Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1879 — ABOUT THE NORTHERN PRISON. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE NORTHERN PRISON.

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A. Batch of Interesting Interrogatorien for Warden Mayne to Answer The following letter addressed to Warden Mayne of Hie Northern prison, is published by request of the writer. To Charles Mayne, Esq.: MiDetr Sib—You will pemvt me to express my regret at the course you are pursuing in relation to your position as warden of the Northern prison. I regret it; first, because lam your personal friend and desire that you be sustained in the right, hut in the wrong,never It is numb better

for you personally to be right than to ba warden, and that you are wrong in this matter, there can scarcely be a doubt In the first place you are a Democrat, and as such should be willing at all times to be governed by the Usages of our party, ard when their will is expressed in a lawful and legitimate manner, you as well as every other loyal Democrat, should bow in humble submission, and without which no party organisation can be maintained. After having been hon» oi ed for eight years by our party you can not in justice to yourself or them afford to become a disorganizer. If your present position means anything it means that. You were first a candidite for warden in 1871. The Democrats honnredfyou by electing you. You were again a candidate in 1875. The Democrats again elected you. You were a candidate for re-election again this year. You and your Mends urged your claims and did all they could to secure the election by the General Assembly of three gentlemen pledged ro your retention, in this you and they failed. With what propriety, let me ask, can you now turn round, simply because you failed in securing office for 12 years, and try to distract and destroy the party to whom you are indebted for all that you are? Let me ask you candidly if you do not think this is such Ingratitude as to make your real friends hang their heads in shame? I under stand that you claim your office now by appointment of the old Republican board, or at least by the action of two of the members of that board.— Let me ask you if it ever occurred to you and your especial friends that you were trifling with the intelligence ot the better men of both political parties? If you did not believe and know that the present General Assembly had the lawful right to elect tliree directors, why did you and your friends labor so earnestly and zealously to secure the election of gentlemen pledged to v®te for you? Again, why did you, if you did not believe those gentlemen were legally and lawfully elected, solicit their support after they were elected? If you will answer these questions sincerely , and honestly you will certainly see . the awkward and embarrassing posi- ! tion in which you have placed yourself and friends. Men cun not, if they would, shut their eyes to these things, and all men that desire the confidence and respect of their friends must act with some degree of consistency, and our Republican friends, by the action 1 of Messrs. Dykes and,’Baker,are placed ,in a still worse light. If these gentlemen did not think their term of office would expire on the 10th day of ' Mai ch, as all their predecessors had ' don , why were they candidates before the late session of the General ' Assembly for re election? And again, if they believed there was any real merit in their pretended legal right to hold over, why elect a Democrat? Are there no Republicans in northern Indiana fit to be warden of the prison? i If so, then the Republican party has I fallen very low. Let me ask you. I gentlemen, why this unnatural alliance? Why this Republican board I elects a Democrat to the exclusion of ; their own party? And why the Dem- : ocratic warden sustains and supports I the Republican board, to the exclu- : slon of his Democratic brethren?—. 1 And that, too, a board that had tried I to heap upon him contumely and disgrace by removing and charging him ; with malfeasance in office? I appeal i to yout better nature, your nobler manhood, your hitherto unsullied ' nama and unswerving Democracy to give a fair and honest explanation of i these seeming questionable transacj tions Your prompt reply will relieve I the minds of your many personal i friends in this State, among whom I lam not the least. Yours, truly, Justice, Speech of Senator Wood on the-Motion to Postpone Consideration of the Priaon Bill. Following is the speech cf Senator Wood, of Lake county, delivered in the Senate Tuesday: Mr. President—All debate is cut off by this motion. All the resource 1 have to expressjny condemnatien of this rotten business at this prison is to explain my vote. The Democratic party of this State should have the control of this prison. The Democratic party elected directors to succeed th® Republican directors at the Northern prison. When the Republican party elected directors for this prison the DernoPratie ine imbents stepped down an<4 out. How is it now? We see Uvo cf the Republican directors defying their successors in office. One Republican director, Mr. Luther, 1/ft that delectable bodv of law breakers, and like an honest man, yielded the office to his succes sors. The other two, defying the law and their Demecratic successors, I sneaked >nto a back room and went | through the farce of electing a Democrat as warden. That Democrat is my friend, but my friend f? wrong, and 1 cuffl not support him. There is something wrong in Israel. Republican officials 8o not choose leading Democrats to fill important offices ■ where there is a contest for position, i unless something io wrong in Israel. I It is publielj charged that there is i corruption at the bottom; that there is something terrible covered up, and I that the ring feared a change of manI agement, and that unless they could ; get their own men elected, they wo’d ; hold the iort in defiance of the law, ■ and they did lock the gates of the ‘ prison in the face of the new Democratie board and withheld from them I all the books and papers of the prisl on

“Did this Republican ring mean to stifle any disclosure- of affairs of this prison? Senator Old#—l call the Senator to order. He has no right to make a speech. [Cries of “Go on, go on,” from the Democratic side.] Mr. Wood—l want the Republicans on this floor to indorse this ring if they dare. I dare them to record their votes in favor of this rotten business. [Cries of “Order, order,” and great confusion- ensued.] Mr. Wood - Does my explanation hurt you? Why are you- so tender upon this subject?' Why do you desire to hold your Republican directors in office in defiance of law? This is magnilcent business for thoßepub'lican party of Indiana. [Great confusion and cries of “Order,” in the chamber from the Republican side.] If there is fraud and a steal in this Republican ring, why will you support it? It is charged that this ring, one day oefore the new board went to tile prison, let a contract of 400 men at 45 cents per day, when 55 to 60 cents could readily have been had fui them. This is a loss to theJStato of $75,000. Oh, ‘his is high-handed business, and will not be justified by reason or right. I vote “No,” with. great pleasure.

Ex-Governor John Whitaker, Democratic Congressman from Oregon, made th* trip across the continent, from Sun Francisco to-Washington, in five days, the shortest time on record. The last time he crossed the plains before was in 1852, with an ox-team, and he was fiv,' months in doing it.

Bob Ingersoll, the great Republican orator, ia still ridiculing the Bible. The Presbyterian General Assembly meets this year at Saratoga. Pocahontas is to have a monument over her grave at Gravesend. England, where she lies buried. The contract for the narrow-guage. railroad from Joppa to Jerusalem has been given to a Cincinnati engineer. Tacks placed points upward on the floor are saidj to interfere with the movement of materialized spirits in Boston seances. A veteran named Page resides near Dunbar. Ontario, who fought under Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, in 1807. He is 108 years of age. Counsel to witness—“ You are a nice sort of a fellow, you are!” Witness—“l’d say the same of you, sir, only I’m on my oath.” “Lenny, you’re a pig,” said a father to his little five-year-old. “Now, do you know what a pig is, Lenny?”— “Yes, »lr; a pig’s a hog’s little boy.” It was a little Scotch girl of seven years who. upon being asked whether she would marry or remain sinsrle, said: “Neither; I shall be a widow.” Queen Victoria, it is rumored, has expressed a strong wish to see Canada, and the Prince of Wales is encouraging her to visit both that country and the United States. Greeley, Colorado, with a population of three tnousand, requires no police or constables, has ne liquor stores, and has spent only seven dollars of its poor fund in two years.

A country girl, coming from a morning walk, was told that she looked as fresh as a daisy kissed by the dew, to which she innocently replied; “You’ve got my name right—Daisy; but his isa’t Dewl” A Norway horse can help himself to water, as he does to hay, from a trough kept full of it, and accordingly drinks like a human being at meals—a sip, than some hay, and so on. Brokenw'nded horses are almost unknown in Norway. Tekas papers are praying for the whipping post The San Antonio Herald has heard of a negro who stole a box of sardines valued at twenty cents, and was sent to the penitentiary at an expense of SI .000 to the State. One of the discoveries made by the late Arctic explorers is that the length of the polar night is one hundred and forty-two days. What a place that would be in which to tell a man with a bill to call around day after to-mor-row and get his money! Tipton Times: “Rev. George Harding. of Indianapolis has been proving conclusively that Dan Voorhees is not an orator. This reminds us that Rev. John Jasper, of Virginia, has been proving conclusively that the earth is not round, and Jasper doesn’t get any sheriff’s sales to print either “ “Na, na; I’ll hae nac mair Irishmen,’* said a Lothien farmer to a Hibernian applicant for work. “The last twa that I had dee’t on mv hand, and I had to bury them at my ain expense.” “Och, surl there’s no fears o’ me.shure lean get a surtiffikit. fiom the houle of me masters that I didn’t die wid none o’ them.” Onions a Cure for Croup.—A lady who speaks from experience says that probably nine children out often who die of croup might be saved by the timely application of roast onions, mashed, laid upon a folded napkin and goose oil, or even lard poured on and applied as warm as can be borne comfortably to the throat and upper part of the chest, and to the feet and hands. A cruel hoax was lately perpetrated on the credulous darkies of the lower Mississippi Valley, who were told that Kansas is the land of promise, where the long-desired “forty acres and a mule* await every comer. The poor creatures are pouring into St. Louis by the hundreds, only to find that they have been the victims of wholesale deception, and most of them have no money to get back.

The Democrats now have control of the legislative department of the general government and they cheerfully accept the fuli responsibility. Now let us all carefully watch and see if they do such dreadful things t« overturn the government as the Rapublicans have told us they would.— The full band has commenced to play, and the Tightened Republicans may as well pluck up courage to come out of their holes and listen attentively to the cheerful music. Courage, aoble Republicans, Courage. Play.—Lanorte Argus. A Sad Case.—A touching story is told of a lady in Kentucky who was suddenly stricken with a failing of the optic nerve, and was told that she could not retain her sight more than a few days at most, and was likely to be deprived of it any moment. She returned to her home, quietly made such arrangements as would occur to any one aoout to commence so dark a journey of life, and then she had her two children attired in their brightest costumes, brought before her, and so, with their little faces lifted to hers, and tea s gathering for the great misfortune that they hardly realized, the light faded out of the mother’s eyes. An Interesting Wedding —The marriage of three sisters at one time and in the same church made a sensation In society circles in the village of Greene, N. Y. The triple ceremonies were performed in the Congregational church in the presence of a large number of guests, and parties came from the country for miles around to witness the scene. The brides and bridegrooms w. re Miss Mary H. Grant and the Rev. Smith T. Greene; Miss Flora R Grant and Mr. H. H. Scott, a New York shoe merchant, and Miss Jennie L. Grant and the Rev. Wm.N. Ritchie, of the forty fourth Street Bresbyterian Church, New Yotk. The three sisters standing together at the altar in their bridal' robes made a striking picture. The Duke of Wellington was one day sitting at his library when the door opened, and, without announce ment in stalked a figureof skiguiarly ill omen. “Who are you?” asked the Duke, in his short dry manner, looking up without the least change of countenance upon the intruder. “I am Apollyon.” “What do you want?” “I am sent to kill you.” “Kill me—very odd.” “I ana Apollyon, and I must put you to death.” “’Bliged to do it to-day?” “I am not told the day or the hour, butl must do my mission.” “ Very inconvenient—very bu-sy-great many letters to write -call again and write me word—l’ll be teady for yon.” And the Duke went on with his correspondence. The 1 maniac, confounded by the coolness i of the Stern old iiwo backed out of !

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