Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME VIII.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, Jas. W. McEwen. RATES 0? SUBSORIPTION. Six months .75 iiree months 50 Adver*ti|Bing Rates. Out; cOuimu. Wne year, SBO oo Half coltirefn, 40 oo Quarter ' “ 30 oo Eighth “ 10 oo Teuperceot. added to foregoing price if Advertisements arc set to occupy more than single column width. Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding l inch space, So ayear: $3 for six months; $9, for three All legal notices and advertisements at es‘ablished statute price. Beading notices, first publication 10 cents . line; each publication thereafter s cents a .me. Nearly advertisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the option of the advertiser, free of extra chargeAdvertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be paid for in advance of first phblic xtion. when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law Rensselaer, - , . Indiana Practices (in the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- viul B.B.DWIGGINS ZIMEI DWIGGINS R. S. & Z. DWIGGINS, Attorneyg-at-Law, RBKBSEL4EB g INDIANA Practice In the Courts of Jasper and ad ioining counties, make collections, etc. te Office west corucr Newels’ Block. v^nl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID t. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. • MARION E. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter. Wepayj irt.icuiar attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. V 2 n4B FRANK >v. li ..COCK, Attorney at Xmslvo And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, JTewtoi tnd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collections a. Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, biOhl"ingfßeiS se lue rfind. Maieever ’ 8 aew hTwTsmde^ Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, . NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate and Collecting Agent. Will practice in all the Courts of Newton Benton and Jasper counties. Office: —Up-stairs, over Murray’s Citj drug Store, Goodland, Indiana.

Dd. dale, • ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELLO, - ' > INDIANA. Bank building, up stairs. I. H. LOUGHRIDGE. P. p, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE A BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than rhree months. vlnl DR. L B. WASHBURN, Physician A Surgeon, Hen wela er Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special attei tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. R. S. Dwiggins, Zimri Dwiggins, President. Cannier Citizens’ Bank. RENSSELAER. IND., Does a Eoneral Banking business; gives special attention to collections; remittances made on day of m<vmerit at eurrent exchange; hit-•* -t |-u<! »n balNiices : csrUflcates bearing interest issued; exchange bought and sold. This Bank owns the Bu-gltfi- Safe, which P -rhu, lu « m f at i the Officigo Exposition in 1878. Thi* Bale is protected by o*e cf Sargent s Time Locks. The bunk vault used £as good as can be built. It will be seen from Thu teregolag that this Bank furnishes •s good security to depositors as can be. ALFRED If COY. THOMAS THOMPSON Banking House /YPA. McCOY A T. THOMPSON, successor.* W to A. McCoy A A. Thompson. Hankers. Rensselaer. Ind. Does general Hanking business Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money loaned Interest paid on specified time deposits Ac Office same place as old firm of A. McCoy A Thompson. _ spm.’sl

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tsois j. nun. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Gaps,

kK WEVERY PAIR WARRAKfO * BSfr FOR SALE BY THOMAS J.FARDEN, . 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line o± 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, Tinware Stoves ■ >* • South Side Washington Street, RENSSELAER, IN3XA2U

BEDFORD a WARDER, Dealers In Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, Wooden ware, Farm Machinery, BEICK & TILE. Our Groceries are pure, and will be sold as low as elsewhere. In our Hardware, Tinware and Wooden ware Department, will be found everything called for. Our Farm Machinery, in great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick and Tile, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA EtNER.

THE HEW ummsm RENSSELAER, IND. "" -o—. . . OPFNKD. New and finely furufehcd.— aim pleat-ant rooms. , Table furnished with the beat the market affUrda. (Food Sample Koome en flrat floor. Free Bna to and from Depot. PHILIP BLUE, Proprietor. Renaaelaer. May 11.1883 ts. LfiAR HOUSE, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, | Opposite Court House . Monticella, Ind 1 Has recently been new furnished through out. The rooms.are large and airy.tho loea tion central, making It the raostconve Jeu and desirable hopse in town. Try it

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY JULY 25, 1834.

John W. Medicus, Plasterer & Cistern Builder. All kinds of Plain and Ornamental woOk done ip the latest style. Leave orders at Tharp’s Drag Store. A WIDE A w AKE DRUGGIST Mr. F. B. Learning is uitvays widawake Id his business and spares ne pains to secure the best of every are tide id his line. He has seoured tho agency for the celebrated Dr. King’s New Discovery for. Consumption.— The only certain cure known for Consumption, Coughs, Co ids. Hoarseness. Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchitis, or any Affection or the Throat and Lungs. Bold on a positive guarantee. Will give yon a trial bottle free. Regular sized 00 Any make of Sewing Machine sold by C. B. Steward.

MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF JASPER COUNTY.

» Pursuant to notice, the members of the Democratic Central Committee of Jasper county, Ind,, met at the Committee rooms, in Rensselaer, on Saturday, May 31st, 1884, and the following proceedings were had, ra C. Nowels in the chair, to-wit: The basis for delegates to the Judicial and Representative Convene tiogs was agreed upon. Each township is entitled to one delegate, and one one additional for every fraction over fifty votes cast for Secretary of State Myers, at the last election, as follows: Township. Delegates. Hanging Grove, 1 Gil lam, 4 Walker, 2 Barkley, 3 Marion, 5 Jordan, 1 Newton, * 3 Keener, 1 Kankakee, I Whea: field, 1 Mllroy, 1 Union, 3 Carpenter, 4 No. of Del gates, 27 The basis for delegates to the County Convention, to be held in Renaselaei, August 9th, 1884, was fixed at one delegate for every 10 votes, and one for eaoh fraction over, cast for Secretary of State Myers at the last election, and is as follows: Township Delegates. Hanging Grove, 4 Gftlam, , 5 Walker, 8 Barkley, tl Marion. 20 Jordan, 5 Newton, 7 Keener, 2 Kankakee, 4 Wheasfield, 3 Milroy, * 3 Union, 6 Carpenter, 15 No. of Del 'gates, 91

The delegates to the Judicial and Representative Conventions will bo selected at tue same time and place as those for the County Convention, provided the conventions are not called fer an earlier date. In case the Judicial and Representative Con ventions meet tiisf. it is recommended that delegates be selected op the aturday previous John G. Culp, Joel F. Spriggs, Lewis Rich, B. H. Patton and W.L.Rrin-. gle were appointed a Committee of Ways and Means. The several townships are recommended to select delegates to the Con entiona named, on the first Saturday in August next. It was moved, and carried, that Committee and Club rooms be secured for the campaign, at the rate of $4 per month, EZRA C. NOWELS, Chairman. James W. Douthit, Sec’y.

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The Political Campaign.

The following from the Chicago News (Republican) is in response to a lvtter from a young Republican of * e sseiaer who seems to be e-dowed with more zeal than good sense;

A good friend, of I’ensselaer, Ind. writing in a spirit of sincerity and fi iendship which merits recognition, expresses his grief that the Daily News seemed disposed to “bolt” the Republican ticket. He says: “I take it that a caper which exhibits a lively interest in the result of a convention—l do not mean the interest of a spectator but that of a partisan—by that action places itsself in the position of a delegate, and agrees to abide the the result of the convention. Let ns put the view of the Naily News before, during, and since the Republican convention, as clearly as we may: Ne urge the nomination of Arthur upon the very highest grounds of public policy. Not because Arthur was a repub lican. nor the Daily News a Republican organ. We were under no possible obligation to him as a man or as an official. "'e never asked or received a favor at his hands. w e believed, as we still do. that his administration, began under circumstances of such extraordinary character, had ..been clean, honest, conservative, and in every aspect prudent and wise. When he was wellnigh overwhelmen with the duties and responsibilities of the high office which was thrust upon him by the act of Providence, when he was struggling heroicially to bring peace ana prosperity out of turmoil ana adversity, when newspapers like the Uaicago ribune were seeking to add weight to his burden by* denouncing him daily as “the acting president’—as ts he were an usurper instead of an unfortunate citizen diven unwilling to the discharge of his imperative duty—in that hour from as high a sense of justice as ever moved a newspaper, the Daily news called a halt and demanded that he be given a fair chance. As time went on and he gave fresh* evidence day by day of his capability and integrity, we confess that our admiration grew.

Finally, we sought to test the public judgement concerning him, and one morning we published four solid pages of mcomiums from the best men in the country—from Main to California—Republicans and Democrats alike. Men who, by the score, had believed his accession to the presidency boded only evil, honestly and sometimes enthusiastically approved his course. Then the Republican conventions of several states, with one accord, commended his administration. At last the merchants and manufacturers of all the leading cities, men who had no pliticaj favors to ask, without regard to their party affiliations, joined in the gen eral acclaim. Then came the national convention. Arthur’s administration had been redeemed by a policy which drove the adventurers of his party into retirement, which refused to turn over the patronage to ‘‘bosses” of questionable political moraly, which evicted and and prosecuted the star-route rascals, which honestly and vigorously enforced the civil-service laws, which made office holding a trusteeship for the people instead of a personal gain and advantage. At the convention, all the adventurers, all of the “bosses” of doubtful standing, all the star route thieves, all people to whom civil-service reform was an offense—in short, all of the disreputables for the displacement of whom Arthur had earned the good opinion of the country—assembled and made a last stand for power. The circumstances were pro-

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pitious. A candidate of the robustious class —a very master of inexplicable dumbshows and noise, }et frail as wanton in virtue—precisely the character to make the unthinking shout and the judi cious grieve— was offered to the delegates. To the inthusiasm which such a name was well fitted to evoke was ad ded—notoriously and undisguisedly—the persuasive force of money. They triumphed. They passed a resolution that Mr. Arthur was honest, wise, careful, prudent—he gave no opportunity to plunder the treasury, he enforced civilservice rules, he prosecuted thieves, he held an office to be a trust, and therefore they want no more of him. And this ticket-born where in a moment of excitement which palsied self-control, the Republican party was ravished by the banditti of political society—good men are asked to support. And what shall be the reply?

As to Mr. Blaine: The indisputable evidence of his offenses, written by his own hand, stands to-day, as it lias for eight long years, unanswei ed, unexplained. We are told that his boldness and his brilliancy countervail his moral defects. The same argument might be made, and indeed has been made, for Jack Shephard and Jessie James and both have enjoyed the admiration oPunthinking. Then what shall good mendo? Shall they turn to the opposing party? w ait and see. Never was scripture phrase more applicable than now to the Democrats: Mde is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction. Straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” If the convention next month shall nominate a man who, in his person and record, will represent the idea that a public office is a public trust, on (i platform to make this question the paramount issue of the campaign, the Democracy ought to win. If the candidate is to be one of the old copper head crowd, if the lines are to be drawn on the old issues, if there is any evidence that the Democratic party is wanting in conviction on the subject of administrative reform, or that it is disposed to cling to the policy which made it the promoter of rebellion in 1860, the obstructionists in 1864, the opponents of reconstruction in 1868, and the partner of kuklux and white leagues in 1872, the bands may cease playing at once, for in such a campaign Blaine and Logan, however objectionable, must and of right ought to be elected.

Andnow something about “bolting.” It may rightfully be accounted dishonorable that one should refuse to support a canditate for whose nomination he is in some way responsible. A party manor a party organ, expressing a judgement before a convention, with the distinct understanding that that judgement is to be waived if the decision of the convention be adverse, is certainly bound by the understanding. But the Daily News is no party organ, nor has it ever been. And assuredly no one will say that we in any way share any responsi bility for the nomination of Mr. Blaine. If to admonish the Republican party day as ter day and week after week that he was an unfit man, if to illustrate our opinions by citations of column after column of unanswered and unexplained accusations from the files of the Chicago Tribune—if these things furnish any reason why we should now advocate Mr. Blaine, then our friend of Rensselaer is right, otherwise not.