Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. JECaet. A temperance worker at Augusta, Me., secured a warrant against the officers of an express company for bringing liquors to the city. 1 The Deputy Sheriff broke the locks of the storehouse and seized sixty-two cases of beer. As it was being loaded upon the wagons the crowd drove away the drivers and carried off about half the cases, several persons being seriously hurt. Martha and Flora Crosley and Minnie Peddick, aged respectively 14, 11 and 12 years, were drowned in the Juniata river, near Huntingdon, Pa. The reports of the mine inspectors of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania show that during the past year 237 miners were killed, and over 1,000 injured. President Allen, of Girard College, is dead. Tug Wilson has returned to England. Flames swept away SIOO,OOO worth of property at Haverhill, Mass. One hundred and eleven Russian refugees were sent back to Liverpool from Philadelphia. A mysterious fever is raging among the operatives of the knitting-mills at Little Falls, N. Y. The failure is announced of R. & H. Adams, of New York, manufacturers of silk ribbons and nettings. H. Wallenstein sold a seat in the New Yvrk Stock Exchange for $32,000. The Reading Railroad and Coal Companies have executed a joint mortgage for $160,000,000 to secure the payment of their 5 per cent, consols.

West. The legality of the prohibitory amendment to the lowa constitution adopted June 27 is to be tested in an agreed case, wherein a brewery firm sues a saloonkeeper to recover the value of beer furnished the first two weeks in August. The defendant admits the purchase of the beer, but denies the right of the plaintiffs to recover in a suit at law for the reason that at the time of the purchase the plaintiffs were engaged in the business of brewing and selling beer, contrary to the amended constitution. The case is to be carried through the highest courts. The Hocking Valley Manufacturing Company’s works at Lancaster, Ohio, burned, causing a loss of $135,000. ' Thirteen Indians who were engaged in the recent rebellion in the Creek nation were given a formal trial at Muscogee and punished with 100 lashes each on the bare back. The British Government has two officers in Cincinnati buying mules for shipment to Egypt. W. C. Depauw, of New Allltmy, Ind., offers to give $1,000,000 to Asbury University on condition that a like sum be raised by the other Methodists of the State. Richard Weeks, a veteran Methodist of Indianapolis, who for years has been bent with rheumatism, walked upright into a revival meeting and announced his cure by faith and anointing of Evangelist Barnes. A snow-storm raged for twelve hours at Leadville, Aug. 30-31. The Utah Commissioners, in appointing Registers for twenty-four counties, have selected seven Gentiles, nine apostate Mormons, and eight Mormons. The Porter Guards, of Memphis, took the firstprize of SI,OOO at the Dubuque.military encampment, and the Branch Guards, of St, Louis, were awarded the second prize, SSOO.

South. A desperate leap for liberty was taken by a noted burglar of North Carolina, who, handcuffed and tied, sprang out of a car window and went, down a precipice of eighty feet, where he disappeared. The poet Tennyson indorses the project to place a bust of Longfellow in Westminster The prevalence of yellow fever at Pensacola has necessitated the transfer of the garrison of Fort Barancas to Mobile. The greater part of the business portion of Farmersville, La., was burned. The loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. Texas dispatches state that the bodies of nearly two hundred persons drowned during the recent floods in the vicinity of Fort Concho have been recovered On one ranch thirty-one and on another twenty-one persons were drowned. It is supposed now that nearly two hundred persons were drownedYellow fever is spreading to the ranches above Matamoras, on the Rio Grande. ’ Confederate, bonds are being purchased by brokers at Richmond, Ya., therato being $7.50 per SI,OOO.

POLITICAL POINTS. Fulkerson, who failed to get the Readjuster Congressional nomination in the Ninth Virginia district, has declared war against Senator Mabone, and will run as an Independent It is well understood in Washington that Secretary Teller will be elected to his old seat in the Senate, and he will readily accept it.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The National Convention of FreeThinkers at Watkins Glen, N. Y., adopted their customary platform of relentless warfare upon religion, churches, the clergy and the ecclesiastical order of things in general. All the uncurrent subsidiary silver coins held at the various depositories are to be shipped to the Philadelphia mint for recoinage. This has been a bad fishing season for Newfoundland fishermen, and the people dependent on the product of the ocean for a livelihood are gloomy and despondent. Gen. Sherman has fixed November, 1883, as the date for his retirement from the army, when he will make St. Louis his homeThe railway system of' the United States h:is gained 1,274 miles during the present month. A commercial journal of Cincinnati, figuring on returns from twelve of the corngrowing States, expects a yield one-half greater than last year, or a total crop of 1,830,(XX),000 bushels. ’ The amount thus far received as subscriptions to the proposed monument to the late President Garfield at the national capital is $15,000. Flipper, the colored Lieutenant Who was dismissed from the United States army in Texas, has been commissioned as Captain & the Mexican army.

The Democratic sentinel.

. JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

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WASHINGTON NOTES. Dr. D. W. Bliss has written a letter to the Board of Audit appointed to settle the expenses of the illness of the late President, in which he sets forth in detail his claim to remuneration. He asserts his receipts from his practice at the time he was called to attend the late President were about $1,500 a month; that this practice was to a great extent broken up by the engrossing nature of his duties at the Executive Mansion, and that the direct pecuniary loss resulting therefrom, and from subsequent ill health caused by the longcontinued nervous strain and over-exertion, amounted to about $15,000. He thinks he should receive as compensation for his losses and services to the late President the sum of $25,000. Dr. Reyburn-puts in a claim for SB,OOO. The Postcffice Department, beside being self-sustaining the past year, will have $1,000,000 surplus to put into the treasury. The Treasury Department with an appropriation of $50,000 is about to establish at the chief Atlantic seaports quarantine stations for imported cattle. • In the case of Sergt. Mason, Jndge Advocate General Swaim has decided that 4>he proceedings of the court-martial were Irregular, and that imprisonment under the sentence is illegal. The Acting Secretary of the Interior has granted a lease for ten years of a certain portion of the Yellowstone Park to a company which proposes to build hotels and supply guides, transportation and telegraph facilities. The scale of prices to be charged will remain subject to the approval of the Secretary. The War Department was informed by Gen. Pope that Oklahoma Payne and six of his followers are under arrest at Fort Reno.

FOREIGN NEWS. Six sub-constables who are supposed ■ to have originated the agitation among the I Irish constabulary were ordered transferred I to northern counties, whereupon they resigned. The Government forbade the use of the telegraph for communication between members of the force, and the entire constabulary of Limerick held a public meeting to protest. Details of the outbreak at the capital of Corea show that the life of the King was spared, but the mob murdered the Queen, her son and his affianced bride, and thirteen Ministers of State. It is said that Japan will exact the most rigid reparation for the outrages, and, if this is denied, will declare war ! and avenge this outrage on her representatives with bloody reprisals. A fleet has been dispatched to the port nearest the capital of j Corea. Calcutta dispatches report fearful ! rioting between Hindoos and Mohammedans at Salem, India Men, women and children were beheaded and their corpses thrown into the drinking water. The city of Manila, in the Philippine islands, reports 300 deaths from cholera in a single day. Within twenty days, at Yokohama, there were 572 deaths from cholera. The death rate from the disease at Tokio is about fifty daily. One hundred members of the Irish constabulary petitioned the Lord Lieutenant to reinstate the men dismissed, threatening a strike if he refused. The ousted constables, , however, give notice that on no condition i will they resume duty. The appearance of the dreaded plague in European Russia has caused much alarm. The Corporation of Cork passed resolutions demanding the release of E. Dwyer Grey, and conferring upon him the freedom of the city. It is officially stated that 531 persons perished of cholera at Manila, in the Philippine islands. The crops in Hungary have been so productive that there will be a surplus of 15,i 450,000 centals of wheat and rye after deducting the amount necessary for consump- ! tion.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Tariff Commission opened business in Detroit Sept. 1. Richard Hawley appeared before it to represent that a depreciation of 30 per cent, in real estate and in business in certain portions of the city had arisen from the termination of the reciprocity treaty. Giles B. Stevens argued that the charcoal furnaces of Michigan would close if there were any reduction of the duty on pig-iron. Eight steamships sailed from Baltimore for European ports in one day, carrying out 813,100 bushels of wheat among their cargoes. The business failures in the United States the past week numbered 110, a decrease of twenty-two from the preceding week, but six more than in the corresponding week of 1881. At the request of the Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Lincoln directed that Payne and his companions of Oklahoma notoriety, who have been in prison at Fort Reno, be turned over to the civil authorities at Fort Smith, Ark. The British ship Arbanbahm, of Porto Rico, with three cases of yellow fever on board, is at quarantine in Boston harbor. The products of Texas for the year ending with August have been carefully computed by a Galveston journal at $97,380,458. Within the same period 1,461 miles of railroad were built, at an estimated cost of $45,520,000. Edward Schwerzman, a native of Switzerland, residing near Paris, Ark., took his three young children from the suppertable, threw them into a well sixteen feet deep, and then made the fatal leap himself. His wife lay ill in bed, but followed in time to see the third child thrown in. Two hundred and thirty-four policemen were dismissed in Dublin last week, and there was great excitement in that city. Some of the men tore off their badges in the streets and declared that they would do no duty until their colleagues were reinstated. A proclamation was issued calling for the services of special constables. Daring the night the city was paraded by large bodies of infantry and cavairy. Ephrussi & Co., a, heavy Jewish bank-ing-house at Odessa, have ceased business, on account of the persecution of their countrymen. The Rev. Sylvanus Hayward, who preaches in Globe, Mass., declares bluntly that the increase in divorces in that State if. not due to greater laxity in the laws, but to an enormous increase of wickedness among the people, and he i holds that the remedy must be found in I an improvement in their morals,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1882.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

Party State Conventions, and What They Did. List of the Nominees, Platforms, Etc. MICHIGAN REPUBLICANS. The Republican State Convention of Michigan convened at Kalamazoo on Wednesday, A ng. 30, and was called to order by William Livingston, Jr., temporary Chairman of the State Central Committee. The Rev. C. O. Brown, of Kilamazoo, invoked the divine blessing on the assemoly. Col. Delo Phillips next read the call for the convention, and the Hou. J. W. French assumed the c air temporarily, and James H. Stone, Secretary. After the usual preliminary business had been transacted, the convention adjourned to moot agiin at 2 o’clock, at which lime the Hon. Tuomas W. Palmer, of Wayne county, assumed tne cha r as Pros dent of the convention. The report of the Committee on Resolutions was next submitted, and the platform presented by the Hon. Austin Blair. The reSolutions were carried unanimously. The nomination of candidates was next in order, and the name of David H. Jerome, the present incumbent, was ably presented by Capt. E. P. Allen, of Washtenaw. As no other nominations were made, the ballot was taken, with the following result : Jerome, 561 ; 8. W. Palmer, 97 : Pitchard, 10 ; F. B. Stockbridge, 14. The reuomination of David H. Jerome was made unanimous. Morean 8. Crosby, of Kent, was unanimously renominated for Lieutenant Governor by acc aniation. For Secretary of State, the names of Joseph Smith, William Jenney, William Crosby and Harvey A. Conant were put in nomination, and after a spirited contest Mr. Conant received the nomination. E. H. Butler, E. P. Stanton and G. H. Starr were the contestants named for State Treasurer, and after a lively contest E. H. Butler, of Wayne county, was nominated. William C. Stevens, of losco, received the noin nation for Auditor General after some little contest, and Minor S. Newell, es Genesee, found no one to oppose him for Auditor General. y J. J. Van Riper, as Attorney General, having served but one term, was also unanimously renonnu.ited. The following is the platform adopted: The Republican party of the State of Michigan, assembled in convention for the first time since the tragic death of James A Garfield, our beloved leader and revered Chief Magistrate, grateful for the inspiring lessons of his life and the example Of his heroic death, record first of all our profound sorrow at his loss and our veneration for bis memory, and next our strengthened, abiding faith in the stability of republican institutions and our fixed resolve that governments of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

2. Chester A. Arthur, called to the place of power under the most trying and delicate circumstances, has proved himself worthy of the high trust reposed in him. He has given to tne country an administration conservative, patriotic and progres ive. The Republicans of Michigan extend to him their confidence for the future, ba- cd upon the record of the past. 3. The R publicans of Michigan once more declare their devotion to the time-honored and fundamental principles of the National Republican party—liberty for all men, equality before the laws, perpetual union of the States, supremacy of the National Government, and the inalianable right of every citizen on every foot of Atneiican soil to cast his bailot according to his sovereign will, and to have such ballot, and only such, honestly counted and duly returned, to constitute the “voice of the pcoule,” which is the voice of God. 4. From its organizat on until now the Republican party has denounced slavery and polygamy as “twin relics of barbarism.” The first perished at the hands of the Republican party, snot to death on the baitle-fields and buried in amendments to the constitution. The second disgrace of our civilization, and our country must die. We demand that polygamy be destroyed, and we cordially commend the efforts of our Senators and Representatives in Congress to that end. 5. Whatever may be our individual views as to the ultimate ideal system of international trade, we are all agreed that the public must pay the pensions of the nation’s defenders, their widows and orphans be sacredly guarded and the current expenses of the government duly provided for; that revenues necessary for these purposes must in large part bo derived from duties upon itr. ports, and we affirm that in «the adjustment of these duties in any revision of the tariff, care should be’ taken to relieve from taxation, so far as practicable, the necessities of the poor, especially such as do not come into competition with American production, and at the same time to afford incidental protection to American producers, to the end that wages may be maintained at the American standard, and America control American markets. 6. We believe that the time has come when the public debt and the rate of interest upon securities have been so far reduced that our national legislators should consider as an immediate duty a reduction of the burdens of taxation, and as auxiliary thereto a revision of the tariff. 7. We believe in a national civil service which does not create of the official class a separate caste, nor take away from a citizen the inspiration of participating in the administration of government, yet which requires that offices shall be regarded as trusts to be administered with intelligence, fidelity and economy, and not as spoils to be distributed as the perquisites of political managers.

8. In the administration of State and national affairs we demand efficiency, integrity and economy ; that unfaithful officers be removed and punished ; that the public faith and credit be maintained and the people be provided with a circulating medium, safe, uniform and constitutional : that monopolies dangerous to the liberties of the people and purity of the laws be disfavored, and that the purity of the ballot be sacredly protected. 9. It is the fundamental right of the people to alter from time to time the organic law of the State, as new circumstances or growing evils may require, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. The evils of intemperance have become so great that in the name of patriotism the most efficient measures ought to be taken to reduce those #vils to the minimum, and as the members of no political party are wholly agreed as to whether this can be best done through prohibition or regulation of the traffic in taxing liquors, and as the people are and ought to be the final arbitrators of this question, and as more than 100,000 among the moral and intelligent people of the State have asked by petition that the question be put to the people by submission to them of a prohibitory constitutional amendment, we declare that we believe that it would be wise and patriotic for the next Legislature to submit such amendment to a direct vote of the people, and we demand that it be so submitted. 10. The Republicans of Michigan demand a full legislative investigation of the transportation question, with a vew to securing such legislative enactments as will prevent unjust discriminations in rates by railroad lines operating in the State. 11. During the twenty-eight years in which the affairs of the State have been administered by the Republican party, they have been conducted in a manner to challenge the approval of all citizens. Efficiency, integrity and economy have been the standards of service. The prosperity of the State has been constantly increasing; the population has augmented from 500,000 to 1,700,000 ; wealth and production have increased in a greater ratio ; the unfortunate have been cared for ; education fostered ; the public debt has been substantially canceled; the credit of the State cleansed from the stain of Democratic repudiation and raised to the highest point, while in the great struggle for liberty and union Michigan has been second to none of her sister States. 12. The administration of David H. Jerome has been characterized by the Republican standard of excellence, and has fitly continued the long roll of Republican administrations which have reflected honor upon the State of Michigan. 13. We arraign the Democratic party as the same incapable Bourbon party that it has ever been. Passing over its shameful record before, during, and directly after the civil war, its recent history proves that it has neither repented Dor reformed, During its six years of suprem-

Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

acy in Congress it showed itself incapable of a single great measure of legislation or administrative reform. Neither tariff, currency, revenue. civil service, army, Indian policy, or any other great interest received improvement at its hands. They confined their efforts at reform to turning out Union soldiers to make room for rebels; to usurping executive prerogatives, refusing the necessary appropriations and obstructing the administration of the laws. At the last Congressional election they stole numerous seats in the House of Representatives by fraud of tissue ballots and false counting, and as a party indorsed the fraud by keeping the stolen seats alter the fraud was made clear. They obstructed legislation against polygamy, opposed the Tariff Commission, and to the last refused to 00-operate for a reduction of taxation. By their whole history they prove their incapacity for the leadership of a great people. 14. We denounce the recent amalgamation of the Democrats and Greenbackers as the most shameless political bargain and sale in the history of Michigan politics. It conclusively proves that they have no principles that they are not ready to barter for the spoils of office. We cordially invite all citizens, of whatever fiarty heretofore, who value principle, who obect to being bargained for and sold like sheep, and who are in substantial accord with the foregoing declaration of principles, to co-operate with us in putting the brand of disapproval upon political prostitution.

KANSAS DEMOCRATS. The Kansas Democratic State Convention assembled at Topeka, Aug. 31. Hon. John Martin, of Topeka, was nominated for Governor, but he declined the honor, and George W. Lick, of Atchison, was placed at the head of the ticket, and the remainder of the ticket filled up as follows: Lieutenant Governor, Frank Boem; Treasurer, Charles E. Gifford; Auditor, W. R. Brow; Attorney General, Gen. Hayden; State Superintendent, D. E. Loutz. The following were nominated for Congress-men-at-Large: C. A. Leland, J. O’Flanigan and Martin Van Buren Bennett. The nomination of the fourth man was referred to the State Central Committee. Two.sets of resolutions ware reported from the Committee on Resolutions. The majority report declared in favor of the repeal of the prohibitory liquor law and the constitutional amendment upon which it is based, on the ground that it is an infringement of the personal rights of the citizens, and makes crimes of tilings that are no where regarded as crimes by the common law, and called for the substitution thereof of a well-regulated license law. The minority report, which is printed below, was adopted as the platform of the convention, after a very animated discussion, by- a vote of 177 to 128:

THE PLATFORM. The Democratic party of the State of Kansas in convention assembled, recognizing the people as the source of all political power, and the constitution of the United States and of the State of Kansas as the fundamental laws of the land, and that the chief object and end of government is to protect anil defend its citizens in the enjoyment of life, liberty and property, does declare its political faith and purpose as follows: 1. That we have an abiding faith in the wisdom, patriotism and capacity of the people for self-government, and as our system of government is based on the theory of personal manhood and individual responsibility, that in the administration of public affairs but little should be left to the Government, but much to the people and to the sense of responsibility in the citizens. 2. We will defend and ever maintain the doctrine of equal rights to all, and special privileges to none; the protection of the weak against the strong; equal and just taxation; free speech; free press; free schools, and a free uninterrupted ballot fairly given and honestly counted; freedom for all men and women of every race, creed and color, and a perpetual and absolute separation of church and state. 3. We demand a revision of the present onerous and unjust tariff laws of the United States. No kind of industry should he fostered by the Government to the injury of another. No class of men should be taxed directly or indirectly for the comforts, convenience or interest of another. Every industry should fall or stand on its own merits. And we especially demand that agricultural pursuits and productions be encouraged and made free from all unjust discrimination in favor of gluttonous and selfish corporations. 4. We maintain that the State has and must retain the power to control and regulate the rights and duties of all corporations created by it, and we demand that the Legislature exercise this power so as to protect the people against unjust discriminations and exorbitant charges'for the transportation of freight and passengers by railroad corporations, and we particularly demand the enactment of such laws as will compel all that have received charters by favor of the laws of this State to keep and maintain their general offices within the State. 5. We demand civil and religious liberty, absolute and perfect, for every citizen; and we declare, as we ever have, that our sympathies are with the poor, weak and oppressed of every land, and that the American Union is and shall ever remain the asylum and refuge on terms of honor and equality of every lover of liberty and personal liberty; and we further demand that the sanctity of Americans at home and abroad shall ever have instant and effective protection and defense by the Federal Government, its ministers and agents, regardless of courtly forms or lordly frowns; and we particularly extend to the heroic people of Ireland our hearty sympathy, and bid them Godspeed in their gallant struggle for life and liberty and for the homes of their future.

6. We demand that the Congress of the I Uuited States enact and cause to be enforced such law’s as will secure a thorough, honest and radical civil-service reform by which the subordinate positions of the Government service shall be no longer corrupt and used ■ as rewards for corrupt party service, and which will abolish the evils of the present spoils and patronage system and establish the rule of making honesty and efficiency the essential and only qualifications for pub- | lie positions. We have had shams and false pretenses enough, and now demand something honest and real. 7. We demand that the relations between ' capital and labor be so adjusted by wise and | just legislation as to secure to each his just rights, and at the same time so as to make it impossible for avarice and greed to override and imperil the rights and personal freedom ; and the independence of workingmen; and I we demand that every law, combination and policy that is unjust to and onerous upon ’ those engaged in manual labor be removed and utterly destroyed. 8. We are in favor of judicious appropriations for improvement of our great national waterways, but we denounce the reckless and criminal extravagance of the present Congress in an expenditure of public riloney for useless and fraudulent purposes, and we j especially condemn tne passage of the shameless River and Harbor bill, and we | take thig occasion to thank the President of . the United States for his action in vetoing that iniquitous steal 9. We demand an immediate reduction of taxes, Federal, State and municipal, to the lowest rate sufficient to meet all public clues and obligations. So long as the people are burdened with debt, the industries of the I country suspended by labor strikes, and thousands of men out of employment by means of the tyranny, avarice and cupidity of existing ami oppressive monopolies, it is neither right nor just to collect money from the people to be squandered by an incompetent, reckless and corrupt Congress in the pretended improvement of sham harbors and waterless rivers, and we further demand that the surplus money in the treasury be' applied in the payment of our national debt. 10. We demand that the Congress of the United States propose and submit to the States for their action, such amendments of our Federal constitution as will accomplish the following objects: The election of a President anil Vice President by a direct vote of the people; the extension of the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years and'making the President ineligible to a second term; the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people of the United States respectively; fixing the term of office of Senators the same as the Presidential term, and of Representatives in Congress at four years; the election of Postmaster by the direct vote of the people of the city, * town or district in which the office is located; biennial sessions of Congress; the election of all Federal officers to be under the control of the Federal Government, and to be held at a time other than holding State elections. 11. We demand that the fees and compensation paid all public officers, Federal, State and municipal, be so regulated as to give a fair ana just compensation for services performed, but not so great as to tempt the applicants to adopt corrupt methods to obtain office or to impose unjust burdens upon the people,

12. We demand the enactment of additional and more stringent laws, both Federal and State, for the punishment of bribery and corruption in office, and to secure the purity of elections —general, special and primary. 13. We are opposed to monopolies of every kind, believing them to be at war with the best interest of the country, imperiling its power, prosperity and security, and contrary to the genius and spirit of free institutions. 14. We are opposed to the doctrine of woman’s suffrage, but when any respectable number of worthy and intelligent women of this State shall request the right to vote we shall not oppose the submission of an amendment to our constitution to meet this demand, but so far no such request has been made. - 15. We are opposed to national banks, and insist that gold, silver and greenback currency shall be the only money of the country. 16. That fidelity to the constitution and obedience to the laws made in pursuance thereof is the first duty of good citizenship, because of welfare and personal interest. Obedience to the law from aijarchy and protects from lawless violence arid confusion, and upon its honest, just and impartial enforcement depends the safety of liberty and property, and we now recall with just satisfaction the traditional history of our party for its constant and unbending fidelity to the constitution and to the laws of the land, and while now, as heretofore, we have been opposed to all sumptuary laws and are in favor of the widest latitude of personal liberty consistent with the public safety, and view ’with alarm any legislation in effect abridging the natural rights of the citizens, we emphatically announce that we do and shall insist and demand of all public officers a fair, honest and impartial enforcement of every law of the land, not for political purposes or reasons, nor to gratify the clamor and maudlin sentiments of hypocrites, demagogues and shallow pretenders, but because patriotism, good citizenship and self -preservation demand it, and the Safety and happiness of the people require it.

17. We are unqualifiedly in favor of temperance, sobriety, morality and good order, j and we rely largely upon the wisdom, patriotism and honesty of the citizen to so order his life and conduct individually as to accomplish these ends. We are in sympathy with the cause of temperance in truth and ’in faet, not as a political hobby for the per- I sonal benefit of ambitious demagogues, unprincipled adventurers and sham reformers, and we demand the enactment and enforcement of wise and just laws for the purpose of promoting the cause of temperance, and we submit to the impartial judgment of every’ candid man that the existing law on this subject, by reason of its unwise, oppressive and tyrannical provisions, has)not been enforced, and that it now stands as a hindrance and obstruction to the growth of true temperance; that it has been and is still the cause of neighborhood quarrels, conten- * tions and strife, of fraud, corruption, perjury and violence, and because of these facts we demand the enactment of such amendments, changes and modification of the law as will make the law effective and useful for the purpose for which it was designed. 18. It is a cardinal rule in our system of government that the majority shall rule. It is equally fundamental that all just Governments derive their powers from the people, and it is alike a fundamental rule that when any respectable number of the people demand that any great public question once passed upon be again considered, justice, firmness and right requires that it be done, because it would work no injustice to any one. As there exists in the public mind a difference of opinion as to the wisdom and policy of what is known as the prohibitory amendment to our constitution, and because of the uncertainty whether said amendment fairly and honestly reflects the judgment and will of a majority of the people of Kansas on the subject, and it being important that the question be fully and finally settled at the earliest possible moment, therefore That we are in favor of the subm'ssion of the prehibitionary amendment to the constitution of the State of Kansas at the general election of State officers in Novem, her, 1884, believing by that time the people ot the State will be fully advised as to the feasibility of said amendment. 19. This being the first representative meeting of the Democratic party of Kansas since the assassination of the late President, James A. Garfield, we deem it due to the country, to his memory and to the party we represent that we express as we now do our sense of that terrible and melancholy event as a great public calamity, and the events preceding the assassination of the President challenge our thoughtful consideration, in connection with the baneful aud dangerous fanaticism of personal and partisan politics. CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS. The Republicans of California held their State Convention at Sacramento Aug. 30-31. M. M. Estee was nominated for Governor, A. R. Conklin for Lieutenant Governor, and John Hunt and 8. C. Denison for Justices of the Supreme Court. The platform reaffirms the' platform of the Chicago Convention of 188 ); refers to the financial record of the party; demands'that the present, or similar Sunday law be enforced, providing for the suspension of all unnecessary labor on Sunday without seeking to dictate otherwise how the day shall be spent, simply claiming it as a day of rest and recreation; that railroads are for public use and should be under Government control; discrimination against persons and places should be prohibited, and charges of transportation should be based on cost, cxI pense and repairs, with a reasonable rate of interest on the actual value of the roads, which shall bear the same proportion to the assessed value as other property does. TEXAS GREENBACKERS. A State Convention of the Grcenbackers of Texas was held at Corsicana Aug. 31. Resolutions were adopted affirming the platform of the : Greenbackers’ Convention held at Fort Worth, June 29; urging the Greenback party of Texas to support in the coming election independent candidates who favor the prin- ' ciples enunciated in said platform. G. Wash Jones was indorsed for Governor. A resoln- ; tion complimentary to Gen. J. B. Weaver and other prominent Greenbackers, and requesting them to visit the State, was passed.

The American Flag in France.

Whenever there is a display of flags in Paris, at a restaurant, at the music garden, theaters, cirouses, etc., the American flag is in close juxtaposition to the French. Whenever there is a Government display, although other flags are exhibited, the American is invariably given the post of honor alongside that of France. lam told that at the national festival last month there was an immense sale of these small flags, and that almost every house displayed the American flag. This may be taken as an evidence of the devotion of the people to a republican form of government rather than any special devotion to America, except as the founder of the system of government under which France is prosperous and happy. —Paris letter.

Fertilizing Moss.

An called fertilizing moss is offered in New York to take the place of soil in raising plants. The discoverer is a Frenchman, Alfred Dumesna, a sci-. entitle horticulturist. It is claimed that “this wonderful discovery by which plants may be cultivated without earth, or with earth in combination with moss, bids fair to completely revolutionize present methods in the house culture of flowers.” A great variety of plants, it is said, have been experimented upon in this way, and even vegetables raised from the seed to maturity. “Bitt, dear Mrs. Landlady, take you, for Heaven’s sake, one time, this disgusting cat by the neck; she moves to me always nearer, and will directly the head in the plate have.” Landlady—“O my! she is a dear, modest creature! Yon see, the plate out of which you eat, that is her accustomed dish, and she knows it accurately and wants to eat with it!”—U'ennan’ tranalatiQU, ba Courier-Journal

VOORHEES.

The Indiana Senator on the Political Issues of the Day. Opening Speech of the Campaign at Terre Haute. Senator D. W. Voorhees opened the Indiana campaign by a speech at Dowling Hall, at Terre Haute. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the hall was packed. He was in good voice, and, after being introduced by CoL W. E McLean, held his audience for two hours in a speech of masterly force. His remarks were as follows: After a long and laborious session of Congress I rejoice that I am again in the midst of this generous people. You have not very strictly regarded party lines in your bearing toward me, and I shall endeavor to repay your kindness to-night by a candid discussion of a few propositions, with a perfect respect for the opinions and sensibilities of all who may not agree with me. If it is tliought to be somewhat early to commence a canvass at this time, I hope it will be remembered that the Republican leaders are already in the field. For months past the work of the Republican campaign for 1882 has been going on. The managers have not been talking to the people openly, as I am now, but they have found a new, aud, as they think, a more efficient way. They are proceeding by assessment. I once had a friend who believed that all legal proceedings should be by “replevin.” Jay Hubbell and his gang of organized looters believe that the perfection of American politics is now to be reached by assessment ; by putting people in office, and then putting the thumb-screws on them; by levying a per cent, of their wages with which to corrupt and carry elections; by blackmailing, under fear of losing their places, for that is what it is, to 100,000 officeholders, high and low, from the Cabinet to a tired waiter, rich and poor, old and young, male and female, white and black. I have seen it in operation. Not ten days before I left Washington a poor man, with a family, on $1,200 a year, came to his Senator to borrow sl2 with which to pay his assessment, in mortal dread of losing his place if he did not raise the money. Therefore, while the Republican leaders are writing civil-service-reform resolutions with one hand, and extorting a corruption fund with the other, it is incumbent on the Democratic party to move at once into the contest in the old way, appealing to the reason and judgment of the people. The last session of Congress had under consideration many

QUESTIONS OF GREAT MOMENT to the people. The President’s annual message in December last, accompanied by the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, I aimed a fatal blow at the existence of silver money, recommended that its coinage should cease,' and the silver certificate currency based on it and now in circulation be withdrawn. Had this policy been pursued about $70,000,000 of circulation at par with gold would have been retired, and contraction to that orctent would have taken place In the interest of those who wish money to be | scarce in order that its purchasing power j may be great and the rate of interest high. | The destruction of silver and the silver certificate as money, as well as the destruction of the greenback, has been and is still the ■ avaricious dream of the national banks, in order that the supply or non-supply of money to the country snail be in their own 1 hands. Tills was the great question when I I entered the Senate five years ago, and it is a J question which needs to be watched every ; day and hour at this time and for years to I come. The battle of the greenback and the silver dollar has been fought, and I have j ' borne my humble part in it. The cause of j the people has triumphed thus far, but I foresee another struggle in the near future. II spoke in December last in the Senate in de- { sense of silver money aud of the greenback. My first work in that body was to aid in ’ restoring the one to coinage and to protect \ the other from further retirement j I and destruction. For my course on these i questions many a venomous blow was aimed | at my head, not only by the common enemy, j the Republican party, but here and there by I a few claiming the name, without possessing I or comprehending any of the principles of j : Democracy. In every emergency I have appealed to the masses, and not to self-consti- j tuted dictators on the finances or any other questions. I shall do so in the future, and I ■ have no fears for the result. My Democracy : is a care for the many, for the laboring, pro- - ducing, active millions who gather the honey of wealth into the hive, and not for the I heavy-bodied, lordly drones who eat all and work none. Marshal Ney exclaimed with his ' dying breath that he had fought a hundred ' battles for France, and not one against her. I have fought as many battles for the Democratic party, and never one against her; but the inspiration of my Democracy is the welfare of the people, plenty of work and good I wages in the fields, in the workshops and the manufactories, comfortable homes, free from the Sheriff and the tax-gatherer, knowing nothing of mortgages about to be foreclosed, ! or scanty fare on their tables because of I hard times, but under their own vine and fig tree enjoying themselves, with their happy families about them, in their own way. If I the accomplishment of such results as these ■ does not constitute statesmanship, in mod- ■ ern parlance, the people at least will understand what it means, and with that I will be very content.

THE TARIFF—IT COLLECTS REVENUE AND ALSO PROTECTS. The Senator here turned his attention to the tariff. He said that because the present tariff was in many respects unjust, unequal and oppressive, it seemed that certain minds had jumped to the conclusion that we must have no tariff at all; that we must at once embrace that absolute impossibility in our affairs known as free trade. The present tariff calls for revision, and has been calling several years. A bill for its revision can only originate in the House, not in the Senate, and those who have had control of the House are responsible. But in any revision which takes place, or in the enactment of any new tariff, there is no escape from the principle that to the extent of the revenue collected it affords protection to the American labor in the manufacture of articles similar to those on which it levies import duties. This great fact must be admitted before intelligent legislation can take place. We are collecting over S2(X»,(KX),(XX) a year at our Custom Houses for the support of the Government. To that extent American manufacturers are protected, and no one can help it, without-abolishing all tarWC laws and resorting to direct taxation to make up the deficiency in the revenue. I hear that I am arraigned by the people who cannot or will not comprehend this subject for making a protective-tariff speech in the Senate. Will some one show me now to make a speech in fovor of any kind of a tariff which has no protection in it? And if in every tariff ever known, or that will ever be known, there is as much protection as there is revenue, which is as certain as the laws of mathematics, I should be glad to be informed why I may not claim for the people of Indiana' their honest share of such protection when they are paying their full share of such revenue. I stand on solid ground on

this issue, and Ido not expect to yield It. I wish things called by their right names. If you are for free trade, say so, and embrace the consequences. If you are for tariff at all, you are for a system of laws which col- I lects revenue and also protects American industries. You cannot imagine, much less devise, a tariff which does not perform both these useful functions. No man can answer this proposition; it has never been answered, and it never will be. Let us, then, like sensible people, recognize the element of protection as well as the element of revenue, and place it where it will do the most good to American interests. This is the principle formulated in the Democratic State platform of Aug. 2, and I stand squarely upon it. It is in harmony with the true interests of all classes in Indiana. The agricultural and manufacturing interests of Indiana are both very great, and I wish to see them prospering together in fraternity, and not engaged in jarring hostility. Mr. Voorhees then took up the platform of the two parties as adopted at their recent State conventions. He said he was very Eroud of Indiana, and was not aware that er constitution was so much in need of amendment as some claim it is. Thirty years that constitution has stood sheltering, blessing, educating and prospering the people. Thirty years ago it was framed by Democratic wisdom, and from that hour to this it has guaranteed justice, order, civil and religious liberty to ajl the citizens of the State.

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NUMBER 32.

In what respect has it failed * The progreis and development of Indiana under her present constitution are without a parallel m the United States, or in the world I have had occasion recently to examine this question and to make comparisons. In proportion to area Indiana has in the last thirty years, in the development of her gigantic resources, outstripped every other State in the Union. And all this splendid development of wealth, mental culture and exceptional morality has taken place bv virtue of the principles of the constitution which is now all of a sudden found so defective. The constitution is not only the offspring of a Democratic Constitutional Convention, as I have stated, but has been administered during more than twothirds of its existence bv Democratic hands. Need we be ashamed of our work* Need we shrink from a comparison with our sister States—with Maine, Kansas or lowa—who are covering themselves with sumptuary laws’ Are we sunk in vice, debauchery, crime and ignorance for the want of a prohibitory law* On the contrary, there is less crime, less vice and less ignorance in proportion to population in Indiana to day than in any prohibition State in the Union, and the cold figures of the census demonstrate it I for one do not want to amend the constitution of Indiana at all at this time. Its fruits, its results, please me. .It is only the good tree from which good fruits are gathered. “Men do not gather grapes from thorns, nor figs from thistles. ” But let us look a little closer at these two platforms on the subject of amending the constitution of the State. How has this issue been thrust upon the people ’? A Republican Legislature was, unfortunately for the peace and welfare of the State, elected in Indiana in 1881), and convened in January, 1881. Was that Legislature chosen on this issue * Did the people of Indiana elect the members of that body at that time with the expectation or understanding that an amendment to the constitution was to be thrust back in their faces, prohibiting utterly and forever the manufacture of all spirituous, vinous, malt or any other intoxicating liquors, such as hard cider, except for medical, scientific, mechanical and sacramental purposes ’ Was there a whisper of such a purpose in a single county or voting precinct in the State * If so I did not hear it, and I mingled with the people in that canvass from the lakes to the Ohio river, and from the Illinois to the Ohio line. No such issue was made anywhere. A Legislature, of its own conceit, and without a hint from the people, determined upon the gravest step a legislative body can take—the amendment of the fundamental law of a State. This issue, therefore, did not arise from the people; it came from no popular demand; it originated in no popular discussion; it sprang from no sense of public danger or need of reform. Looking merely at its origin and the manner in which it has come before the people, it is entitled to but little of their respect, for they did not call for nor expect it. And nothing could more clearly prove that this prohibitory amendment was an unwelcome and troublesome issue to the leaders of the Republican party in Indiana than the timid, dodging, evasive style of the Republican platform on the subject. That the Republican party intends to fasten this amendment on the constitution, if possible, there is no doubt, but that it is afraid to say so is equally clear. Did the Republican State Convention indorse in plain terms this Republican amendment* Not so. I have the resolution on the subject before me. It recognizes the fact that the people are divided as to the adoption or rejection of

THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT, and talks about the right of private judgmont. It demands, however, that the next Legislature shall agree to this and other amendments without reference to whether a majority of the members are for or against them, and without any reference at all. to the right of private judgment. It pretended that the absurd and' dishonest action on the i part of the Legislature is necessary in order I to secure a submission of this issue to a pop- I ular vote. That is to say, that a member of the Legislature elected this fall on this issue, and in opposition to the prohibitory amendment, and believing, as lie well may, that ; the Legislature has no constitutional power i to confiscate the property of law-abiding cit- . izens who pay heavy taxes for their rights, is yet required by this resolution, and in violation of his oath to support the constitution, to agree to the amendment. I am in favor.of every measure and form of submission known in the constitution itself. It is not necessary’ for me to say that I trust and believe in the people, in their absolute right and capacity’ to govern themselves; they know I do. In the exercise of this right of i self-government the people of Indiana have [ created and adopted a constitution which they’ respect and obey. By virtue of that < constitution the amendments proposed by I the last Legislature are now before the people, submitted to their scrutiny and discus- I sion, and they’ will be voted on in November at every poll in the State in the election of | candidates pledged for or against them. As to the subject of prohibition within i itself, whether it is wise or unwise, whether it falls within the true powers of government in its dealings with its citizens, whether it enhances the cause of temperance and morality, or the reverse, are matters on which there are wide and honest differences of opinion. In making laws to govern the | people it is the part of wisdom to recognize human nature as it is, a different standard from that created by the Almighty. As far as my reading extends I find that every people on the globe have believed themselves capable and entitled to determine what they would eat, drink and wear. These are the most fundamental rights of human nature. To deny them is to place man on the level with enslaved animals, whom you feed and shelter according to your wishes, and not theirs. This is the reason why prohibition, so-called, never prohibits The instinct of self-government is strong in every man’s heart, and he at once revolts against such an intrusion upon his right of private judgment and self-control. Twenty-eight years ago I was just entering upon the affairs of life, and the party’ opposed to the Democracy at that time was a mongrel composed of prohibition and Know-Nothingism in about equal parts. I witnessed the temporary triumph and the speedy death of this combination party. The attempt to enforce the , Maine law, as it was then called, in Indiana in 1854 was a miserable and demoralizing farce. Nothing is worse in its effects on the public morals than a law which is a dead letter; a law which it is the sworn duty of courts and juries to enforce, and which they will not enforce. This was the case in Indiana in 1854, and will be again if prohibition is adopted. It is the case now to a greater or less extent in every State where prohibition nominally prevails. Hypocrisy, fraud, contempt of law, with all their kindred evils, always accompany such a state of things. The daily laborer may be deprived of his beer, but' the man who is able will send to Kentucky for his whisky, which under the amendment he can keep and drink to his heart’s content, so he does not keep it for sale. The adoption of this amendment will not keep a drop of whisky or brandy or foreign costly wines out of the State which any’ one wants to bring here to drink. It will simply stop the manufacture for sale, and close up the vineyards and breweries which Jefferson, and every other philosophic mind regarded as great mitigations of the evils of intemperance.

PENSIONS AND ARREARS. The speaker next noticed the subject of pensions and arrears of pensions, which had been under consideration during the last session of Congress, and on which he had been assailed in the most prominent papers in the United States. He had spoken earn estly in his place in the Senate on this subject, and he never expected to change his position or his opinions. The money ppid out in arrears of pensions had increased the general currency of the country, and made times easier and more prosperous. For that very reason the payment of this money had been so savagely denounced by the great organs of capital. They do not want the times easy or money plenty in the hands of the people. Who have denounced the arrears of pensions? What convention of the people has done so? It is the money power, and that alone which' has done sb. I claim .no credit for what I have done or tried to do for the soldier. I deserve no man's vote .on that account. I have simply tried to do my plain and sacred duty. I shall continue the same course hereafter, and I here admonish the soldier that he will always need brave and vigilant friends in the American Congress. On the very last day of the sessioA 1 provoked the furious wrath of certain Senators by moving to take up and pass the bill which' hail already passed the House, giving the loser of a leg'or arm SWper month. The vital statistics show that such sufferers average a loss of twenty years on the duration of life, and I conceive a pension of S4U per month but a small compensation for such early graves. In the discussion which ensued our pension system was fiercely denounced os beatowing too much money on jibe

ghf fflemocraiq gtnfinel JOB PRINTING OFFICE baa bettar (Mtnttea than any ottea tn Indiana for the owaentian of all beanebaa of J QB .JPLFCX JXTT X»TC». • t PROMPTNESS A SPEOIA4.TY. .Inythinf, from a Dodger to a Prioe-Uet.nr fraoi • rampinet to a footer, blank or colored, plain or fanny. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

wounded soldiers of the war and on theil widows and orphans. Thpse denunciations c une from the representatives of organized Eastern capital However long or short my stay in the Senate may bo, no one need ever be in doubt as to what my position will be on this and kindred question*. We now and then hear ft stated that the Democratic party iB, or has been, or soon will be, A FREE-TRADB PARTT. As Gen Hancock said, only too late, in the campaign of 1880, all such talk is folly, rhe position I hold on this subject is sustained in express words and in elaborate arguments bv every Democratic President ever elected, beginning with Thomas Jefferson and ending with James Buchanan, every one of whom also carried the great manufacturing State of Pennsylvania. I could stand here and read to you by the hour an unbroken chain of Democratic authority, from the very beginning of the present century until the last Presidential canvass, showing that the position of the Democratic party has always been in favor of a tariff tor revenue, with protection to our home industries to the extent of that revenue. On the floor of the Senate I said: “The tariff is a method of taxation; it has its origin in the power of tho Government to raise money for the public service, but, like every’ other system of taxej ever known in history, its resulting consequences reach far and wide among the people; it touches, takes hold upon, and encourages or depresses their diversified interests; and this great consequent fact, this vast incident as it may be called, can no more bo evaded, ignored or pushed aside in legislating for the general good of the country than the primary fact of the revenue itself Again I said, and I repeat it here: “I speak not in support of a tariff for revenue only, nor of a tariff for protection only, but in support of a tariff which collects the necessary revenue, and, at the same time, to the extent of that revenue extends protection with discriminating justice to American manufactories." There I nail my colors, and there they will stay, through sunshine and storm, victory or defeat. If these views make me unsafe and unsound in the estimation of impractical theorists, I have the satisfaction of believing that I am promoting the best interests of the thoughtful, sensible business and laboring people of Indiana, and that my appeal to them for support, if I should ever again make it, will not be made in vain. I will rejoice to answer for my stewardship on this great question to the people of this grand ami growing commonwealth. Their trust and confidence ore all that I have ever aspired to, or ever will this side of the river which divides time from eternity. When the hour of reckoning comes I will enter upon it with a conscience which tells me in clear and certain tones that I have toiled by day and by night in my present position to promote the prosperity, the happiness and the glory of this great and beloved Htate. What has been best for her I have done or tried to do. I have not thought free trade and direct taxation best. I have not thought it best for her laboring men and women to be brought into competition with the pauper labor of England and other foreign countries, and this I have dared to sav, and shall say again and again. On the basis of free trade, direct taxation follows as inevitably as darkness follows the night, and between SB,(XX),(MX) and SIO,(XX),(XX) a year must fall to the taxgatherers to collect in Indiana, and over S3(X),(XX) in Vigo county. 1 have not thought that best for our Htnte and people, and, as there has been some talk in that direction, I have taken some pains to arrest such evil tendencies. At the conclusion of the Senator’s address Hon. J. E. Lemb, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the district, was introduced and delivered an eloquent and argumentative speech.

A “FAIR COUNT.”

What It Means According to the Repub- . lican Standard. The action of the House of Representatives in Congress in the determination of certain contested-election cases on record is an indefensible, outrageous proceeding. Mr. Robeson and Mr. Hoar had decided- that the country would not be entirely safe without n half-dozen more Republican memliers of the House, and. with the help of Mr. Keifer, the extra half-dozen were voted in. These, in turn, assisted Mr. Robeson, Mr. Hoar and Mr. Keifer to save the country by their votes for the old ilag and an appropriation. Two of the seats stolen in this conspiracy to save the country belonged to Alabama constituencies. There has since been an election for Governor, Legislature, etc., and the election for Congressmen will occur in November. In one of the Alabama districts (the Fourth) declared vacant by the House conspirators, the Democratic vote in this last election was 14,940, and the combined tag-rag and bob-tail opposition polled 4.873. In the other Alabama district (the Eighth) for which the House conspirators declared Mr. Lowe to bo the worthy bob-tail, the vote was 11,827 Democratic and 11,521 opposition. The Eighth district was believed to be the stronghold of the bob-tails —if they had any stronghold—and the most of the bobtail State ticket was made up of supposed influential persons from that mountain region. If the Eighth district had given a bob-tail majority, all the Republican press would have pointed to the result with pride as a vindication of the act of the majority in the House, who had assumed to override the decision of a previous election. As the Eighth Alabama district did not give a bob-tail majority for Governor in the election of Aug. 7. it only remains for the Republicans to declare that there was no election, and to demand a “fair count.” Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, has taken that “shoot” already. Ho tells the women they must stand back and wait for a “fair count” before questions of female suffrage, prohibition or any other thing can lie considered. A “fair count” was once 185 to 184. It is a great burden on the minds of some persons that they should be for so long a time charged with the responsibility of saving the country. They ought to be relieved of it.

Raking in the Pot.

For several years many of the residents of a certain village in Pennsylvania had been predicting that the old man 8. was slowly dying of consumption, and in March last bets of three to one were freely offered that he would not outlive the summer. About the Ist of April the old man went to Philadelphia to be examined by the doctors to see if his case was as bad as thought for, and after an absence of several days he returned home very quietly and called his eldest son in from the barn and said: “Peter, it is generally believed by our neighbors that I have consumption ?”• “ Tea, father.” “ And that a few more weeks will plant me under the daisies. ” “ That’s what they say, father.” “Well, you get up early to-morrow and you go out and bet my watch and my horse and my gun, and my buggy, and this house and lot, and all the money we can scrape up and borrow, that I don’t turn up my toes for a year. Bet even; bet two toona; bet any way you can, for Providence has sent us this occasion as a “ But wa mayjoee, father ?” “ Lose, you x’di’t I. Vlliy, we’ll scoop in every d<?n«*U»at this ¥> wn P al * raKe > for seven different dpctqrs agreed that I’ve got dyapepae instead of consumption and good for a dQZQU years i yeti Street Mw,