Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — The Edmunds Resolutions Riddied. [ARTICLE]

The Edmunds Resolutions Riddied.

ociiciiov » ccruies, tUicti* stating the question at issue between the Presidonf and the Senate, asked wii ■ e majx . . . utions contented themselves with an attack ,n ' -Uen- . . direct .M. f L i ■ esiCj. kL>olltibOr I.l*o iii i 61*mout expect a cabinet officer to (disobey tne I'l'esivitni: xho resolutions were meant for popular effect. They contemplated no :a;are of ley’ b . . < remove c. ii or v. .11 They were merely afulmination of senatori l oete'm:, 7 r. nos result * din . than a cheap partisan denunciation. ff the Attorney-General v/s-■ ’ • -J, then he should be impeached. That was a matt •" .■ h.The majori of i!■■:; ~r : i. ’ tutd aside h'i in the legitimate business of ugh Lie on. Labor, all over the 1 nrW • J . v .... v UJd C ilv paid by reason of long-stand-ing and vicious logislati >n. Hu- ■ an suffering was wringing its hands and weeping in many parts of the country in destitution for want of employment and proper h i. (Teatcorporations were over.' h ' wing the land and al> wblry th p-wers of sta + e and nation, am 1 grirfliiig the flesh and : 1 of mn and women into : :r nir • ire huppers. American coiiimprco* no !. ngi ;• had a ship on the high sees. Greet questions of t -in ard line.-ice were pressing for attention. But from all these groat and pressing subjects we must turn aside to discuss this pie tion raised by the senator v " ' "Vermont. It was thrust into - busir. -s <rf . e count ‘y V) favor of a lot or Lopiihke a * ..freeholders. — Mr. Voorbc-cs h .rlily indorsed Mr. Ch .; '.auuL action in making r 0... ■ .ids . o far as act ion bad been R..«., and ho would ho..rlily indorse the Pr.ioideut’s action in the same direction if it went a thousand ! agues farther. The civil service lew had never commended itself to the judgment of Mr. Yoorhees. Very r- candy La h :-:.v-.h A. committee, and sir ah ' .. Y 1 n- senate, for its absolute g -1. It had proven itself to be a violent and odious obstruction to the will of the people and a stumblingblock in the; way of rational and successful administration of the government. With the exception of fourth-class postmasters there were at the present moment ten Republicans in office to one Democrat. Mr. Yoorhees had nc hesitation in declaring that such a state of things was not consistent with the true theory of popular government, or with its safe and honest administration. The people had ordained a change in the administration of the government, and such change was not properly limited to changes in a few chief offices. Bistory had shown that no political party could administer the affairs of the government thro’ the instrumentality of its enemies. At this very hour th re was not a confidential communication or transaction of any one of the departments that was not betrayed to the leaders of the Republican party. The very papers demanded by the senate were familiar to eager Republican eyes. Every paper and every drawer and every closet in the departments was daily and hourly under the espionage of Republican chief clerks, Republican private secretaries, and Republican confidential shorthand writers. Those who opened the letters of heads of departments were known as malignant opponents of the Democratic party inflamed with a desire for the overthrow of the administration. Mr. Voorhees said the President could not be blamed for moving slowly. Every act of his administration was in the right direction, and the country would understand why greater progress had not been made, and would place the respon-

sibility where it belonged. Mr. Yoorhees said that the evils predicted by the Republicans when the Democrats came iiYo powe. did not come. The “confederate brigadier”'at both ends of the Capitol continued to vote annually 5100, 000,000 for pensions to Union soldiers, and as to the colored citizens President Cleveland gave them occasionally a good office. Referring to Mr. Wilson’s characterization of the Democratic party as a “protoplasm,” Mr. Yoorhees said it was fortunate for the Democracy that the colored people had not been told before election that the Democratic party was a protoplasm. And as to wliat would have happened, if, instead of the word itself, the Senator from lowa had used its definition as given by Webster —namely, that it was “the viscid, nitregenous material in vegetable cells, by which the process of nutrition, secretion, and growth goes forward,” Mr. Voorhees’ imagination shrank from contemplation of the probable results. If it had been understood that the Democratic party was anything like a “u n-celluiar formation of a vital vegetable substance,” Mr. Voorhees h°d not the slightest doubt that that party would have been count'd out in New York. The s nator from lowa ought to have denounced the Democratic party as a hypothenuse or a rectangular parallelogram. But all the calumnies heaped on that party, Mr Yoorhees *aid, had been exploded. The party had shown that it could be trusted. The party had shown that it could be trusted. In the last election in the state of the senator from lowa,that senator was an unwilling witness to the fact that the Republican “protoplastic” majority of 40.000 was evolved into a floating diminutive atom of 5,000. “May that continue,” said Mr. Voorhees, “until the survival of the fittest is fully established.” After referring to she contest between resident Andrew Jackson and the senate, in which the President, Mr. Voorhees said, was successful, he commended to the present able and patriotic chief magistrate the principles *nd the policy of that able Democratic statesman. Then, said Mr. Yoorhees, in conclusion, would all the great powers of government be called into action for the promotion of the common good, and not for the destruction ©f each other. Then would the spirit of concord and mutual respect among the various I r nches of the government prevail, and then no more would the ghastly exhibition of the gory execution, the gleaming ax, and the headless trunk of King Charles I startle or affright the soul of the senator from Vermont.

Having closed out our entire »tock to Hemphill & Honair atr such prices as will enable them to duplicate the greatly reduced prices at which we were closing out our stock, we bespeak for them a liberal share of patronage. We will remain for a time with them, and will be glad to meet as many of our customers as were pleased with our treatment and will insure as liberal prices and as fair treatment as when the stock was in our own control. T. J. Farden. T, P. Worsted and son, of Harrison county, Ohio, are occupying the E. S. Woods’ building, next door to the post-office, with a large stock of the most excellent apples from Eastern Ohio—Jiewtown pippins and the Willow —which they are selling at low prices. They invite the people to call and inspect their fruit. On and after April 4th 1886, trains Nos. 2 and 1, passing Kensselaer at 10:48 a, m. and 4:38 p. m. respectively, will not run on

Sunday.

C. F. WREN.