Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — Page 1

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THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year sl.o*' Six months ”5 hree months 50 Advertising Rates. One column, one year, SBO 00 Half column, “ 40 oi Quarter “ 30 oo Eighth “ io oO Tenpereeot. added to foregoing price if rflvcrtisements arc set to occupy more than Jangle column width. Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding 1 inch space, *0 a year; $3 for six months; 1 2 for three All legal notices and advertisements at es‘ablished statute price. Seading notices, first publication 10 cents . line; each publication thereafter s cents a ,ine. I'early 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.

AXORDECAI F. CHLLCOTE. Attoraey-at-Ii av 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- vml R.S. DWIGGINS ZIMRI DWIUGIN* R. c. & Z. DWIGGINS, Attorneys -at-Law , Rensselaer - - * - Indiana Practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad ioining counties, make collections, etc. tc Office west corucr Nowels’ Block. nl —— SIM#NP. THOMPSON, DAVID 3. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Kensselaer. - - Indiana Practice in ail the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay , irticular attention to paying tax- , seilint. and leasing lands. v2 IUB FRANK w. ii . (,'OCK. Attorney at Lam And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtoi tnd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collections a, SpeclaltsT. -TAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYSAT-LAW and notary public, upstairs, in Maieever’s new building, Rensselaer,lnd. H. W. SN fDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, M D , , HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases i Specialty. OFFICE, in Makcever’s New Block. Residence at Makeover House. July 11,1884. DD. DALE, • ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTI CELLO, - INDIANA. Bank buildiDg. up stairs. I. H.LOUGHRIDOE. F. P, BITTERS EOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest, will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlni ' DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, ■ Rensselaer Ivd. Galls promptly attended. Will give special atter tiou to t he treatment of Chronic Diseases. R. S. Dwiggins. Zimri Dwiggins, President. Cas/.ier Citizens 9 Bank* RENSSELAER. IND., Docs a general Banking business; gives special attention to collections; reeiittancos made on dtty of I'jtvnvpitt iit cf'-n-nt rate oc exchange: i:>t, „st i- id -n I u'-iitces* certificates be,•nit; ’ru-isst ls.-utd; exchange bought and sold. This Bank owns the Hu-glar Safe, which took the premium at the Chicago Exposition in 1878. This Safe is protected by oxo of Sargent s Time Locks. The bunk vault used is as good as can be built. It will be s.>.« n from thn foregoing that this Hank furnishes as good sacuriti to depositors as can be. ALFRED M COY. THOMAS THOMPB < S . Banking Bouse OF A. McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. Hank. *, Rensselaer. Ind. Does general Hanking ; siness Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Monev 10.-n a Interest paid on specified time d- tioi-its Office same place as <;ld firm of A. 1 Thompson. UIJ . * x -

The Democratic Sentinel.

mm j. farm Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,

j^^-qSHOES ktv Jtevery pair warrant'd V TOR 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, RENSSELAER, - - INDIA?!/

IRA W. YEOMAN j Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate and Collecting Agent, ,Vill practice iu all the Courts of Newton' Benton and Jasper counties. Office: —Up-stairs, over Murray’s Cit; Irug Store, Goodland, Indiana. THE NEW RENSSELAER, IND, JU 6 * „ OPENED. New and finely furnished.— Cool and pleasant rooms. Table furnished with the best the market affords. Hood Sample Rooms on first floor. Free Bus to and from Depot. PHILIP BLUE, Proprietor. Rensselaer, May 11.1883 ts. LEAR HOUSE, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, Opposite. Court House . Monticelh, Ind Has recently been new furnished throngb out. The rooms are large and airy.tho loea tion central, making it the most conve Jen and desirable honse in town. Try it

An Answer Wanted. Can any one brine us a case of Kidney or Liver Complaint that Electric Bitters will not speedily cure? We say they can not, as thousands of cases already permanently cured and who sre daily recommending Electric Bitters, will prove Bright’s disease, Diabetes, Weak Back, or any urinary complaint quickly cured- They purify the blooa, regulate the ooweJs, and act directly on the diseased partsi Every bottle guaranfeed For sale at -,oc, a bottle by FB. Meyer- i_'3o •* - An Entr prising, 111 table Ho us. F- B. Meyer can always be relied upon, not only to carry in stoca the best of everything, but to secure the Agency tor such iiiticles as have well-known merit, and are popular with the people, thereby ustaiuing the reputation of being always entei pi ising. and eyer reliable. Having secu'ied tb«' Agency for the celebrated Dr- King’s New Discoyety tor Conriimpiion, will sell it on a oosifive guar-••nb-H. 1’ will surely cure anj and, evilv i.tb-ction of 'llire&t, Lungs, and" '..best, Hi d to Show our confidence, we invite you to edl ami get a Trial Bottle Fret . .1,-30

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY OCTOBER 3. 1884.

A Remakable Escape. Mrs. Mary A. Daily, ofTiinkliannock, Pa., was afflicted for six years with As. tbma and Bronchitis, during which time the best physiciahs could give no relief. Her was despaired of, until in last October she procured a Bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery, when imrne diate relief was felt, and by continuing its use for a short time she was completely cured, gaining in flesh 50 lbs- in a few months Free Trial bottle of this certain cure of all Throat and Lung Diseases at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. Large Bottles SI.OO [4.] Blaine’s Four Jobs. A subscriber writes as follows: Rockford, 111., Sept, 16.—Mr. Editor: Is he assertion of Mr Blaine and his news papers that the Mulligan letters, old and new, furnish no evidence of wrong doing by Blaine a truthful one? If not, will you explain briefly the exact nature of the charge? And oblige, yours truly. John Tucker. Answer.—l. The assertion of Mr, Blaine and his newspapers is simply au impudent falsehood. 2. Four distinct cases of official conduct are proved by the Mulligan letters. They are: The Spencer Rifle Job.—ln which Blaine, while a stock-bolder in the Spencer Rifle company, used his posi - tion in Congress to pass an act relieving hi« orporatlou of taxes. The Little Rock Job. —In which Blaine, «s Speaker of the House of Representatives, worked through a bill extending the land grant of the road, lor which act He received SIOI,OOO of bonds frotn Warren Fisher without the pay. inent of one centThe Arkansas Bank Job,—ln which Blaine offered to use his official position to help Fisher start a bank. The Northern Pacific Job.—ln which Blaine tried to work off on Fisher a block of Northern 1 acific bonds which he received at what he called a ‘very rare price.'

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SENATOR VOORHEES.

Ail Explanation of His Vote on j the Biil Raising the Whisky Tax. Editor Indianapolis Journal: In a prominent editorial in your paper of yesterday I am called on, in a bitter accusation, to explain to the people of Indiana why, in January, 1864,1 voted against the amendment offered by Fernando Wood, of New, York to the revenue bill (H. R. No. 122), providing for an additional tax ou whisky already distilled, and on wflich the tax already required by law had been paid. As you have no reason to treat me with personal injustice, I address this communication to you with full confidence that you will cheerfully publishut. The Thirty-eighth Congress, in which this measure was considered, met on the 7th of December, 1863, the Senate being composed of thirty six Republicans and nine Democrats. In the House Schuyler Colfax was elected Speaker by a vote of 101 to 81 for all other candidates, the real majority of the Republican party being about twenty-five, as shown by repeated test votes. On the 14th of January following Thaddeus Stevens. Chairman of the ways and means, and the acknowledged leader of the House, moved to suspend the rules and take.up. for* consideration the revenue bill in question, wl ich he had introduced prior to that time. In explaining the provisions of the bill, Mr. Stevens, among other things, said: The gentleman will see that alt whisky that has paid a tax is exempt from this increased taxation. We did not think we had a right to go back and tax that which had been once taxed by the' government, whether it is in a warehouse or not. But wherever the distiller has failed to comply with the law, no. doubt from fraudulent purposes; where.he has not made his monthly returns, and paid his tax, we impose this duty on him, and we impose none on the distiller who has made his return or paid his tax. On this principle the bill came from the Republican Committee of the House. On the 23d of January the amendment offered by Mr. VV ood to tax whisky on hand and which had paid one tax, was adopted by the House with my vote against it, In company with Thaddeus. Stevens, James G. Blaine, Henry Winter Davis, William A. Wheeler, George S. Boutwell, and others of lesser note on the Republican side and with William S. Holman, Samuel J. Randall, George H. Pendleton, and other distinguished gentlemen on my own side of the chamber. Do you think all these eminent men wanted the rebellion to succeed? Do you assume that it would have been gall and wormwood to their souls as w r ell as mine to have seen the revenue increased?

When this bill, thus amended, reached the Senate it was, under the rules, referred to the Finance Committee of that body, of which William Pitt Fessenden was Chairman. You will hardly doubt his patriotism or his ability, even for the pleasure of striking a political opponent. ' He reported the bill back to the Senate with the Wood amendment stricken out, and, in the course of debate, he said: To tax an article of this kind on hand —and more especially in the hands of an owner—whether an imported article or whether an article subject to domestic duties, which has already paid a tax or which, perhaps, nas not, is a thing entirely new *in the revenue system of any country. I am told, and on authority (I have not personally

examined it myself, because I was told there was no doubt about the fact) that it has never been done in England in any case: and if we introduce it here, it will be the first time*, in the. history of any system of this kind that you take an article ot propertv which* has already gone through the hands of government, and paid this tax to government, and again assesses a tax upon it in the hands or the owner. lam told it has never been done at all heretofore in any country, and consequently we should be introducing an entirely new system, and one which might be attended with considerate embarrassment

On a vote in the Senate Mr. Fessenden and the Committee on Finance were sustained and the principle of repeated taxation of the same article was condemned by a majority of more than two to one, the two Senators from Indiana, Henry S. Lane and Thomas A. Hendricks, voting together against it. When the bill was returned to the House, with the " ood amendment stricken out. Mr. Stevens called it up February 15 and said:

It will be recollected that the Committee on Ways and Means recommended that after the 12th of January, the time the bill was reported, all whisky distilled ana sold, or removed for sale, should pay forty cents per gallon, in addition. to the present tax of twenty cents. The House, on motion of the gentleman from New York (Mr. Fernando Wood), changed that so as to put the tax upon all stock on hand, without reference to the time when the same was distilled or whether it had been taxed or not. The House adopted that amendment, and in. that shape the bill was sent to the Senate. * * t * The Senate acted upon the bill, aud they, in short, amended the bill so that it should be entirely prospective etc. * •* * The q Ueß ti on now j g whether the House will accept the amendment of the Senate or will adhere to their own bill. The Committee on ays and Mean? are clearly of the opinion that the Honse ought to accept the Senate bill 2 first, because it is more consistent with the principles of taxation adopted by this and every other government in laying a tax upon future products, and because it is consistent with Congress made to the community at the time they passed the tax law.

Upon such reasoning as this the House concurred with the Senate in striking out the amendment offered by Mr. Wood, and which was at first adopted. I simply agreed with Mr. Stevens, Mr. Fessenden, and other able leaders in both branches of ‘ ongress in opposing a principle of continuous taxation, which' involves the right of confiscation; and if for this you think best to assail me before the people of Indiana. I am content for you to do so. J his is my explanation which you demanded; and if it is different from what you expected it is because my record is better than you thought it was I have the honor to be very respectfully yours,

D. W. VOORHEES.

Terre Haute, Sept. 17,1884.

Some of Mr. Blaine’s Mistakes.

Mr. Blaine made a mistake when hr .:/ e his sanction to Kdowuo'uiihgism thirty years ago. He did not forsee then that the time would come when he would be asking for Irish-American votes to help elect him to the Presidency. He made a mistake w l ' i lie dictated, or inspired, ai any rate distributed, the Madigan circular, nine years ago, and forgot to cover his tracks. He forgot that chickens of that breed come home to roost.

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He made a mistake eight years ago when he read a garbled series of the Mulligan letters to the House of Representatives. He forgot that there were others of those letters which he had not succeeded in obtaining from their custodian under false pretenses. He made a greater mistake when he allowed his injudicious mouthpiece to attack stainless character of James Mulligan and provoke that gentleman to publish the rest of those letters. He made a mistake when he attacked the State of Massachusetts in the Senate of the United States, and rejoiced because the ‘old women’ represent that Commonwealth in the Senate were unable to reply to him. He made a mistake when lie turned a contemptuous ear to the appeals of Irish Arnerl can citizens, unjustly impriH oned in British dungeons, for a fair trial and the protection to which their citizenship entitled them. % He made a mistake when he used the great influence of his position as Secretary of State to support a thousand million dollar swindle against the helpless government of Peru. He made a mistake when he instructed the Half-Breeds in New York to slaughter Secretary Folger at the polls and' aid in the election as Governor of the man who is to-day liis formidable competitor for the Presidency. To come down to the present year, lie made a mistake when he inspired a cowwraJy attack of Governor Cleveland’s private character which now, however, shamefully recoils on himself.

He made a mistake when he contemptuously ignored a polite invitation from the Irish National League' to be present -it the Boston Convention, while pretending to pewae as the great friend of Irish-. Americans at home and abroad. Some of those mistakes are only the blunders of a shallow politician, but most of them are mistakes which are otherwise know as crime*. From his own standpoint of morals he lias made no mistakes, because he has made money, If the acquisition of money were the test of worth, Mr Blaine is more deserving of the admiration of his fellowcitizens than Governor Cleveland, who has remained poor throughout his public life. The people do not want to invest with the great power of the Presidency a man who has proved himself a blunderer m every place where he has not proved himself a knave. A greater mistake than any made by Blaine would be that made by the country should it choose such a man for its ruler. Happily there is no danger for for such a misfortune.

The Monopolist Candidate.

Jay Gould is for Blaine. As a ‘business man’ he cannot endure the idea of an administrative change. Brother Cyrus Field takes the same view. All the Monopolis will prosper under Mr. Blaine, pipviued the American people are fool-, ish enough to place him in channels where he can make himself useful. It should not be forgotten \hr M - Blaine is Jay Goulds cai:die. ate.—New York World. » Four distinguished Repu cans announced theii* all ance on the same day week, two to the cause Cleveland, the others to t of Blaine. They w n **e: For Cleveland: ' r Blaine: Bishop Hunting: .1 s W.Dorsev, Bi*i:j H Bris nw | Jay Gould, ourier Journal.