Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME VII.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTIHEL A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY • . ... Jas. W. McEwen. I BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, •■•year ..-SI s*' Kc months ..... .75 Three months 50 Jkdvertisirtg: Routes. Gne column. one year. oo Balt eelumn, ** 40 o) fe r : : M Teo yer oeot. added to foregoing price if ayvcrttßements are set to occupy more than nyte column width. fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Easiness cards not exceeding 1 inch space. .n 3 l enr ? * 3 t , or B,x ®ontbs; $ a for three _ notices and advertisements at esravushed statute price. reading notices, first publication 10 cents e * PnbHeation thereafter s cents a C Yearly advertisements may be changed * rt * r .V (once in three months).at the opn of the advertiser, free of extra charge, advertisements for persons not residents •r Jasper county, mast be paid for in adWUiee of first pnblic xtion. when less than column in sine; aud quarterly ■radvance when larger.

MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law BWSSBLAHB. .... INDIANA Hractices 'in the Courts of Jasper and ad•inlng counties. Makes collections a speAilty. Office on north side of Washington afreet. opposite Court Reuse- mi, B. a. DWIGGIN” ZIMBJ DWIWGJN • R- b. &. Z. DWIGGINS Attorneys -a-t-lue. w, ft KN SB KI. ABB • * * S " INDIANA Practice in the Qpurts es Jasper and ad counties. make collections, etc. Office west earner Newels’ Block. v_ nl amONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOMPSON Attorney-at Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, UUNSHELAEB, - . . INDIANA Practice in all'the Courts. WARION L. SPITLER. Collector and Abstracter. We pay irticular attention to paying tiix- , selling and leasing lands. V2niß FRANK vv. B ( OCR Attorney at Law And Real Estate Hroker. Bractices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtoi wd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collections a. Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYsAT—LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. upstairs, in Maieever’s new building, xiem selaer. Ind. H. W SNno, gut Xfgi Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A iIPECIALTY. •r IRA W. YEOMAN. Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC. Beal Estate and Collecting Agent. JFiU practice in all the Courts of Newton Beaton and Jasper counties. Office:—Up-stairs, over Murray’s Cit’ Trug Store, Goodland, Indiana. - a Dd. dale, • ATTORNEY-AT LAW MONTTCET.DO, - INDIANA. Bank building, up sTairn. J. H. LOUGHMDGE. F. p, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS. Physicians and Surgeons. Washington stieet, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vlnt DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special alter lion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases R. S. Dwiggins. Zimrl Dwigg<’ns, -President. Cas/iier Citizens 9 Bank. RENSSELAER. IND., Does n general Banking business: rives special attention to collection*- p.-adt. tanees made on day of • ■., w >.>n-t ; t <•< •>*; rate of exchange; ini < • ■ certificates bearing iutuicst issued- ’exchange bought and sold. . ’ J This Bank owns the -Bu-glar Safe, which took the Premium at the Chicago Exposition ui IS<B. This Safe is protected by one of Sargent s fimeLocks. The bunk vault used as good as ean be built. It will be seen from thn foregoing that this Bank furnishes as good sacuntj to depositors as can be. AJcFREPMCOT. THOMAS THOMPSON- ! Banking Mouse (W A. McCOT AT. THOMPSON, successors i V to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. Bankers. ' Benssalaer. Ind. Does general Banking business Buy and sell exchange. Collections made sn all available points. Money h-uned Interest paid on specified time <l< |.< sitOffice same place as old firm of A. M"Cr»v jj Thompson. aprK/jl

CRAOEEN & KIRK, BOOTS & SHOES, LIBERAL CORNER. RENSSELAER, INDIAN

The Democratic Sentinel.

THOMAS J. FARO. Us, Shoes, Hats, Caps,

\>>-SHOES kv WI EVERY PAIR WARRANT'D FOR SALE BY THOMAS J.FARDEN, 8 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line of 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! N WARNER & SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, ’fco'ves S-nuth Side Washington Street, RENSSELAER, - - INDIANT/., beipomTwl 7 Dealers In Groceries, I [ ard ware, Tinware, W oodenware, Farm Machinery, BRICK & TILE. Our Groceries are pure, and will be sold as low as else where. ,[n our Hardware, Tinware and Wooden ware Depart ment, tvill be found everything called for. Our 'Farm Machinery, in great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick and file, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA FINER. ■MMMaaaaMHMaiIIIMaaiaBIIIIIIHMBMHHBHMBBMaMMqMMMfr ** i n-n BBKaa oO V J&J XL ’s aHwe MODOC 1 I I STOMACH BITTERS WILL POSITIVELY CURE AND IS UNEQVALKD AS A Dyspepsia,ChiHsand Blond Fever, Kidney Disease, “tl 00 Liver Complaint, vTNRa Purifier. $ 500 REWARD FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE CASES THAT THIS MEDICINE WIU. NOT CURE OR HELP. They will stimulate the secretive organs, assist digestion, produce a healthy and laxative effect, and r ° n l°Y? of disease calculated to under-mine the natural vigor of the body. Their object is to protect ana biula up the vital strength and energy while removing causes of disease, and operating as a cure; but are no less useful as a preventive of all classes of similar ailments by Suilaing up the ■ to a good and perfect state or health, and making it proof against disease. One bottle alone fi ...I >.».Laos's £~ < COvVB^ l, BL^W<ft7 I 'lHO? u “ U “° h ‘' a - I

BENSSELAER, JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA, FBIDAY, DECEMBEB 21, 1883.

MR. MCCARTHY’S REPLY.

(Cone luded.) When we commenced our paper we announced our intention to oppose the prevailing fanaticisms of the day. Abolition, we considered one of these isms. The Republican party disavowed any sympathy with abolitionism at that time, but, notwithstanding this it seems from the complaint of the Gazette they were extremely sensitive when its actions were assailed. Aside from our paper, as was our privilege, we acted in concert with the Dem ocratic party. During the second year, and while publishing a neutral paper, we were placed in nomination by the Democrats for the office of county Clerk. Throughout the campaign, as has been admitted by our most inveterate opponents, we did not avail ourself of our position to advance our own interest or that of the Democratic party. The offense, however, of having suffered our name to go upon the Dem ocratic ticket was too great to be overlooked. We were proscribed; Republicans were induced to withdraw’their names from our list; patronage was withheld; the delinquent list, under lying pretenses, was sent out of the county, and every possible means was resorted to to break us down. Still, we continued to publish a neutral paper till the close pf the second year.

Atjthe commencement of the third year we could not ascer tain that stock beyond the amount of a few dollars remained in the hands of the Republicans We therefore, with the consent of nearly all the stockholders, commenced the third vol. as a Democratic paper.” In an attempt at justification the Gazette subsequently stated that “the. person most active in procuring the subscription for the Banner office represented to every Whig s o kholder that we were a Whig, and that he had known us as such.” Mr. Strode was the person most active in getting up the subscription, and supposing himself alluded to in the statement, called on D. M. Davis, the publisher of the Gazette, and ascertained from him that he (Strode) was the person alluded to. He. moreover. ascertained that Benjamin Hcnkle was his authority. Mr. Strode, who was himself a Whig, in a published statement, denied so having represented us, and further stated what follows:

the above understanding, I then drew up and circulated the subssription, telling all that I believed it would be a neutral paper, and to some who wished to know if they would ever get their money back by advertising, I assured them that they conld get it back by advertising, and when some time afterwards, I found that Mr. McCarthy would not redeem the stock, not so having understood the matter, Mr. Thomas Clark and myself went to all the parties, whose stock I had obligated to see redeemed, and bought their stock. After the purchase by Mr. Clark and myself, there appeared to be a general satisfaction till the paper changed from neutral to a Democrat paper, to which change I gave my consent as a stockholder, and as nearly all the stock was owned by myself and Democrats, he had a right to change it, I think, if he thought prop- ! er.” Dilligent search, on the part of our opponents, was made for the article of agreement on which the subscription was raised, but finding no trace of it, they believed it to be destroyed or lost beyond the possibility of recovery. Under this impression,Benjamin Henkle, E. T. Harding, C. H. Downing and C. H. Henkle boldlyasserted over their signatures that the article did contain a

condition of neutrality. Their statement was copied into the Banner, and animadverted upon as follows: “To B. Henkle. Esq., E. T. Harding, C. H. Downing and C. W. Henkle: Gentlemen —Inasmuch as the Gazette appeared two days after our last issue, and contained no response, we infer that you have no disposition to back up your published statement witn an oath. Had you exercised the same discretion before you signed the statement,

you might have saved yourselves the mortification of being involved in a falsehood from which it will be impossible to extricate yourselves. The object of your statement was to prove us false. — The motive and feeling which instigated you to take this step are best known to yourselves. It may be you were induced to do so to bolster up the falsehoods of a mendacious press; it may be you were led on by party zeal, or it may be you sought to limit our influence bv impeaching our veracity. Whatever may have been your motives, gentleman, you have signally failed in the attempt.--The evil must i ecoil upon your own heads. However much we may differ from you politically; however much we may be attached to our friends or the party we have espoused, we have never cherished a feeling of malevolence towards you as neighbors, and we pray Heaven that we may never be led by political animosity to do our fellow citizen a wrong, The task we are about to perform is T>y no means agreeable. Our feelings, we assure you, are free from resentment. Other considerations have induced us to adopt our preserft course. We owe a duty to ourself, and we shall dispense nothing but justice to you. You may complain that we have been insiduous in our mode of implicating you. Be it so. ’Who ever reck’d where, how or when. The Drawling fox was trapped or slain?”

That you have stated what you do not know, and testified to what you have not seen, we intend to make very apparent before we have done. Previous to making your statement on paper, one of your number at least made dilli’gent search for the paper that contained the subscription to the Banner press. Having failed to find it, the conclusion, probably, was that it had gone out of existancc. Unfortunately

for you, gentlemen, this is a mistake. The identical paper is in our possession. And what is stil] more unfortunate, it will convict you of falsehood; it will her! the lie down Benjamin Henkle’s throat more effectually than Benton forced it down Foote’s of Tennessee. In connection with this article, we shall publish your statement. We shall also publish a, certified copy Of the conditions of the subscription, so that the reader may have an oppertunity of deciding for himself who lias perpetrated a falsehood. If you should consider the evidence conclusive a retraction on your part, as public as the was made, will be regarded as a simple act of justice.

The Statement. ‘We see Mr. McCarthy denies in his last Banner*that the subscription of the Banner dress co ntained a condition of uviiir.Uty. Now, we the undersigned know this not to be true. It did express a condition of neutrality, as we were stockholders and know it to be so. B. Henkle, E. T. Harding, C. H. Downing, C. W, Henkle* Dec. 20,1857.” The S ubsctu ption . “We. the undersigned, agree

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to pay the sums annexed to our names for the purpose of purchasing a printing and materials as follows: Onethird in hand, one-third in three months, the remainder in six months. • Oct 21,1853.” •‘Signed by R. Strode <fc Co., and twenty-seven others.” The Lie Nailed. “We, the undersigned do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of the subscription which was circulated for the purpose of purchasing the “Jasper Ban ner” press and materials. Jacob Market, Samuel L. Fullen wider, C. B. Barns. Geo. W. Spitler, Thomas Clark.” I regret exceedingly the necessity of bringing this matter so prominently before the public at this remote period; and the more so, because most of the persons referred to have passed away, but I cannot remain silent under the imputation, historical! v recorded, that I have acted falselv and dishonestly with my fellow

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citizens.

ENTERTAINMENT I AN Entertainment will be given at the Opera House, Friday Evening next, December 28th. It will consist of Readings and Recitations by Mrs. Kirsch, Music by Prof. Levino’s Orchestra. and Songs by Miss Lola Moss, and the popular quartet, Messrs. Abbett, Farden, Watson and Leviuo. It will also consist of an OLD-FASHIONED EXHIBITION I

, AND- J in. which over seventy-five children will take part. The Operetta will afford an hour of nonsense and fun, in which Mother Goose and over fifty Goslings in Pantomime, Poetry and Song, will Ming back the days of your childhood. The program is arranged to entertain both young and old. No expense will be spared to make this Entertainment the climax of all the Christmas festivities. Admission to all parts of the house 35 cents. Children 25 cents. No, extra charge to get your tickets reserved at Hardman’s Jewelry Store.

General Lodgstreet was in “ashington recently.! |e seems to think that the g. o. r. p. has about “petered” out in the South. The General says; “The Republican party in Georgia? ZZell, as far as lam able to ascertain, there is no Republican party in Georgia. It is a shadow name without substance behind it. The vote of the Republicans i n th e State is not large enough for them as a body to be cal led a party, =he only time that there is any evidence of the existence of a Republican party in Georgia is when there are* offices to be given out. “hem you hear something aboiit it.’” ‘“ow about the Republican party in the South generally?” was asked. “Looking over che entire field/ replied General Longstreet, musingly, ‘I am conj strained to say that in the oth - ! er Southern Stater the Republican party is even worse off than it is in Georgig. Xhe only chance of there ev t being such a party is to < .rry Virginia. Virginia was lost the last time, but there is going f» be an unparalleled effort t carry it in the next electioi and if it is not carried thei the last pin upon which 111 publican hopes in theSouti are founded will be knockev ' awav.” I ■ G to Fen dig’s.