Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — DIGN[?]Y OF THE FARMER’S CALLING [ARTICLE]

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.