Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Eaw Bensselaeb. .... Indiana Practices [in thb Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court H ouse- vlni ■IMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSOM Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Bensselakb, - . Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITEER, * Collector and. Abstractor. We pay j irticutar attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK W. ii ILCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtoi ind Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collsotions a. Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, AXTOENEYsAT-LAW and notary public, L upstairs, in Maieever’s new building, Rensselaer* Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY~ATVLA.W, Rensselae , Ind. JSlPOffice Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. H, W. SN fDER~ Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. JOLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMIEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. WChronic Diseases i Specialty. JI3J OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884. DD. DALE, ■ ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELLO, - INDIANA. Bank building. np stairs. 3. H. LOUGHBIDGE. F. P, BITTEKS LOUGHRIDGE & 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 , Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atter tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. OTIBII* BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., R. S. Dwiggins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic.,-President. Cashier. Does a general banking business-. C;rtificates bearing interest issued; Exchange boueht and sold; Moneyloaned on farms at low 3st rales and on most favorable terms. April 1885. ALFBED M COY. THOMAS THOMPSON. Hanking House OF A. McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successors to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. HankersRensselaer, Ind. Does general Hanking bu. •mess Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money lo» interest paid on specified time deposits, v Office same place as cld firm of A. McOo & Thompson. aprU.’sl

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 1885.

WHURE 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 oi*special terms and try the Cenral Indiana Normal School and Business College, Ladoga, Ind.

A. F. KNOTTS,

Don Piatt on Civil Service Reform

In an open letter addressed to President Cleveland, says the Indianapolis Sentinel, on the subject of civil-service reform, Don Piatt gives his views. Prom his disinterested standpoint, as well as from Ins presence at Washington for the past ten or twelve years, and his cordial support of Grover Cleveland in the recent election, he ssumes the right and province of an adviser. This open letter on civil-service reform has not that clear and definite delineation of the subject matter as the standard Scotch sermon on the Trinity, or, “the forces requisite for redemption.” Still he doe, advise, and ably sustain the smouldering sentiment of the great bulk of Democrats to place his own construction upon that “offensive partisan” absurdity, and let the Mahone Senate make the most of it. That party has never dared to allow th issue to come up squarely, and the Democracy has never before had the opportunity to compel them, or, as Senator Douglas puts it, “to compel them to let down their milk. ’ ’ When Jefferson be .ame President he found every office fillec with a Pederalist. He turned out none, but in filling the vacancies he selected Democrats; and thus this practice continued, under Madison and Monroe, for twenty-f mr years. By this time the whole of the civil service was in the hands of Democrats, though Jefferson in his eight years said: But few of the Federal officeholders died, and none resigned.” In John Quincy Adams’ brief period of four yea is, he managed to make the change complete, and his successor, G neral Jackson, found no Democrats in office. In the interest of right, in the interest of good government, and with the approval of the entire American people, he turned out the lazy, listless lazaroni incumbents, and put in honest and efficient Democrats. Honest they were, too, in those days. They had to be honest, for they had General Jackson to deal with. The only defaulter in Jackson’s eight years was Swartwout, the Collector of Customs for the port of New York, and so remarkable w r as this solitary instance that t e Whigs tried to change our English word defaulting to Swartwouting. (See Webster’s early Unabridged Dictionary.) This to stigmatize an administration that had no other blemish. Swartwout learned that his accounts in the Treasury Department showed him largely in arrears, and off he fled to Belgium in mortal fear of the old General. There he died.— Years rolled by, and a careful examination of the books showed thirty odd thousand dollars was due to the estate of Swartwout from the Government. True, the Jackson poli -y of having his friends and not his enemies to assist in his administration was loudly denounced. The sequel showed how hypocritical a whole party can be, composed, too, of many good people in everything but politics. As to the expressions “to the victors belong the spoils,” as if it means “to the majority belongs the right to steal,” it belongsfnot to Jackson nor to Secretary Marcy, but to Henry Clay, Jackson’s im-

placable enemy. Clay made his light against General Jackson because he was a General. He portrayed as only a Clay could the dangers to a Republic having a military chieftain at its head.— There are those yet living who can remember this argument from that greatest of forensic orators. Well, Jackson was chosen in 1828, and was again the candidate in 1832, but had shown no sign of military ambition. C’ay had to oppose him before the some hustings, and had that pride of consistency as to try to appear consistent, so he inaugurated the war cry, “Jackson, t e tyrant;” see him turning men out for opinion’s sake, crying “to the victors belong the spoils.” Then, for the first time the land was full of this cry, and every antiDemocrat coached himself to think, and taught his sons to believe, that Jackson was the author. Current political history is largely made in this way, and a book might be written of the systematic methods which originated in Boston long ago by the protectionists; when thpy had succeeded in changing the text in all our colleges on the subject of political economy. Adam Smith was suddenly tabooed and John Stuart Mill substituted. The process still continues, and our subject, Don Piatt, with thousands more gets much of his political history from this impure fountain, He can’t mention Jefferson or Jackson (“St. Andrew” in his letter aforesaid) without a sneer, nor Hamilton without an involuntary genuflection. It is passing strange that he, and so many more, are, from their own unaided force of reasoning, such stalwart Democrats in many of its elementary principles. In a score of places in his Cleveland 1 tter he says there is no difference in ples in politics except the spoils; that the Democrats are a party only out of a sort of party c liesions “ironed down”—“the organized ignorance of the land.” But returning to the Republican wing of the Senate, when compelled to take their stand for the last time on civil-service reform. For forty or fifty years they have, to a man, denounced “removal for opinion’s sake,” and all that time practiced it most sweepingly. Mr. Cleveland has already made removals enough to give them all the license they could desire to clean out every Democ at Mien their turn comes, if such ill fate ever again betides ' us. General Harrison made many speeches in his campaign in 1840, and in every '.me he said solemnly, with his arm outstretched, “Were I the President of the United States, I would that the Almighty sever my right arm from my body, should I consent to the removal of a single officeholder for his opinion’s sake.” He lived as President only thirty days, but in that brief time his cabinet had removed more than did J ackson in four years of his time! Just then the great Whig party went out into utter darkness forever—its scattered fugitives found themselves in the ranks of the freesoilers under a new party flag —the Republican. Was i this civil-service rock that wrecked the old Whig party, or was it not farther back, in a philosophical diagnose of the ease —in the hypocrisy of the mass of the membet-s of that party? There are in the human heart all the elements that go to make hell hideous, yet in most of them hypocrisy is a principal, and the worst ingredient. The hypocrite is not welcome anywhere, and the political party that can mass the greatest number is doing an acceptab e work for the sword of Gideon or Grover. If the President and his Cabinet proceed to fill all the offices as rapidly as the necessary precautions can be taken, it will at once receive the hearty indorsement of every Democrat; the full assent of all the mugwumps except those from Brookside in Utopia, and the frank approval of all the Republicans except their journalist editors, who feel in duty bound to rail.

Principal.

Don Piatt would like to see Mahone and his ilk of the Senate trying to swallow the per contra of “turn the rascals out.” Uncle Sam would smile from Maine to Mexico, and the Republican party wo’d at least be “rounded up” on this question. Let us have it settled; better now than later. Either require the President to remove as freely as did Harrison, Tavlor et al., or compel him to keep in the rascals until he can land them, one by one, in the penitentiary. Every one thinks Grover Cleveland can reform the civil-service most effectually, and that he will if permitted. The Senate, openly, (Ure not oppose, nor will it try io do it in that way.

The Supreme Court’s New Rules

New rules in regard to the submission of causes under the act of April 13,1885, were filed in the Supreme Court, Wednesday, September 23d. In brief the rules are a follows : Parties who appeal under the provisions of the act shall file the record of the cause with the Clerk of the Court, together with an assignment of ei’rors, and shall, in case the appellees are not residents of this State, cause process to be issued by the Clerk of this Court within ten days, but if the appellees are residents, the appellants shall obtain a form of notice from the Clerk for publication, wherein a time for the hearing of such case shall be fixed so as to allow publication to be for three successive weeks, and thirty days to elapse from the time of the last publication, when notice shall have been given by service of summons or by service of notice on the attorneys of record of appellee; or in case notice by publication has been given as provided herein, tie cause shall, at the expiration of thirty days from the service of such summons, or the service of notice upon the t ttorneys, or tl:e giving of notice by publication, be deemed submitted, unless for cause showu no order of submission is made. It also provides that the clerk shall make an entry showing the date of submission in all c -ses where causes are submitted under these rules, except that it shall not apply to appeals taken in term time. In case the appellee desires to secure the submission of a case where the appeal is not taken in term time he shall enter an appearance, waive notice, request an order of submission, and give ten days notice of such request to the applicant. When an appellee files written objections the clerk shall not enter a submission, but shall refer the matter to the court. Notice of orders of submission, entered under the preceding rules, shall be sent to at least one of the attorneys whose names are signed to the agreement of errors, and also to the Clerk of the Court from which the appeal came.

The "utterly utter” kind of talk baa Infected the afreet gamins, one of whom, after picking up a more*that usually fragrant cigar-stump, exclaimed to his friend: “Jack, this is quite too positively bully.” “ Tommy,” saida mother to her 7-year-old boy, “ you must not interrupt me tfhen lam talking with ladies. You aiust wait until we stop, and then von san talk.” “But you never stop "‘'retorted the boy. Pbide’s faU: “Yes,” said Clara, “ your Maltese cat is pretty enough, but he can never come up tomy bird/’ That was all she knew about it. That kitty did come up to her bird that very day, *nd it was all day with the bird. Good Results in Every Ease. D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of Obatt inooga, Tenn., writes that he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that settled on bis lungs: had tried many remedies without oeneflt. Being induoed to try Dr. King’s blew Discovery ior Consumption, did so and was entirely cured by use of a few bottles. Since which time h* has used it in his family fo'* all Coughs and Colds with bept results. This is the experience of thousands whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles free at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 5

Resolutions of Sympathy.

Rensselaer, Indiana, ) October 5, 1885. \ j To the Worshipful Master, Wardens and Brethren of Prairie Lodge No. 125 F. A A. M.: Your committee appointed to report resotutions of respect and condolence upon the death of Brother Madison Makeever respectfully submit ns follows: Whereas: It has pleased the Supreme Architect to call hence from our Lodge Brother Madison Ma keever, Therefore, Resolved—That in the death of our beloved and worthy brother we are again reminded of the frail and uncertain tenure of earthly life, and of the importance of a faithful daily compliance with the tenets of Masonry in our walk and intercourse with mankind. Resolved— That we sincerely deplore the absence of our dear brother from our midst. At all times he was a genial companion whose heart was a perennial fountain of Kind and ennobling impulses. He was a tender husband and a fond father. He was ever actuated by a keen sense of honor, justice and integrity iu his dealings with his fellow men. By his death the state suffers the loss of a good citizen, and society is deprived of an example of morality and virtue. Resolved—That we sincerely mingle our mourning with that of the bereaved widow, the orphaned children, the relatives and friends of our departed Brother, and to them tender fraternal sympathy in this hour of sore affliction. It is recommended that the Lodge room be draped and that the brethren wear the customary emblem of mourning for the period of thirty days,

H ORACE E. JAMES,

A. URCUPILE, liqrdecai F. Chilcte, Committee

A bridge over a stream in Missouri bears this legend : “Drive over as fast bs you want to, and be durned I ” Everybody, therefore, drives at a walk. A Texas young man shot himself because a young lady refused to dance with him. In his blind rage he probably mistook himself for a rival. A Captain’s Fortunate Discovery. Capt. Cobm u, sohr. Weymouth, plying between Atlantic City and N. Y., had been troubled with a cough so that he was unable to sleen, and was induced to try Dr: King’s New Discovery for Consumption. It not only gave hlul instant relief, but allayed the extreme soreness in his breast His children were similarly affected and a single dose had the same hapny effect. Dr. King’s New Discovery is now the standard reme* dv in the Coleman household and on board the schooner. Free Trial Bottles of this Standard Remedy at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 4

Appointment of Administratrix. ~\TOTICE 1* hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administratrix of the.Es’ate of Samuel Odom, late of Jasper county, Indiana. dececsecl. Said estate is sup-, posed to be solvent. CATHARINE ODOM, Administratrix. E. P. Hammond, Attorney. October 2, 1885. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administratrix of the Estate or Samuel Odom, deceased, will offer far sale at Public Auction. at the late residence of the decedent in Giilatn township Jasper county, Indiana, on SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 24,1885, the Personal Property of said Estate, consisting of Horses, Mules, Cows. Calves, Hogs. Wagon, Buggy; and Farming Implements, and of Household and Kitchen Furniture, and various other articles. Sale to begin at 10 o’clock, a. m. TERMS—Sums of Five Dollars and under cash; over FI e Dollars, a credit of one year will bo given, the purchaser giving note at 6 per cent, interest from date, with attorney fees, and waiving benefit, of valuation, with security. .CATHARINE ODOM, Oct.J2 1885: Administratrix.

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