Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1882 — A DESIRABLE PIECE OF PROP ERTY. [ARTICLE]

A DESIRABLE PIECE OF PROP ERTY.

Dorsey says H took • million dollars to save New York State to “the grand old party." Ex-Attorney General Baldwin has resumed the practice of law in the city of Logansport General Slocum and General Rosecrrns will be members of the Democratic majority in the next House. A pesition is before the Authorities of the city of Logansport for permission to build street railways in that place. Dorsey admits that he used over $400,000 in ejecting Porter and the Republican State ticket. Th’s is a virtual admission of the rascally modes of Republicanism in this State in 1880. That flnod of new and crisp $2 bills is accounted for.

A? strange as it may seem every on j of the government officials discharged by President Arthur re cen ly, participuted in the Indiana campaign two years ago, and were able seconds of Dorsey in his great feat of carrying Indiana with money. J. B. Scott for many years editor and proprietor of the Delphi Journal, li.kS disposed of that establishment to R..-&S W Scott and Charles E. Claypool. We wish the new proprietors pi cuniary success, and tc the retiring c tor we hot>e peace and plenty in L d< dining years may be vouchs; dto him. it be kept in mind that Dorsey i <iil Secretary of the National Re- ] .can Committee. Let it also be k in mind that Brady owns and i Is two of the most influential 1 ican newspapers published in t ugton. Let it also be kept in i hat two more bold deflants and < ■ • men never held positions of t .nd profit under the govern-

Simon Parr Thompson of laer, published to-day, Nov. 29, mdianapolis Journal a "Plan nventions." Simon must do f ing towards bringing about i ind of a reform, if he ever ex1 a warn a Congressman’s seat. > ompson is preparing to walk < x ie political corps of Mark L. Di ■ te. He was one of the men who fob Col. Demotte upon the Republic lis at the Winamac convention.— Pharos. Endorsing a Just Dud.—The sol. diers of Boston sent a letter to General Grant regarding his vindication of General Fitz John Portsr, which says: “No act, whether of valor or of policy, which has marked your great career, should bring you more hpnor than the moral courage and spirit of irness and justice exhibited in this efense of gallant Union soldiers, condemned on insufficient or mistaken evidence.” General Terry has written a letter of similar import.

The Indianapolis News explains quite clearly the difference between * tariff for revenue and a protective tariff. It save; “A tariff for revenue and a protective tariff are two contradictory propositions. The former pronoses such a duty as shall, as its name implies bring In a revenue, that is, that under it there shall be import ations. A protective tariff proposes that there shall be no importations, but that the home factories shall be protected from them. One proposes that the consumer shall buy where he can buy cheapest, supjeot only to the drawback of the government’s levy for revenue. The otner proposes that he shall buy only of certain producers who are given a monopoly of the market In both cases laoor is not considered. There is a free trade in labor, and the laborer has to sell b.s labor in an open market subject to the laws of supply and demand.”

Wayne McVeagh stated to a reI i ter of the New Yor: Herald the i ...-on why he left the cabinet after G .field’s death. He said: “I never c i aed perfection for President Gar* II > < >r his administration* lam very v .. a war* that any sueh claim wo’d bj t eposterous. I did believe, how. ever, when I accepted office under i i ;.nd I believe still that his nomii en at Chicago represented the de• i’' of the things to which I was ■n'. t .strenuously opposed— the third term, thejspoils system, the boss sys* t m, packed conventions and the unit rule, destruction of district represent* atiou and alliance with Mahone and it pudiation in Virginia, General G srfleld opposed these things at Chicago and General Arthur supported them. It seemed to mo therefore entirely proper for me to take a place as v. confidential political adviser o ( President Garfield and refuse to ftul„ tify myself by retaining such a post-1 non under President Arthur. It wo’d have been a false and insincere relation from first to last; and no public good could have come out of it,*

The Manhattan Club, New York, gave a reception to Governor—elect {Cleveland, on the evening of the sth., Gen. Bauoock And stiff and a number of were present A gjajad Gov. Cleveigcd, Jn ♦iment said: “I Wgwlfe tye late demonstration from any pre-exlsing love for party which was called to power; nor did the people place the affairs gs Htats in our hands to be forgotten. They voted for themoelvoo and in

their own interests. If we retain their confidence wo must deserve it, ami we may be sure they will call on us to give an account of the stewardship. We shall utterly fail to read aright the signs of the times if we are noi fully convinced that parties are but instruments through which the people work their will, and that when they become more the people desert or destroy them. The vanquished have lately learned these things, and the victors will act wisely if they profit by the lesson. Let us not forget that an iutelligent, thinking, reading people will look to the party which they pot In power to supply all their various needs and wants, ano the party which keeps pace with the developments and progress of the times, which keeps in sight.its la id marks tin J y*-t observes those hin gs which are m advance, and whic wll continue true to the people as well as to its traditions, will be tne dominant pa.ty of th future." Ex-Senator Gordon, of Georgia, was the only other speaker of the evening.

Judge Hays, a Republican Judge, of lowa, in a case where a btewing firm, Koehler & Lange, vs. John Hill, sued the latter for sll3 for beer sold since the proclamation of the force of the amendment to the constitution, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, decided the act unconstitutional for the follow long reasons: 1. That the provisions of the con stitiition of lowa in relation to its own amendmentshave not been complied with, and that the amendment in question was not entered in the journals of the assembly which passed it with the yeas and nays, as provided; that the same was not pub lished, and that the joint resolution of the last, assembly which acted on the measure could not go into effect until July 4, 1882, w ereas the elec tion was held on June 27, 1882, and therefore the election was illegal. 2. That ever since 1858 the manu fucture of ale and beer has been especially sanctioned and protected by law in lowa, and that under this pro tection a large amount of capital has been invested in the manufacture,and hat the amendments renders that capital worthies *nd thus invalidate# the right to property. 3. That the nineteenth assembly—the one that acted upon the amendment— changed the punctuation and the meaning es the measure from what both were as the instrument was passed by the eighteenth assem bly. 4. That when the measur was passed by the eighteenth assembly it contained the words, “or to be used,” and that when it was passed by the nineteenth assembly and submitted to a vote of the people, these words were omitted contrary to the provisions of the constitution, which expressly seated that an amendment shall be submitted to the people in exactly the same words as when first passed by the assembly.

G»n- Tom. Bennott, Mayor of the highly moral city of Richmond, this State, who by the wav, is a red hot Republican, was interviewed a few days ago upon the Republican defeat in Indiana. Tom dees not lack for words kr he fill up with Interjections. He said: "Served’em right, by G—d! Hope it will learn the Republican party a lesson. G -d d—n a party that can’t let these moral questions alone. Keep them out of politics. Here’s the d—d Journal talking temperance, talking prohibition, indorsing men who ought to be hung, by G—d, simply because they are for prohibition, like that d— d blankety blank up in Huntington county. Keep all these moral questions out of politics. What has prohibition, woman suffrage, immaculate conception, or infant damnation got to do witla politics? G—d d—n such a party. It ought to he d—d eveiy time, and I hope it will.” <7 w - 1-r

Speaking of the flattering pros pects of the L. N. A. & C. R. R. Co,, the Indianapolis Journal say: “A noticable feature of the company Is Its small capital stock and bonded indebtedness, the former being only $5,000 000, and the latter $5,800,000. There is a floating debt of $238,2 7 8and car trust bonds of s£oo,ooo, The fixed charges amount to per annum, or at the rate of $39,208 per month- For the three months ending October 31. 1882, the net earnings were $182,169, or at the average rete of $30,723 per month, a sum ample to provide for the liabilities and leave a handsome surplus. But these earn ings are likely to be still further increased by the opening of the Indianapolis division. The rapid increase in net earnings, those for October being nearly three times as large as for the corresponding month or 1881 shows what the capacity of the road is, and this again will become much greater when the Chicago and Indianapolis Air Line is opened for busis ness.’

Here now is a little juke for the republican org&ns hereabouts, fore and after nooners; Some men don’t seem to understand the difference between politi cat assertions and business facts. Three or four days before election a Baltimore lawyer made a political speech in a country village. Being a red-hot Republican he naturally gave the Democrat party the best he had. and among other things asserted that in .ease of Democratic success the country would have to pay the ConMorale bonds. Two or three days after ejection a man walked into the lawyer’s office opened a valice and took from it $920,000 of Rebel bonds and said: “What are they worth?” “Four cents a pound.” “But the democratic party has triumphed.” “What Of that?” “But won’t the country have to pay tor these bonds?” “Not by a jugful.” The bondholder looked steadfast at the lawyer for a long minute and the? slowly said; “Well, by gum! After ninety sig of us Republicans who listened to your speech wont and voted the Democratic ticket in prder to realize on our bonds you now tfiJJ mo that you didn’t mean what you said!”

The day of elections Massachusetts Republican told his wife that if the State went Democratic he intended to leave the next morning before breakfast and go to a Renub’.ioan State. Early the next morning he was awakened by a clatter of pans and falling of stove-pipe, (and on climbing out of bed he found his wife busily eneaged in packing up the household goods. ‘“What are you doing, Mary?” he asked. “Packing up to levyei State w Demewmtic,” she repliad. Seizing a newspaper he hastily scanned its pages, ’aria springing tolris Taei, yelled: “Hold ’t>h, Mitry; theft’ino place to go to.” .(Equal parts of al dm and salt. Fcorched’ and pulverized together, is said to lie good tor the croup.