Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1878 — INDEPENDENT CREENBCK MASS CONVENTION! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDEPENDENT CREENBCK MASS CONVENTION!

A mass convention of the Independent Greenback voters of Jasper county will be held at the Court House in Rensselaer, Indiana, on Saturday. April 20th, 1878, at 10 o’clock P. M. Ist. To select delegates to the Independent Greenback State Convention. 2nd. To select delegates to the Independent Greenback Congressinal Convention, for the Tenth District. 3rd. To select delegates to the Independent Greenback Senatorial Convention, for the Twenty-fourth District 4th. To select delegates to the Independent Greenback Representative Convention, for the Forty-fifth District sth. To fix the time and place for holding an Independent Greenback county Convention to nominate a county ticket. 6th. To organize an Independent Greenback County Central Committee, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the convention. All voters who are opposed to the financial policy of the democratic and republican parties, as defined in their national Dlatform, and who are in favor of the principles enunciated in the platform of the National Green back party, are cordially invited to be present.

Tros. Borkoughs, Sampson Erwin, Wm. C. Pierce, Sam’l W. Ritchey, Hunky Welsh, James Peffley, David V. Garrison, John M. Helmick, John H. Shields, Joseph Bray, Chas. P. Hopkins, Sam’l M. Black, William Major, Charles H. Price, George H. Brown,

O. B. Mclntire, Parley Finney, Jed. D. Hopkins, Hope B. Miller, Elliot R. Burr, Arthur Clinton, , Wm. McGlynn, B W. Harrington, Abe. Sparling, B. F. Shields, H. Z. Leonard, Jacob Owens, Lorenzo Tinkham, Jessie Wilcox, William Beck, and others.

One hundred and twenty thousand mill operatives in England are on a strike. “Elizabeth”, it seems, has confessed, and Beecher is again on the “ragged edge”! Judge Jero Black has sued ex-Sec-retary of War Belknap, for services in his impeachment trial. The radicals in the Senate are endeavoring to defeat the proposition to place the gallant old hero of two wars, Gen. Shields, on the retired list. Resumptionists seemingly chuckle ever the small margin between gold and the greenback. Even if not a /rick of the Shylocks to head off the opposition to the resumption act, it does not furnish employment to the idle or help to the distressed. The apparently small difference between gold and the greenback may flee away when resumption is a fixed reality knocking at the door. “Resumption,” Hon. Jno. C. New, late radical United States Treasurer, says, “means the payment of every matured obligation, on demand, in eotto.” When the demand is once being made, then it will be curious to note the sudden rise in gold. An and to contraction —more money —and consequently revival of business, increase of labor and the means to pay for it, is what the masses want. The following, from the Indianapolis Sentinel, is to the poin : “Gold and Greenbacks.—There is an immense amount of chuckling in certain circles, over the fact that greenbacks are nearly, and for all practical purposes, on a par with gold. In fact we hear much talk of resumption even before the Ist day of January, 1879, and the impression is sought to be made that a business millenium is about to dawn upon the country. But it will occur to reflecting and observing men that the decline of gold, or the advance of greenbacks, so that one is eoual to the other, however desirable such a state of things may be in the estimation of some people, has not been regarded as the one thing needful to revive business. In fact it has at no time been difficult to bring greenbacks to par with gold, and that, coo, at a time when such a proceeding would have been of incalculable bene fit to the country! But no; such legislation would not have been popular with Shylocks. What they demanded was contraction of the currency, shrinkage of values, widespread deso lation, bankrupts, poverty and idleness, and, finally, when tliqse cruel curses have wrought out their misfd«n. we see those who have been instrumental in forcing them upon the country endeavoring to make It apear that the mere fact that greenbacks are nearly at par with gold atones for all wretchedness tint has resulted from the policy that has brought about the equilibrium. The millions of unwilling idlers in America will read the glowing periods of those who record the fact that gold is only and. that banks have commenced paying out gold, and ask themselves if all this means work and wages, bread and clothing, or if, wi h such eulogies upon John Sherman’s policy, th*y must still remain idle and starve. Just now, while gold is down and greenbacks arc up. failures multiply. We hear of no advance in values-, indust-

ries stand still, and the army of idlers increases. Banks are husbanding their resources, and are more than ever cautious about their lines of credits. The fact is that the process of contraction has gone forward until the United States, with all of her vast enterprises to carry forward, has vastly less money per capita than any other commercial nation in the world, and the announcement that greenbacks and gold are on a level does not solve the business problem. Beyond this sagacious business men will ask themselves and each other if resump* tion has taken place in any proper sense, or is likely to take place in the near future. It will be noticed in this discussion that those who are the most blatant in favor of John Sherman’s policy declare that resumption does not mean resumption at all, that the people will not demand the redemption of greenbacks and national bank bills in gold, and thus the entire superstructure of resumption rests not upon the ability of the government and the national banks to pay, but upon the hypothesis that nobody will ask for specie. If the people take John Sherman at his word, his resumption scheme will not stand a week; for with all his plans for accumulating specie he can not have more than two hundred millions with which to redeem six hundred and fifty millions, and in the event of failure, which is certain to follow the experiment, new complications and disasters will be forced upon the country. The whole scheme is in the Interest of Shylocks, and is pursued by a man and a party that have afflicted the country with mor? curses than ever fell to the lot of any other people under heaven.

For the information of our readers we publish the following with regard to the holding of the corporation election. By reference to the law, which we also publish, it will be seen that the notice designating the change in voting precincts is required to be published four weeks and in the paper having the largest circulation. Why the clerk of the board of trustees, Mr. Reeve, has not shown a disposition to comply with the law in these two respects he can probably explain for himself. < Corporation Election—The Law. Ssc. 8. Tn city and town elections each ward shall constitute a precinct: Provided, That the Common Council of any city, or the Trustees of auy town, may make such changes in places of holding ejections, or divisions in precincts, in tlie'r respective cities and towns, hh public convenience and the public good may require: Provided, That no >-nch changes or divisions shall be made without giving dne notice, at least one month before any election, either by publication in the newspaper having the largest circulation in the county in which such citv or town is situate’. or by posters put up in fourof the most public places In such precinct. Such Council or Trustee shall appoint three qualified voters in each precinct, one to act as Inspector and two as Judges of elections, who shall have been freeholders ahd resident householders in such precinct forat least one year next preceding any election at which they may officiate, such Inspectors and Judges to be appointed according to such regulations as are hereinafter specified. Such Inspector and Judges, when so appointed, shall constitute a Board of Election, which Board of Elections shall have all the powers and shall perfom nil the dntlesof Boards of elections, as hereinbefore specified. Sec. ft. Any person who shall vote, or offer to vote in any precinct except the one In which he may reside, and any person who shall vote, or offer to vote, without being entitled to vote under the provisions of this act. shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be punished for each and everv offense by imprisonment in the State's Prison ibrnot less than one year. [ORDINANCE NO. 48.] An Ordinance providing for. and designated Voting Plates in, each Ward of the Town of Henseelaer, Indiana. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Trustees of the town of Rensselaer, in Jasper county, Indiana. In Council assembled, that Ward No. 1 in said town shidl hold its election in the Court House, situated in said Ward; that Ward No. 2 shall hold its election in a small building situated on lot 5. in block ft, fronting on Washington street, in said Ward: No. 3 shall hold its election in a building known as Michael Eger’s shop, situated on lot 5, in block 4. in said Ward: that Ward No. 4 shall hold its lection in a building known as the Christian Church, situated on block 15, in Newton’s addition to the town of Rensselaer, in said Ward; that Ward No. 5 shall hold its election in a building situated on a three cornered fractional strip of land, known as the Milroy proper ty, in said Ward. Approved April Ist, 1878. F. J. SEARS, President. Attest: N. W. Reeve, Town Clerk. ELECTION NOTICE. —Notice is hereby given that an election will be held on the first Monday in May. 1878. in the Town of Rensselaer. Jasper county, Indiana, in each of the different wards of said town, in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March lllh, 1877, and for the purpose of electing five (5) Trustees (one for each ward), one (1) Treasurer, one (1) Clerk and one (1) Assessor for said town. The election will be held in the following named places, to-wit: For Ward No. 1 in the Court House; Ward No. 2 in a small building situated on lot 5, in block ft. fronting Washington street in said ward; Ward No. 3, in a building known as Michael Eger’s shop, situated on lot 5 in block 4 in said ward; Ward 4, in a building known as the Christian Church, situated on block 15 in Newton addition to the town of Rensselaer. In said ward; Ward No. 5, in a building situated ou a three-cornered fractional strip of land known as the Milroy property, in said ward April 11th, 1878. F fl. W. REEVE, Town Clerk. Col. Healy’s organ, the Goodland Register, pokes out a feeler suggesting the nomination by the democracy of Charles Jouvenat of the Remington Times as a candidate for representative in the General Assembly of Indiana, He would certainly be a vast improvement over anything that the democracy of the district has supported for the position in the last twenty years. For this reason they ought not only to pardon the impertinence of those Goodland gentlemen for the intimation that they are not capable of looking after -their own affairs without the guardianship of neighboring districts, but should make their gratitude lively by nominating Col. Healey for prosecutor for the 30th circuit. The only objection the democracy could have to him is that he was a gallant and faithful soldier in the Union army; and that elass of men is decidedly unpopular in their party.— Rensselaer Union. It would give us great pleasure to support “Charley” for the position named. He would make an intelligent, creditable, and we believe honest representative. Ai to Col. Haley’s desires and motives wo are not posted. But the Union should be the last to insinuate and impugn the motives of anyone. Is the Lnion paving the way for a “flop” over to the Nationals, or is it merely preparing a little ambuscade to gobble them up? It denounces them as a pack of fools in nonpareil, on one page, and very amiably pats them on the back in primer on another.— Remington Times. No, Charley, the Union cannot “flop;” Panama is not totally lost sight of yet. The Union has of late become a political “what is it;”a kind of hardo-mono-republico-independento Hayso -bloodo-shirto-squirto-guno, which aims at nothing and sh >ots nowhere. Whenever the Union departs from its time honored and pre-eminent position of “weather cock,” it snarls and tangles itself all up, and loses its head. lu other words, the Union is nothing if not a weather cock. —Remi ing ton Times. We never expected to see Charley I Price turn out as driver for a livery stable, but last Sunday the fact was established beyond dispute. He ap ■ plied for the situation, too.—Remington Times.

■gSpell murder backwards and you have its cause. Spell redrum backwards and you have its results. The Morocco Courier, after a short suspension, has been revived under a new management—Hu mston A Graham proprietors, Ed. H. Graham, editor. One of Bro. James* “bankrupts” asks space for the following: Horace, read acts 20-30 and take heed! “Remember the old adage: ‘People in glass houses ought not to throw stones.’**

We are in receipt o* the first number of the National, a neat six column paper just established at Monticello, Indiana. It is published in the interest of the “Nationals,” by J. O. Smith, an old employe of ours, and we wish it success. The rank and file of the “Nationals” of White county will do well to keep a hand themselves on the reins, as we recognize among those now most zealous in the movement some who have been chronic officeseekers and “sore heads” for 10, these many years. “Clay” has been a “greenbacker” for several years, and in launching his craft into the stream starts out in his natural element.

Valparaiso Messenger: Gen. Grant, whom some Republicans want to nominate for President in 1880, writes from Smyrna, under date of February 22, to his friend, Judge John F. Long, of St. Louis: “If I was where I was one year ago, and for the previous seven years, I would put a most determined veto upon the repudiation bill—called Silver Bill—if it should receive the vote of Congress. I fear it has passed, but hope, if so, all business men in the co intry will work to defeat its operation by refusing to make contracts except to oe paid gin gold coin.” Gen. Grant would find a solid west against him on such a platform. Mark that. *