Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1883 — RUNNING AFOUL OF A BUZZ SAW.-NO.2. [ARTICLE]

RUNNING AFOUL OF A BUZZ SAW.-NO.2.

Michigan remain# in the Democratic column. It is the home of the FobhelL - Fish sack has peeled Peele with two more of his Inquisitive letters Fishback is a scalp-rafser. The jury in the Gougar-Mawller casr, ou trial atL ifaye’te, brought im a ver lict of $5,000 damages for the plaiu tiff At the recent election the Democrats cairied Leavenworth, Topebp, Atchison, Emporia and all other im portant towns in Kansas. The Dem •ocratic tidal wive of last fall contintidies to roll en. IfAfter more than fifty years of litigation the celebrated Jumel estate case of Nt w York is to be settled Madam Jumel was for a short time ibe wife of Aaron Burr. Lize Pinkston recently gave birth to twins, one of whom is called Rutherford B. Hayes and the other Stanley Matthews. Poor John Sherman! He was not remembered by the ungrateful Lize, Mr. Fisbbaek states that $400,000 was used by Dorsey and his gang to buy votes, hire repeater?, bribe election officers, stuff the ballot-box es and falsify election results in the interests of the Republican party in this state in 1880. ■ m> ■ Thirty million do.lars aro annually paid over the 6ars of Chicago for drinks. The United States spends $600,000,000 a year ror their alcoho lie drinks. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people are engaged in selling that amount of poison.

The Bos tan Commonwealth quotes Governor Bsd Butler as saying, in justification ot his continuing to a tend to his law practice: “Governor Tal bot did not stop his woolen mills when Governor; why then should I stop my law mill when I am Governor?” “It was this right hand that saved the Republican party in 1876,” said Senator Kellogg to a 'Washington correspondent the ether day. It is alleged tiat it was tha same right hand that took a check for $20,000 from a star route contractor named Price, a.year or two later. Conkling seems to be getting thejudiciaiy of'New York under his thumb. He has secured the anpointmeut of an incompetent nephew, A. C. Coxe, as United States district judge and has had his former secretary and pers sonal attendant, Tim Griffiths, made clerk of the United States courts in that oity, and young Code’s brothel* in-law, Doolittle (who is a Conkling democrat, by the way), made clerk of the courts in the northein in order to secure Doolittle’s ap pointmeut. Major Bright, the late incumbent who lost an arm ai Cold Harbor, wus requested to resign Conkling is a “Stalwart *

The Indianapolis News (Republican) says: It will be remembered When vhegwhisky ring was making its desperate effort to get free from the ta*eg it owed the government by reason of the of the bonded period, that dismal predict" lions were freely made of the stringency which would befall if the col «ction{of this tax were insisted upon. The we were told were "in for it” and that to force the payment of 00 many millions wo aid work disas ter. It is to be noted that thus far there has been no destruction. The whisky Is paying its tax as it comes due or getting ready to run out of the country till a more convenient season. It is thus with all protected in terests. It you believe them, blu fi ruin will follow;the withdrawal of th e simplest of the privileges under which they hayejgrown riob. When the people shall wake up to a realiza tion of the fact that they are being humbugged, and under a specious pretense are made market of for the benefit of the favored few, they will make an ending of it. The Chicago Times, a very indes pendent newspaper, says of the results lot the Chicago election: “While the outcome of yesterday’s voting will be a sore disappointmen to the managers of the oary canvas and the hungry horde of expectants who followed their banner, the many good citizens who joined that army and strove earnestly for a victory that would bring a change of city ad ministration will not despair of Chicago's future because of their failure. They know that, t hough the management of municipal affairs has not been all they could desire, it has at least been clean handed and reasonably efficient in most directions. The utmost malice cf the mayor’sjassailants has never charged him or the administration for which he has been responsible, with peculation or serruptioc. If the police force has not been at nil times effective in protect iog property, it will be remembered that that force is smaller in proportion to the area and copulation than In any other great city on the oowlnent, and that the smallness of the force Is a direct and inevitable result of the smallness of the revenue. In this last respect, also, Chicago comparts favorably with o.her American cities, and the tax payers are

Jap Torpid, one of the beat informed journalists ia the State, says: The Republican Legislature of 1881, during the regular session of sixty - one days, passed 39 laws. The Democtutic of 1883, during a regular session of sixty-one days, passed 140 laws. The Republican Legisl iture of 1881, at its regular session, did do! pass either tfrs general oi specific appropriation bill.— The general appropriation bill was n t i>a- sed ant.l April 13tb, near the close of the extra session. The Re_, publican Legislature of 1381 cost tne peo, lof Indian’ > | full SIOO,OOo more than the Democratic Legislature rs 1883. He further states: The road law is universally approved. Under Republican rule the highways o! the 8 rate became impassible. xbe savings to the orphan* and widows that is made by the law g<n - eiDing decedent’s estates from legal and official vampires in one year wi.l amount to more than the whole co.-t of the Legislature and at the same t me exert a wide spread moral influ cue'* on society. People doing business through ex i>rcss companies for the first *tio.e within the history of the State unprotected. There is a law now upon the statute books that will prevent the truing of constructive fees. The dog law will materially increase the publio revenue. The drainage act is simple, will prove efficient, aad undoubtedly give satisfaction. '•* i w o» ■ ■ ■■ -

Indianapolis, March 30, 1883. Hon. Stanton J. Peelle : Last week I addressed you a letter whieh was published in The News, asking why yeu voted for the tariff law enacted by the late Congress, a copy of which you had been kind enough to send me under your frank. You do not seem to think the matter w rtn your attention. So far as the publio know you have nothing to say by way of justification or apology for your vote. If you knew what was in tho bill wheu you voted to make it a law, you deliberately obeyed the demands of the lobbyists who asked you to rob the people for the benefit of a small class of men who amass fortunes by means of laws passed in their interest. If you plead ignor .uce I beg of you, in behalf of your constituents, who are responsible for your re election, to set apart a smnil portion o! the vacation for *the pur pose of acqujring information wbi h will fit you in some degree for the duties of aflcgislator. But you do not plead at all. You stand mute.— To assume that your vote was an ignorant vi. te; that you tliu not witting ly approve of so crude a measure would be to compliment the goodness of your heart at the expense of yeur intelligence’. I prefer to look upon your conduct as having been directed and controlled by short sighted par tisan considerations. You knew the bill was full of injustice, oqt you gave it your vote for the sake of party harmony. You foolishly sup posed that the interests of the republican party would be subserved by the enactment of such a law. Much, I hear, is the curb-«iooe apology you are making for your vote, ami for lack of a mure authoritative -tate ment, I must perforce accept it as the "best explanation you cau give. .Politicians, short-sighted as they proverbially are, never made a werse mistake. The republican p-irty can not afford to insult the intelligence oi the country, and when it admits that such legislation is necessary .o its success it confesses that its defeat is essentiul to the welfare of tne ’nation, Patriotic men have vy ed the republican ticket, for twenty tivo years, beoausu upon questions tuu.ffi? ing the very existence and honor qf the nation, the democrats were ai» ways in the wrong. The questions now before the country are questions of finance, tariff, collecting and dis bursiug the revenues. (Jan the republican party put itself in the wrong on these questions, and carry dec iions by proving that democrats were copperheads in 1864? I re-assert what I said to yoq fp my previous letter, that the tariff law, for fhjuh you voted as a party measure, was framed and passed in the interests of a small class of monopolists, and in utter disregard of the interests of the public. Take the saltmonopcjy for ipstaqce The establishments jin this country which produce salt by evaporation by means of artificial heat, employ 4,289 persons. The annual value of tne product is $4,829,566. The ain’t of capital invested is $8,225,740. The wages paid to employes art. $1,260,023, or an average of $295 78 to each laborer. or less than one dollar a day, allowing 3QQ wooing days in a year. Meanwhile the capitalist? who own these works divide $1,562,567 profits, or 19 per cent on their capital. Yet you have imposed a tax on the salt consumed by 50,000,000 people, -to protect American labor from competition with foreign pauper labor. You protect the monopolist by enabling him to maxe a profit of nearly twenty per cent, per annum, and the monopolist protects bis laborer by paying him less than a dollar a day—and out of that he must pay back to the capitalist the tax on the salt used in caring the measly pork which he buys at his employer’s store to feed his family, And yet the statesmen from Michigan bamboozled you into believing that the great Republican party would be ruined unless the salt tax was retained, There was a crying demand that you should relieve banks and banking capital from their taxes, amounting so $12,000,000 or mere, but the carpenter’s Jfiandsaw and chisel, the schoolboy’s slate and slate pencil-*, the poor sewing womau’s needles and salt must be taxed. By the way. did you notice the statement in yesterday,B News that “the school slate manufacturers have entered into a combination and advanced the price of their goods 20 per cent.?” A very prompt response so the provision in your tariff law which protects the makers of slates and slate pencils by a tax of 30 per cent. I will not annoy you with any more figures for thejpresent, promising you, If the courtesy of these columss is allowed me, to remind you of other provisions of the law, which as flagrantly disregard the public welfare as those to which I have called ypur attention. One word more: I think I understand wbat you mean when you say the interests of the partyfdemand su«n j laws. Suc.i laws put money in ti*e ! pockets of bankers and manufacturers. Bankers and manufacturers ,

- campaign fund, and men fixe Dorjj , ufced in buying votes, hiring repeat—•tTbribing election officers to stuff ballot boxes and falsify eleetien returns. Yon know that there are men high in offi • because hey connived at such crimes, and it ia no secret that other men honored by the party, we so honored mainly because they aided the escape of arrested felons who vere hired to come from otter states to violate the election laws of Indiana. i may be over sanguine, but I bop«* to see the day whan honorable leader* oj the repubiidhn party will regard such practices aa dia-rep-itaole and will refuse to *old office acquired by such methods.

W. P. FISHBACK.