Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME VIII.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year 51.5" Six months 75 hree months 50 A-d-vertisiiig Rates. One coiiguu, one year, SBO oo Half colnmn, ’’ to o) guarter “ “ 30 oo ighth “ 10 00 TeiT per ceot- added to foregoing price if advertisements arc set to occupy more than .Angle column width. Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding i inch space, $5 a year: S 3 for six months; $ 2 for three All legs! notices and advertisements at es‘ablished statute price. Reading notices, first publication 10 cents < line; each publication thereafter s cents a Yearly advertisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the option of the.advertiser, free of extra charge. Advertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be paid for in advance of first pnblic'tion. when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Lavr RensSBLAEB, • - . . INDIANA Practices fin the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vini B.S.DWIOOINS ZIMBI DWIGOINs R. ». & Z. DWIGGINS, Attorneys -evt-La-w, fiEKSSEIAEB - - 4 INDIANA Practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad iointng counties, make collections, etc. tc Office west corucr Newels’ Block. v„nl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - . Indiana Pructiceln all the Courts. tfARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter. We pay, irticularattentiontopayingtax.sellint, and leasiag lands. v2n<B FRANK n. 15 tOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor wd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. C©ll«cti.©zx» a, Spaclaltsr. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Maieever ’ 8 new h/wTsnSek, A.tfcoi'noy at Law Remington, Indiana, COLLECTIONS A (SPECIALTY. W W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. tgrChronic Diseases a Special OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeover House. July 11, 1884.

DD. DALE, • ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELLO, - INDIANA. Bank building, up stairs. H. LOUGHBIDGE. F. P, BITTERS LOIJGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and. Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vlni DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, lienssdaer Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atten cion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. R. S. D-triggfus, Zixnri Dwiggins, President. Cashier, Citizens’ Bank, RENSSELAER. IND., Does a general Banking business: gives special attention to collections: rmnittauces madeon dey of navmont at em-r«-i,t rate of exchange :>t - ■st p-.id .. n balances: certificates bearing interest issued.- exchange bought and sold. This Bank owns the Ttu-glar Safe, which took the premium at the ClHeago Exposition in 18<8. This Rafe ie protected by one of Sargent s TimeLoeks. The bunk vaultuse<l i« a« good as can be fei.lft. It will be seen from thn foregoing thatthis .Bank furnishes as good sacuritj to depositors as can be. ALFRED M COY. THOMAS THOMPSON . Ranking’ House OF A. McCOY &T.THOMPSON,successors to A. McCoy & A. Thompson. JBankei Rensselaer. Ind. Does general /tanking bsiness Buy and sell exchange. Collection made sn all available points. Money lom Tnter< st prod OU;; •:< ii'.edtime jj., Office safrte place Cid firm of A. McCov & Thompson. aprU/si

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ms J. HL Eoots, Shots, Hits, Caps,

V>~SHOES IFeVERY PAIR WARRAtffO & FOR SALE BY THOMAS J. FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line ot 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, Tinwarr South Side Washington Street, REBJSSEL.AER, - INDIA!?..

IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, .VOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate and Collecting Agent. Will practice in all the Courts of Newton Beaton and Jasper counties. Office: —Up-stairs, over Murray’s Citj Jrug Store, Goodland, Indiana. THE NEW RENSSELAER, IND. JU a OPENED. New and finely furnished.— Cool and pleasant rooms. Table furnished with the best the market affords. Good Sample Rooms on first floor. Free Bns to and from Depot. PHILIP BLUE, Proprietor. Rensselaer. May 11.1888 ts. LEAR HOUSE, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, Opposite Court House, Alonticells, Ind Has recently been new furnished through out. The rooms are large and airy, th o loea tion central, making it the most conveaien and desirable house intown. Try it

An Answer Wanted. Can any one bring us a case of Kidney or Liver Complaint that Electric Bitters will not speedily cure? We say lhey can not, as thousands of cases already permanently cured and who are daily recommending Electric Bitters, will pmve Bright’s disease, Diabetes, Weak Back, or any urinary complaint qtlickly cured- They purify the blooa. regulate the ooweis, and act directly on the diseased parts. Every bottle guaranteed For a bottle by FB. Meyer- I—3o Ah Entrprising, Rliable Hous . F- B. Meyer can always be relied upon, not only to carry in stock the best of everything, but to secure the Agency tor such articles us have well-known merit, and are popular with the people, thereby ■uslaining the reputation of being always dnierpt king, and ever reliable. Having seemed ibe Agency for the celebrated Dr- King’s New Ditcoyeiy for Consumption, will sell it on a ooaifive guarantee. I* nil’ surely cure anj and eti iv a<b<-tlon <,f 'throat, Lutigs, anil wjiest, t) show our confidence, wc ■ nvjie Y. ll; [ 0 call ami get u Trial Bottle F;ue I—3C

RENSSELAER. JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY SIPTEMBER 5, 1884.

INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS:

THEY ISSUE AN ADDRESS TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS. Giving Their Reasons for the Course They Pursue in the Present Campaign. As the Independent Repub? lican Committee of Indiana, we offer our reasons for the course we are taking. The day is comparatively late, but we have the advantage of the fullest knowledge of the candidate and of the things which go to make up their fitness or unfitness for the office of President. After this lapse of time, and after all that has been had, we see no reason for supporting Mr. Blaine. The Republican party is still in the grip of the Keifers, the Elkinses, the Dorseys and the Claytons, who will bring it to ruin unless their hold is loosed, and the election of Mr. Blaine gives no hope of such release, rhe closest investigation proves that after many years of public life James G. Blaine has no important service to his country to point to, and has no tangible- result to show, except a large accumulation of wealth at the end of a line of concealed speculations in property directly or indirectly connected with Congressional legislation. 'J he Mulligan letters are the Mulligan letters still. On their face tti-- y indicate shameless corruption in public office on the part of Mr. Blaine. No other interpretation has been offered. No Republican paper has made a manly attempt to meet these letters. On the other hand, we have the cowardly spectacle of the leading Republican journals of Indiana standing mute in their presence, refusing to print them and dishonestly deceiving their readers

by keeping the truth from them. We are left but the conclusion that the Mulligan letters on their face tell the truth about Mr. Blaine, and leave a stain upon his official life so deep and disgraceful that no honest man can, under any circumstances, vote for him without unwarrantably violating his duty as a citizen. here letters were wellknown when he was nominated, and that he wa* nevertheless nominated in conclusive proof that the present management of the Republican party is deaf to the call of common integrity. vV e therefore recommend all who have the interest of the party at heart to abstain from voting for Mr. Blaine.

With equal confidence we recommend all Republicans who regard good government as a thing to be desired, to vote for Grover Cleveland. We say this after the fullest examination of his official life. He is chief officer of a State whose cities, prisons, asylums, public works and all other public departments are on a great scale, and have been for years nests of jobbery , and corruption; to perform prop : erly the duties of Governor of such a State requires a sound knowledge of civil government and unlimited uprightness and firmness of character. In the exercise of this office Governor Cleveland has shown that he has qualfications of the highest order as an executive officer. His papers relate to his work, and are confined to the subject in hand; they are explicit and full, and unmistakable in meaning: they are free from deceptive discussion of extraiieaqs matters. His public acts slow him to be a genuine, efficient and thorough civil servwfeand municiua 1 reformer, and lie has been this relentlessly, at vast expense to his own party in the way ot destruction of official patronage in the State of New York. We cite the numerous reform acts which have had his earnest co-operation during passage and his signature afterward; also his appointment of the civil service commission and his other appointments to office. He believes that public office connects him with the people inta business capacity before it binds him to his party in a partisan capacity. He has repeatedly shown that no amount of party pressure can turn him from what he believes to be the right course. He has yielded to no popular clamor, but he has been just to all interests, and has been mindful to the true welfare of all conditions of people. He is such a man as this country now needs for President. Lucius B. Swift, Chairman. Geo. *. Evans, Secretary. Louis Howland, i reasurer. James G. Blythe, Chas. E. Brooks, Chas. E. Ferguson, Lucius B. Swift, Lindley Vinton, Executive Committee. Indianapolis, Aug. 27,1884. The work of the independent Republican Committee is to show to the Republicans of Indiana the unfitness of Mr. Blaine and the fitness of Mr. Cleveland for President.

1 his will be done by means of -suitable documents and public speeches. For funds the committee rely entirely upon voluntary contributions. Any one desiring to help the above object can do so by remitting any sum to the reasurer, Mr. Louis Howland, Indianapolis. ihere is no expense whatever for clerk hire or office rent; all money received will go directly to the end in view. The LaPorte Argus replies to Mr. Calkins’ explanation of the school fund swindle as follows: ‘‘The security is a mortgage on- 160 acres of swamp or

slough land on the Kankakee river. In connection with the proceedings he (Calkins) made affidavit that the land is unincumbered, but the records show it was then delinquent for taxes. The land was entered by E. Burch, January 2, 1857, and designated in the patent as swamp land. The records show that the land was transferred ten times, when it passed into Calkins hands. The land is notoriously fancy trading property, like much of the lands of the Kankakee marsh, and the considerations mentioned in the. various deeds signify nothing. Since the land stood in Calkins’ name it has changed hands five times. The lowest consideration mentioned i n the deeds is -800, and the highest is $3,000, the latter at the last time the records show it was transferred. In the face of these figures we have the sublime fact that three reputable land owners and residents of the neighborhood under oath say it is not worth more than two hundred dollars, and the overwhelming proof that they placed too high an estimate on it is found in the tact that, for eight years the land has been openly for sale for two hundred dollars, and no purchaser can be found. Any man can buy it to-day for that price, and the county authorities will be glad to make the necessary transfer free of all charges. The transfer of the land “subject to a mortgage given to the School fund by Wm. H. Calkins and wife dated October 28th, 1874 for three hundred dollars, due five years from date.” as is mentioned in all of the deeds since Calkins held the property, has no legal bearing on the case, and Mr. Calkins knows it In no case did the purchaser assume or agree in any manner of record to pay the obligation to the School fund. To claim otherwise is an absurdity on its face, tor no purchaser in his right mind would agree to pay from $l,lOO to $3,300, with accrued interest, for land that cannot now be sold for two hundred dollars. It appears still more ridiculous when we say the land has undoubtedly increased in value, if it ever had any value, since 1874. which was sooix after the great panic and the price of land was universally low. We further assert that Major Calkins has at various times recognized his liability for the debt. The reason it has not been collected from him bj law is because the land must first be sold at the appraised value of S2OO, and no purchaser can be tound for it at that price. Every voter who will examine the law and the records will find that we state the simple facts connected with the case, and all men at all familiar with such transactions will bear witness that Calkins is the only man responsible to the School fund for the payment of the note and interest. Why does he not pay it? Why does he seek to shift the responsibility to other shoulders th a n hi s own?”

In Re Blaine

The press devoted another column yesterday to criticisms of our statement touching Mr. Blaine’s libel proceedings and explained the reasons which induced Mr. Blaine to discontinue piosecution against us by indictment—the substance of which is that he was hampered in regard to evidence by that form of prosecution and that by a later libel law he wo’d be enabled in a civil suit to “obtain the prosecution of a judicial condemnation of the slander,” to use the language of the press—a “protection” which ne appears never to have invoked. Why he began the prosecution only to come to so lame a conclusion, even the press does not pretend to know. We know, or at

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least have no doubt why it was. done. It was to keep an indictment hanging over us during the ensuing campaign; but when we wrote and published “A Hasty Trip to Androscoggin.” copying tlie indictment in full, the prosecutor began to appreciate the unpleasant dilemma in which he had placed himself. The real reason why he dropped it.was because he didn’t want to try it. , Bythe way, as published in the Press, Mr. Blaine’s letter is without date. The nol pros was entered September 10,1859; the letter did not appear in the Advertiser until more than two month later. November 18. vVas it written then because the prosecuting officer on thinking it over, wanted record evidence to show why the prosecution for so grave, alleged offense had been so incontinently dropped? There are but two points in the editorial criticism that need a word from us. The editor seems to suppose that more than twenty-nve years ago necessarily meant September 12,1857 —which is almost twenty-seven years. An editor sometimes learns several things in less than the nearly two years that intervened. The second point, virtually, that we could not honestly and sincerely state that we knew nothing that would “injuriously affect a man’s standing in the personal and social relations of life” when we were convinced that the alleged mishap-—say marriage in March and birth in June following—was in-fact true. If that is the position of the Press- the view it takes—we shall beg leave to differ. It is not the condition of birth that fix a man’s social status, or political for that matter, but the character of the man; and there could hatdly be a more forcible illustration of this than truth that afforded by three eminent council in this case The Press, we are sorry to say, omits even a conjecture as to what became of that missing indictment, which should be on the files of the court

The Record.

When some blatant Republican demagogue wants to pull the Wool over your eyes by appealing to the brilliant (?) rec rd of the Republican party, have the following schedule in a handy place and show it to him: The Credit Mobilier Swin die. The Boss Shepherd Ring Frauds. The Safe Burglary Iniquity. The Whisky Frauds. The Freedmen’s Bank Swindle. The Belknap Impeachment. The Robeson Naval Frauds. The Sanborn Frauds. The Indian Bureau Frauds. The Black Friday Rascality. The Theft of the Presidency in 1876. The Indian Bribery in 1880. The Blaine Speakership Jobbery. The Star-Route Frauds.

Binghamton (Eng.) Leader.

Cyrus W. Field, is English in all his inclinations and prejudices. He has just fitted up elegantly, rooms m New York city for Blaine headquarters. This is an evidence of what Blaine’s friend r ' ; eld knows of his English f dii t::.its, and this token done of friendship is doubtless caused by the action of Blaine in refusing to see justice done O’Connor, MeSweeney and others, who with out notice were thrown into British dungeons. It will .be remembered that Blaine’s friend Field is the man that erected the monument in honor of the memory of the British spy Andre.