Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1886 — LICKSPITTLEISM. [ARTICLE]

LICKSPITTLEISM.

“Because neither the Republican nor the Democratic partisan organs have courage to tell the facts as the .- are, it devolves upon this “conscienceless, Ishmaelite” sli to say to Alfred Thompson, Alfred McCoy, Hon. Geo. H. Brown, John Makeever, Addison Parkison, Abraharn Leopold, Oliver B. Mclutire, the Citizens Bank, Marion L. Spitler, the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway company, and every other investor, that the tax levy for county revenue is 25 per cent, more in Jasper than in White county, and nearly 75 p. j r cent, higher than in Newton county.” * * * [Hon. Horace E. James, m Message. We fail to see any display of courage in making the above statement, but we do see a tremendous display of “lickspittleisoi” in the obsequious fawning sycophant crawling at the feet of the gentlemen named, as though the humblest taxpayer w-s not equally interested in the proper management of the financial affairs of the county. We see a desire to retaliate on the Board of Commissioners for “kicking” on advertising in two Repüblican we may examine the tax levy matter, actuated by motives differing from those which seem to impel the Message man.

Prof. William D. Gunning, of Cambridge, Mass., an eminent and widely known writer and lecturer on scientific subjects, is in town, with the double purpose of examining into the geological status of this vicinity, and of giving our people the great benefit of a course of lectures upon geological and kindred matters. He gave his first lecture in the court house Monday evening, and intended to have gone on with the course, but several reasons have induced him the Normal Institute. That the professor’s lecture will be of great interest and value to every person of fair intelligence, no one who to accede to the wishes of many of our citizens, and to defer the course until next week, when so many of the teachers of the county will be present in attendance at was present at his |lecture Monday evening can doubt. He id tends to make a careful examination of the geology of Jasper county and will give his hearers at the lecture the benefits of his observations and conclusions. The announcement of the lectures, with their subjects, appears in another place.

Rev. Schuyler Spencer, of Monticello, will preach in the Presbyterian church, Rensselaer, Sunday morning and evening, August Ist. We would say to our old customers that the price of Photographs was reduced for the months of June and July only; the first of August they must go back to the same old prices, as we can not do first-class work at second-class rates. Remember, we always v.se the best material, take great pains to please our patrons, and guarantee satisfaction in every particular. Respectfully,

J. A. SHARP.

A Gospel Temperance Meeting will be held by the w. c. t. u., injthe grove near the Never-Fail school house, five mil s south of Rensselaer, on next Sunday, July 25th. An entertaining programme will be given by the ladies and their gentlemen assistants. Everybody cor.dially invited to attend and bring contract for making the whole road, ready for the cross ties. C. C. Sigler, of Rensselaer, has the sub-contract for furnishing all the bridge timber. It will take about SB,OOO or $9,000 dollars worth. The entire length of the extension is 26 miles. Of this length 18| miles are in Jasper county. It is stated that work on the road will be pushed with great vigor, and that it is expected that the line will be completed by next January.