Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1881 — Vote for- Presideut, 1880. [ARTICLE]

Vote for- Presideut, 1880.

Hancock, Democrat, - 4,424,690 Garfield, Republican, - Weaver, Greenback, - 3l3 ’° . IfWo 1 ' ' ' 10 7&1 Dow, Prohibition, - - Scattering, rr v , . 9,169,216 Total, * ... Hancock over Gars eld. Scarlet, fever is raging in epidemic form, at Wabash. tins Slate. ► -«• ' ” Tlie cfimpnlsory education ail! Gbt to pass the State Legislature. Hon. George Caille, Democrat , was recently elected mayor of Galena, Illinois. Where was Graat? A grandson of General Lafayette, who aided us in the great Revolm tionary struggle of 1876, died Sunday last in Paris. The Republicans don’t like Senator Hill, of Georgia, and Senator Hi * don’t like the Republicans. Ihe msike is mutual. ___ Only $75,000 were appropriated b\ the Indiana Legislature to pay »&' expenses of the extra session. Ltu farmers pay for this sweet music.

According to last advices, Garfield has concluded not to call an extra session of Congress. It is said die National Banks were opposed to an extra session. The Republicans continue to wrestle with the popular vote for President to show that Garfield’s vote was larger than Hancock’s vote. Hancock’s yote was the argest by more than 8 000. A judgment was rendered reeentl} in Judge Holman’s Court, Indianapolis, in favor of William Henderson* Trustee, against the Water Works Company for $1,130,15610. The regular session of the Republican Legislature cost the people of Indiana $130,000, and the extra will cost them $75,000. About ali that our legislators do is to draw their pay. The Philadelphia Times is of the opinion that “the fortunate party in the Mahone trade is the party that has lost Mahone, and before a twelvemonth the Republican organs which axe now deifying Mahone will denounce his failing cause and decline all political fellowship witii hitn.”

A dispatch says “fourteen hundred office-seekers, every one of whom ‘carried Indiana in October,’ are at Washington, and the question arises, ‘Did- any of ’m get away?”' Some must have got away. There were fourteen thousand there immediately after the inauguration, says the Indianapolis Sentinel, •

The Chicago Times chides President Garfield for ornamenting the desk as Senator Mahone, of Virginia, with flowers from the White House -conservatory. The act called publi* attention to the President’s rejoicing at the Senator’s alliance with the lepublicans to beat the Democratic organization flf the Senate.

A resolution has passed the Indiana House providing for the submission of an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting/the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors only for mechenichal, medicinal and sacramental purposes. The resolution passed by a vote of 54 yeas and 30 nays. This is a step in the right direction.

It will be but a short time until the the farmers will be inquiring around to learn who keeps the nest plows and farming implements. They are going to do a big summer’s work and are going to want good implements to do it with. Watoh the columns of the SaNTiNßii and see who advertise in the line of farming implements.

If the Legislature would pass a law cutting off the pay of members for every day spent over the sixty days allowed for the regular session, there would be more and better work done and extra sessions would be something unheard of. Under the present law. this RepuDlican legislature is likely to remain in session all summer.

The State Senate, by a majority vote, has said that, hereafter county Commissioners shall give bonds in the sum of $5,000 before entering upon the discharge of the duties of their office. If the same bill should pass the House, there will be but few men who will want to be elected county commissioner. It is an unthankful and unprofitable position at best and hereafter, with that ineumberanoe, it will be a clear case of the office seeking the man.

Our neighbor goes whining to the Kentland Gazette that we styled him an “amateur.” For Heaven’s sak e Mr. Gazette, tell him he is not tell him he is nothing! He has threatened to go to Heaven, and we fear will do something terrible. True, he is a retired pedagogue, with all the supercilious ways that self-conceit can imbue him with, father than an “am ateur” journalist. In using the term toward "him, we did it with the best intentions. Some neighboring jour nallots noting his attempts at playing smart, having inquired, in language more emphatic than polite, what kind of a “dampuool” our neighbor was, we supposed “a hint to the wise” would be sufficient to keep him within bounds. Bnt he’s not wise—he’s otherwise.

According to the census, the males oat-number the females in Illinois 96,097.

It is generally supposed that an othei extra session of the legislature will have to be called. But a few more days of the present session remains and there is more work that ought to be done than oun be accom plished in the short time left for legislative work. It only costs about SI,OOO per clay to keep this Republican legislature running and as the Republicans have not been in power in Indiana for some time, and not iikely to hold control a : rent while, (hey want to make all the money ihey can while they have an oppor- ! unity.

The fellow, Reynolds, who obtained license in our Court to sell liquor in Rensselaer, has threatened the editor of the Republican of that place, with a “punching” because Corkins saw proper to comment of his qualification for the business. We’ll go a big apple that Reynolds comes out at the little end of the horn if he undertakes it. - Kentland Gazette. Balderdash! “We’ll go a big apple” that Reynolds never made any sui h tiuear. Grateful to Corkins for his gi atituitous advertising, he may have expressed u desire to remunerate him with a whiskey punch, a g.n sling, or a brandy smash, and as a result Corkins raises the cry of “martyr.” On January 31,1879, John Slurman, then Secretary of the Treasury, wrote to Chester A. Arthur:

“Gross abuses of administration have continued and increased during your incumbency. “Persons have been regularly paid by you who have rendered little or no service; the expenses of your office have increased, while its receipts have diminished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape of bribes, have been received by your subordinates in several branches of the Custom House, and you have in no case supported the effort to correct these abuses.” And then induced the late Presidential Fraud to impart to him the following important information: “With a deep sense of my obligations under the Constitution, I regard it as my plain duty to suspend you, in older that the office may be hon f atly administered.” Now John Sherman is a member of the United States Senate, and C. A. Arthur is presiding officer of that body, and between the two worthies a gulf of ice intervenes.

We are glad to note that Senator Voorhees attracted the attention of the couauy the other day when he introduced his resolution into the Senate regarding the National Banks The Washington special of the New York Sun has this to say regarding the matter: j\lr. Voorhees’ purpose in offering the resolution was to secure an opportunity to make a speech which he had prepared with much care. Mr. Voorhaes does not intend Jo make a wholesale, and what he calls a senseless attack upon, the banks. He believes, however, that the attention of tke country ought to be called to what lie regards as a dangerous, though power possessed by tke banks of disturbing at will the financial situation. There have been some indications of a growing purpose in some quarters of attacking the National Banking system. Mi. Voorhees’speech may give the keynote of the anti-bank campaign. Through a wholesome dread of this the National Banks now oppose an extra session of Congress.

The Clncinuatti Commercial’s desire to have an extra session of Congress is not to be gratified. It sees how about $200,000,000 o. the 5 and 6 per cent, bonds can be taken care of; but, says the Commercial, “We shall have to go on paying 5 per cent, for an amount of bonds equal to $400,000,000 —and we may have a bountiful harvest. Also vast sums of mon ey will be wanted for railroad enterprises. Politically and financially, the greater surety would be in an extra session, though that is a sharp medicine that does not insure the cure of all diseases.” It was the purpose of the Democratic party to fund the whole $600,000,000 at 3 per cent., and the bill was passed. But to gratthe National Banks, Hayes vetoed the bill, and the people will be required to pay not less than $800,000,000 a year on account of Hayes’ treachery. And if $200,000,000 are funded at 4 per cent, it is well known that the National Banka are opposed to an extra session of Congress, and it is now believed that they exert quite as much influence with Garfield as they did with Hayes. With Republicans in power, the National Banks rule, and the people will do well not to forget it.

Attorney-General Baldwin is de livering opinions upon vexed legal questions with such astonishing rapidity and frexuency that it is no wonder that he sometime# gets a little muddled, and is compelled to give a second opinion at times to correct ar over-rule a former one. This peculiarity has caused the revival of p, story that was formerly current in Logansport, and which runs about as follows: “When Judge Baldwin was holding down the woolsack of the Court of Common Pleas* a case was presented to hin, and duly argued, and was taken under advisment by the Judge, who, in the course of a few days, after mature deliberation, rendered a long and apparently able verdict. A few weeks later another case involving precisely the same question as in case No. 1, was tried before him. He again took ample time to make up his decision, and rendered a verdict exactly contrary to the one given but a short time before. Thus in the language of the Cass oounty bar, making sure to be right at least half the time. If he is correct in half of his opinions as Attorney General, he will give an immense amount of able and just advice.—Peru Sentinel.

How it Pays to Take a Pap jib. Some papers are not of much account as to appearance, but I never took one that did not pay me, in some way, more than I paid for it. One time an old friend stareed a little paper away down in Sotthwestern Georgia, and sent it to me, and Isubscribed just to encourage him, and so after a while it published a notioe that an administrator had an order to sell several lots at public outcry, and one of the lots was in my county. So I inquired about the lot, and wrote to my friend to attend the sale and run it to fifty dollars. He did so, and bid off the lot for me at thirty dollars, and I sold it in a month to the man it joiued for a hundred, and so I made sixty-eight dollars clear by taking that paper. My father told me when he was a young man he saw a notice in a paper that a school tiacker was wanted away off in a distant county, and lie went there and got the situation, and a little girl was sent to him, and after awhile she crew up mighty sweet and pretty and he fell in love with her and nrariled her. Now, if he hadn’t taken that paper, what do you reokon would have become of me V Woulun’t I be some other fellow, or maybe not at all?—Bx.