Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — MICHIGAN CITZ, Ind, Nov. 4,1880. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN CITZ, Ind, Nov. 4,1880.

Mn. Ed. Sentinel —Dear Sir: The following is a little circumstance which came under my notice here a i’ew days since, und I thought it might tie of interest to the readers of the Sentinel, as to say the least it is rather a loinantic affair. Yours Truly, Fan/ie Miller. Ma imed—At Michigan City, Ind., Nov. Ist, 1880, by Rev. H. B. Miller. ■JlmpL.iu Slate Prison, Noith, Isaac Ui-xce to Helen Armstrong, all of Michigan Cl.y,lndiana. The groom was, two days p/eviousiv, pardoned by t ie Governor from i he S'ti'c Pi isc n where he had served six years on a seoence of eleven.— 1 be bride was mariied to him 20 yea 3 ■go, but at the time of his incarceration she applied foi and secured a divorce, being urged to do so by her friends who ag r eed to support he r . — She eaiiu to Miclrgau City, v'si.ed her husba id in prison, laid before him the plan of 'lie divorce busness, and received his full consent to the proceedings, each promis'ng the oth er to be re united at the expiiaiion of his term; which promises were faithfully kept by both pa ties and carried into effect as soon as the liberated man could visit the Clerk of the Court at LaPorte and return wLn the license. F. M. We call the attention of the Republican papers to one among many similar affairs of the kind which have happened recently. The Philadelphia Times of Wednesday says: A day replete with broils and excitement In the Sixth’division of the Tenth Ward was terminated witn a tragedy. Mrs. Kate Donahue’s husband voted for Hancock. A number of negroes surrounded her house in quest of the man. At nightfall he had not put in an ppeanance. and the colored roughs ecarne demonstrative finally Mrs. Donahue left her home and started for a friend’s house in Sargeant street. She was pu ued by the negroes male, and female. As the woman neared Eleventh and Sargeant streets the crowd of negroes increased, and suddedfya number of them fell upon her and beat her over the head. She fell senseless and when picked up was found to have received a crushing blow on the head with some heavy instrument' Dr. McDowell pronounced the wound very serious. Two of the parties to tha aftair are Lizzie Moore and George Fisher, both eollored. Late last nigut no arrest had been made. We need not go south of Mason and Dixen’s to hunt up “outrages.” Selling Votes.—The following we copy from the Huntingdon (Pa.) News. It is to the point: “There goes the man who sold his vote.” How miserable that man must feel who has handed over his birth right for a paltry sum of money! He has sold his liberty, and bartered his manhood, at the bidding of his fellow, ro better than he. He has sold himself, and is more of a slave than a free man. Perhaps he has put himself upon the market to be bought. ■ If so, he is worse than a slave who, against his will, was driven to the shambles and knocked down to the inchest bidder. He is worse than the criminal confined in the penitentiary who would vole if he could: but the man who sells his vote loses his independence by his own act, and is bounded bv a chain stronger than steel and led by his purchaser to the polls to vote against the dictates of his own conscience. The right to vote should be held sacred by every American, and he should permit no man to approach him with money or bribe of whatever nature to buy him. Let every man maintain the honor of an American, and frown down the attempts of monied men to buy themselves into positions of honor and trust. If this is not done, the day will come when no poor man can run for office, and when the rich man’s chances will be measured by the length of his puise instead of by his honesty and fitness.

Bribery in Pulaski County. —It is a notorious fact that in every precinct in this county, without a single ex cc-ption, large sums of money were put in the hands of unscrupulous politicians to buy votes for the Republican State ticket, and that during the day the traffic went on and purchases made openly. No one needs to be toldjhow shamefully men’s votes were bougiit in this towiship; i: seems that there was «o bottom to this corruption fund, and voters were purchased at from one to eight dol lars a piece. We are reliably informed that one doctor at Monterey purchased sixteen votes at that poll, and that in Franklin tow ip, every man who priced i oney mo . thas honor was approached. We hear the same thing was done at all .'.ie voting precincts and money accomplished the work, when every other mejins failed. No doubt there has been at previous elections some money used for this purpose, and against the wishes of the more pure men of the parties, but never in the history of Indiana was such a lavish expenditure of mo noy made to corrupt and bribe voters.—Winamac Democrat. Delphi Times: The work on the lineof the Chicago and Indianapolis Bal road has been progressing rapidly during the past two months. Eight miles of the track have been laid north from Rensselaer and an equal amount south from Dyer. The track south or Dyer is standard gauge, but for convenience in using the narrow gauge rolling stock the iron is laid temporarily to the narrow gauge. The management confidently promise that the line will be finished thro to Chicago by the first of May. The Democratic party has been defeated but not conquered.

The Cincinnati Inquirer handsom< • lysays “Bnt the triumph of yesterday is not permanent. The Democratic principle, the idea which underlies our system of government, is ai lasting as the continent on which tha* Government dwells. The Democratic party, old as the country, can survive the defeats of a quarter of the century, jt has “Sounded forth the trumpbet that shall never retreat”—while the republic lives it will live. If the country seems now at the feet of a spirit of centralization that does not differ from the empire, it is in spite Of Democratic protest ; and the Democratic party, notwithstanding this temporary reverse, will falter not from its lofty spirit ; will fail not in its final purpose ; will continue its splendid march in the cause of ths people. There is a story of a people who were forty years in the wilderness. They were engaged in no better cause than that of Democracy. The Democratic party is one of evincible hope, and It has belief in the doctrine : Right forever oa the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, But that scaffold sways And behind the dim unknown’ StandethGod with in the shadow’ Keeping watch above His own’ And the Democratic party is forever opposed to the trone.