Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — Democratic National Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Democratic National Ticket.

For President, WINFIELDS. HANCOCK, OF PENNSYLVANIA. For Vice President, WILLIAM H. ENGLSH, OF INDIANA. State Ticket. For Governor, FRANK LANDERS. For Lieutenant Governor, ISAAC P. GRAY. For Sec retary of Stale, JOHN Cl SHANK LIN. For Auditor of State, MAHLON D. MANSON. For Treasurer, WILLIAM FLEMING. For Cleik of the Supreme' Court, GABRIEL SCHMUCK. For Re porter of t he Supremo Court A. N. MARTIN. For Sup’t of Public Instruction. A. C. GOOD WIN. For Judge's of the Supreme Court, JAMES MITCHELL, JOHN T. SCOT!, For Attorney General, T. IV. WOOLLEN. For Representative in Congress, JOHN. N. SKINNER. County Ticket. F*r Treasurer, HENRY WELSH. For Sheriff, JAMES M. NICKELL. For Surveyor, ELLIS It. PIERCE, For Commissioner —2el District, JAMES T. RANDLE. For Coronor, SYLVESTER HALEY-

Road first page. The St. Louis “Grant Club” has llung out the Hancock & English flag. It was sixty-five strong when It transferred its allegiance, and is growing rapidly. Just before the nomination at Chi cago, on the first mention of Garfield’s name, the Cincinnati Commercial, radical, said that "the most contemptible thing thus far at Chicago is the chatter about Garfield. He has not a record to run onfoi President. One of the most intelligent, influential and prominent Radicals in Jaspei county, in conversation with a friend recently expressed himself to the effect that indications pointed to a Democratic majority in Indiana of from 20,000 to 30,000. And the admission was not made to a Democrat, nor was it intended for Democratic ears. The changes are all to the Democratic side so far as heard from. The first week of the harvest brings to our standard the names o£ John W, Forney and Major General Pearson, of Pennsylvania;Leonard W. Jerome’ of New York, and an entire club of /rixey-five Grant Republicans in St. Louis, and the cry is "Still they come,”

The New York Evening Post, a ltepubliean organ, says that “it is amusing to <>seG how strenuously the Re publican organs oppose rhe Candida, cy of General Hancock on the ground that ho is merely a soldier. These atune organs, a few years since, were the most animated advocates of Gei - oral Grant, whose civil experiences at that time were no greater than those of HancooK; are now, if so great, and yet some of them were so pleased with Giant’s administration that they were willing to violate the customary taw of the Nation to get him elected to a third term.” The Democratic convention, last Saturday, was largely uttended. It done good work, aud did it quick.— The ticket is unexceptionable in its make up. Mr. Nickell, for Sheriff, was the candidate two years ago, and although not elected, played sad havoc with the boasted radical majority. It is expected he will win this time. Mr. Welsh, for Treasurer, is a National, well qualified, worthy, and available. He is notan office-seeker, but was pressed for tne nomination by friends and neighbors. He wil distance his sectional competitor in this year of conciliation and peace, Messrs. Randle, for Commissioner, 2d District, aud Haley, for Coroner, are gentlemen well fitted tor the positions they will no doubt be selected to fill. Mr. Pierce, for Surveyor, is a National of liberal views and line attainments. The nominations give general satisfaction, and success is predicted. Candidates for Representative and Prosecutor will be placed in nomination at an early day, and then—to work! Mr. Bitters and family on Tuesday last took up their line of departure for Rochester, this State.

In responso to our article on “Garfield and the Salary Grab,” the Kentland Gazette attempts to show that Jje opposed it in some stages, and finally coveted into the Treasury the amount to which he was entitled by Salary Grab Law. For proof the Gazette refers to the Hand book of Politics, whose author, McPherson, is now engaged in making assessments upon Government clerks and officials for radical campaign purposes. But let us go to the records Mr. Gazatte. On the 28th of February, just before midnight, the bill finally was reported to the House: Mr. Cox—l want to put in my protest, as one member of this House,

against increasing my own salary by my own vote. Mr. Garfield—l must make the I o nt of oreh r that gentlemen must confine themselves to the subject under discussioh. A special vote was demand d on the Butler amendment, and it was beaten l y fifty-two majority on the yeas and nays. But this vote was not sincere, for Bailor is recorded against his own proposition. In a few minutes he moved “to recontide. the vote just taken; and pending that, motion, I move that the House adjourn. The hour is late and the House is very thin. [Laughter.]” Nothing was now needed to rivet the previous vote but a motion from Mr. Garfield refusing to adjourn, ai d then refuse to reconsider J All in* derstood the exact issue p: evented. — I’o adjourn was the test. It prevaile 1 by iifiy-three majority', right in tl e teeth of the fifty' two majority jut i) -file recorded in the opposite sense. Garfield voted against adjournment to make record for home oonsumpiioK, as he did on other tests, while clandestinely' helping forward tingrab; but he never raised his voice or io'i e* I a finger to prevent it, although he had chaige of the bill, v i h ; large party majority atliis back. The next day Butler’s motion to recon-dd-er was.first in order, and Mr. Farnsworth. of Illinois, piomptly moved to, lay it on the table, and thus finish the struggle. The motion was defeated by thirty-nine majority, and that liguie told the whole story. The bill then went to the Senate, and thence to a Committee of Con ference. On the last day of the session Mr. Garfield, as Chairman of this Committee, reported the result of tlieir deliberations, doubling the salary of the President, and raising the pay of Congress from $5,000 to $7,500 retroactively for two years, with a long catalogue of augmented salaries. He said:

I was opposed to the incaeasein conference, but my associate conferees were in favor of the Senate amendment, and I was compelled to chooso' between signing the report and running the risk of cringing on an extra session. I have signed tire report. The idea of an extaa session de-’ oeiyed no one. If even at that late hour, Garfield had opposed the job in a manly way, instead of conniving at it as he did, the House would have' receded, and the Senate must have yielded. Only a brief discussion was permuted, and the Gazette will note Air. Garfield’s strong aversion to the measure: Air. Hibbard—l desira to ask the gentleman how much plunder will be tuKcn from the Treasury ifjthis rais tug of salaries is adopted? Mr,-Garfield—According to the best estimate I have been able to make, it involves an annual increase of expenditure of about three-quarters of a million of dollars. Mr. Hibbard—.Mow muelr for the presmt Congress? Air. Garfield—For the present Congress it involves an additional expenditure of about one and a quarter millions. Air. Dawes —Did the gentleman hear the form in which the gentleman from New Hampshire put the question, he w much this plunder would amount to? Mr. Garfield - I do not accept the gentleman’s statement as to that. It may be an unwise expenditure in some respt cts. But in most cases the increase is proper, and ought to be made. It is not “plunder,” unless gentlemen here consider themselves not deserving the promised pay'. I have nothing further to say, except that I wish the House to weigh well the danger of refusing to concur this report. Mr. Holman If the House refuse to sustain this point, will it not be in order to recommit to the same Com mittee? , The Speaker - It would be to order anew Confer nee. Air Holm m— We havo twenty hours left in which that can be done. (Air. Holman demanded the yeas and nays, and they, were ordered.) Air. Don nan—l ask that the rule be read which prohibits members from voting on a question in which they are interested. The Speaker—That, has no application here whatever. The vote was then taken on the report of the conference, and it was adopted—yeas i O2, nays 9(1, Garfield voted yea, when three votes would have defeated the measure. Ah, yet* Garfield ‘was opposed to theincrease tn conference," but in the House, in his last argument he declared that“in most cases the increase is proper,” and repelled with indignation the designation of it as “plunder,” concluding by urging “the House to weigh well the danger of refusing to concur in this report," He took the grab, and when public indignation alarmed the grabbers, he sneakingly returned it to the Tieasury. Possibly he only “considered it a loan!”

John W. Forney, of Pennsylvania, is iu favor of Hancock. Gen. Ben. Butler, it is said, too, will support him. y _ These prominent men may stand charged with mercenary motives, but one matter presents itself clearly, and that ts, they are strongly impressed with the idea that he will be elected. Gen. Sherman is favorble to him. Gen. Grant says ho will be elected. In fact, thousands of prominent radicals, and tens of thousands not so prominent—of the rank and file—announce their intention to support him. And the ball rolls bravely on. The story gotten up by the scabby Baltimore American about Gen. Hancock’s cruel treatment of Mrs. Surratt, purporting to be sustained by a declaration of her daughter, now Mrs Toury, is brought early to grief. On its appearance iu the American Mr, Toury wrote immediately to the Bal timore Sun, and emphatically denies the matter published in the American. He says Fulton, the editor of the American visited Mrs. Toury three times to invoke something from her that could be tortured into an indict-

meut of (Ten. Haneoek, and was each time refused, peremptorily, any item for publication. Mrs. Toury had to call in her husband to iep’ei the importunities of the brassy Fulton, who was told flatly that he had “no and was not authorized to publish anything, one way or another, except what I give over my own signature.” Fulton, wjio is unscrupulous as pertinacious, made no scruple of ieprerenting an interview he was refused, and with a record of his own blistered all over, has not even the poor merit of the respect of such of his own partisans as know him. The Washington correspondent of New York Bun writes that “noted Republicans at Washington, whose names would excite surprise if given to the public, advocate the policy of withdrawing Garfield and of substituting another candidate, whose record is not tainted with venality and dishonor. Tney think the party is not strong enough to carry such a load, aud that defeat, stares them in the face if it be not relieved. This idea is by no means confined to u small circle, but has extended, to important influences, and finds favor among the friends of more than one of the aspirants who were defeated at Chicago." Garfield was nominated mid the hurly-burly of confusion and indecision, without the slightest reference to his record, aud now they discover their mistake.

Damociatio Conmiy ConventionThe Convention met at Willey & Bigler’s Opera House at 1-J- o’clock, p. m., Baturday, July 3, 1880. John G. Culp, of Barkley township, was chosen Chairman, and N. S Bates, ot Remington, Secretary, with D. B. Miller, of Rensselaer, Assistant. The roll of townships was called and responded to by all except Keen er and Kankakee. The different townships were assigned their po i tious upon the floor. A motion was made bv Joseph GHunt, of Gillum, that the delegates present be allowed to cast the full vote of the township. * On the call for nominations, the name of Henry Welsh, of Jordan township, was presented for Treasurer, by T. J. AlcCoy, of Rensselaer, with a motion that if no other nominations were made that the nomination be made unanimous, which motion carried. Sylvester Om tu, of Marion, put in nomination the name of James AI. Nickell, of Hanging Grove township, for /Sheriff, which, there being no other names presented, was, on motion made by acclamation. The nominations of James T. Randle, of Bar.ilc y township, for Commissioner from 2d District; Ellis R. Pierce, of Wheatfieid township, for Surveyor, and Sylvester Haley, of Rensselaer, for Coroner, were, on momotion, made by acclamation. After a few remarks by James W. Douthit aud others, the Convention adjourned. JNO. G. CULP, Chairman. N. S. Bates, ),, A D. B. Milled., J Secretaries.

Pittsburg, Pa , July 2. —Major General A. L. Pearson, who has long been recognized as one of the Republican leaders ia ibis county, and who was a warm supporter of Grant at the Chicago Convention has declared himself in favor of Hancock for Presi dent. To an interviewer interrogating to-day, “Are you for Hancock, GeneralV” he responded: “Undoubtedly lam,” adding: “I will, in a day or two, send a letter to U. S. Grant, tlic Chairman of the National Committee of the Veterans’ Union Boys in Blue, withdrawing from that organization. lam the member from this State, and have been for seven years. I shall set forth in the letter that I expect to support Hancock, and as the Veterans’ Union is a Republican organization I caunot consistently hold the position of representative from Pennsylvania.” General Pearson went into the war as Captain in the One Hundred and Fifty fifth Regiment, and for bravery and ability was promoted to Colonel, Brigadier General aud finally Major General. He served in Warren’s Fifth Corps, participated in ten battles and was as brave a soldier as Allegheny county sent into (he field of battle. GEN.PEARSON SPEAKS AT GRHENSBURO. Greensbueg, Pa., July 2.—Westmoreland county, long known as the Star of the West for her rousing Democratic majorities, was ablaze with Hancock and English enthusiasm to-night. Never was there such an immense demonstration iu this county. Four thousand visitors from surrounding towns and townships attended the ratification meeting held in the Court House. The town was brilliantly illuminated. Gen. Richard Coulter, of volunteer fame, was President. General Pearson, of Pittsburgh, who has left the Republicans to support Hancock, made a rousing speech. Here is the gist of it: I have been a Republican since 1854, when the party was first organized, and I have been one of its most-ard-ent supporters. I attended the recent Republican National Convention at Chicago as an alternate from Allegheny county. I left before the nominations were made, and when the telegraph wire clicked the intelligence that General Garfield was nominated It filled me with disgust. I commenced to think; I stopped and tho’t on till the Democratic National Convention met at Cincinuati. I was sitting in the United States Court House at Pittsburgh, watching every dispatch that came. When the dispatch came announcing that my old fellowsoldier with whom I had fought many a hard battle was neminated, I arose and said, as I am now prepared to say. “I. am for General Winfield Scott Hancock for President." 1 remember very distinctly when the enemy was invading our State, when our people were erecting fortifications, when the dirt was thrown

up on the wrong stde and it was tho’t they were approaching Pittsburgh, that the man yon have nominated was riding in front of the Second Corps at Gettysburg, that the repelling of a mighty arrav depended upon him, for the enemy was overrunning PennsyV vania. Then the majestic hero, General Hancock, at. the head of his corns, repelled them. He had not saved Pittsburg alone that day; the army of the Potomac would have been los r . The clashing of musketry, the roaring of the artillery and the shrieks and groans of the dying uptn that occasion are indescribable, but those three lines, 45,000 strong, were driven back by General Hancock and our people and property saved. If there are any Republican soldiers present ih?y will remember the battlefields of Gettysburg,Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and the heroic Hancock, and as they remember him riding in front of his troops majestically bowing while crossing the line, they say: “I will east my vote for Hancock." In accordance with his expressed intentions, Gen. Pearson has sent in his resignation as a member of the National Committee of the Yeterant* Union Boys in Blue; and also as Chairman of the City Republican Executive Committee of Pittsburg.