Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — Removal ! [ARTICLE]

Removal !

The Sentinel Office has been moved into rooms one door east of Makeever’s New Hotel, where we will be pleased to greet our friends in future. Judge B. B. Daily, of Delphi, died in tlinf city on the evening of October 18th. Edmunds, in his spite, pronounced the presidency pro. tern. of the senate, when conferred upon Mr. Bayard, as a “prize drawn from the lottery of assassination.” A miserable falsehood! It was a prize drawn from the resigrietionsof Conkling and Platt.

Delphi Times: John Heltzell attempted suicide Friday last by throw ing himself in Deer Creek, near the dam. Ho was discovered soon ast p r, carried home and resus itated by hard labor. Despondency caused by ill health is supposed to be tire reason for the act, The Presidential office to day is a “prize drawn from the lottery of assassination.” Hayes held the posi tion four years, a '‘prize drawn from the lottery of fraud.” The radical party has held for many years the prize, drawn from the lottery of vio lenoe to the written laws of the land, corrup .ion, fraud, etc.

It is probable that Conkling will go into the cabinet. It w’ould not be a blunder in Edmunds to say, in tha t event, Roscoe held a prize diawn from the “lottery of assassination.”— His declaration will apply to every appointment made by Arthur, who exercises authority by virtue of the assassination of Garfield. John Sherman the other day de manded an investigation of his acts as Secretary of the Treasury, when up jumped Edmunds to remark that such an investigation would be “im practicable.” Edmunds should have continued his Jenksinian role by adding—“and unnecessary, as he could vouch for his honesty.” The farce would then have been complete. Indianapolis Journal: Murray Keller, general ticket and passenger ag’t of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road, was in the city Saturday, and he remarked that the Journal would be safe in saying that by February trains would be running into Indianapolis over the Chicago and Indianapolis Air Line. This enterprise is backed by the same parties who own the L. N. A. and C. road.

Scoville, Guiteau’s brother in-law and attorney is reported as saying recently: “There is more of politics in the case than most people imagine.— I intend that everything connected with the crime shall be developed, and if I should have a Stalwart to help me he might antagonize this course. If it is necessary I shall not hesitate to bring out the connection of Conkling with the inception of the crime. The Stalwart schism was responsible for the mat .er, and shall be placed where it belongs if I can sesecure that result.”

The New York Sun refers to the remark of Senator Edmunds that the election of Mr. Bayard was a prize drawn from the lottery of assassination, and says: “It is an absurd stretch of fanatical partisanship on the part of Mr. Edmunds: but this absurdity is much less culpable than the act of the same Edmunds in 1876, when he conspired with others, in some respects worse than himself, to set aside the Presidential election, and to put Rutherford B. Hayes into the office to which Samuel J. Tilden had been chosen. Then he was ready to commit an unheard of crime to keep out the Democrats. Now his conduct is less atrocious, but his spirit is the same. It is not a spirit either of high patriotism or of sound rationality.— Guiteau and Edmunds seem to be about equally irrational.” Aud the Sun might have added, equally infamous. Delphi Times: It appears that, as the Times of last week asserted, the furore of opposition to the circulation of “mutilated” silver coin is an unmitigated humbug, based upon an endeavor of certain shrewd speculat ors to profit by the gullibility of the public. Like most movements of the kind, it originated in New York. The initiative was taken by the hanging up in different conspicuous places of the following placard:

The absurdity of such an order did not appear to strike f the public, and soon the crusade thus illegitimately inaugurated in New York extended throughout the country, and thousands of thoughtless persons submitted to the extortion which dis counted a silver dollar with an. inflnitessimal hole in thirty-five pei. cent. If people would stop but a moment to consider they would know that the s ilver in the coin possesses an intrinsic value as bullion, and is thus accepted by the government mints.— The attention of the Director of the

Mint having been called to the move- | ment, he issued the following circular: ; Treasury Department, i Bureau of the Mint, < Washington, D. C. J The Government has fixed no valuation qgon mutilated coin other than -xhe market value of the silver they bontain. They are purchased at the fnint by weight as bullion, and the value depends upon the price of silver on the day the coin is received at the mint. At present the pi ice paid by the mint at Philadelphia is $1,121 per ounce fine. Horatio C. Burchard, Director. Mutilated coin, when received at the mint is tr« at«*d just as other coins. No attention is paid by the mint uu thorities to the face value of a coin, tia t< al value being ascertaiue I en t rely bv weight. There are now in circulation thousands of edins which are largely reduced in real value by wear—much more, in fact, than coins Ahicn have suffered by tiny ordinary perforation. It is full time that people would take the sober second tho’and accept the coin at their full face value. No loss will be sustained by any one, and the convenience of the general public will be largely subserved.

Campbell & Fartlen’s for Boo’s & Shoes, Gents Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps and Gloves. Opposite Ute Nowcls House.