Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION! [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION!

Mrs. Kibsch’s Class in Elocution will commence Monday April 6th. It will be Held on each Monday and Thursday, from 4 to 5 p. m., at the Public School Building. It will close with a Prize Contest. First Prize, *3. Second Prize, s 2. Tuition for ten class lessons, $2. A reduction will be made when two or more pupils from the same : amily join the class. Private lessons $1 each. No book needed. Mahone says he is ashamed of Riddleberger. This i« an evidence that no one can get so low as to be beneath the influence of self-respect. Those republicans who are gloating over the enforcement of the civil service act seem to have forgotten that the unwritten law, entitled “Turn the Rascals Out,” will cover most of the offices. . General Hazen probably deserves to be convicted, but if he had half the ability as a liar that General Swaim exhibited when that gentleman was under investigation, he would go scot free.—Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot.

The anguish which fills the souls of the republican office holders at the prospect of being turned out is only equaled by the anguish which rends the columns of the republican papers because the democrats won’t quarrel over the offices. Secretary Lamar has addressed a letter of instructions to the Commissioner of the General Land Office concerning the disposition of the forfeited land grant of the Texas Pacific Railroad (directing that notice be given by publication for at least thirty days in each of the several districts that the lands have been restored to the public domain, and that the books of the respective offices are open for entry and location of the same at $2,50 per acre, as provided for under the homestead, pre-emption and other general laws of the United States relating to the disoosal of unoccupied public lands.

As the Republican Secretary of the Interior walked out through the back door of that Department with the “Backbone” patent of forfeited lands for his former railway employers, the Democtatic secretary walked in at the front to at once throw open to settlement the forfeited Texas Pacific land grant. See illustrated in Mr. Teller and Mr. Lamar the spirit of their respective parties: the former the friend and tool of corporations—the latter the friend of the people.— While Secretary Lamar was issuing instructions for opening the forfeited Texas Pacific grant to settlement, Mr. Van Wyck, a Republican Senator, was administering from the floor of the Senate a severe castigation to the Republican ex-Secretary for having fraudulently taken from the Government and delivered to a corporation over 70’»,00> acres of the public domain “Look on this picture and then on that,” and who will say the Democrat is not the better looking?

President Cleveland’s expression “offensively partisan” is disturbing the lexicographic brains of the organs. The Commercial Gazette says the term is one “that will include ninety-nine out of every 100 Republican office holders and make the way clear for a clean sweep.” That ninety-nine out of every 100 Republican officeholders have been “offensively partisan” is about the size of it, and to the extent of their influence the organs made them so. Indeed they blackguarded the other one because Tie was not also thus “offensively partisan.”