Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — Page 1

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IMBIBOAI F. OBLOOTK. | ' Atoor»ey-at-I.RW Ivdiaka B Fmctics® iin thi. Ooii'ts of Jaspor and. ad* I fining cotintioo. Afakoo collnatioaa a ap®Aaltr- Office ®n nortk side of Wa*hlngto» irVraat, *r>paeit» Oaurt Hour*- tlnl, I DWia«w c inu Dviaawn t R* «• & Z. BWIGGINS. I ■A.ttoerieys-sit-Xja.w, I EwfssKLAßx g Indiana I PracUca In tfa* Q#«rUi ®f Jaspor and ad I ' o }PjP* <s«»»ti«a. *>a£® collect***, ®tq. to Oflca want ooruerSowsls’ Block. t_»l I *IMON r. THOJIDSON, DAVID J. THOMPSON 1 Attorney-at- Law. Notary Public. I THOMPSON & BROTHER, I Nbnsrkuaer. - . Indiana I Praoticain all tha Courts. I MARION L. SPITLBR, I Colleotdr find Abstractor. I " 0 P!\y . irttcular attention to nuyine- tu\I M.aeJliUA and lettHiag landg, va ius PHAN K iv, li (OCR, Attorney at I*aw Att.<s Real Lalaio tSioker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor vnd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. C®ll»otlo3ft.» CL Speciality. -a —— .TAMES W. DOUTHIT, AND N©TARY PUBLIC, iiem selaerfind. Maieever ’ B H. W, SN^DEkT - Attorney at Law « Remington, Indiana. OOLLECTIONS A iiPECIALTY. IRA W. TROMAN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, Beal Estate aai Callectiai Agent. drill practice in ell the Ceurts of Newton Benton and Jasper counties. Office:—Up-stairs, over Murray’s City <rug Store, Qoodland, Indiana. DD. DAI.*, ■ ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELI.O, * INDIANA, Bank building. up stair*. - • v^r'~*T”Tr"—«>■. ii •I. H. LOUGHKIDGE. ' F. P, BITTERS LOUGH RIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vmi DR. L B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer Ind. Sails promptly attended. Will give special attei tion to the treatment of Chronic jOine^ses. R. S. Dwiggins. Zimri Dwiggins, President . Oastiier Citizens 9 Sank, RENSSELAER, IND., Does a general Banking business; gives special attention to collections; remittances made on day of payment at current rate of exchange interest paid on balances : ■wrtllVates bearing interest is=nf»d- ex- 1 •wi <ng-bought and sold. • ! This Sank owns the jSu -gi o whieh i 3P°^ h « PJjßrflum the Cl. icsgo Exposition m 1878. Thin Safe is protected by one of Siaraent sTime Locks. The bunk vault used as good as can be built. It will be seen om thn foregoing that this Bank furnishes i gaod saekrttj t® depositors as ean b«. ADDKED u COT,. THOMAS THOMPSONBanking Bouse AF A. M«OOT AT. THoMPßoN,successors y te A, KoOer 4 A, Thompson. .Bankers, Rensselaer, Ind. Does general Banking business. Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money loaned interest paid on specified time deposits &c Office same place as old flrm.of A. McCoy & Thompson. aprl4,’Bl

McCracken & kirk, boots* shoes, liberal corner, rensselaer, Indiana.

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THOMAS J. FARM # Boots, Shoos, Bats, Caps,

llpfe-SHOES fcK WEVERY PAIR YttßßAtfO 7 fOR SALE BY THOMAS J. FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line ol light and heavy shoes for men and boys, • women and misses, always in stock at bottom prices. Increase of trade more an object than large profits. See our goods before buying.

Gents’ Furnishing Goods! - .A. - N WARNER & SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinware. S* "fc O "V ® is South Side Washington Street, RESJSSELAER, - - INDIAW;. gw." -■ *sL'_xja. " ■ 1 ' _ i* BEDFORD & WARM r Dealers In Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, Wooden ware, Farm Machinery, BJEtICK & TILE. Our (Groceries are pure, and will .be sold as low as else where. • in our Hardware, Tinware and Woodenware Dep-nt ment,. will be found everything called for. Our Farm Mach inery, in great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick and iiie, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA EtNER. iMlOlhioiCl STOMACH 4|n BITTERS Dyspepsia, Chills and JA VV DIZZ* " Fever, Kidney Disease, B I 00 ”. Liver Complaint, Purifier. SSOO REWARD FOR ANY OF THE ABOVECASESTHATTHISMEDICINE WILL NOT CURE OR HELP. T-rTmiTj, B * creU 7® ?>««»*. ®ssist digestion, produce a healthy and laxative effect, and JJSSI? 71 iS es calculated to under-miiie the natural viarorof the body. Their object is to build up the vital strength and energy while removing causes of disekse. fH optrating as system’t<?a^go(xl l and e pei^cc^ l state^? r heai r th, V aT^ coDviDc w yS 6 fe»x^v D E r gW‘kLurF ! fai.ria s. j

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1883.

DIGN[?]Y OF THE FARMER’S CALLING

Governor Cleveland, in his excellent addiess at Ogdensburg‘ dwelt upon the error of too many country-born and counjtrv-bred young men who leave their homesteads to ad venture on failure in cities. — In this connection he said: “Broad fields well tilled, not only secure comfort and an income to the farmer, but build up the commerce of the State and easily supply the wants of the population. None of these things result except by labor. This is the magic wana whose touch creates wealth and a great State. So all of us who work are, in our several ways, engaged in building to a higher reach and nobler proportions the fabric of a proud Commonwealth. Those who make and execute the laws join with those who toil from day bo day with their hands in their several occupations, all alike engaged in building up and protecting the State. I am sorry to see the disposition too prevalent among young men, to leave the workshops and farms of their fathers to engage in some other occupation which the think less laborious, or in some profession which they deem more honorable.. In this way many men that would have successfully maintained and enlarged their father’s manufactory, or who would have made more fruitful the old homestead, are found high and dry on the shoals of failure and discouragement.” The .sense and truth of this neV and timely restatement of plain needs and facts are evident. The response they find in thoughtful minds is immediate and unmistakable. If they have effect of impressing on the farmer the importance and elevation of his work, himself and his work will alike be the gainer. Indeed, there is room for reflection on the subject for men of the town and city, as well as for men in rural regions. The comparative consideration of human callings gives that of the farmer no secondary place and is calculated to abate the pride of those who have been wont to look down upon it. Emphatically, the farmer is the inheritor of the earth at first hand. For him the seasons are. To him speak directly the thousand voices of nature. For him the snn warms and the clouds water the earth. For him the rivers rise in the hills and permeate the plains. All other occupations are secondary to his in time and deSendent on some conditions of is for their full success. He developes that diversity of soil which makes diversity of toil and taste. Thence come the enterprise of commerce and the ingenuity of trade.' The funner is the first witness df civilization. Savages hunt, robbers war, hunters live on the fruits of the chase or -the sea, but those who lay the foundations of States, break the ground, put in the seed and nprear the home, be it a hut or a house. They gather their families around them? The crack of the rifle gives way to the music of the sharpening scythe. The knife combat is exchanged for the fashioning axe. The war horse, heralded in history, immortalized in marble, and celebrated in poem and picture, yields room to the unsung plow horse, who steps afield to the whistle of Ihe plow boy, whose patient feet trace the furrow, who hears the call of the thrush I under the hedge, and notes the sound of the woodpecker *on the echoing trees, in whose nostrils the breath of the clover is sweet, and in whose mane the little children twine the daisies that grow among the waving grass—Albany [N. Y.j Argus Would a law against tightlacing be inimical to the freedom of contracts?

In taking the evidence of the English-Peelle contest involving the title to a seat in the next House of Congress, W. P. Fishback, a weil-known Republican politician and government office-holder, testifies that the Republican ballot used at the election in Indianapolis in 1882 was a«fraud.— This is what he told a News reporter in regard to his testimony: “On being asked to give his testimony, a few days ago he went, he said, to the reporter, as he also stated on the stand in response to an interrogatory by Mr. Peelle, voluntarily, not wishing to put those taking the testimony to the trouble of a subpoena. He testified that in his opinion the Republican ballot used at that election was a fraud and that, while he could only be morally certain of the fact, it was intended to be distinguished from the Democratic ballot.” The Republicans of Indianapolis in the election of 1882 used what were known as “spring back” tickets with the evident purpose in view of fraudulently carrying the election. It appears that on the morning of the November election, 1882, Senator McDonald while at the rooms of Judge Gresham called the attention of Mr. Fishback to these fraudulent tickets by dropping them into a hat when their use as a means of stuffing ballot boxes was demonstrated. It would at once unfold, thus giving a corrupt voter an opportunity to vote double ballots. Mr. Fishback remarked at the time that the Republican ballot was a fraud. This was the means resorted to to carry Marion county for the Republicans, and by this means William E. English was defeated for Congress by a very small majority. This way of defrauding the people of their voice in selecting officers no doubt had the sanction of Stanton J. Peelle, who was anxious to be returned to Congress regardless of his title to the distinguished position. There is not a harder crowd of politicians anywhere in this Union than the Republicans of Indianapolis. They have always been howling, too, about the purity of the ballot box, and charging these crimes of stuffing ballot boxes and frauds to southern Democrats. In the campaign of 1880 the Republican State central committee taught the chairmen of the respective county committees how to vote and count double ballots. This was the statement made by S. P. Connor, chairman of the Republican committee of Newton county in 1880. Fishback, in his open letters published recently, stated that Republicans high in authority in this State held their offices by fraud and chicanery. And yet this is the great, good and moral party that never did anything worse than to go on a drunken debauch at a President’s funeral, and stuff ballot boxes with fraudulent tickets in Indiana. —Uogansport Pharos.

OLD BEN ONCE MORE.

(Extract from Mansfield Speech.) I come to tell you my views of what should be done in the State, and to give you some slight account of the little that has been done by me, in order that you should say whether you maintain the Dresent administration of the state government or go back to the former one. Through the confidence of my fellow-citizens of all parties, J was made governor of the commonwealth last year. What had 1 befote me? Nothing but the strongest desire, temptation and ambition to do the best I could for the state. Anything other than that would have been an in suit to those who chose me —a wrong to myself my conscience and against my interests; for the highest interests I have, or can have, is to stand well in

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the judgment of the people of this state. I have been acquainted with public affairs now, intimately, forquite forty years. I have held many public stations, and, with the exception of a military appointment, the offices nave been elective. I feel bound to call this much to your attention, because, with that experience and with that ambition, if I have done anything wrong to •the state, it must have been done from sheer folly. Now, I have been called pretty much everything except a fool. — S Great laughter and applause.] ndeed, my opponents do me honor overmuch. They accused me of possessing the power to dragoon all men into my support, the power to twist the great parties of the state around just as I turn my hand. Too high and all too great a compliment! More than that, they say—what I have never said to mortal men—that I am doing this to be President of the United States. They seem to think I would be fit for it if I could only reach it. (Applause.) 1 have grave doubts upon that subject. What is the logic of that? That is to say, I have done the worst I could do in order to get the highest praise I could get.— (Laughter.) Isn’t that the logic? There are sensible men and sensible women here.— What do you think of that argument? Here is a man of great acquaintance with oublic affairs, of great cunning and shrewdness,they say, doing the worst he can do in order to get the most that can be got. (Renewed laughter.) Judge ye! You do not exactly know the powe. of the governor of this state. I did not know till I got in (laughter); but I found that, while I was away at the war, in congress and other places, they had all tered the laws, taken away all the powers from the governor they could, and left him about as useful and ornamental as Queen Victoria in the British government- a good figure head, nothing more. In the matter of appointments, as I have no power without the consent of tho council, and as there are eig li t councillors against me and only one for me, there is no reasonable chance that I could do very badly.— When I assumed my office, the acting insurance commissioner wrote me. congratulating me that I had overthrown all my enemies. Said he: “What does that mean? There is something wrong where he is. and he wants to make friends wi?h the mammon of unrighteousness. I guess I will look into him and see what he has been about,” and I did. You see lam an old lawyer and a lit tie suspicious. I aid look into him and found him a bad man; and I found what was worse, that the insurance laws of Massachusetts had been badly administered. Mr. Tarbox has been cleaning up the insurance department, which he found in a wretched condition. If Governor Butler must go on account of what he has done in the state prison, he is willing to go. (Great applause.)

Secretary Folger is fixed in his notions of morality. A young man named Evans is in the virtuous secretary’s employ. Evans had a salary of $2,000 a year. One night last summer he was found drunk on the streets of Alexandria, in company with a descendant of Mrs. Potiphar. So grossly lewd and indecent was the conduct of the pair that I t led to their arrest. Tlle a tte i ition of the secretary was called to the matter, and, after a labored investigation, Evans’ salary was reduced from $2,000 to sl,800 a year. That is to say, the secretary finds the defendent guilty, but only S2OO worth. When a giraffe wants a drink, he knows what a long felt want is.