Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1881 — We’d Like to See [ARTICLE]

We’d Like to See

Spring come. That new jail. A new scheel building. Some gravel roads made. The ice go out of the river. Val Seib curl his mastache. Charlie Price get snowballed. Some more sidewalks in town. Some of the sinners join church. That boy that kills so many cats. York and Owens find the snorer. The merchants doing a lively business. Rensselaer a burgh of 10,000 inhabitants. Some cottages built at this place to rent. The Sunday schools of this place revived. The railroad bridge at Pittsbnrg repaired. Everybody happy uud enjoying themselves. Charlie Sears wearing a leather watch guard. Oliver Daugherty tell about Hayes* farewell address. Everybody go to the Aproa Festival and buy an apron. The man that swore off New Year’s who still keeps his swear off. * A correspondent in each township in the county, for the Skntikel. The Chicago and Indianapolis Air Line, the Continental and the Chicago and Brazil Railroads buiiied.

A correspondent of the Indianapo lie Sentinel while expressing himself favorable to most of the proposed amendments, adds: To the adoption of the residence section there can be no good partisan objection, as the question of citizenship and the rinrht to vote is definitely settled, and will not require legislative enactments to explain or to put into effect it 3 provisions. But the section requiring the enactment of registration law is entirely a different matter. The adoption of this section opeus up opportunity for a partisan Legislature to secure possession of all the machinery by which the fact of citizenship is to be established, and the modes of becoming a legal voter, subject to change with each recurring Legislature, and especially whenever tbere is a change in the political control es the body empowered to make and unmake the law. That a fair registration cua be made there is no doubt, yet it is attended with great great expeuec to the Stane, and in many oases annoyance to the citizen, and can be made an engine of tyranny by a party in power, as has been fully demonstrated in many sections of this country, end is certainly a dangerous power for the people to putin the hands of auy political party, now er hereafter. Tlu rights of eitizensbip and the privilege it confers snouid only be placed in the fundamental law of the btate. Happily for Indiana, the duties of its officials are so clearly made by organic law, that so far as their administrations are concerned it enly amounts to individual choice as to which political party the administrators belong. But to give parties power, and even make it a legislative duty to compel citi zoos to prove before a purtian Board their citizenship, subject to chances of being swindlrd out et their rights, guarranteed by their constitution is a question only to be considered by men of one party, but of g.ll fair-mind-ed men. Anv attempt to mane the adoption er rejection of these amendments a party queation should be frowned down. A determined persistence iu that direction ought to convince good citizens that it means a desire to get an opportunity for political “skulduggery” by whichever party guilty of the offense, and its leaders ought te be rebuked by the independent voters es the party, when UDder guise of a wonderfull amount es reyerense “for the purity of elections,” seek opportunity to debauch them by law.

Hayes’ lament, as published by the New York Commercial Advertiser, is as follows: I am dying Rodgers, dying, And my days are nearly spent; But I’ve saved a pot of money, Since they called me President. My lady has been true goodness, Cold water and tne truth; And future generations Will call me “Holy Ruth.”

A disgusted Greenback friend writes us as follows; The National Banks are for tne time being masters of the situation. Monopolies dictate the limits of legislation, and, until patriotism shall rise above party spirit, and crush combinations formed to plunder the public, we shall drift on in the dilection of i n absolute aristooratic despotism. It is proposed to offer a rewared of from $5,000 to $25,000, for the author of the Morey letter, with immunity from punishment to the person who did write it, if he will maae himself known. It is about time something was known about the Morey letter. The Republican managers seem to have lost interest in the matter for soqjereason or other, Let the author be smoked out.