Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — GOOD WORDS FOR OUR CON GRESSMAN. [ARTICLE]

GOOD WORDS FOR OUR CON GRESSMAN.

Gov. Tloadly was inaugurated at Oolumhu*. Ohio. Monday last. ] n the House, on Monday, Mi Wood presented a bill to admit lumber, wood pulp and salt Tree. Gen. Tom Brady’s father died Monday at Muncie, need 81, He was un •Id citizen, and much respec:ed. Tile Gland Opera House at Lafayette too.t fira in 'ho basement, Mon day evening. Damage about SSOO The 145 per cent, tariff tax on plate glass enables DoPauw to substitute his name in place of that of Bishop Asbury on the university at Green- . castle. We believe the workmen in the glass work! have not been proportionally benefitted by tue extortionate tariff duty, We doubt whether Logan can give mueu momentum to his boom at t is time by making a four days’ speech against General FiK John Porter, though he may be stupid enough to make the experim°af. T a Springfldd Republican says: “It is a disgrace to the country that such a question should sti-H be considered on strictly partisan grounds, but the public knows well :hv if Fitz John Porter had net been a Democrat he would have been long since relieved of his wrong sentence. True, even though sad. Perhaps it were better said, however, that nad he not been a Democrat there would have b en no wrong sentence of which to relieve him. One reason why the War lasted so long was that Democratic officers not only had to fight the eno mies of th# Union at the South, but to do it handici p;>ed by the constant ami frequently active enmity of the Secret .ry of War and his pets.—Bostc u P»*t. “Dirty dog” Log-in, as the grand statesman and pa riot Douglas pr » uouncad him, finds more congenial compar.ionMiip with repentant rcb-d republicans like Longstreet, guerilla M >sby, uni Fort Pillow Chalmers.

Scini.ot' Garland, of Arkansas, the Gtlivi „;iy, in the yenatc, in the discussion of tlie question of poiygamy said lie had always thought the Edmunds legisi.ttiYJ prescri»tioM for the Utah -polygamy distemper was like prescribing a corn*plaster to cure t- nsumprion. lie abstained from axpressing a like opinion of the presoldplion advocated so pairioticaily bj the beuator fiom IDinei*, (Culiom),— which may be compared to a preset cf irit. Jacob’s oii to cure a chronic case of moral uepravitp, —but lie closed out the frightfully constitutional Senator from Geo :gia (Rrowu) by remarking that tho proposition has been judicially settled that people can not shelter themselves from the consequences of crime by pleading the tenets of their religion. By th® laws of Utah, polygamy Is a crime. Why don’t tne government of Utah punish the persons who commit, that crime? This is all thore is in the Utah question. All the legislative corn-plasters that great statesmen can bring it as foundations fo r displays of constitutional eloquence can not inject anything more into it*

The Washington Eveai-ng Critio say*: “Eepresentative Thom*B J. Woed, of the Teeth Indiana District' ia one of the hardet working members iu the House. The calls oj his eoastitu nta are immenße l and he gives th«m all personal attention.— He is a friend of the soldiers too and has introduced several bills fur their relief; one to equalize the bounties; one to pension the piisonec* who suffered in Confederate Prisons, and another? o increase widows’ and mi nor children’s pensions to the ain’t reeeived at the time es the decease of the husband @r father. His bill to limit Che jurisdiction es United States Courts is attracting some, at.tent’on." It kills royalty swindle all over the country. Wood has the most diffi u 'District in Indiana to carry, b... he is fully qqtnl to the emeigency. He has several times neen called to positions of' honor and trust by the psople of his Distrio and has never failed to overcome large majorities. He served several distinc'ion In the Indiana State Senate. He is gritty to. tho bone, and claims to be able to fight his battles witheut any help, and ‘By the Eternall’ he will come into port all right, He is preparing for the introduction oi some more important bills. The Critic predicts that Wood will become one of the most active and able merabt .c <,:: the floor of the House. His name has been • .t

PiOmine.*Mjr mentioned in his State fer the Governorship. He would make a hot rac«, as he has a way of stirring up the Democrats to work for h in that few men have, and he never offends the opposite party in any word or *ct in his canvass. At present he is masing the best Congressman the old Tenth Distriet of Indiana has ever bad.”