Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1881 — Vote for Presideut, 1880. [ARTICLE]

Vote for Presideut, 1880.

Hereabouts the third-termers all sustain Conkling as against Garfield. There is not a doubt but that Garfield sold Sherman out at Chicago, and it is hardly to be expected that he would despise treachery in others. Kentland Press; Simon P. Thompson is always on hand during court time. He is the most industrious, skillful and able attorney in this judicial district. T 1W — ~ Senator Harrison’s daily visits to the White House have resulted in securingjbutltwc appointments for Hoosiers. These two were stonemasons—appointed to work on the Washingion monument at $2 50 per day. Hoosier radicals are unhappy. The horse, Jasper, presented to Gen. Milroy by the citizens of Jasper county will be given the freedom of the Court House yard, in Delphi, on Decoration Day. He is twenty-four years old and has been in twenty-six battles and skirmishes. The events of the week are the resignations o f onkling and Platt Stalwart Senators of New York, and, the confirmation of Robertson as collector at that port The President is severely and no doubt truthfully arraigned by the senators as a man of questionable veracity. The end is not yet. Don Cameron and John A. Logan, bosses in the Conkling wing, without the presence of their leader, didn’t have the nerve to oppose the mandate of Garfield. As a consequence Robertson’s nomination was confirm' ed without dissent, and the Presiden succeeded in bestowing a reward for treachery.

Indianapolis Journal: So much has been said concerning the Louisville> New Albany and Chicago or L. and Ncombination having scooped in the Indianapolis and Chicago Air Line road that a representative of the Journal has taken special pains to learn the facts in the case, which are as follows: The portion of the road now completed has simply been leased tojthe L.J N. A. & C. peoule to operate until the road is completed be tween Indianapolis and Chicago.— The company owning the property are now pushing the construction of the road between Rensselaer and Chicago, and they expect to have the road in operation between Delphi and Chicago by July 1, and then work on the Delphi and Indianapolis division wih be commenced in earnest. The distance is 64:3 miles, and the company expect to have it completed by October 1. Then they will take the entire line, properly equip and operate it, the L., N. A. and C. lease only covering the time occupied in completing the unfinished portion of the road.

Conkling & Platt charge that “Robertson and sixty-nine other men accepted from the State convention a certain trust. They sought and accepted the position of agents or delegates to the National convention. The State convention declared that its plainly stated judgment and poll. Cy was to be observed and supported oy those it commissioned. To this declaration all selecled as delegates gave implied consent, but several of them in addition made most specific personal pledges and engagements to exert themselves in good faith thro’out to secure the nomination of Gen eral Grant. They made this pledge as a means of obtaining their own appointments as delegates, and they did, as we both personally know, obtain their seats in the National convention upon the faith of their personal statements of their earnestness and fidelity.” It seems that Robertson violated that pledge and positive instructions, led a “bolt” in favor of Garfield, and now declares that his appointment is a “reward”—a “reward for his action as a delegate to the National convention.” If so, we regret that his confirmation was ac ' complished without dissent.