Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — MAINE. [ARTICLE]

MAINE.

100 pieces new prints just received at Hopkins’ Corner. Quito a number of new sidewal 8 1 a e in process of cori'struHion. .. , Judge Hammond will piesiiio.over file Cvss county Superior Court next week. M. O Gissel and Churtie A. Roberts boarded the curs for Chicago Wednesday. Hon. A. Wolcott, of Logansport, was iu attendance upon oar Court yesterday. Harry Burkhalter, of Monticello, is visiting his sister, Mrs. flam. Rothrock, in Rensselaer. Elder Hope B. Miller. Chaplain at the Northern Prison, called in to see us this forenooD. Huverly’s Pinarore Company will perform at the Opera House, in Reus- •; elaer, some time next tnenth. Pre?sly Dunlap , and wife, of Battle Ground, formerly residents of Reuselaer, are visiting old friends at this point. Wesley Spitler, Esq., of Effingham, XII., formerly a resident of this conn .y, is visiting relatives and old friends in these parts.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Clifton buried a third child, aged about 7 years, lust Wednesday. Of four children but one is loft to these gnef-ftricken pa rents. Twenty four dollars and forty cents is the amount of the proceeds of the • upper and dinfler given by the laies of the Presbyterian church at his place. 1 * Mr. “X,” a much interested radical, occupies about a column and a half .uthe Republican this week giving xpression to his “Thoughts on the Campaign of 1880.” You wfil line! a new and attractive l.no of goods at Hopkins’ Corner, bought before the recent advance.— Gents’, Ladies’ and Children’s Hose Collaretts, Ribbons, Hamburg Edg,ngs, Bilk Fringes, Handkerchiefs, Veilings, Dress Goods, Ac. . ■» The stockholders of the Iroquois Library Association, at a meeting recently held at the law office of M. F. Chilcote, electe d the following named gentlemen directors: A If. McCoy, M. i\ Chilcote, Emmet Kannal, M. L. Spitler, J. H. Wilh y, M. Eger and S. P. Thompson. B. P. Thompson was elected President; M L. Spitlcr, Secretary, and Michael Eger, Treasurer

Ts ihc ba:lots cast, lb “(J. W. Potter,” ‘ C’.. i sou M.. Potter” and “Clarkson N. Pober ' had been com; ,«d for Clarkson N Potter, the Democratic candidate, lie ou Id have ben die I arc! elected Cb»v- ---■ raor of New York. For following this p ■ocedent, ami the decision, of :hc su prune coin and the laws of the State of M tine, Gov. Garcclnn and the Council are bitterly dctieuiie >d »y the radicals. The New Hampshire Patriot truly says: “The Democratic party is the great majority party of the country ro clay, and the destinies of the country are largely in its hands. It is the great party of the people and of popular rights. According to the Tribune Almanac, which we lake to be good Republican authority, the Democratic voteru of the United States outnum oered the Republican voters by more than a quarter of a million. The figures given by the Tribune for the presidential election are: .democratic vote, - - 4,284.265 Republican vote, - - - 4,033.295 Greenback vote. - 81,737 Prohibitionist vote, - - 9,522 Democratic maj. over all. 159,711 At a meeting of the stockholders of the Jasper County Agricultural Society, held at the Court House; iu Rensselaer, Saturday last, A. J. Yeoman, Win. W. Kenton, Geo. W. Berk, Wm. K. Parkison, D. H. Yeoman, Lucius Strong, Juo M. Wasson, S. R. Nichols, M. L. Spitler, Jas. Welsh, M. B. Alter .and W. J. lines, were elected directors for the ensuing year.— Officers elected: President—Wm. K. Pa> kison. Vice President—M. L. Bpitier. Secretary— Horace E. James. Treasurer—Willis J. lures. B iperintendent—D. H. Yeoman. Marshal- James Welsh. The Secretary reported receipts du ring the year.s4,7lo 65; expenditures, $4,441 24; balance ou hand, $269 41. The Treasurer reported, receipts $2,258 75; paid on orders, $2,026 1J;. in treasury, $232 61; unpaid notes on hand, $37 50.

One of the most intelligent of tho North Carolina negroes is reported as saying: “I was induced to leave North Carolina by representations made by Bain Perry and Peter Williams, both lie publicans. These men said there was plenty of work in Indiana; that men would be t'eady to hire the immigrants as soon as they arrived, right from the train, and pay them from $2 to $3 per day for farming and lor such other work as the men could do; that there was at least §OO houses waiting for all furnished and ready to receive them, and that provisions wt M be furnished fpr six or seven months, gratuitously; that land would be furnished in such tracts as the imuiigrtints might want; that from six to seven years to pay for it in would be giver ; that these lands could be had at from $1 to $1 50 per acre, arid that women i£J3 cooks, chambermaids and house

servants could get frpm S2O to $25 per month—all these representations I j have found to be uutrue. There is i o demand for labor, no land for sale at j tt.o prices Darned, and no such wages as I was promised are paid. In four weeks-I have received only.sß. * * * The immigrants were told that they must vote the Republican ticket when they arrived in Indiana because j ihe Democrats had used the office •_ for frail I and corruption. We were told by Perry and Williams that we must all lie Republicans, ‘We want no Dehmcrat niggers in the party, and we want all the niggers to be valiant hearted Republicans.’ My observation leads me to believe that the colored people who have come from North Carolina to Indiana, are far worse off than they were in North Carolina. Since I have been in Indiana I have met a good many Repub Means, white and colored, and have been uniformily told that the State of Indiana is Democratic, and that the colored immigrants would be expect ed to vote the Republican ticket. ' * * * While in Washington I was led to believe, from conversations with white and colored people that the money raised to forward the destitute negroes to Indiana, wus furnished enriiely by Republicans, and I know positively that in North Carolina do Democrat in any way helped to entice us from our homes, but advised us to stay, for they were certain we saould be deceived.” Comment is unnecessary.

The Republican conspirators of Maine, having had a dictator to stand by their proceedings with the military resources of the State, who, guilty of usurpation, wielded his power in the interest of those who violated the constitution and the laws, have managed to obtain an opinion,.or a series of opinions of the supreme court of the State, which being intensely partisan, violates every principle of law, and, in so far as its yoice can have any effect, places the government of Maine iu the hands of men who have no legal right to administer it It is possible that the Democrats and Nationals will quietly surrender their rights, stand aside and permit a gang of traitors, who ought to be tried and shot, to perpetrate as great an outrage in Maine, as Republican knaves, rorgerers acd perjurers per petiated in Louisiana ih the interest of Hayes. We prefer to believe that the Fusionists of Maine will continue to stand by the constitution and the law. They are in the majority. They have at all times and under all cir cumstances been governed by the constitution and the law, while the Republican conspirators, aided by Chamberlain, the dictator, and a debauched supreme court have sought to overthrow all law, that those who have beeD guilty of frauds may es cape punishment. The Boston Globe, which is thoroughly posted upon all the questions at issue in Maine, says: “It is not so much the governor and Legislature that the Republicans disire iu Maine as a certain something else. And that something is imrnu

nity from investigation for bribery of voters in the late elections in that jbtate. They know well enough that if au investigating committee once gets started on their doings the result will be that more than on© half of those Republican members of the Legislature to whom certificates of election have been given will be found unworthy, because money was paid to their eloctors in some instances $75 a fhead —for votes. This is a notorious fact, susceptible of proof so soon as the opportunity is given before the legislative com mittee. This same opportunity is the thing so much dreaded by the Republican bribers, and, could they do it, they would gladly surrender all other matters, such as the State offices, a legislative majority, etc., in return for control of the investigating committees. This bribe-giving and taking has been going oa for years in Maine under the Republican leaders’ manipu lation of their national committee’s nuances. At first due caution was observed, owing to public sentiment and the severity of the laws. But ol 1 tte the scoundrelly work has been carried on most openly and recklessly. The utmost recklessness was obseived in their conduct of the last campaign in relation to the buying of votes for members of the Legislature. This was patent to thousands of people who were approached and insulted by Mr. Blaine’s fuglemen. Those men, and they are men of character whose testimony will be believed, are now ready to go before the investigating committee of the Legislature and tell what they saw done in their districts, and how certain Eepublioan candidates obtained their majorities ou other and technical grounds. All this is fully appreciated by Messrs. Blaine, Hamlin, Hale, Frye, Reed and others. Hence these tears, oaths, struggles, denunciations—in short, sheer desperation. They know too well what a spectacle for men and gods would be given, and what re proach and hissing would come upon their morality party if these things should at last be shown.” There is no possible way to get at these Republican rascals except by legislative process, and against such a possibility the Maine Republican knaves are fighting with thedespera tion of cornered burglars.—lndianapolis Sentinel.