Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — Congressional Committee Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Congressional Committee Meeting.

The members of the Congressional Committea for the Tenth Congres sional district, consisting of the chairmen of the several county committees are requested to meet at the Council chamber in the city of Logansport on TUESDAY, JUNE 20th. 1882, at 2 o’clock p. m„ for the purpose of fixing toe time and place for holding the Congressional nominating convention. A. B. Crampton, Chairman Democratic Committee, Tenth District. Read the speech of Mr. Cox, on first page of this Sentinel. It furnishes food for seber thought and reflection. The Cincinnati Commercial. Republican, thus takes the Gazette to task: The Cincinnati Gazette has a candidate for Secretary of Treasury whose chief qualification is that he is a blackguard of the smallest bore. This is one of the Gazette’s reforms.

The Washington Post referring to the high-handed outrages perpetrated by a Republican majority in the Hanse of Representatives, remarks that “Having determined* to boldly override all rules, customs and laws which could in any way obstruct their progress, it was not diffi cult for the Republicans of the House to instantly strike a telling gait in the way of unseating Democratic Congressmen from the South. But truth to tell, their industry has gone beyond the most sangnine expectations. It was only on Monday that speaker Kiefer made hie revolution" ary decision on the Reed rule, and to-day the world is aware that two more Democratic Representatives have gone to join General Chalmers, and that Mackey and Bisbee sit in the seats to which Messrs. Dibble aui Finley were elected,” Within the entire range of Republican outrages, and tney are both numerous and flagitious, nothing has transpired so clearly indicative of the malign spirit of Republicanism as the action of the House is unseating Democi atio Congressmen. “It is,” says the Post, “alike impervious to argument and to a decent regard for facts, giving audience only to their prejudices, and bent on the accomplishment of partisan purposes, whether sanction* ed by the law or in its direct defiance* time and lack of occasion can be their only limitations.” Such outrages characterize the Republican majority to secure partisan supremacy can not be long tolerated by the American people. The time for retribution is certainly near at hand.

Hon 8. 8. Cox is known to be a wit as well as a statesman, and to possess the happy faculty of making his wit available when discussing subjects „f the highest moment to the people. As, for instance, says Mr. Cox: “The little girl can not play with the doll, nor the boy whiz his top, nor the mother wash her offspring with soap, except at an expense of from ones th*d to one-half of their cost for the domestic privilege. If the mother gives her child castor oil, she pours down 148 per cent, ad valorem- if the child does not enjoy the dose there is a 25 per cent, bowl as a recipient of the contents of its tender stomach. And though she wash it with niter and take to it much soap, yet the iniquity is marked before me. saith the Lord, for th j soap is marked 40 per centum. God help the child. If she wraps the little dear in a plain bleached cotton night shirt it has to pay 5i cents per square yard, and when the child awakes in the morning fretful she combs its little head at 35 cents advalorem; if she would amuse it, she rolls it over a Brussels Carpet at 90 cents per square yard, or gives it confectionery made of refined sugar at 4 cents a pound tax t

and 25 per cent.'advalorenajif it tears | its little panties, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr Kelley) sews them ■ up v, ith spool-thread taxed at three quarters of its value. Why, if she used a shingle to bring the little 'ted ding, wee thing, to its senses, as the honorble gentleman can recall, the cost would be enhanced at the rate of 17 per cent, taxation. If the young ster has a patriotic inclination on our Fourth of Juiy, his firecrackers are trxed as a patriotic luxury at $1 extra a box. and the bunting which furnishes the flay, though-but twenty three cents a pound, costs 121 per cent, extra, while the band plays <»n .ns?H.«n<u!s taxed at thirty cento. She takes him io the menagrie to study natural history. There is the zebra, symbolic of a mixed advalorem and specific, and the stately giraffe, high protection, the royal tiger and unicorn of Hcly Writ at 20 per cent And the procession of elephant-j Evpry one 20 per cent. True, Jumbo, for purposes not to be mentioned, is e xoluded by the affidavit ot a consistent protectionist! but the logchain that holds his huge legs binds the monster in protective chains.” Such facts however playfully presented, come home tq every family in the land, and in these clays, when mothers as well as fathers discuss public affairs, the tariff, as it touches home in terests, is deserving of attention.

Fowler Republican: P. P. Conner who exposed the Republican mathod cf carrying this stato at the last is a candidate for Auditor of Newton county. If he should be defeated we wonder if he would know what done it? The do t law, the road law, the decedent’s estate law, the masters commissioners’ law, the vaccination law, the jury commissioners’ law and some others we might name, creating over two thousand new officeholders at an annual expense of more than one hundred thousand dollars to the taxpayers ot Indiana, are the legacies lefr us by the last Legislature. The masses begin to relize that Republican rule in our State is not the best boon imaginable.—Huntington Democrat.

The Republican party in the ap. proaching campaign will treat the subject of temperance ns a colored pastor wanted a visiting minister who was to address his people, to handle mortal questions. The colored pastor told the visiting preacher that “the Lawd hes blessed us with a mir ackelus out poriu of the Sperit, an’ I want you to preech one of your fin s est sermons, and be careful to tech lightly onto de ten commandments for fear of thrown’ a coldness over de meetin.Rushville Jacksonian. Why dosen’t Congress reform the tariff and reduce taxation ? After having secured to favored manufacturers the indirect taxation that comes ot a prohibitory tariff and falls upon the consumer, the legislarure has still further burdened the country by eolleting a serplus tax of $150,000,000 a year. And the chief concern of the majority, in Congress is, first, to seat some congressional contestants, abont the merit of whose cases they know nothing, and next to follow Robeson and Keifer in schemes for squandering the great surplus mentioned. Is it any wonder that the pinched laboring man is in revolt?

Hon Jno, B. Stall, editor jf the Li. gonier Banner says: Notwithstanding the est-repeated declaration that the senior editor of this paper would under no circumstance become a candidate for State Auditor nor for any other office in the gift of the people* Republican papers persists in speaking of him as a probable “dark horse” in the coming race. Once for all he desires to state that there is no foundation what ever for such an assumption. His business engagements are of such a nature as to require his undivided attention for several years to come. His ambition, just now, is to make a complete success of his newspaper enterprises. To that end all his energy will be directed. If he should ever, in the near or distant future, experience an inclination to aspire to office, the public will be duly advised of his intentions and purposes.