Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — PUBLIC FEELING. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC FEELING.

[Washington Telegram to Chicago Herald.] The decision is the subject of universal comment here, and It Is safe to say that no other decision of the Court since the famous Cred Scott decision by Chief Justice Taney has created so much excitement and discussion. ' [Washington Telegram to Chicago Inter Ooearu] The decision of the Supreme court in the Civil Rights cases made something of a sensation here. There are several suits pending in this district, and the reference made to these

In Bradley's opinion causes some consternation among, hotel and restaurant men, who imagine it will operate disastrously to them. The strong intimation that the law of Congress is operative here, while not deciding the questions pending as to the district, is construed as authoritative. It also destroys the hope of tho clique which is agitating the question of suffrage, and opens the new question as to a similar form of Government for Utah. Both of these propositions have had able legul advocates and the decision of to-day Is r-+-garded as affording the a secure legal footlig for the future. Gen. Ben Harrison, of Indiana, says ho was not much surprised at the decision of the Supreme court, and believid it good law.