Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1878 — TOWN ELECTION'S. [ARTICLE]

TOWN ELECTION'S.

An election for town officers is held sn trie first. Monti ay in each yonr. See. 1.2, 1 K. S. ib7ti, p. 876.; a r which a trustee is elected for each district in ihe town,, aiul also, a clerk, assessor and treasurer who hold their offices one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. See. 15. { «j 1876, p. 877. Ten days’ notice of the tune and place of holding the election must be given by publication in a newspaper in the town. Hoc 1' 1 R S. 1876. p. 876. Each ward (district) constitutes a voting precinct. The places for holding the elections should be designated by ordinance* The trustees, by an order entered in their record,appoint thr«e qualified voters in each ward, one to act us inspector, uud two- as Judges of elections. These persons must bo freeholders and resident householders of their r spective wards for at least ouo yeai precediug the election at which they officiate. Sec. 8. Acts Special Session, 1877, p. 41. The inspector and judges in each appoint two clerks, who must be legal voters. Sec. 8, Acts Special Session, 1877, p. 41; and Sec. 5, Special Session, 1877, p. 89. The inspectors. judges and clerks must take uu oath «* provided by Sections 7 arid 9, 1 R. S. 18(6, p. 437. A majority of the board of election may fill any vacancy. hoc 14, 1 R S. 1876. p. 876; Sec. i, Acts Regular Session, 1877 n 58 and fcec. if), I It. H. 1876, p. 433. *’ ’ The election H held between 9 a. W . < V ffl. Hi e 1 3, 1 It. «j, 87G Ktfch vofer may vote for the full num her of trustees u> bo e|o(<led. Sections J«, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 ‘22, 25 26, 27, 28, and 31, of 1 R. H. 1876,’ nn! 438, 439 end 440, f>hould i »* observed The inspectors of the several wards, on the day following the election, at 10 a. in., meet ot lire place where the trustees of the town usually meet, and eauvass the vote. Sec. 14, 1 R. 8. 1876, p. 876; and See. 2, Acts of Regular Session, J 877, op. pp. 58 and 69. After canvassing the vote, the inspectors will observe the requirements of Sec. 16, I E. S. 1R76, p, 877,

The Rensselaer Union seems to wonder that the only township trustee i of teat county who could not produce i the vouchers for the money he was to : account for with the county board at J their late session, was a democrat.— I Valparaiio Yidette. Bah 1 He doesn’t wonder anything. 1 about it. He desires simply to gull ; some simpleton with the idea that there’s something rotten, and thus | make a little political ciap-trup.

i The resolution adopted at the radij cal convention last Saturday con- | deins the people because they demand j thut Congress shall cease class legis- ! latiou fn favor of the shylocks, and ! do something for the masses—the 1 bone and sinew of the land. The i honest sows of toil, who require from I the government nothing but what is i their right, will resent such false and | uncalled for reflections upon their | motives by the tools of the Shylocks.

1 weeds misfortune was that he was a Democrat. If he had been aRe publican he would huv© been living and a candidate for President, with biitriit prospects of ge’.tiug the nomiu..tioD.—HiTruoury Patriot, Tweed’s crimes pale into insigniflj eance compared with the great crime 1 ot the installation in the Presidential ! chair of a man who was not elected President. Tweed stole money from | tho people of New York; whtle Hayes aud his co-conspirators have robbed I the people of the United States of their j most valued right—that of lmvibg for i their Chief Magistrate a man chosen jhy themselves. The Great Fraud will i be remembered long after Tweed’s career shall be forgotten.—Valparaiso Messenger.

l'he radical mass convention, for which exteneize preparations had been making for weeks, conveneu at tho Court House last Naturdy forenoou. After some preltminaries under the management of Messrs. Sim. j P. Thompson, Vun’u Woud, Dwiggins, j and Spitler, proprietors. So small was the number present utthe organization, that un adjournment was tho’t advisable to ufford an opportunity to drum up the faithful. At no time i-was it near so large in numbers as that of the Independents on the preceding | Saturday. It was managed by the ‘ring,” but few from other townships being present. The numes ofpeisons to compose the delegations, etc., were procured from the politierl family rej cord owned by Thompson & Spitler. Notwithstandfng the enoourgement at.einpted by Bro. Jumes, even the few who remembered that they had I proved faithful when he itrayed else- ; wherein search of “tit-bits” (clerkships, et:..j felt that the handwriting of doom was upon the wall,

Tho New York Times which has re cently pronounced itself in favor of 1 the re-election of Hon. William H. ‘ Calkins to. Congress says: “The coui test to.which those who want honest : money and believe in tho rights of | property are invited is to be waged ! this summer, aud its objective point : is in the elections for the next House, j There should be a prompt and vigorj ous organization in every Congressj ional district. The first object should 1 be to compel whichever party is in i the majority to nominate a prououucI ed hard-meuey man, and, failing in I that, to elect an independent honesti money candidate, or if even that is impossible, to elect the best man who |is proposed. If this process breaks ; up party lines and interferes with orj dinary partisan loyalty, it is, nevertheless, right and necessary, for there j can be no issue of more importance ; presented than that which the “Naj tionals” are now forcing on public attention.” To which the Valparaiso Messenyer responds: “The New Yortt i Times may rest assured that if Mr. ! Calkins stands upon its Eastern Sby- ; lock platform that he will not be returned to Congress. Eastern money | can’t corrupt the people of the Tenth : Congressional District of Indiana.— No puppet of tho Wall Street Money Money Power will be elected to Congress iu this District. That’s settled.”

Valparaiso \ idette: “The Laporte Chronicle would:like to have a resolution passe l in Congress and enforced, to hang a member who may any time hereafter offer any more - financial tinkering. Opposition to financial tinkering would have been most appropriate before the legal tender character of greenbacks was curtailed; before their interchangeability for bonds was done away; before the right of issuing and receiving interest on paper currency was given in-terest-free to banks; before the greenbacks were dishonored by the law to pay the holders of our bonds with coin instead of any legal tender currency according to-their terms of payment; and before the difficulty of discharging them with coin was nearly doubled by demonetizing silver, onehalf of the merits at our command with which to make and pay such csiu. Let these wrongful measures be aa far as practicable now abolish ed, and a volume of public due bills issued equal to- ‘.he wants of business at a rate ot interest sufficient to prevent inflation, anil the time will then have come to iet the currency alone.” The Vidette is a republican paper, considerably more independent than the Union, aud the utterance of the above expressions places it, and thousands of republicans who entertain the same sentiments under the censure of the radical resolution published in the procediugs in another column.

A full line of Boys’ and Youths’ Clothing: A full line of Men’s Linen and Alpaca Coats and Dusters: A full Hoe of Straw Hats for. Men, Youths and Boys: A full line of white Vests, light colored Pants, and Summer Suits: Just received at the Narrow Gauge One Price 1 lot Ling Store,

Extract* from a Published late* view with Senator Conkline, of How York, in Relation to the Great Conspiraoy-*