Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME IX.

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law RENSSELAER. .... IVDIANA Practices Tin thb Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court H ouse- ylnl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOMPSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON A BROTHER, Bensselaeb, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION I«. SPITLER, Collector and AbstractorWe pay ; irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B FRANK >V. 11 ,iICOCK, Attorney at Lam And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtot utd Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collection.* a. Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ITTOBNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, . "Si,Office upstairs, in Maxeever’s new building, Rensselaer.lnd. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselae , Ind. HTOffice Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885, H. W. SN fDER, Attorney at Zjaw Remington, Induna. JOLLECTIONS A IiPEOIALTY. W. w HARTSELL, MD . HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & BURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. HTChronic Diseases a Specialty. J£| OFFICE, in Makeever'g New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884.

Dd. balk, • ATTORN K Y-AT LAW MOKXICXIXO, - INBUNA. Back building. up stairs. J.H.LOUGHBIDGE. F. P, BITTEBS LOUGH RIDGE Sc BITTERS, Physicians «md Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all Recounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician Sc Surgeon, Rensselaer. Ind. Sails promptly attended. Will give special atter tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS’ BANK. RENSSELAER, IND., K.S. Dwiooins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier. Does a general banking business-. Certificates bearing Interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at low sat ra.es and on moat favorable terms. April 1885. ALTBEP M COT. THOMAS THOMPSONBanking Hoilft* ftF A. McCOY k T. THOMPSON, successors W to A. McCoy * A. Thompson, /bankers laiMlur, lad. Book general Banking bn. siasaa Buy and sell sxchaoge. Collect!**.* ■ris sa all available point*. Money lo« ••t*rust paid on speeillsd tins deposits, 2*<* mb* pints as cld firm of A. MsCo k Campus a.

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY NOVEMBER *2O 1885.

Johnson on Grant.

Gen. Ralfe S. Saunders, of Tennessee, and a prominent citizen of that State, in a conversation with a reporter of the St. Louis Republican, makes an interesting contribution to the relations existing between President Johnson and General Grant. •‘While Grant was l resident in 1871,” he said, “I was sitting in exPresident Johnson’s library with him in Greenville, Tenn. He was telling of his experience as President and remarked, ‘l’ll show you some unwritten history.’ He reached up to the book shelves and took a very large volume, larger than the ordinary ledger of a business. There were a number of these volumes ranged alongside each other. He laid before me the one he had taken down and opened it at a place whi h was marked by a torn piece of a newspaper. It was a detailed record of what occurred at a memorable cabinet meeting. These volumes contained the nrnutes of all the cabinet meetings of Johnson’s administration. The proceedings were set forth in a clear hand. I read the record of the meeting to which he had called my attention. It contained the expression of the opinions of the cabinet members concerning Grant’s course with regard to the secretaryship of war. He had, as is well known, consented to take that position for the purpose of aiding the administration to get Stanton out. In that very meeting he was accused by the President and his cabinet ministers of treachery and double dealing. Gideon Wells employed the strongest language in denouncing Grant’s conduct, and I never read such an excoriation as the President gave Grant. In language as forcible as Johnson could employ—and he knew how to use vigorous English—he denounced Grant for his deception and treachery. He charged him with having played the spy upon the administration and the cabinet. After having read the denunciation I asked Mr. Johnson where Grant was at the time. He replied with great earnestness: ‘ him, as close to me as you are, and during the delivery of my remarks I shook my finger right in his f ce.’ (Grant), continued Gen. Saunders, ‘neither looked up nor replied, so President Johnson told me. Now it is plain to be seen that Grant was moved by vindictive spite in telling what Mr. Depe v reports he said to him.’’

Hendricks, Voorhees and McDonald.

Shelhyville Daily Democrat: The Democrat desires to notice again the cry of Gil Shanklin, of the Evansville Courier, that D. W. Voorhees, J. E. McDo. aid and Thomas A. Hendrieks shall retire from the leadership of the Democratic party, and give way to younger men. This proposition seems to be one amongst the most puerile, silly specimens of blattering that we ever saw, read or heard of.— Leadership of a commonwealth or of a great party like the Democratic party, or the Republican party for that matter, is not a matter of choice, so far as‘the wishes of the leader is concerned. Nor is it a matter of his personal necessity. In politics, as in the great material universe, the laws of correlation govern the atoms of the whole structure. As the smaller magnets are drawn to the greater, so are the dependent intellects and politicians attracted hy the brains of their party. As well might the Courier man demand that the sun retire from his abode and let the earth assum the duties or functions of that luminary. The demand that any leader be retired is as futile as to insist that stone shall float upon the surface of the water; that gold is inferior to brass; that lead can take the place of iron; that sand can supply the place of bread, or that cork instead of being floated by water shall float the fluid. It is one of the laws of specific gravitation that cork is lighter than all the fluids except aij* and ether, and when thrown into a volume of flu-

J ids it is destined to fle at at the mercy oLthe waves. As the yawl plays about the ship, keeping within a protective distance, so do the people hang to and idolize the great leaders of public sentiment. The brains and thoughts of such men as Voorhees, Hendricks and McDonald are the 1 read of life to the people of their party, and the oak of the party structure and the rock of its walls. The brains of Sumner, the political genius of Morton, the brilliant tntellect of Seward were the embodiment of one great party in themselves. Great men become great leader* simply because they are in the lead. They are in the lead because they are qualified to enlighten those who seek enlightenment, and whether in politics or out, their wisdom is sought and their advice received by the paople of their party. Joseph E. McDonald t D-day is not in politics, - et the whole Democratic population of Indiana and most every State look to him for advice and influence. How can he be reti 1 ed ? Can a “demand” cause people to lose confidence in him ? Can a mere demand of Mr. Shanklin destroy the brains of Voorhees and the love of Hendricks? Suppose that the Courier should succeed in having these great leaders of the Democracy retired, and should set himself up as the leader in their stead, what would be the result? — The consequence would be that the Democrats would still cling to their idols; they would follow,them through fire to reap the benegt of their counsel. Shanklin’s talk is a stupendous piece of nonsense, and the Democrat only ref rs to it again to show what an egregious ass Mr. Shanklin is making of himself, Hendricks, Voorhees and McDonald will retire from Indiana leadership only when the Almighty beckons them to the shining shore.

THE PUBLIC ANDS.

The Maxwell Grant. To the Editor of* the Indianapoli s News: General Sparks, Commissioner of the Land Office, has got things into a terrible mix, qpy the people who have business in that office.— Letters are pouring in h re to citizens and attorneys complaining of the glut in he business of the General Land Office, and the impossibility of get ing cases thro’ it, and cursing the Commissioner. Although General Sparks’ will claim that he found the office in bad shape and has brought about great reforms, the fact stands out that it was never in such a condition as at present It is almost impossible to procure patents to the public lands, and communications of all kinds going before the Commissioner are delayed or left unanswered altogether.—[Washington City special to Indianapolis Journal, October 29,1886. In the now famous speech of Vice President Hendricks, at the Parnell meeting at Masonic Hall, that gentleman said that the trouble in Ireland was mainly about land, and that when there was trouble in a c untry about land there was exceeding great trouble. We are having trouble in this country now about land. There is going to be more of it. The trouble has been heretofore that the Government, through its Land Office, has been giving away land without stint to land thieves, who have been abusing the generous offer Ration makes to actual settlers. NoW it seems that the thieves are meeting with obstacles in Commissioner Sparks’s Bureau, aM they have been telling their grievances to somebody who telegraphs it from Washington. A little less haste in issuing patents for government lands is what is very much needed now. Too much haste in dispatch of business in the land department has already caused great injustice. Take the case of the Maxwell grant in New Mexico. Somebody was probably entitled to a patent for 100,000 acres. By the aid of bogus surveys and perjured testimo-

ny they have swelled the claim to about 2,000,000 acres. The settlers who saw that the Anaconda grant was about to swallow up their homes, begged the Commissioner of the Land Office to delay issuing the patent until they could be heard. But, no; Mr. Elkins, who was looking after the interests of tha anaconda, said the reptile was hungry and could not wait; so the patent was issued for the 2, 000,000 acres. After begging for several years, the settlers persuaded the Government to bring a suit to get back the land obtained by fraud, and the case is now “in chancery,” and the Lord knows when it will get out. Some Dutch capitalists bought the snake after it had swallowed the land, and they now claim that they bought it on the faith of the Government patent, and are i nocent purchasers,without notice of the fraud which Mr. Elkins, as attorney, persuaded the Commissipner of the Laud Office to consummate. W e beg Commissioner Sparks'o make haste slowly. Men who are getting land as a gift from the Government can afford to wait until the proper officers have examined their cases. The mere fact that somebody was in a sweat, at Mr Elkins was, to get a patent issued should excite suspicion. A bona fide settler, who has a claim under the homestead law, is presumably on his land or improving it, and is not trying to self it. A man who has a bogus claim, based on fraud and perjury, is in haste for his patent, very naturally, for he wishes to sell his stolen goods as soon as possible. No doubt there are many honest claims delayed, but it is mainly because rascally claims have thrown so much business upon the Land Office.— Honest pension claimants are delayed for the same reason. Again, I ask honest people to be patient with Commissioner Sparks, who is trying to save the public domain for a tual settlers.

In my letter last Monday I said I would in a future communication detail some of the methods by whicn r ch corporations and individuals steal the public domain.— In Colorado, New Mexico and California there are large tracts of lands claimed under grants from Mexico, which grants the United States agreed, at the close of the war with Mexico, to respect and confirm so far as they were valid. Twenty years ago our Government decided that no private land grunt made by the Mexican Government after the year 1828 was good for more than eleven leagues( ab jut fifty thousand acres), and that one person could only have one claim allowed. In 1854 Congress passed a law which declares that until a claim is finally disoosed of the lands covered by the claim can not be surveyed and thrown open in public entry. In 1870 Gervasio Nolan, or his heirs, had two claims pending before Congress, which were known by their numbers as claims 39 and 48. No. 48 was for lands in Colorado, near Pueblo; the other, No. 39, was for lands in New Mexico. In 1870 Congress enacted a law confirming claim No. 48 on this condition: “Provided, however, That when said lan is are so conjoined, surveyed and patented, they shall be held and taken to be in full satisfaction of all further claims or demands against the United States.” —[U. 8. Statutes, 16 vol., p. 646. Now, what has happened? Some land pirates say they have purchased the other claim (No. 39) which was wiped out by the law abov* quoted. They claim something near a-half million acres, have put a wire fence around it, and hire men to keep out settlers. They are not clamoring for a patent— They know they have no valid claim to a foot of the land. Here is a case for some haste in the dispatch of business on the "art of the Land Office. The rascals who have fenced this public land sWd be indicted for a nuisaaee, and then pitched node and crop tlear off the premises. ■ W. P.lFishback. November 2 1885*

. “What is the worst thing about riches?” asked the Sunday-school superintendent. And the new boy said: “Not having any.”—fFree Press. * ‘

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*There is a pool in Utah only a foot deep, and situated at a very high altitude, that refuses to freeze even in the severest winters. There is another that mysteriously replenishes itself with half-grown trout. One stream, though clear as crystal to the eye, and tastless, stains all the vegetation it Hows over a deep brow . A warm spring’ near Salt Lake City is the strongest sulphur water in the world. A hot spring a few miles off, with waters so hot that you can hardly put your band into them, and as bright as diamodds, is one of the most remarkable combinations of chemicals ever analyzed. • Peterson’s Magazine for Decemb ris received, surpassing in beauty even what we had expected. It contains two costly steel-engrav-ings; a mammoth colored steel fashion-plate; a superb colored pattern, such as would sell at retail for fifty cents: and more than half a hundred of fashions, embroidery, etc. Only the immense circulation of “Peterson” can explain v .ow this can be afforded. The literary contents are even better than usual; Mrs. Ann 8. Stephens finishes her powerful novelet, that has awakened so much interest during the year. Professor Boutelie contributes a story so intensely exciting, that it might have b en written by the late Hugh Conway himsell. Besides these, there are numerous other firstclass tales and other articles, some of them charmingly illustrated.This number ends the volume. Great improvements for 1886 are promised, though ‘Peterson’ seems to us already as nearly perfect as a lady’s-book can be. Every woman ought to tak 4 it. It is exceedingly cheap: only Two Dollars a year.— Great deductions ar<* made, moreover, to clubs, with costly premiums for getting up clubs; among others, an extra copy to a person getting up a club of four and sending $6 50. Now is the time to get up clubs. Specimens are sent gratis, if written for in good faith. Address Charles J. Pederson, 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa -■ ■■■■ , Goods delivere l at all points in Rensselaer, from the Chicago Grocery. • J. i extensive stock of new, Cloth ing just rec iived and opened out at r'ENDlo’s.

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