal, interest, damages and costs. One-fourth of the purchase money, toge her with the interest, damages and cost due thereon, shall be naid to the Treasurer on the day of sale., and the interest at eight per rentum. on the residue for one year; and the residue of the purchase money in ten iloj years from the date of sale with interest at eight per cent, payable annually in advance. Witness our hands and the .- seal of the Board of Commis- ■ seal. • sinners of Jasper county, Ind., —' at Rensselaer. Indiana, this 21st day of March, A. D. 1878. HENRY A. BARKLEY, Auditor Jasper count v, InuianaII; NRY I. ADAMS. Treasurer Jasper county,lndiana. I Mm cb 22, 18”8. S. P. YOUNGBURG. JUSTUS WARNER. Youngburg <s' Warner, CARRIAGE MAKERS Rensselaer. Indiana. Shop on Front Street, Terhune's old Sta nd. ■E, S® mi ms WAGONS of every- description, made to order. Repairing also neatly and cheaply done on short notice. Parties wishing woodwork, such as Bodies or Gearings, of ny kind, or anything else in their line will do well to give these gentlemen act* All orders will receive prompt attention. Carr age and Buggy Borings repai red and oil tempered, and general work and repairing done in the neatest and best manner. Prices as low as possible to insure g>od work . All work warranted. Nov. 9. N. WARNER, DEALER IN Hardware, OB’ JAX-iXj kijsttds ENSSLIAER. IND.. Keeps constantly on hand a large stock of Stoves, Tinware, FURNITURE, etc., And respectfully invites the citizens of Jasper and adjoining counties, when wishing anything in his line, te give him a call befoiv purchasing elsewhere. A careful examination of his stock will convince tiny one that he keeps none but First-Class Goods, and sells them cheaper than they can be sold by any other dealer in the country. He defies competition. Remember the place. LIBERAL CORNER vln2 Rensselaer. Ind Ucan muse money taster at work tor uh than at anything else. UapitaPnot required; we wil. start you. sl2 per day at home made by the industrious. Men. women, boys and girliwanted everywhere to work for us. Now is ibt time. Costly ont.flt oud tenns free. Addn-as Tkce fli t 0.. Augusta. Multi'-.

I ODOIUfI 0. niIMUCO *1 STOCK OF NEW GOODS HF oi iiiiwm uumiviLii Just Received and being Opened Out by RALPH FEHDIG, CONSISTING OF STAPLE ARTICLES, most generally in demand with the people. In the selection of my new stock of Spring & Summer Mi I have kept steadily in view the de sires and tastes of the people witl Styles, Quality, Dura bihty and price. ttta tos, MHdy-lis Ming, Sib bp, Boob,Sho' and STANDARD GROCERIES, - kept in quantity and at lowest rates . inspection of Goods and price is repectfully solicited. RALPH FENDIG. I West eornei Bedford & Jackson’s brick. Rensselaer, Ind. W. 8. ORWIN JSwS®,'' RENSSELAER, IND., Formerly M ill keep constantly on hand a large and complete assortment of z of various ki;. '. Watches JF SKS Studs, Brooei.es, AND ('harms, Sleeve , ir y Buttons. Pins J e welry ’ ' Si Fellows’ ]>i ns , consisting OF verTLlm'iles, etv , Eight-D.qy, Thirty- ft — Gold, Silve ■ Bplillg \ SPSCTACL I CLOCKS ! an (X- 11 i Castors, Cake-Baskets, Butter-Dishes, Call-Bells, Cups, Napkin-Rihgs, 1Knives, Tableware, Gold Thimbles. He can procure you n Elgin, Ho ard, Springfield, American or Swiss Watch, as readily and cheaply a . any in the trade. He has secured the agency of the Rockford Watch Movement, the best in the America for the money. He pin - ; chases direct from the manufactures. Anything not in stock proem on short notice, at rates advantageous to those who purchase through ! CLOCKS, WATCHES & JEWELRY REPAIRED ! FINE WA WORK A SPECIALTY Also Agent for the Western Cottage, Estey, Mason & Hamlin, Burdett. i: d George Woo I Organs; Decker Bro., Weber, Valley Gem. Bradbury, Story c Camp Pianos. All of these first-class instruments. All Goods warranted us represented; and all work warranted to give st> : action. Nov. 30.1877. THE OLD LINE DRUGSTORE Wffiit tai ! Would respectfully call the attention of the citizens of Jasper and adjoining count!.his largo and complete stock of the foil..wing goods, bought low for cash, which enab him to defy competition : Pure White Lead Painters’Materials, Window Glass Paint Brushes, Pure Linseed Oil, White-wash Brushes, Varnish Brushes, Coach Varnisl Copal Varnish. Diun.-ir Varnish, Feather Dusters. Coal Oil, I Perfumery. Patent. Medicines, Chemicals, Drugs, .Soups, Hair Oils. I Hair Brushes. Face Powders, Dyo-Stuffs, Combs, Putty. Bed Lea I I’ortnionnias, Pocket Books, Lamp Wicks, I.amps. Paper, &<■., < Books, School Books S&? Stationer / All goods guaranteed strictly-pure. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Every! • nvijed to call. Kensselaer’lnd. vino J . I ME* ~JTwTSirvALiJW And Daily Hack liine. United States mail hacks run daily except Sundays, between Rensse and Francesville, and Rensselaer and Remington, making connections ’ trains on the Railways passing those points, and conveying passengers, pi -sage and freight each way. Goods or money shipped by Express to I P tof the United States. I (very Teams, with or without Driver: 'Misbed upon application. Stock boarded by the day or week. < e Stables on Front street, above Washirgton. Rensselaer. Ind. B Buy Them lo Sell. n. »F. PECK, CORNER RAILROAD & INDIANA STREETS, REMINGTON, IM Keeps constantly on hand a full line of Groceries of all Kinds. WOODEN md WILLOW WARE. GI.ASS WARE. BOOTS & SHOES, GLOVES HOSIERY". Also a full line of Fancy’ Articles and Notions. You will fliid the best stock of fresh new goods, always on hand, at prices that defy competition. We will not be undersold, in anything in our line. We the best brands of Flour and Salt, constantly on hand, in quantities to suit purchaser. We take in exchange all kinds of Country Produce,and will give you the best price the market will afford. We deliver all goods free of charge inside the city limits. Come and examine our stock and be convinced tba we give you more goods for your money, than any other house in town. ’ v-2n27tf D. W. PECK.