Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1881 — Vote for President, 1880. [ARTICLE]

Vote for President, 1880.

Hancock, Democrat, - 4,424,690 Garfield, Republican, - 4,4*6,584 Weaver, Greenback, - 313,893 Phelps, ----- 1,133 Dow, Prohibition, - * 10,791 Scattering, - - * 2,122 Total, --- y,1G9,-l3 Hancock over’Garfehl, - B,lot March 4th- -Exit Fraud Hayes. Enter Credit Mobilier Grrfield. The Local Option Temperance bill has been defeated in the Senate. — See official Presidential vote on first pag#. Hancock over Garfield. 8,106. Oxford Tribune: There is a lively prospect for the building of the con tinental railroad from New York to Omaha. —« • A bill to make keeping a gambling house a felony, punishable by two or five years in the penitentiary, has passed the Missouri House. The Arkansas Legislature has passed a bill appropriating SIO,OOO for the establishment of a Normal School for the education of eoloiod tea.' era. In the passage of the electoral count resolution in the United States Senate, six Republicans voted with the Democrats for the resolution These were Allison, Blaine, Booth, Conkling, Hoar, and .Tones, of Neva da.

The following notable words were used by Senator Carpenter before the Electoral Commission of 1877: I do not appear for Mr. Tilden, but for 10,000 legal voters of the State of Louisiana, who, without accusation or proof, indictment or trial, notice or hearing, have been disfranchised by four villains incorporated in perpetual succession, whose official title is the Returning Board of Louisiana. They are well worth repeating and remembering. They should have an nihilatedthe pretensions of Mr. Hayes then and there. Peter Cooper’s idea is that the Government should issue its own currency. “These notes,” he says, “mav be redeemable in coin or receivable at Post Office Saving Banks, where a rate of interest is paid that will keep, them at par with coin. Why not use this currency to buy gold and silver bullion and coin it, and with this coin, and with the hundreds of millions now idle in the Treasury, pay off the bonds falling due as fast as possible, and thus stop the interest on them, and relieve the people from the debt entirely?”

Senator Beck, of Kentucky, recently declared on the iloor of the Senate that Jay Gould, Thomas A. Scott, William P. Huntington, William H. Vanderbilt and John W. Garrett, controlling the great trunk lines, can meet together at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City and in a five minutes chat levy a tax upon tho commerce of the country of $500,000, 000 by simply raising the tariff of freight two cents a bushel upon grain and do it according to law. These five men wield a greater power over the commerce of the #ouctry than congress and are to-day monarchs over all they survey.

Tbo Philadelphia Times very judiciously remarks, that “nothing could be better calculated to prove to the people that the National Banks are an enemy to the payment of the Nationul debt and the lessening of the public burdens than the ill-judged haste of certain bankers, as much interested in politics as in banking, to array themselves against the Dill providing for the payment of the heavy burden of interest at less rates than we have been hitherto paying. J The recent action of the National Banks is well ealculated to create alarm, and, as Senator Plumb, of Kansas, says, if the banks are to control the Government, it ia high time the people should knew the fact.

The Chicago Times saya: “In the Senate chamber General Burnside charged a corrupt motive upon General Logan, and General Logan re torted upon General Burnside with the remark that if, and so forth, General Burnside was falsifying. Whereupon General Burnside reiterated his statement that the Illinois Senator was moved in his opposition to the sixty surgeons bill by the influence of claim agents. And General Logan thereupon did not give the lie direct to General Burnside. All of this passes without comment because the participants are products of Northern civilization. Supposing such language had passed between the Brigadiers ! Fire and fury! how they would have been denounced.”

A Republican writes to the JT. Y. World from Cincinnati in compliment and approbation of its efforts to “bring into the domain of what is known as “practical politics”|the three very important questions of free ships, a revision of the tariff, and civil service reform,” and says that if the Democratic party will distinctly enunciate these points as cardinal in its creed it will “not lack votes to put them in power.” The writer has not evidently been a general reader, or he would have known that these features are distinctly enunciated in the Democratic creed. He writes further; “The stand you have taken cannot but command the respect of those who find it impossible to maintain a

very deep .in Mr. Blaine s “baiting the brigadiers,”, and Conkling’s “squabble over the lew York Custom House.” His further contention is th it the Democrat’s offered nothing in tie last con vase but this: “General Hancock for President instead of General Garfield.” The letter is noteworthy only for two things —the symptoms of the drift ol' serious public opinion in the west, and of the p irblindn* ss of some people in great emergencies. Here is a man w iom it is fair to infer was oduca ed ii the republican faith, takes eo cm* :o inform himself of any other, and only stumbles on an exegesis of a contrary one too late for his enlightenment in time to practically cast oil his bedraggled garmei»* and clothe himself in another and a living faith t'-doient of cleanliness and good works. He confesses the old fetich is mi i trapping, indeed, discouraging, but slotufully refuses to look out a new way and thus make himself an intelligent, sensible and Useful citirx n. llow many more such men there are in this country, blind and follow itig blind guides from habit instead of judgment; it would bo impossible to say, but we venture a number far inexcess of those who were misled through John Kelley s‘ treachery into keeping the country under the rule of men who incite to nothing more ennobling than ‘ Mr. Blaine’s baiting the brigadiers, and Mr. Conkling's squabbles over the New York Custom Bouse,” or, iu others, the words ol Flanigan in t,'he-Chicago Convention : “What are we here for but tii• offices ?“

If anything were wanted to show that the Republican party, body aud breeches lit lias no soul,) is under the dominion of capital and corporations, it could be found in the administration of Hayes, the perfidious fraud who. God be praised for rolling years, is about to step down and out of the White-House. Among his recent acts,is th# nomination of Elliott I'. Shepard for the office of District Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Ballot'd, of Colorado, offered a reroiutiou in the house o f Representatives, calling upon the Attorney General and Commissioner of Internal Revenue for iaTormuth n regarding suits against railroads for the collection of internal revenue tax. It seemes that William H. Vanderbilt is a large owner in railroads that are endeavoring to defraud the Government out of their internal revenue tax, and if Hayes’ nomination is confirmed, the man Shepard, who will hay©' entire control of the suits, will help his millionaire father-in-law in these swindling transactions. The nomination of Shepard bears all the ear-marks of a bargain and stile, aud Hayes is probably richer thereby.

Montice.Ho Herald; A cyclone struck the Rensselaer Sentinel office hist week, knocking the material into first-class pi. MeEweu bravely stood at his post and endured the racket, escaping with slight injury. Ah, Billy, there is not a word of truth in it, and you have laid yourself open to be written down an ass, by our amateur friend across the hall, for the construction you have placed upon the product of his mighty genius. “What did he mean?” Well’ he can’t tell that himself. We sup pose he was attempting to get oil it httle sharp, humorous pleasantry, for, after laughing immoderately over his own wit, he Stated out to enjoy the sight of others iudulging in sidesplitting laughter over it. But it proved for him vexation of spirit. He was asked by those he met to read it for he wished it to be understood, and soon returned, “mad as a sandy boar of Gil boa.” denouncing as ignoramuses those who were unable to arrive at an intelligible ‘Understanding of Ida item.

Eggs are the brain producing diet of our neighbor across the way. He had for some months been paying the price announced from week to week in the Sentinel. The reduction in price as noted by us last week threw Mm into a lit of ecstatie joy, and, presuming that we had all along kept the price up on him ne closes an enthusiastic haranguc| with: “We cannot account for the change in anv way except that Mac has Dyed the form.” We arc glad our neighbor is happy, aud shall take pleasure in noting further decline in price, in older thai he may be supplied with brain power at the lowest possible rates.

General Grant wants to get a pen sion! » General Grant wants to be made Captain General with a big salary! General Grant wants to be pat on the retired list of the army with a big salary, and nothing to do! Generai Grant wants so be re-elect ed President of the United Statesl General Grant wants to be elected President of some rich canal or railroad company! General Grant wants (somebody to subscribe and pay him a big sum of money to nold or spend! General Grant, is there anything else you can think of, that you would like to have? “Polly wants a cracker!”

Mrs. Mollie Uts, a widow, of New Albany, is undergoing the singular process of ossification. The disease attacked her fingers, and lias proceeded nearly to the elbows, the flesh, muscles and arteries all turning to bone. Mrs. Utz complains greatly of her heart, and often, falls to the floor from suspended circulation. The case is the first of the kind that ever occurred in this part of the State } physicians say.

A novel case of blood-poisoning is reported from Richmond, where Richard Jackson died from crushing a, po-tato-bug in his fingers and afterward touching the inside of his ear, from which he suffered for twelve months, losing one hundred pounds of flesh.