Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — Congressional Committee Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Congressional Committee Meeting.

The members of the Congressional Committee 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 tne time and place for holding the Congressional nominating convention. A. B. Crampton, Chairman Democratic Committee, Tenth District. Counterfeit $lO treasury notes, of the series of 1885, are afloat in Boston. On Monday of last week the tomb of ex -President Zachary Taylor, near Louisville, Kentucky, was profusely and handsomely decorated with flowers.

Jim Casey, a noted New Orleans carpet bag politician ! under the Kellogg government was stabbed to death, In a house of ill-fame, in that cit y, recently. Among the leading spirits in the recent North Carolina repuolican State Convention were Col. William Johnson, a malignant secessionist during the war, and District Attorney Boyd, the leader of a Kuklux band in 1870. A heavy rain-storm at I ndianapolis, Wednesday morning, flooded Pogue’s run and swept away a rotten foot 1 - bridge at the depot tunnel, by which eight persons were drowned. The destruction to property is estimated at $300,000.

Advices from Washington state that Republican Congressmen are not at all satisfied with the outlook.— They feel that they will suffer losses iu the northwest, and have nowhere to look for gains. They confess that they have no prospect of retaining control of the next house. Major Bitters, of Rochester, this State, rormerly the live editor of the Rensselaer Republican, started on Wednesday morning of last week for West Virginia where he will spend a few weeks or months introducing the Moorhead patent washing machine.--So says the Rochester Sentinel.

The resolution introduced in the Senate by Mr. Pendleton, on the sth inst., in regard to political assessments has excited a great deal of interest. Very many officeholders in all parts of the country who received the blacxmailing circulars are sending them to Mr. Pendleton and other democratic members of Oongrese, some with names and some without names or indication where they are from, except the postmark of the city or town at which they are mailed. On Wednesday Mr. Pendleton gave notice that on Monday he would call up his resolution for consideration.— It had been his intention to call it up earlier, but he deferred at the request of Senator Hale, who is absent thi s week, and is anxious to be present when the resolution is considered.— Mr. Hale is a member of the republican campaign committee, and his name is signed to the circular requesting “voluntary contributions.” The notice given .by Mr. P. that he will call up the resolution on Monday next leaves time for any one receiving such circulars to send them in, in order to show how widespread they have been circulated. It is the inten tion of the advocates of civil-service reform to expose and check this system of blackmailing employes under the guise of requesting “voluntary contributions.’'

Harper’s Weekly, having found ou‘ that “Stalwart means spoils,” inquires "what does half-breed mean?” The New York Herald very obligingly ans swers: “Well, a half-breed is a politician just as eager for the spoils as the other, but equally < ager to make men believe that he is not in the least ans*

ious on that point. He has all the j vices of the out-and-out spoils hunter, w.th the vice of hypocrisy in ad- ( dition. He is a. man who can snivel through the nose about civil service for four years or eight or twelve when he is not in power, and then cast civil service to all the winds of heaven in the first hour In which he obtains a position that might en ble him o put his theories in practice it he were honest. In fact, a half-breed in politics, is just like a half-breed between two races—he has the vices of both parents or parties and the virtues of neither.*

We trust the Dem .eracy of Jasper and Newton counties will exercise discretion and good judgment in the selection of a candidate for represent tative to the State Legislature. The do ’ law, the road law, the de cedent’s estate law, the masters commissioners’ law, the vaccination law, the jury commissioners’ law and some otners we might name, creating over two thousand new officeholders at an annual expense of more than one hundred thousand dollars to the tax payers of Indiana, are the legacies left us by the last Legislature. The masses begin to realize that Republican rule in our State is not the best boon imaginable. Mr, Gilman will no doubt be reno minated by the radicals. Any good Democrat, capable and honest, who will hold him strictly to the above enactments before the people, can be elected.

Editor of Sentinel —The Republican of June Btb, says the ticket nominated at the republican primary election is one in which are combined all the elements of strength, and gives universal satisfaction among the republicans. I suppose it does to the ring that made the nominations, but surely it does not to the voters and tax-payers of Jasper county. Please notice the name of S. R. Nichols, a candidate for County Commissioner* When agent tor constructing a bridge on the Iliff slough, near J. G. Culp’s, be made three trips—two of them when on his way to Gillam township to buy horses. He charged the county Forty-one dollars, being sl3 66| each trip, or about s4l per day for actual time spent. For proof of the foregoing, refer to the Commissioners’ record of March Term, 1881. Those having the Republican of March 24. 1881, can find it there.

BARKLEY TOWNSHIP.