Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — CALKINS. [ARTICLE]

CALKINS.

[Jap, Turpen in Kokomo Dispatch.] It flashes from Washington that Major Calkins heard the intelligence of Colonel Gray’s nomination with a broad smile, and answered, “I can beat him.” If the nomination had been given to Mr. Hendricks. Judge. Turpie, Geueral Manson orMr.Voor ' hecs, Major Calkins would have smiled all the same and said, ”1 3an beat him.” Major Calkins is one cf the most radiantly conceited individuals in the Commonwealth, and, because of his vanity, I desired the nomination of David Turpie, the cleverest and most concise speaker in Indiana. Calkins is neither learned nor talented. He has a flue presence, magical social qualities, and on occasions is more bibulous than discreet. He has been in Congress a number of years wirhout having given a thought, or even a remembered sen'ence, to the Republican press. He nas broken no seal that 'as unbroken, spoKeu no word that was unspoken, lie has simply been a typical Republican, behind whom were the Studebakers and the Olivers H» has never been chosen by a majority of the yoters of his district as contemplated by law.

Indianapolis News (Republican):— President reasons for vetoing tr«e Fit* John Porter bill are asimbe cile as those of a ward orator who tries to pump up enthusiasm in the same cause. The referenc •to Lincoln’s ludgment and the finding of a court martial of a score of years ago, when »he very cause for reversing both is not an impeachment of either, bur the discovery of evidence which they did not have, must excite Uisgnst in all minds nor warped by partisanship. There is some consolation that after the fourth of March Mr. Arthur and his hundred pairs of pants will no longer encumber the White house, and that dudish donothingism will in any event give way to jmanhood. Attorney-General Brewster’s legal objections it Is not our province to assail as such. Bis premises may be sound in law, but to m layman they seem as far fetchedjas President Arthur’s labored generalities, aDd we are free to avow the be lief that if law becomes the bulwark of iniquity, preventing a reversal of its own injustice, it is time law were amended. We believe in law and believe in abiding by it. but we believe also in the law makers and they are i the people, and we are earnestly in favor of amending laws in which the letter is used to kill the soirit. If a rank injustice perpetrated by law cannot be corrected let us have a new law that will correct it. There isn’t a swindle from a "Vincennes lottery to the most grinding monopoly of this land of monopolies, that doesn’t entrench itself in th 6 cry of “vested rights”--the very cry Attprney-Gen-eral Brewster sets up in tnis case.— Although the House has promptlv nullified the unjust conclusions or the administration, it is useless to expect the Senate to do so—because Fitz John Porter is a democrat and the senate is republican. There is the explanation of the whole business. — Partisansnip is ready to sacrifice an American citizen, whatever be ihe amount of wr ug done.

Mrs- H. B. W. Smith, and her brother, Ralph Paxton, of Cincinnati, are ‘visiting their parents, in Newton township. * ' Time and place for Congressional Convention—July 22d, at this place. Delegates: Jas, W. Douthit, Dr. J. a! Lougbridge, Esq. James Yeoman, P. E. Davis Austin. ♦ On the county Democratic ticket for County Treasurer, Ex-Auditor Ezra C. Nowels is so far the only one spoken i’. His well-known fitness and horn ?ty and popularity are urge ed on all r.<!des, and if nominated we understand will accept. Wash Scott, of Milroy, and William hoover, of Marion township are being urged by their respective friends for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff of Jasper county.— Honest and capable, either wo’uld make splendid, possibly a successful raee. Mr. Adam Hess, of Giliam township, is urged by many friend sjin|that and other localities as a very proper candidate for Sheriff on the Democratic ticket. Ad is a first-rate Democrat, a good citizen, and Very popular among his acquaintances.