Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attcrney-at-Law RKNBSMLAIX. .... INDIANA Practices fin the Courts of Jasper and ad•dnlnt counties. Makes collections » specialty. Office on north side of Washingtoa tftreet, opposite Court H ouse- vljl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM ?80N Attorney-at-Law. Notary Pubic. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Benssklaeb, . . . Indira Practice in all the Courts. MLARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay p Articular attention to paying tix- , selling and ieasiag lands. v 2 U 8 FRANK W. B ABCOCK, Attorney at Lavi And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtol ind Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collactloxia a Speclalty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYsAT-LAW AND notary public. Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new building, Rensselaer. Ind.

H. W. SN ZDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. yy W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN * SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a OFFICE, in Makaever’B New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884. DD. DALE, • ATTOKNEY-AT law MONTICELLO, - IKBIAMA. Bank buildine. up stairs. J. H. LOUGHBIDGB. F. P, BITTBBS LOUGH RID GE & 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 A Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special attes tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases.

R. S. D wiggins, Zimri Dwigginn, 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; interest paid on balances: •ertlflcates bearing interest issued; exchange boughtfcnd sold. This Bank owns.tbe _Bu~glar Safe, which took the premium at the Chicago Exposition in 187 s. This Safe is protected by one es Sargent’s Time Locks. The bunk vault used is as good as can be br.ilt. It will be seen from thn foregoing that this Bank furnishes as good saeurity to depositors as can be. ALFRED M COY, THOMAS THOMPSONBanking House OF A. McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. BankersKensselaer, Ind. Does general Banking bu, siness Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money loaned interest paid on specified time deposits. Office same plaee as old firm of A. Thompson. aprU.’sl

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY MAY 29. 1885.

WHEEL 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,

LETTER FROM ONE OF THE PILGRIMS.

Willard Hotel, Washing-) ton, D. C., May 23, 1885. j Dditor Sentinel: Having made application for an appointment under the present administration I, as well as many of my friends, thought it necessary for me to come on to Washington - and urge my claims in person. Accordingly, Sunday night, at 11:33, May 17th, I l>oarded the cannon ball train for Indianapolis in company with our fellow townsman, Mr. Archibald Purcupile, arrived at Indianapolis at 4 o’clock a. m., May 18th. After partaking of a good breakfast at the Grand Hotel, I sought to have an interview with Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, but found that he was absent from home. As the time sped by I enjoyed myself with friends until 4 p. m., when I purchased a ticket for Martinsburg, Va., —round trip ficket over the 1., B. & W. and B. & O. Rr., for $14,50, good returning until June 22d. Leaving Indianapolis late, there was nothing to attract the attention of the traveler, as almost the entire run from Indianapolis to Wheeling, Va., was made in the night.— The velocity of the train and the vert rough condition of the road made us (Hon S. H. Busey and nyself) regret that we had forgotten to take accident tickets at Indanapolis.

After breakfasting at Wheeling, ie stepped on the B. & O. train aid were soon climbing the mountins and rushing through tunnels, Thich, to me, was a grand sight.— Mny times we were seemingly hhging to the mountain, with a yiwning abyss of two or three bunded feet beneath us. Arriving in Washington, we took Idging at Willard’s, at the (very lev) rate of $5 per day. But cheap aithis rate was, it was too rich for or blood and finances, so we renter rooms at 75 cents per day, and txe our meals at a restaurant at 2i cents per meal. So we are livig very cheap. We found many Indianians here, -nil with care-worn faces and cqntenances which were suggestiv of “I want to go home to mail” We have visited many of th places of interest, such as the Any, Navy, Treasury, Persion ai Interior Departments, Navy Yxl and its adjacent buildings, th Capitol, Washington Monunnt, and many other places.— Ta Washington Monument stands mr Smithsonian Ins itute, its hght being 555 feet from the ftndation,and being 55 feet square athe base, one is almost sure to a< why the monument was built vere it now stands. But the anser is—“tradition has it that Washington selected the site him-

The sights seen are worth the (penses of the trip. Washington <ty has a population of 206,000 — £OOO of which are colored, and £OOO office holders, and as they $ from work at 4 p. m., 90 per «it. of which are Republicans, fading rlace under a Democratic fministration, and having done I in their power against the prinoles of Democracy, no wonder imocrats get impatient and growl » times. But there is no doubt fat all who are not under the civil «•, ice law must go soon; and why it some of those und r civil serje? I was informed by an em. Pyee of the Treasury Depart

ment that there were only about 10 per cent, of those working under the civil service law but what were Republicans. Will sethe President to-mor-row, and then we are about ready to shake Washington City dust from our feet, and journey homeward much sadder but wiser than when w’e cam

Blaine and Logan as Civil Service Reformers.

Indianapolis Sentinel: It is common amohg the Bourbon Republican organs to trace the origin of every appointment made by the administration, and, in many cases if any prominent Democrat has influenced it, to hold him up either for scorn or ridicule. One would imagine that the appointments made by the Republican administrations were altogether free from everything objectionable, and were the of inspirations from a high breed of statesmen. The Washington correspondent of the Courier-Journal has gone to the trouble of hunting up the record made by Blaine and Logan in the matter of appointments, and here is what he found. The record dates back to 1881. This is a list —a partial list —of the Blaine connection, showing how they were placed by the frugal Jiand of their patriarch, James G. Blaine, Secretary of State: John E. Blaine, Paymaster, brother; Robert G. Blaine, Agricultural Department, brother; Walker J. Blaine, Assistant Secretary of State, son; JohnE. Blaine, Revenue Collector, Tennessee, cousin; Rev. M. C. Blaine, Chaplain in the Armv, cousin; John J. Coppinger, U. 8. A., son-in-law; James A, Eakin, Quartermaster General’s Office, cousin; Augustus Stanwood New York Custom House, nephew; Isaac Stanwood, New York Custom House, nephew; James A. Dodge, Inspector of Customs, cousin; Wm. M. Eakin, Treasury Agent, cousin. Several assorted hangers-on of the family were scattered about. The document is not yet complete. Then comes “Black Jack”—and it will be observed that it is a cold day when Jack gets left in a thing of this sort. The Logan list run > about as follows: John A. Logan, United States Senator; C. A. Logan, Minister to Chili, cousin; W. F. T_cker, Paymaster Army, son-in-law; John M. Cunningham, Yellowstone, Park, brother-in-law; Cyrus Thomas, Smithsonian Institute, brother-in-law; Susie Cunningham, Clerk in Treasury, sister-in-law; Enoch Blanchard. Postal Railway Service, nephew; Nellie E. Jenkins, Marine Hospital, niece; James Cunningham, Chicago Custom House, brother-in-law; James M. Logan, Postmaster, Illinois, brother; Ed. Hill, United States Marshal, Illinois, nephew; Mary H. Brady, Treasury, servant; Louis Norris, messenger Interior, ervant; Daniel Shephard, Assistant Postmaster, Chicago, relative; Taylor Beach, Clerk yf Senate, relative. Besides others in precincts yet to hear from.

Principal.

General McClellan’s account of the Peninsular campaign [in the May Century,] presents the simple outlines of one of the most significant chapters in the whole history of the civil war. Unprofitable as it usually is to speculate upon what might have been, the thought is irresistable that if McClellan had been given a fa r fighting chance he might and in all probability would have taken Richmond and ended the war in 1862, and that it was because of the fear that this glory might come to a man, around whom, as he expressed it, “all the enemies of the administration centered,” that Secretary Stanton deliberately destroyed McClellan’s plan of campaign and made its success impossible. This thought is not derived from General McClellan’s own statement but is the irresistable result of a study of the facts reached long ago by the most competent military critics.—Philadelphia Times.

EZRA C. NOWELS.

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 Ar* 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

Better than Getting an Office.

Washington Special: One man who came for an office has succeeded so much better than he expected that his case is worth recording in the Suu. He came from Georgia, and rebates his nxperience thus: “Being a Democrat and not having much luck at getting ahead at home, I thought I would get an office at Washington if I could.—■ L tting no one but my wife and a friend know what I was up to, I started. After landing here I saw just as plain as day that the water was too deep for me; besides, hundreds of others a great deal smarter at the busin' ss were ahead of me. I had not much money, and so, instead of paying much attention to the office, I began to jook around for work or someth'ng to make a living w- ile I stayed. To tell you the truth I had not been much away from home, and never in so large a place before. Somehow I kinder felt I could make it * j ? n^v acllance ; and after I had looked around some and clapped my eyes over things I thought I saw chances, if only they were worked right. I have a fancy I have a natu± al gift for knowing a chance as soon as I see it. I got ■ his idea all at once when I saw so many ways and things; so many persons selling everything and so many buying. 1 had about sls, and with it I concluded to start.—

I had looked around the rrarket, where more money was spent in a day than in my town in a whole year. Why can’t I have some of it? thought I. Well, I launched out $4 for Florida oranges and 50 cents for a basket. That day I sold half the oranges and -had my money back. How I did work, though—went everywhere, into the houses and stores, and somehow people bought willingly. Maybe it was because I was so earnest about it. The third day I had all the oranges sold, with nearly $5 profjt in my pockets. Better’n office, I began to think. While I was looking around for another chance the dealer from whom I had bought offered me two other boxes, the last of a lot, for $5,60; nice oranges, too. I knew at one what I could do with them. The next morning I sold them for $4 a box, $2,50 profit without breaking bulk. I had never before made money so fast in all my life.’ I kept on for two weeks, and I couldn’t be hired to take the office I was after. I began to think how well I could fix myself right here in Washington, with my little wife and baby and the boy, who by rights ought to be going io school. You don’t want to hear it all. It’s but two months and two days since I came, and I have got SBO and everything paid up. What’s better, there are a couple of dealers in the market who say they will back me for any thing in reason I want to do. I’m thinking I’ll keep on the line I’ve been going for the present. I see so many chances that sometimes I don’t know which to take. I wonder anybody that can work wants an office here. Some of the Georgia fellows hanging around here have come to me for money, but I tell ’m to go to work, for there’s a heap more money in it than in any office I know of.”

Welcome to Mr. Hendricks.

On bis return to Indianapolis Mr. Hendricks was accorded a welcome by his fellow-citizens and

neighbors, and in response to the remarks of Judge Buskirk said: It was always a pleasure for him to return home, and to the friends with whom he had been associated for so many years, for the pleasures of his past life were revived and many of the scenes of former days were thus brought to mind and they always give hnj j iness.— “On this occasion is added a welcome from you, my friends, for which I am indeed grateful, and which I fully appreciate and accept. With ah of you I have associated as a citizen; with some as jurors, with others as judges. You have known me. My sentiments, my emotions have not been concealed from you. What I favored and what 1 opposed you knew, for I have attempted to conceal nothing. Of course, I enjoy your welcome. I left here three months ago to discharge the duties of a very responsible position. I might have returned sooner, but such was not my desire. I remained in Washington to secure office, for those of Indiana whom I knew to be worthy and who wanted th*m. I had no other purpose in remaining away from my home. It might have been more pleasant to return here, but I did not regard my duty

to the people of the State as complete when they honored me with the office of Vice President. I believed when the battle was fought and the victory won that it was ordered by the people that changes should be made, and I knew that Indiana was entitled to consideration in these changes. You have been told in certain newspapers that I was a beggar for office; that such a course was inconsistent and unworthy of the position which I hold. Is it unbecoming for the Vice President to plead for the people who elect him to office ? Is it unbecoming for a man to ask for his people that which they have earned by their votes? Don’t you recollect that I asked during the campaign, that, if defeat should come to the ticket, it should not come in Indiana A certain gentleman calledme a mendicant because I asked this of the people. And, yet, I was in a convention with that man before which he was a candidate and he got but thirteen votes. I don’t think he was a mendicant and I doubt whether he knows the meaning of the term. I appealed to the people because I thought the time had come for a change, and I wanted the people to have it. When the fight was over the result was very gratifying to me. I got more than thirteen votes. Indeed, I didn’t know how many I did get. I asked the people f r their votes, and when they asked me for help I gave it. Wouldn’t I have been an ingrate not to have done so ? If I commit any fault in this matter I am determined that it shall be in asking and not in refusing to ask for what our people want. Many men come to Washington perfect strangers. From the President

down they know no'man connected with the administration. Must no one introduce these men? Must the offices all be parceled out to men who have influence ? and must those who are equally worthy get nothing, because no one will introduce them ? lam glad I stayed in Washington six weeks after the adjournment of the Senate. I was there working for my people, and in doing so I discharged as high a duty as presiding over the deliberations of the Senate. I had no purpose save the good of tne people. I did not do this for self, for I have no idea of being connected with any future ticket. I believe in those doctrines which teach that all the people should be represented, and upon them I based my acts. I think the administration will go on and make changes as rapidly as consistent with an impartial investigation of all matters connected therewith. It is twenty-five years since Democrats stood side in the offices of the Government, and I believe a change has been demanded by the people, and the sentiment is in accordance with true patriotism.

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