Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — NAUGHTY “REPUBLICANS.” [ARTICLE]

NAUGHTY “REPUBLICANS.”

Two cent postage goes into operation October Ist next. t;.p two-c nt stamp on checks is •jyJtehed by law after next July let-

An old lady and her daughter were n.ur.h rod one day last week within 13 miles of Indianapolis.

“It is ktHed." remarked Lieutenant Governor Hnrnn, ns he placed th< appropriatloh bill In the pigeon b<?> witho.it his signature. Yes by that net he killed it. and the radical pa’ pets labor hard to impress the peo“ P !«- with the idea that its death can b - charged to the Democratic leglsl,t rc. But don’t yon foigec it- “ The legislature passed it, and it fail e I fcr the want of the Lieutenant Governor’s signature attesting that fact

The Indiana Legislature has ad journed, and the work done by them will soon be sent out to be scrutinized by tho people to be governed by them. The good results will be credited to the Democrats, and they will have to bear the blame of the bad ones. Ike perverseness of the minority and the meanness of Lieut. Gov Hanna have done much to retard their work. Whet) such officials as governor and lietenant governor get to lobbying ind bickering, it would seem that such offices ought to be abolished, or the occupant dem dished.—Hendricks County Gazette. General Hancock had considerable fan poked at him by the Garfield journals when he said: “The tariff is very much a question of locality. But t! e tariff debates in the late Con s gress have certainlv proven his pro position. For it is only by combining the districts, each having its par titular hobby, on the “you tickle me and I’ll ticale you” policy, that the tariff is made up Thus New England Thants duties on cotton fabrics and fish, New Jersey on pottery. Penn sylvania on iron, Maryland on coal, South Carolina on rice, Virginia on tobacco, Louisiana on sugar, and so on. Score one for Hancock!

The New Tabot Law.—Sava an exchange: “It would bo a miracle of ac chleotal legislation it the new tariff law satisfied either the demands of the country for reform or the clamor of special interest* for protection. Ii regular in its inception, amended and patched in almost every eonceivable direction in committee in the Senate, subjected to arbitrary revision in the Senate, non-concurred in oy the House, without being read, tinkered in conference, repassed in the Senate by a majority of one, and that one voting against his judgment and conscienci. and rushed through the House without being understood the tariff law of 1883 can hardly escape being an undigested, illogical and bewildering piece of legislation. At the eleventh hour its passage was only possible through the desperate conclusion of some Congressmen that half a loaf was better than no bread. As the West has been most in earnest in asking for a genuine reform in the existing tariff it is the most disappointed that the new law comes so far short of what it had goo i reason to expect.”

The following is the caustic manner io which Senator McCullough of Gibson, dressed down LieutenantGovernor Hanna at a recent night session of the Senate: "Mr. Presi dent - I object to proposition of compromise. There is no difficulty to compromise. There is nothing obstructing the business of this Sens ate, except the miserable pigmy that by accident occupies and disgraces the Ghair of tnis Senate. It is on hi 8 part a high-handed outrage, an utter disiegard of the Constitution and of his oath of office. I shall enter into no agreement that will in any way tend to condone his offense. In any man of ordinary mental capacity it would be a crime that would merit nothing but detestation and execration. It is less a ciime in the PresN dent of this Senate only in propor tion as he is less than ordinary men* He occupies this Chair by ace ident—he obtain’d his nomination because he bore tbe name of another man, whom the Convention regarded as competent to fill the office. Tne Conven tion was largely deceived, and to my own knowledge many ofits members were mortified and chagrined when they learned the character and capa city of the man who they had nominated 0 . I make these remarks in answer to the repeated statement of the Chair that he Was elected in tbesame ma ner as Senators upon the floor* and thereby tenders an insult to every Senator who did not get his nomination by a sort of false pretense." The Lieutenate Governor directed the Clerk to take the r.*. murks of the Senator of Gibson ' dQ.i)ia^ : * Aenc6rdiD Kly the remarks wero taken down—included in the proceedings of the Senate—and on the next day when being read the Lieutenant-Governor raised another racket because they had been so taken down. The remarks of Senator McCullough explains one thing to our people. At Hanna’s meeting in Rensselaer the general Inquiry was how the nomination lit on him. It soems tl e convention supposed it was placn nomination another Hanna.

This is the way the Rensselaer and Winamac Republicans go for each other. Our friend of »be Winamac Republican evidently does not know his co-worker in Rensselaer. Bro. Marshall is by no means a “crank.” Furthermore we say not, as BroMarshall can nave the floor to deiend himself. The Winamac papers «eem to be a law unto themselves so fa/* as the use us the English language is concern ed, The “Democrat” in speaking of the floods says in its headlines that M'he waters are gradually reclining ” Reclining means to lean backwards or sideways. Which of the two ways the Winamac waters lean the D**mo- > rat <!<»«• not <•< i dctvi i d io state. The Republican of the same town re marks that a certain little boy “is still precarious with the brain fever.” A dispose, by the way, which it is physiologically impossible f*>r the pers n who used “precarious”in that constrnc’ion ever to be afflicted with. Rensselaer Republican.

We copy the above mainly to show the public what an ignoramus the ga loot who wrote it has proved himself to eso far as his censure of the Rbpublican’s language in the sentence he refers »o is cooeerned. To begin with, he has misquoted us—sometdug that bo honest newspat>er con••mporary will knowingly do. We -aid “precarious from” a certain di sease. and unwilling to insult the intelligent public, we direct the following to the editor of rhe Republican ■done: Webster—our high authority —defines the word “precarious” as (1) “depending on the will or pleasure of another;” (2) “exposed to conitiint risk.” In one sense of the word Webster defines “from” as “by leason of. ” Here we have the interpretation of the phrase we used, snowing that we were correct, in the great author’s own words—he is yet ‘depending on the will or pleasure of another” •“ y reason of” brain fever;” or, “exposed to constant risk” “by reason of” said affliction. Now, if the “crank” of the Rensselaer Re publican has any more wads to shoot at us, let him fire away; but judging from the appearance of his errorbesplattered sheet, which he deigns to call a “newspaper,” and which has tne appearance of being “inked” with mud, applied with a rolling.pin, we would advise him to pay a little more attention to’ hi- own busines . -Winamac Republican.

Messrs. Carlyle, of Kentuck, aud Hewitt, of New York, say the next House will have to inaugurate the revenue refo r ms, in which the late Republican Congress so totally failed. Hr. Hewitt very promptly and properly informed ex-Speaker Randall that in the organization of the next Heuse he would meet his Waterloo The Lafayette Sunday Times is i receipt of a note from Miss Lavina Jenners now residing at Mobile, Ala. in which she says: We had the fl et strawberries of the season from our garden to-day, and mamma oauglit the first red fish, a beauty weighing 3 pounds. Orange trees are in bloom and tne house is filled with roses and other floweis from the garden.