Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Att*rney-at-Law Rbnsselabx. - - - Indiana Practices fin the Courts of Jasper and ad•inlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court H ouse- vlnl MMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rbnssblaer, - - - Indiana Praeticein all the Courts. MLARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay p irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B ———— FRANK W. BABCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor tnd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collection.® * Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYsAT-LAW and notary public, ~^7,O ffice upstairs, in Ma leaver's new building, liensselaer. Ind.

H. W. SN tDEK, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W-HARTSELL, M D , HOMfEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. Dd. dale, • ATTORNEY-AT LAW MONTICELLO, • INDIANA. Bank building, np stairs.

J. M. LOUGHBIDGE. V. P, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE Sc. 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. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atteo tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. R. S. Dwlggins, Zimri Dwfggins, President. Cashier Citizens’ Bank, RENSSELAER, IND., Does a general Banking business; gives special attention to collections; remittances made on day of payment at current rate of exchange; interestpatd on balances: certificates bearing interest issued; exchange bought and sold. This Bank owns the Bu-glar Safe, which took the premium at the Chicago Exposition in 1878. This Safe is protected by oae es 8 arsent’s Time Locks. The bunk vault used is as good as can be built. It will be seen from thn foregoing that this Hank furnishes as good saeurlty to depositors as can be. ALFRED M COY, THOMAS THOMPSONBanking House l)F A. McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successor w to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. Banker s s elaer, Ind - Does general Banking b ss Buy and sellexchaoge. CollecUo e 8 n all available points i Money loan re st paid on specified time deposits, & es am o place as old firm of A. McOo y mpson. aprU.’tl

RENSSELAER JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY MAY 22. 1885.

WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL

1. Where you can get good instruction in whatever you may wish to study. 2. Where you can get good accommodations and good society. 3. —Where the expenses are least. 4. —Where things are just as represented, or all money refunded and traveling expenses paid. Send for special terms and try the Central Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind.

A. F. KNOTTS,

Voorhees Defends the Administration.

The press for a few days past has had much to say about Senator Eustis’s disappointment and rash expressions of displeasure at not receiving such appointments as he asked for. The Senator’s remarks were exaggerated and dwelt upon to such an extent by newspaper correspondents, as to provoke a reply from Senator Voorhees in defense of ihe administration. The latter, of course, as usual, took a high, liberal and sensible view of matters as all fair minded people do.

“The distribution of patronage is not the proper subject upon which to break with an administration,” said Senator Voorhees. “Dishonesty in office or the administration of the government upon false principles of legislation can alone justify a leader of a party in rushing into opposition. It is in my opinion, highly impolitic for any one who fails to get an office to cry out that the party is lost and then fall to railing against the administration. Mr. Cleveland has not given me all I asked for by any means. For instance, I was very anxious that McDonald should be in the Cabinet, and I worked hard to secure that result, but 1 told Mr. Cleveland that if after maturely considering all that I had said upon the subject he did not see his way to act in harmony with our Indiana views and desires, it would not be fatal to us. It is Mr. Cleveland’s administration not mine. It is for him to look on every side, and perhaps his appointments are wiser than those I might suggest to him. To men who are before the country accusing the administration of moving slowly it ought to be sufficient answer that the Democratic party taxes possession of a government which has been for 25 years in the hands of the Republicans, and that the Senate is still Republican. If the administration went to work with reckless rapidity in making changes, the members would prove thereby their unfitness for their places. I refuse to discuss any such proposition as that Mr. Cleveland may prove disloyal to his party or the principles upon which they elected him. M v confidence in his integrity is absolute. A more conscientious President in his sense of duty never crossed the threshold of the white house. The|pefsdnhel of the Cabinet he has chosen i 5 also remarkably high. It is not well selected, in my judgment, from a feographical point of view perhaps. do not think the northwest was sufficiently recognized and there was no apparent necessity for taking two members from New York, but better men than Secretaries Manning and Whitney individually could not be found. The Cabinet rtands m marked contrast with some we have recently had. It is not conceivable that these men will fail to discharge their obligation to the Democratic party. I believe very firmly that the President and his advisers should administer the government through their political frjends, and I believe further that they are going to do so. If I read aright the signs of the times this wifi be a Democratic administration, but I—as a stickler of that result —say that the admini tration is pr jceeding to that end with proper circumspection, and doesn’t desire that any adherent should turn into an acrimonious critic.

A good many persons are wondering how the Democratic politicians can reconcile their campaign assertions about the surplus in the Treasury and Mr. Manning’s debt statement of last week. They often said last fall that the Republicans were hoarding hundreds of millions but last Friday the Secretary could show only a net cash balance in the Treasury of about twentyfour millions. There is no cause for wonder here on anybody’s part, for the Democratic leaders will not try to reconcile their contradictory statements about the surplus any more than they try to reconcile any other untruth they told. It will be time enough to wonder if at the end of four y*v' rs of Bourbon rule the Democrats have any balance at all to show in the Treasury.—New York Tribune.

Principal.

To which the Indianapolis Sentinel replies: “The first man during the campaign that claimed that there were hundreds of millions of surplus in the United States Treasury was Major Calkins, the Republican candidate for of Indiana. He claimed that it was good to have such an immense surplus. Mr. Hendricks accepted his figures, but contended that it showed faulty statesmans 1 ? ip and bad management to hoard up millions and hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States Treasury. He demonstrated that it was the result f high taxtation, and that if the taxes were reduced the money would be in the pockets of the people, circulating in the channels of trade and turning the wheels of comm 'rce, and not lying inactive in the Treasury vaults. His argument n-ver was answered by the epublican nlatform orators or.the party organs. Instead of meeting the poin they jeered at him and misstated his pasition, charging bim with promising the people that if Cleveland and Hendricks were elected this surplus would be divided out among the people. And so it would be if the high protective taxation of the Republican party were redu. ed. The money would remain with the people instead of being hoarded in the United States Treasury. If there is no money in in the Treasury at the end of Mr. Cleveland’s administration it will be in the pockets of the people, and honestly there, and not among Star-route contractors, rings and jobbers, as was the case during the reign of Republicanism. The Democratic idea is to reduce taxation to the utmost limit compatible with the economical administration of the Government. This will not admit of a large surplus to be hoarded in the Treasury vaults.”

“Ma and I,” she said shyly, “are more like sisters than mother and daughter.” “Yes,” he said with a lingering inflection on the afterguard of his “yes,” which rose clear to the ceiling. “Yes, indeed,” said the girl, with a rosy flush on her cheeks making her; infinitely more beautiful than ever. “Ma and I are inseperable. We have never been separated a singie day since I was a little baby.” “N-no?” he said, this with an inflection on the second of “no” that went only half way to the ceiling and back again. <{ “O dear, no,” the girl went on in her artless way, “and ma always said that when I wa» married she was going to 10, e my husband like her own son and come and keep house for us.” “Oh-h!” said William with a circumflex. Th »n he rose up slowly and firmly, and said that he had a note in bank to take up at 3 o’clock; as it was now half-past 9, he would go. And he did go. And he didn’t come back again. Not never. And ma said to the girl: “That’s where you missed it in not fully trusting your mother.— Why didn’t you tell me that man had been married before? Had I known he was a widower, I would have played the diorne for old women’ racket on him.”—San Francisco Alto.

Hoarding the Public Money.

Working in the Dark.

NOTICE. —The agents we employ are not allowed to carry samples of Fruit in glass jars. Any one leaving their orders with “Turkey” Joe Sharp or Allen Catt, will receive prompt attention. ’ J. B. Harris & Co., Proprietors of Home Nursery, located *at Champaign, 111. Remember! that trees brought from Eastern Nurseries are not as well adapted to our soil as are those shipped from Illinois. Inquire into the standing of the Nursery of J. B. Harris & Co. Bela C. Kent, Gen. Agent

Civil and Uncivil Service.

Valparaiso Messenger: New appointees to the postal service are subjected to petty persecutions that the government should put an immediate stop to. There are good men that have served the Government for years, who are ever ready to discharge a duty, and who in their relations with their fellow employes, of whatever political ideas, are gentlemanly, jdst and honorable; but among those who remain from former administrations, are many bigoted, envious, and unprincipled men who are without the shadow of an idea of their duty, either to the Government or to those with whom they stand in official relation. There are men now in the postal servic e who last fall swore that if Cleveland was elected he would never be allowed to be inaugurated; jnen who neglected duty to do the low work of the meanest kind of politics; men who spent their own unearned salaries as corruption money, looking to the future for a return of the means thus hazarded. There was nothing too low; no lie too contemptible; no trick too damnable for these fellows, in their zeal to defeat Grover Cleveland. There are men now in the postal service, who, with others, said if Cleveland was elected they would forthwith throw up their positions. Ye*, they still stick, and they seem to have adopted a new line of action.

There is a plot by division superintendents, carried out per instructions by those under them, to overwork new appointees; to give to the latter work which inexperienced men cannot perform. By these methods it is intended to force resignations, or where resignations cannot be forced to dismiss new men at the expiration of the six months’ trial on the ground of incompetency. The machinery of the postoffice department of the United States was employed as a monster power to continue in supremacy men whose motto was “Rule or Ruin ” The people were against them; the verdict was pronounced; they were invited to step down and out. — These men —these unfaithful servants —cannot rule. They pvould, like Samson, pulldown the pillars. Their ideas are that they have Godgiven rights; that the government had better perish than that those of other political creeds be permitted to take charge. Men with bigotry as their one motor power; men with no sense of decency nor common feelings of humanity—jKhat is It that requires them to be retained in the service of the government? Give every good man a chance, whatever his politics; but petty despots and low-browed tools relegate to the rear The administration owes it to the country and the world'that there be an immediate and thorough renovation of the postal service. President Cleveland has made a sincere endeavor to accord with the civil service law. Men who continue in position yet show themselves incapable of appreciating the broad-minded policy that has retained them, are a travesty upon civil service and a menace to reform. We have full faith in the wisdom and patriotism of the administration, and we await patiently the inauguration of the process that shall nd the government service of the cranks, in-

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competents, knaves, and offensive partisans, inherited by the Democracy from Republican administrations. The declaration in the above that “Men who continue in position yet show themselves incapable of appreciating the broad-minded policy that has retained them, are a TRAVESTY UPON CIVIL SERVICE AND A menace to reform,” is intensely true, and many just such characters are holding over to-day. So secure in place do they feel, that they unstintedly grant official favors and accommodations to partisan friends and pets, and hew to the line of red tape in official business transactions with friends of the administration. Can “offensive partisanism” be more fully defined? At once, let all such “offensively partisan” officials be relegated to the rear.

Something Must Drop.

The following from an exchange gives the situation in a nut-shell: Something must drop, and drop like shot, in this country in a very few years. Land has been given away to corporations equal to the area of all New England and the Middle States. The amount of property in the hands of producers has decreased from about 27 per cent, to 10 per cent, in less than a generation. The currency has contracted in twenty years from near $36 per capita to actually less than $10: many millions being rapidly taken out of circulation, and millions of greenbacks are stored away in the vaults of the treasury. . One man in the United States (Jay Gould) recently took a whim to reduce the wages of over twenty thousand men, and only by their own intelligence and efforts was bloodshed averted. Five men in this country can beggar half the farmers or destroy the prosperity of a state by a word. — More than one man owns more wealth than there is in the State of Oregon, and is not considered verv rich either.

Farmers are burning food for fuel, miners are freezing and starving five hundred miles away, neither able to obtain with coal the food they need, nor able to get living wages for mining. Women skilled in sewing earn two dollars a week in New York and trained artisans beg for bread. These are pointers showing the way we are going. When ninetyfive per cent, of the wealth of this country concentrates into the hands of five per cent, of the people, liberty will be a corpse. No country has ever been prosperous when five per tent. of the people owned ninetenths of the property. When 200 Roman nobles owned the world, Rome died. Something must break. Either the sickly liberty we have must die, or the cankerous monopolies feedin on her must be cut out. The “cankerous monopolies” will soon realize the fact that there is a God in Israel, and a Democratic party in the United States, and the country will then prosper. Monopolies must “git up and dust.”— Jay Gould recognized a warning voice last fall.

H. S. Lobdell, of the firm of Gilbert & Lobdell, Troy, Ohio, is here again with his agents, Messrs. Arnold and Siler, to canvass this and Newton counties. — Now is the time for Farmers to set out new orchards, and rejuvenate the old, and for city residents to secure choice fruits for their lots and handsome flowers, evergreens and shrubbery for their lawns and yards, when they can procure them from a reliable firm that always keeps its promise and fills its contracts.