Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1879 — FESTIVAL THANKS! [ARTICLE]

FESTIVAL THANKS!

Read article on first page entitled the Bayonet party, and reflect. In the first veto message the Fraud asserts that ‘the troops could not. te used at voting places, under the laws,” In thefsecond vetojhe goes back on his first statement and says- that “the Government might be over thrown it the military could not be used on election days. What a candid smart Fraud be isl Rebel brigadiers in the House, r fael brigadiers in the Senate, rebel faxigadier postmaster general Key holding the bread and butter of our consul in the hollow of his hand rebel brigadier guerila minister to China Idusby, rebel brigadiers everywhereHow the thought harrows the average radical soull The preamble to the bill which culled forth Hayes’lust veto declares: The presence of troops at the polls is contrary to the spirit of our institutions and the traditions of our people. and tends to destroy the freedom cl elections. In the face of this Bayes declares that he will use the troops at) any place at any time he pleases. But if Congress refuse appropriations for that purpose, we guess he won’t. The Rensselaer Dramatic Company will give another entertainment at Starr’s Hall, Saturday evening, May 2*4th, and promise the funniest plays of the season. The programme consists of the drama of Robert Mac uire and the laughable and indescribable -ts erpiece simple Simon’j Mis haps. Written lor the occasion, and introduced for the first time in Rensselaer, the laughable optical illusion of The Mechanical Head. Don’t Caij to go and laugh. Hayes refers to the action of Pres i lent Jefferson in the ease of Burr’s conspiracy, but, like a fraud that he ic,omitted to state whai the New York Sun says is a notorious fact, that in his instructions to bis confidential agent, directed him first to cull upon the governors of the States to exert tueir power, and, in the event of their 1 vilure to do so, or their inability to < upe with the persons engaged in the conspiracy, then the regulars and the ■militia of other States were to be called upon and employed. Jefferson believed in obeying the constitution, and section four of article of the constitution was his guide in this emergency. ‘ Rin'RS.”—All through the debates In Congress upon the army appropri utlon bill the republican conspirators fa ised their opposition upon the ground that the ‘rider” repealing the L. w allowing troops at the polls slic’d have been presented as a separate measure, in which they declared a willingness to vote for it. Tins was' Gai field’s position, and now that the Democrats have accommodated the •conspirators, they repudiate their good intentions and the radical (rand vetoes it. Now let Congress bring foith fho appropriation bill first veil ed by the bayonet-elected president, add one more “rider” to abolish the interference of supervisors and marshals appointed by national authority, pass it, then adjourn and go home.— Such a course might stir up the bad blood of self dubbed loyalists, cause their eyes to roll in holy horror, pre cipitate “blood-letting” Chandler on one of bis usual and continuous drunks, but it would place the responsibility of refusing supplies to the army with the fraud and his advisers.

On Tuesday last, in the Senate, Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, chairman of the committee on approprratioas said that the question of increasing the bonded debt was not in this bill (legislative, executive and judicial appiopriation.). The question involved was whether they should take a backward step in resumption’ which he was &ot willing to do, although he aid. not approve of all the secretary of the treasury had done in the way of resumption. He thought the Senate ought not to interfere with the law for the redemption of fractional currency, but that they might pay the arrears of pensions with the $23,000,000 of silver dollars now in the treasury. Mr. Voorhees said that he wus going to vote for the appropriation of the $lO,OOO,OO0;iying idle in the treasury to the payment of the an ears of pension-. The senator from West Virginia (Da vis) informed this body that he would take no step bacKward i.i resumption. He (Voorhees) would take a thousand steps backward; if he could, to-restore the interests of the people, wrecked by bankruptcy thrust upon the conn try. The machinery of the secretary of the treasury had withdrawn the benefits of circulation from business channels and placed them in the hands of capitalists resting oa the shoulders of labor. There was no specie resumption, but only an inflation of the currency. If an act had been passed declaring thut the Government won d receive its own money for what was due to it greenbacks could have be< n pu< ten years ago where they now are. The boast was made of $150,000, (00 of bonds being taken in one day by a National bank or two. When so m ich money was drawn from the channels of circulation the country became a dead sea instead of a running stream, carrying fructifying panic over the land. It business were prosperous money would not be found seeking investment at 4 per cent In the time of peace the spirit of avarice seeks an vppuri-uu.ty to hold more of the pub-

lie debt, while the people are hungry, owing to the withdrawal of capital from trade, and unable to obtain the labor which they seek. Voorhees on Cowboy Sherman: In the Senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Voorhees said that he this mooring saw the secretary o' the treasury circulating Ln this chamber. If this cloak room and back door influence was to prevail, the sooner the bill of the Sena< tor from Ohio was passed the better. This surreptitious way of coming in wis beneath contempt. If a member of the cabinet was not willing to take the sud measure of responsibility let him keep away. They did not want him to come and go in this manner. When he (Voorhees) was a member of the House he saw the secretary of the treasury (Fessenden) conversing with members on public business, but who left the hull when it was proposed that be give to the House what be was peddling over the floor, and now the senate should resent the offense of the secietury of tbe treasury who sought to exert back-door influence. Yesterday the .Senate had voted to apply idle money to the paymen. of pensions, and io doy the soft velvety 3‘tp of the secretary was heard while he passed drumming up recruits. Lt seems Sherman don’t want tbe idle money applied to the payment of pensions. On Wednesday, in the House, while retelling io the demonetizafiou of silver, Gen. Ewing, of Ohio, was asked by a radical. “Was it not more an accident than a mistake?” The old hero replied that “he believed that it was an ingenious, well devised and secretly executed fraud upon the American people. Tire people of Europe and the United States were laboring un der a heavy weight of public and private debts and taxation. There must come some relief. There must come some revival of prices from the enforced gold level, am. it could only come by restoring siver and gold to an equal free unlimited roinage. Whatever tended to degrade and impoverish laboring tmeses of the country tended, inevitably and swiftly, to the establishment of class rule, which had always and everywhere only cursed humanity. In conclusion, he said, Shall we use silver? Shall we open our mints to its unlimited coin age? Shall we use it to pay off and discharge the enormous burden of the public and private debt, under which the energies of our people are sinking, r o lighten the tremendous debts which so oppress the people; shall we use it to scud through all arteri -s of our industries a throb of renewed and vigorous life. Statesmanship, honesty, patriotism —all demand that we sho’d tear fium ou) statute oooksthose acts of demonetization which the subtle and devilish hand of the money power inscribed there in the dark, and in the name of the people and in full light of day reinstate silver where it stood from the foundation of our Government. [Applauseon theDeraocratic side and in the galleries ]

The Festival held at the Presbyterian Church, Friday evening, May 9th, 1879. realized the ne’t sum of $26 53, which lias been paid organ.— The committee tendei thanks to the public lor their very liberal patronage and wish especially to acknowledge the favors of Messrs. R. . Goddard, F. W. Bedford, Louis Kern, Frank lines, Samuel Bauchard Riley Nowels, A. S. Laßue, A. Leopold, N. Warner, Elza Phillips, and James W. McEwen; Mrs. Harvey Wood, Mrs. M. L. Spitler. Mrs. Chaalie Price, Mrs. Zimri Dwiggins, Mrs. F. J. Sears, Mrs. Peter Rimads, Mrs. James W. McEwen, Mrs. Henry A Barkley, Mirs. Dr. Loughridge, Mrs Jas. 8. Wigmore, Miss Lile Duvall, Mrs. Ezra L. Clark, Miss Celia Childers, Messrs. Spencer & Legg, Mrs. Dr. Washburn, Mrs. Jos. D. Cowdin, Mrs. Cotton, Mrs. G. W Spitler, and Miss Julia Smi.h. for contribu tions and assistance. Encouraged by past success the teachers of the Sabbath School will give a Strawberry Festival ou Thursday, 22d of May Proceeds to be applied on organ. By order of Committee.