Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1882 — CARD-DECLINATION. [ARTICLE]

CARD- DECLINATION.

Be. gp^jffHEL— l learn that I was nominated as a candidate for the office of County Treasurer at the Democratic Convention 24th ult. As <er thanking, througn the columns of your paper, the Democratic party for past kindness, Ac., and my friends who so kindly placed me in nomination at the above named convention. I wish to rfhy, owing to pressing business lam compelled to decline the nomination. Jab. T. Rakple. A New York judge has ruled that if a marriage does not take place with in a year after the proposal, the engagement la net obligatory. Hal ha! ha! The “Republican" edl tors now say they are, and were, foi Maxwell for Senator “first, last and all the time." Ajfew weeks since they denounced Maxwell, Travis and Hatch as below mediocrity, and insisted that better men be brought to the front. ' It looks now as though Dr, Max s well will get the vote* of the lepublican delegates from this county for Senator, ia accordance with the instructions of the voters at the prima. ry, and If he does, he can thank “A Republican" In last week’s Sentinel for it. The Dr. wiU bear us out in the statement that within a few weeks the Rensselaer Republican was not at oil flattering in its allusions to him and, in the faoe of the primary, in. sisted that better timber be gotten out. It did this, too, under the. lash of the "ring” bosses. The Democratic ring leaders held a private caucus at the Makeeyer House the morning of ,the day of the con» vention and named their whole ticket, and strange to stay every man designated by said ring was nominated either by aoolamation or by ballot .—Republican. And that shows all you know about It, A meeting of the delegates was held in tho Makeever House, a programme mapped out by which businlss of the cob vention might be facilitated, and that is all there was of it. What there was strange In the fact that the candidates were “nominated either by acclamation or bal. jot," we don’t know. Perhaps the “smart Alecks” of the Republican can tell Dr. Maxwell will have to watch and pray. Notwithstanding the “slush* of the Republican and its bosses that they “were and are for him first, last and ill Ihe time,” their vindictive and vituperative policy toward Hatch and Travis la calculated, and is so intended, to unite those gentlemen their friends and their counties in op. position to Maxwell. Judas betrayer his Lord with a kiss; and these fellows will conduct the Doctor to hig political death, while whispering in his ears honied words of fealty and devotion. The best thing the doctor oan do is to set to work, declare to and convince his competitors and their friends that he is disgusted with the course of the Republican and its be sees, and insist that he must not be held responsible fer their acts. The Republican and its “ring” mas. ters are terribly exorcised over the communication of “A Republican” in last week’s Bemtivel, and exultingly announce that over 16,000 tickets were printed for use at the primary election, with a view toustablish their claim to fairness. If the “bosses” did not attempt trickery, why were th e tickets furnished Carpenter township destroyed and others procured? And again, why that little row occasioned by Mr. Travis’ desire for tickets, on account es which one of the editors was fined and costed a small amount? And then again, why did not a certain candidate have declared for him the actual number of votes he received at a certain precinct? These republican bosses and their following are truly honest fellows(?) Mr. Hubbell wrote Mr. Curtis a lee. ter very full of "beunoe* in the courts of whloh he said: I am willing to meet you on this question anywhere or at any time, and to unite with you in requesting the president to ask an opinion of the attorney-general. If you desire any other form of notion in any tribunal which can give immediate considers tlon of the point I will join you in testing thE soundness of the circular, and I invite you to this mode of settlement as both more manly and more -honorable than your attempt to confuse the action or alarm the minds of the employes alluded to. And the stalwart press set up a yell "O sweet Georgiana knock that chip off.” “Certainly,* replied Mr. Curtis and he coolly invited Mr. Hubbelj into court on an agreed ease, asking him to designate any he liked and make up the issue at onoe. Now Mr. Hubbell with a nervous, grave yard sort of laugh, so to speak, says In an interview In the New York Tribune: “No; 1 have not yet selected a victim for the oivil service men to opeiate on, snd I dent intend to." Of uouiun he dost He was only lotto*

The Rockville Tribune says: Farm | hands of Parke county! here is a lit tie calculation that may interest yon: In the fourteen years of 1847-60 under a very low tariff, farm hands' wages in this country increased 60 per cent. In the twentyone years of 1861-*B2. very high tariff, they have increased not a cent. Now, strike a dividend and tell us just for a joke, Imw -the tariff hus helped you. Mr Jay A. Hubbell. of Michigan, is the chairman of the oommittee which levies the assessment, and Mr. D. B. Henderson, secretary, a ho. «e believe Is not in the pul*i»* service. The corn mil tee include** Messrs. and Aldrich, of the Senate. Messrs. Hiscock, Robeson and others of the House. The custem of assessments ia an abuse of some j’ears’ duration, and is doubtless one which these gentlemen have not given much attention But it is one of the meanest forms of oppression. It virtually sells the government service for the profit of a party. Necessarily it is degrading by destroying the self-respect of the officeholders, and It is often a cruelty to heavily burdened and hard- work ing men. But its worst effect is that upon politics and the government itself, and the foolish extravagance which it fosters. The gentlemeu of the committee will agree that a party whose ascendency is maintained by any means but the free and honest co-operation of its memLors is a wrong to popular government, and a danger to the State. But coerced “contributions”6uch as this summons produces are not free and honest operation.” Here we have the confession of a leading Republican paper that the laws are being violated in a way to screen the parties making the assessment. There appears to be no way to rid the country of the political corruption and the spoil system that has fastened itself upon the masses, except to go to the polls as one man and vote out of power the party which is staking its success on the use of mo ney, and which has so long made it the prime factor to success in every campaign.