Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — Vote for President, 1880. [ARTICLE]

Vote for President, 1880.

Hancock, Democrat, - * 4,424,690 Garfield, Republican, - 4,416,584 Weaver, Greenback, - 313,893 Phelps, - - - “ ’ 1,103 Dow, Prohibition, - - 10,791 Scattering, . - - - 2,122 Total, - - - - 9,169,213 Hancock over Gars eld. - 8,106

Payments f r pensions in 1882 will aggregate about $100,000,000. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistic s,A,'osopli Nimmo jr.. has been pacing wages to a dead man. Joseph will be given the grand bounce for keeping a “dead-head’ on the pay roll Pour millions auras of land ini 101ida, have just come into the possess ion of Ham. Distoi-., of Philadelphia and a few associates. It would make fife such States as Rhode Island. The Ne»’-York Express, speaking of the Bradley-Sessions bribery scan dal, says it “is u’,:v us the gravest investigation.; ever made, and the people of, this Stale will not rest satisfied iihr.il the guilty man is discovered and punished.” Advices from Washington furnish some information as to the way John Sherman managed the Treasury De pi.rtment. There is a charge of $lO5 10 for 318 pounds of camphor; $24 for six dozen salt-sacks: $7 50 ,for three photographs of the Electoral Commission; $22 75 for one toilet set: $27 for three gross of buttons and $35 for dye for same; s3l 25 for palm, leaf fans; $3 50 for cleaning a driver’s coat: S3O 17 for Day & Martins blacking; £l3 dozen monogram towels, $1,384 50; four and a half dozen thermometers, S9O 25: two dozen cuspadors, decorated, $32; four and a half gallons deodorized alcohol, bay rum, sl2; fifty gross matches $140; one barrel flour, $9; 100 gross assorted toilet soaps, $1,951 65; ten boxes castilesoap, $155; twenty four dozen chamois skins, $129 60; fifty dozen whisk brooms, $127 50. lor these and sundry other items there was spent $25,000!

The job of printing the premium list of the Jasper County Agricultural Society has been awarded to a Logansport house. We suppose, too,the Logansport papers will give the institutions all the free advestising they usually ask the local papers to publish, such as the list of premiums offered, ahd premiums awarded, etc. (?) |Rensselaer Republican. The printing is paid for by the advertisers, and we would suggest that hereafter the patrons insert their advertisements on condition that the work is kept at home.

Those business men who patronize foreign printing establishments forget that there are printing houses at home which can do their work just as well. Connected with these houses are new.-papers which are constantly ringing in the ears of the people the i.olii.y of buying at home. Is it wise, i-r is it just that they should send their work to men who do not add a nickel to their trade, but on the other hand drain the town of tfiat much money? The business rnan who does this is certainly very short sighted. What is true of the- business man is true of the politician. The latter, when he js a candidate before the people, expects their votes. In return he should give his patronage to his own people—-the men who placed him in position. —[Crawfordsville Journal.

We consider this a truth which may be applied to not a few of the business men of many other towns in this State, as well as Crawfords-. ville, but go where you may you will find men who will sacrifice a dollar to save a cent, and it is this same spirit that will keep prosperity away from any place. [Rensselaer Republican.] Correct views, properly expressed brethren.