Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION! —AT THECOURT HOUSE, [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION! —AT THE—COURT HOUSE,

Corporation election next Mon. day.

SATUR DAYEVENING, MAY. 3, 1884. Tne Democratic citizens of Kens'* selaer are requested to meet at tlm, Court House, at the above i:»me4 time and place for the purpose of p’acing in nomination a Corporation ticket. JOHN C. CHILCOTE, Chairman of Committee

The Monticello Beraid gives Hon Auson Wolcott, of White couutv, quite an extensive recommendation to the Bepu oilcan Congressional Convention as a cnndidate for Congress, subject to its action- Mark L DeMotte, editor of the Valparaiso Republican, endorses the "send off” of tht lierald, and adds; “He is a ripe scholar and an accomDlished gentleman in the truest and best sense of that word, and that if elected he will represent wel 'he people of the district.” Not many years has passed since the worthies of the Heiald and Republican were accepting the declaration of Bennie Harrison, the grandson of his grandfather, that this same Wolcott was a “condemned fiat idiot.” We suppose Mr. DeMotte will not accept the nomination again through fear of the everlasting clatter of •trace chains ” — The attempted defense of the responsibility of tne Republican party for creating aud granting opportunities to Vanderbilt, and thousands of others toibecomermillionaires at '.he expense of the yeomanry of the land is so thin that we conclude the author of it was being dosed with squills, soothing syrup, etc., and perambulating the streets, a la “gentle Georgs” “weeping” over the desolations of the times. The contemptible, conceited u,'-start who rustles to the assistance of George snakes a number of statements showing conclusively that he knows nothing of the matters he tries to discuss. His reference to Dodd calls to mind the degeneracy of those days, and the Nero-like tempertnents of some of the rulers. Dodd was a “tool” of . Gov. Morton, sent over tne State to incite broils strife and enmity between neighbors, but he was a failure. He says old Commodore Vand rbilt made an immense fortune.befOie the war, and.left the bulk of it to his son, W. H. But then old Cornel’s fortune was but a moiety compared with that acquired through radical legislation .—Republican legislation gave him 6 per cent, interest in gold, at a big premium over paper, on untax d bonds. Democratic legislation reduced the Interest one half, and al so made greenbacks at rar by requiring its acceptance for eustom duties. He refers to the Asters and Stewarts, Not content with the favors bestowed on these money lords by legislation, the radical aimiristration appointed them to positions of trust, honor and ood pay. Grant tendered the Secretaryship of the Treasury to Stewart, but unde r an existing law ho was! ineligible. Oae sf the Asters was appointed to a foreign mission. One was nominated for Congress, in New York City, but politically suffocated by a Democratic! Flower. Now let the, smart young assistant insist that Gould, Tom Scott, Huniugton (who was unmercifully sit down on, by Cobb Of this State, at a recent meeting c f the Committeßou Public lands) and hundreds of other railroad monopolist who secured g ante of* immense quantities of public lands b} r corrupt means, through corrupt, bought and paid for, Republican members of Congress. Over 200,000,000 of acres. The present Democratic Congress will undoubtedly pass a bill declaring forfeited over one half of these lands-l Remember Credit Mobilier. Little Rock, Schuyler Colfax, Oakes Ames, Blaine Garfield & 00.

Tht Band boys were completely ignored in the Republican Corporation Convention Monday evening. Lewis Roberts, for clerk, and Sam. Rogers, for Mars' al, were urged, but both were sat down upon. Washington (D. C.) Post: Representative Thomas J. Wood, of Indiana, is receiving more orders than he can fill for bis recent speech in favor of the Morrison bill, some of them even from Penis} lvania. Congressman Turner, of Kentucky, recently introduced an income tax bill in the House that ought to become a law. It imposes a tax of three per cent- upon incomes of over $5,000, five par cent, over $lO, 000, and ten per cent, over SIOO,OOO. This would reach the bondholders and miil'onaires.ofj the country. The solidity of the vete received by Seib, for Clerk; Farden, for Treasurer, and Rodgers, for Marshal, si ows how well the boys got in t eir work with their friends before the time of meeting. Had it nut been for the interference of the interested factions he undoubtedly would have been the winner on lheoocasion. The V.dpaiaiso Videttesays: The issue or this year’s campain is evidently to be whecher we should have a cnange of partv in gontrol of government. No other definite assignment of an issue seems now possible. This ought to settle tne result in favor of the free soil, freespeech, free-press, frec-men, aud yet to be free-weomen a d fiee trade republicans. * With an almost unanimous Republican opposition to tariff reform .n Cugress, see where the Yidette's claim has any truth or force. The ready-print portion of many Republican papers the past week oontains an article from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, in which it is argued that the tariff levied on importations into this country is not a tux on the people, that the manufacturer pays it —not the consumer. Too thin, entirely. It is a well known fact that the manufacturer includes the duty in tbe charges for his products. It may not be a tax in one sense of the word—tax willjflnd its way into the Treasury, while the duty always finds its way into the pockets of the monopolists. The payment' of tribute to the already wealthy is a great outrage and hardship, whiles the payment of tax for the support o the government is neither.

The Republican Corporation Convention met at the Court House Monday evening last and pi .ced In iiom nation the following ticket: JnoVanatta andß. F- Furgeson for reelection as Trustees; Val Seib for clerk; T J. Far Jen for Treasurer and Jos. Clark for Marshal. The crowd waiimainly brought together by the electioneering efforts of the candidates Rogers’ Rtospeot tor Marsha) was good up to the time when the runners of thejmachiue became ion* pressed that it would not do to permit Joe. Clark to bo defeated by R. The riugsters oommeneed their manoeuverlng with a view to beat the boys, and succeeded. The ticket is as good a one as could be selected from that party. But, “bow many hearts are sore!" - Good Reading fob Boys and Girls. —We have just received the May number of The Kaleidoscope, which js one of the few ruaguzi es designed to interest the bos and girls of our land, in solid reading that will instruct them. It is a very neat publication of 32 pagi s, aud presents valuable instruction iu an exceeingly interesting Istyie. The illustrations in It are flue and it also has a song set to music. The.e are a number of puzzles given whh offers cf valuable prizes for their eolations. “Useful Work for Young Hands,” is an interesting and profitable department. It is a publication of genuine merit and we cheerfully recommend it to our yoaug friends. It is pub--1 shed by W. S. Boud & Co., York Pa., at only 50 cents a year. The publi-her send sample copies freo and want an agent in every county in the United States. Lewistown (Pa) Free Press: Mr Belford, member of Congress from Colorado and formerly of Lewistown who has the credit of knowing the “true inwardness” of the Republican household, said to a reporter the other day: Either Mr. Grant or Mr, Blaine will be the Republican nominee for President, When I say this I know what lam talking about. Grant is the man most likely to be the choice of the convention. There can hardlv be a doubt that he will be nominated ”

An official of the peosion bureau relates the fact that a soldier died white his claim was pending, his wife expired while the papers were being changed in her interest, and their two children were swept off by an epidemic before'their application had gone the rou dg. The Democracy of Delaware Coun a Mass ConventiSn at Mun cie.for the purpose of electing l Central Committee and appoints delegates tc State, Congressional* Senatorial ard Judicial Contentions’. Harmony and enthusiasm prevailed! We flip tne following from thereported proceedings: “A resolution indorsing and in structing for tbe present Democratic State officers were enthusiastically dopted; also the following: 3 Whereas, Tilden and Hendrick* were elected and by fraud were unlawfully counted out which faets are forcibly sat forth 'in the letter of Captain William R Mvers to the Society of the Prison Reform Association, and which letter we indorse as setting forth the tiuth which should be approved at all times: therefore, Resolved,J That we indorse his action aud denounce the fraud and the men engaged in perpetrating it as guilty of treason, and we do hereby instruct our delegates to the State Convention to vote for Capt in Myers re nomination. Tho resolutions were received with a sterm of applause, end Captain Myers, who was present, was loudly called, and responded in the happiest effort of hie life. He created quite a sensation, however, by charging one of tne commissioners with bung bought by an architect to •.ityard him the contract for the buildiog of tbe new Court-hcuse soon to b« erected here. 'He gave :he charge so direet and overwhelminpb *that therejseems little room to doubt the same and this is the prin eioal talk on*the streets to night bv both Republicans and Democrats, the xormer of whom are greatly ex cited and Worried over tbe matter’ lestgit saould secure the defeat o this commissioner, who is a candl date for re election, and who, it is alleged, bought bis Domination with the money he is said to have received from said architect. The Democrats are jubilant, axd soores of Republicans declare they will vote for Mvers for his timely exposition of the outrages that were being perpetrated by tnis the most venal and corrupt ring that ever infested the politics of this county.