Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — PROCEEDINGS OF JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

PROCEEDINGS OF JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

DeMotte is a stalwart. He comes out flat-footed for Arthur. To-day the “stalwart of stalwarts pays ihe penalty of his great crime“My Dear Hubbell” wants SSOO 000 from the Government employees Won. Robert E. Pattison, of Phila d.-lphla. is the Democratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. General Stoneman, the brilliant Union cavalry soldier, is the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ca’ ifornia

Col. DeMotte, of the Artillery, will be at home shortly to interview the government officials of this district dative to his candidacy,and will ex pect them to give an account of their stewardship. He will also want to know what Simon Parr Thompson is doing for the cause. —Logansport Pharos.

The owners of the steel mills in the i nited States ought not to stand out with their v.orkmen on the question of wages. They are soiouuly protect- • d by import duties and unexpired patents that they c*n well afford to pay high wages. If the tariff is indeed in the interest of the working men. this double-ended monopoly has an opportunity to give some proof of it.—Philadelphia Record,

The democracy of Jasper county met in convention on last Saturday, and did their work well. Vat. S. Bates, for cierk, was a fitting nomination. Honest, capaole—Jeffer-.-oninn tests -he meets the requirements. In the township of his late ji Hidcnec, the home of his competitor* nc will contest his popularity to a greater degree than any other that could have been placed on the ticket. .Of Ezra C. Nowels, for auditor, it is uimecessary to speak. He has performed the duties of the office to which he has been renominated to the entire satisfaction of all parties, and no doubt the verdict of the people in November will be—“ Let well enough alone”

James T- Randle, of Barkley town ship, has long been a resident of that township, and Is well and favorablyknown to the masses. John V 7. Duvall, for sheriff, is an old citizen, well known all over the county, well qualified, deserving,’and will make a goed officer. For recorder, the nominee, Jno. T. Ford, of Remington, is well known in the section of county in which he resides, is a young man of fine abilities. good habits, and deserving the action of the convention. For surveyor, C. W. Lowman will meet the the masses. Coroner—Syl. Healey is just the man for the position. Commissioners—Geo. Stalbaura, Ist Dist.; David Gray. 2d Dist.; and Ed. W. Culp, 3d Dist., weie chosen by their respective sections. Well known as honest, practical men, the'intereSts of the county will not suffer in their hands. Now let the people «o to work and elect them.

Here are some words for the working men. They are spoken by Chas. Francis Adams, Jr., David A. Wells, Horace White, Thomas G. Shearman, Professor W. G. Sumner, of Yale and Professor A. L. Perry, of Williams college. It is a memorial to Congress waiting many months for somebody to present. It is now given out by the New York Herald. Reciting the fact of the bill to take off the tax on bank checks, it calls attention to the revenue derived from that tax last year as being over two and a quarter million of dollars, and that this all wont into the United States Treasury, -and-nwe -Qfjt directly or indirectly into the individuals; that the tax falls almost entirely on hankers, brokers, and those engaged in commercial dealings and hardly at all upon the poor; that it is easy in respect to the adjustment of tbc burden of taxation, certain in its levy and direct in its payment and hence in all ways is a model tax. On the other hand there is a tariff duty ofj fiom 89 to 92 per cent, on the value of the cheaper kinds of woolen blankets which the poor must use and a tariff of 74 per cent, on the better grades which the rich use. But this tai iff for two years has brought •only $1,058 per year into the United fetat s treasury for it is in practice a prohibitory tariff and is so intended. Hence the government practically gets no benefit from it—the bagatelle of a thousand dollars not being worth the reckoning. But this enormous nine-tenths increase in the value of blankets compels eveiybody who sleeps under one to pay that much more above the original cost and fair profit of a blanket to the makers of those articles in this country, for whose benefit solely this monopoly is imposed and maintained. We quote from the memorial; “It takes just as many blankets to cover poor persons and their offspring in cold nights as it does the rich ones. The tariff duty on woolen blankets is therefore an essentially cruel and vexatious tax, leyied at the cost of physical suffering to the poor. We, yOur remonstrants, being charitably disposed, would respectfully pray your honorable body not to remove the tax on bank checks, though we ourselves are under the necessity of constantly drawing such checks, but insteadjof so doing to remove the existing tariff duties on woolen blankets and thus alleviate in seme degree the inevitable winter suffering of poor persons, to all and each cf whom woolen blankets are absolute necessities of existence.” Jionan’s for your Millinery.

Pursuant to call, Jasper County Democratic Convention convened at the Court House, in Rensselaer, on Saturday, June 24,1882, at 2 o’clock, P. M., and was called to order by H A.* Barkley, of Barkley township, Chairman of the Central Committee, and on motion, John G. Culp, of Barkley, was chosen to preside. Mr. C. returned thanks for the honor conferred, and announced the selection of Secretaries to be next in order, whereupon James W. Douthit and James W. McEwen were elected Secretaries.

On motion the convention proceeded to reorganize the central commits tee, with the following result: Hanging Grove—James Culp, Jas. Lefler, David Gray. Gillam—Adam Hess, Jos. G. Hunt* James Lewis. Walker—Joel M. Spriggs, Francis Hershman, Robert Zick. Barkley- H. A. Barkley, George H. Brown, jr., George Adair. Marion—Wm. Hoover, Alf. Collins, Henry Fisher. Town of Rensselaer F. B. Meyer, George H. Brown, sr., Moses Tuteur. Keener—Albert Brooks, Dr. James W. Quinn, Wm. Granger. Wheatfield—Lewis Rich, Nelson Ingram, Andrew Meish. Milroy—E. Clark, James M. Loshbaugh. Wm. Sutton. Union George W. Casey, William Durand, David W. Shields. Carpenter Levi Sweet, Fred. Hoo ver, James Plunkett. Town of Remington B. Patton, W. A. Traugh,* Wm. Eck. Newton L. Strong, Madison Makeever, James Yeoman. Jordan Henry Welsh. Jay T. Lamson, Wm. McGlynn. Kankakee T. M. Jones, P. E. Davis* Fred. Van Patton. Charles H. Price was elected chair man and Willis J. Imes secretary of the committee. Delegates to the State and District conventions were selected as follows: State Fred. Hoover, Charles H. Price, George H. Bpown, sr., Hal B. Smith.

Congressional Madison Makeever, .John G. Culp, James H. Loughridge, W. A. Traugh, C. D. Nowels, John H Prewett, David Gray, Lewis Rich. Senatorial' Nelson Anderson, Jas. Whittaker, George W. Andrews, Nels. Randle, C. C." Brown, J. T.Lamson, James Yeoman, Elijah Whitson, T. M. Jones, John Gray. J. McCord, George W. Casey, James Plunkett, James F. Irwin; Willis J. Imes. Representative-John Lefler, Jos. G. Hunt, David Daniels, James T. Randle, Wm, A. Erwin, Henry Welsh, E Strong, Jas W Quinn, P E Davis, Andrew Meish, Wash. Scott, David W. Shields, C. G. Austin, J. T. Ford’ 0. A. Edmonds. Judicial—David Culp, J. H. Prewett, Levi Knight, George Adair, Charles C. Brown, John C Chilcote, WiLiam McGlynn, F W Mauck, R O Bringle’ F Van Patton. Sylvester Austin, W H Beaver, James Wiseman, sr., J K Stout, J Kinman. On motion the convention proceeded with the nomination of candidates, as follows: For Clerk—Nathaniel 8. Bates was announced by the Carpenter delegation, and his nomination made by acclamation.. Ezra C. Nowels. having no competitor, was made the unanimous choice for Auditor. For Treasurer, James T. Randle, of Barkley, was the unanimous choice. For Sheriff—John- W. Duvall, of Marion, and John M. Helmick, of Wheatfield, were announced as candidates for the office of Sheriff. Result of ballot—Duvall, 70; Helmick 8. Nomination of Duvall made unanimous.

Messrs. John T. Ford, of Carpenter, Allen Catt and Aug. Wood, of Marion, were then announced for the office of Recoialer. Result of ballot —Ford, 64; Catt, 14. Nomination Of John T. Ford made unanimous. The nomination of Messrs, C. WLowman, for Surveyor; Sylvester Healey, for Coroner, and George Stalbaum, of Walker, for Commissioner First District, made unanimous without opposition. For Commissioner, Second District, Messrs. David Gray, of Hanging Grove, and Lucius Strong, of Newton were announced. Ballot resulted Gray, 53; Strong, 25. On motion, nomination of Mr. Gray made unanimous. For Commissioner, Third District, W. Culp, of Carpenter was placed in nomination by acclamation. Messrs. Charles H. Price, John T. Ford, N. S. Bates, and J. W. Duvall were loudly called for speeches, and each responded in thanks to the convention for honors conferred. On motion Rensselaer Democratic Sentinel and Remington News requested to publish proceedings. On motion, adjourned. JOHN G. CUJiP, Chairman. James W. Douthit, ) James W. McEwen, J Secretaries.

Editor Sentinel: In last week’s is sue the Republican makes the asser* tion that “the nominations of the Republican county ticket has been received with perfect satisfaction. — Not one word of fault can be said by any man, who can be clearly called a Republican.” As a Republican, and in behalf of the many Republicans believing as I do, I brand the above statement as false in every particular. There is wide-spread dissatisfaction with the ticket as nominated, and the manner in which the nomi nations were secured, and that, too, among as good then asJJasper county contains, and who are as good and true Republicans as the intelligent!?) editors of the Republican. We claim a little independent voting at the coming election will have a purifying effect upon the party, and remind certain gentlemen that to assume the role of dictators in the Republican party for the sole purpose of foisting men upon the ticket that are known to be objectionable to many Republicans, without giving an opportunity to contest for the nominations, is a bit hazardous.

It is said by the advocates of the ticket that she primary election was conducted by and was purely a people’s convention. We assert it sho'd have been, but was not. Ou the contrary, the people were as helpless as if bound hand and foot. Through the shrewd manipulations of a few schemers the numbers of the Republican central committer were increased one-third, and their selection made upon their known fidelity to certain candidates in whose interests they were to work, and it is known they did work, to theexciusion of all others,—an unheard of proceeding for a central committee. This committee, and not the people, conducted the primary election. Further, gentlemen of well known qualifications, and honorable, skillful politicians, any one of whom would command the respect of the Republi can party, and could carry a full vote, were discouraged, intimidated and bulldozed from contesting for the no mination of County Auditor, by the central committee and its head. All undue Jpfluences known to local politicians were resorted to to "prevent a fair expression of the Republican voters at the primary election for the nomination of Auditor. Had the central committee performed its duties fairly and impartially toward all cans didates, as is clearly its office to do, and the opponents of the present no minee been allowed an honorable contest, and been fairly beaten, we should have considered ourselves, as honorable men, in duty bonne io support the nominee; but under the circumstances, viewing the matter as we do, we consider it our duty to do just the opposite, being the only known remedy to right ~n vrro&g, notwithstanding the disparaging epithets and low insinuations that will be heaped upon us by the ring and its official organ. We wish to say further, in regard to the nomination of State Senator from the counties of Jasper, Newton and Bentpn, that Dr. S- C. Maxwell, the people’s choice for the nomina tion, will be defeated. We have all along predicted that through the “ring” Influence he would never receive the nomination, and the expression of the Republican, in obedience to the dictation of its masters, to that effect, only confirms our opinion. A REPUBLICAN. A full line of White Wash Brushes cheap at Kannal’s Dr ig Store.