Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME X.

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Alfred McCoy, T. J, McCoy B. L. Hollingsworth. A. BPCOY & Cl., BANKERS, (Successors to A. McCoy * T. Thompson,) Rensselaer. Ind. DO a fie; eral hanking business. Exchange bought and sold Certificates bearing interest issue* Collections made on all available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy A Thompson April 2,188(1 MORDECAI F. CHKLCOTE. Attorney at-I.aw Rensselaer, .... Indiana Practices (in the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington s treet, opposite Court H ouse- vlnl ——— jSIMON P. THOMPBON, DAVID 3. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practicein all the Courts. MARION Id. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor' We pay r vrticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 nlB FRANK W. B IBCOCK, Attorney at Lam And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor ind Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collections a, Specialty - •TAMESW. DOTJTHIT, and notary public. Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new milding. Kens seiner, Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND,

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. W WATSON, ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, RENSSELAER, IND. W. HARTS ELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC IPHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. WChronic Diseases a Specialty.«JßJ OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. Jnty 11, 1884. 3 B. IiOUGHBIDGE. F. p, BXTTBfiS liOUGHREDOE A 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 Ss Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind, Calls promptly attended. Will give special attea tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS* BANK, RBNSSELAEB, Dm., R. 8. Dwieoms, f. J. Siam, Tax. Sin, PrqeUeat. Vle*-rrssi4sat. Cashier, non) A GENERAL BANKING BUSIN 188: Al Certificates bearing Interest issued: Xx3»age beurti sndeeld; Xwjleansd en’thnhs at fates aad on most favorable terms.

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY AUGUST 6 1886.

Niagara Falls and Returnonly $7,50. August 9,1886.

Chatauqua Lake via Niagara Falls, $8 50. Bell’s annual Niagara Falls and Ohautaqua Lake Excursion will leave Valparaiso, Monday, Aug. 9, at 10 a. m., via the “Nickel Plate,” (N. Y. C. & St. L. By.) Good connections on all north, and south roads. Special train, special low rates from Valparaiso and all points east to Cleveland. Mr. W. J. Bell, of Valparaiso, Ind., will run his fourth annual excursion to Niagara Falls, leaving Valparaiso at 10 a. m., Aug. 9th.— Parties desiring to visit Cleveland and points east should accept of this great opportunity. Mr. Bell prides himself in furnishing for his patrons the very best accommodations at a very low rate. Parties desiring tickets to eastern points should correspond with him. Where shall I spend my vacation? Go on Bell’s Niagara Falls excursion and be happy. Valparaiso to Niagara Falls and return only $7 50. Those desiring to visit Chautauqua Lake $1 extra. The entire expense to the Falls including fare, need not exceed from sl2 to twenty dollars, i ullmanl Sleepers provided, in which berths may be secured at reasonable prices. A Dining car in which will be served excellent lunches and choice fruits. Free admission to the parks and Goat Island. On the return trip Lakeview Cemetery and Euclid Ave., Cleveland will be visited. The excursion will be personally conducted by W. J. Bell and every privilege of last year will be granted. For tickets, berths and further information address

W. J. BELL,

FIRST GUN OF THE CAMPAIGN.

Judge Jordan’s Address at Lebanon—Railroad Robbers, Cattle Thieves and Land Sharks, the Offspring of Republican Rule. The following address was delivered at Lebanon Saturday evening by Judge Lewis Jordan, of Indianapolis: The Republican speakers and press don’t like our Democratic Administration ;the Navy contractors despise it; the steamship companies that want large subsidies are against it; the Pacific Railroads oppose it; the land thieves and grabbers are up in arms end have enlisted a powerful press in their warfare upon it; the cattle-kings and timber- are equally pronounced in tlieir opposition; and now comes the disciples of Mormonism and join the full chorus of condemnation. They all chant the sad refrain that the Grand Old Republican party ought not to have been retired, and this sad refrain will soon be taken up by the Republican press and speakers in Indiana, and our State will be filled with their lamentations. An Administration that has respect for law and common honesty finds no favor with the corrupt rings that have so long administered the Government. It can not be denied that under Republican rule the officers of the Government were nothing* more than the willing tools of all these rings and executed |their commands. I have not time, and the weather is too warm, to pay my respects to all these corrupt combinations, for a discussion of their record would make the average citizen hot under the collar in a frigid day in January. It is only necessary to say again that they are all howling with rage because their nefarious business is being exposed and broken up. I only propose to deal with the Pacific Railroad Companies, the land companies, the cattle kings and timber thieves, and show how they have all made common plunder of the public domain.

Valparaiso, Ind.

LET US “OPEN THE BOOKS”

and see how completely they have controlled the Republican party, and why they or their friends all either bellow louder than the bulls that have been driven off of stolen pastures or bleat more piteously than the weaned calves of the cattle kings. The loss :f the cream in both cases is the cause of the lamentations. Let us open to the page of our history which gives an account of the administration of this great Government by the land sharks. It is the blackest page in the book, and none blacker can be found in the history of the world, for it recounts how thousands of happy homes of American freemen have been despoiled without the shadow of right. The conquest of our vast public domain by the land grabbers has no parallel in history, and it was all accomplished under the rule of a party which in its infancy said in its Chicago platform that lands should not be granted to corporations, but reserved for actual settlers. No wayward boy ever so soon departed from the good resolves of youth. Before the Republican party had reached manhood, in fourteen years, it had given away to corporations 192,081,155 acres oi your land. Future generations will be amazed when they read of these princely gifts, and will oomnare them with no favorable opinion to the gifts made by conquering kings to their generals and favorite followers. The people of this country, be they Republicans, Democrats, Greenbackers or Mugwumps, have not yet had their eyes fully opened as to how lavishly the Republican party has made gifts of the public domain to favorite friends. This 192,981,155 would make nine States the size of Indiana. It is twice the amount of land in Great Britain and more than in France or Germany. It would make 4,800,000 homesteads of forty acres each. Prior to 1861 not a foot of public land had been given to corporations, and it was only when the Democratic party in 1874 elected a majority of the Lower House of Congress that a halt was called in these princely gifts. And, by the way, that was the same House that stopped the destruction of greenbacks and the contraction of currency. So scandalous did these gifts become that even a Republican newspaper in the West, in a lucid moment of honesty, denounced Congress for making a gift enterprise of the public domain, and complimented a distinguished Democratic member of Congress from Indiana for “never having failed to oppose vigorously every one of these measures of public plunder.” The rßilroads have been selling these lands at an average price of $4.30 per acre, and you can make the calculation yourself and determine the enormous pile they will receive if allowed to keep them all. But since the books have been opened it has been discovered that the railroad companies were not satisfied with the strict terms of the act of Congress and the amount allowed in them, but hav6 had decisions made in the General Land Office that gav > them millions of acres not contemplated by the acts. Everyjdemand made upon that office was promptly honored, and because they cannot control the present Commissioner —Mr. Sparks—the whole brood have been hounding him down, and their allies, the Republican press, have joined in the cry. Look at this map (exhibiting a large map of the West ) and you see the dark belts running across the continent. The grant to the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, forty miles wide from the Missouri River to the Bay of San Francisco, and that to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe is also forty miles wide. The Atlantic and Pacific is eighty miles wide, indthat to the Northern Pacific is 190 miles wide i i the Territories. But these swartbs were not wide enough for the grasp-

ing sharks, so they go the General Lani Office and are allowed to select what they call indemnity lands outside of these limits. Iu many cases these lands had been entered, patented and settled, and at the command of the sharks the owners were driven off and made beggars. If, during the coming canvass* you hear some wheezy Republican speaker ask, “when are you going to open the books?” tell him the books have been opened, and disclosed the inhuman and brutal treatment of the Western pioneer by the sharks who issued their orders through the General Land Office while it was administered by Republican officials. We need not go to Ireland to witness the despotic and cruel rule of landlordism Right here in our own land have been practiced outrages on the Western pioneer that have no parallel in the Green Isle. They have been robbed of their homes by a great Government, which had received pay for it, and all this done in the interest of the great railroad corporations.— Thanks to a Democratic administion, this has all been stopped. But the railroad camp&nies today are holding on to 96, 000,000 acres more than they are entitled to, being a territory large enough to make t ree states the size of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. They have not earned these lands but are holding on to them with a death like grip. The struggle is now going on in Congress and the eyes of the Western People are turned to Washington. Tne big fight is over the Northern Pacific grant. The Democratic House says this bloated corporation has 30, 000,0 c o acres more than they have any right to, while the Senate, looking through Republican glasses, says the am’t is only 6,000,000 acres. It is some consolation to have the Senate acknowledge even this las* number. “Justice travels with a leaden heel but strikes with an iron hand,” and I hope the day is not far distant when all these lands will be reclaimed and opened to private entry.

THE LAND MONOPOLY COMPANIES.

But the railroads are not alone in their raids upon the public lands. They have formidable rivals in the land monopoly companies which are organized all over the territories. These companies have carried on their stealing of the public lands with perfect system. Their mode of operation has been to employ wild, irresponsible scoundrels to mount their horses and gallop over the prairies, and then return and file claims for all the land they have passed over. These claims are then tiansferred to the land companies, which are composed largely of foreigners. By such damnable and outrageous frauds Scotch and English landlords have obtained estates in our country which surpass in extent and fertility those held by them at home. An English syndicate holds 3,000,000 acres in Texas, and the Holland Land Company 4,500,000 acres in New Mexico. Among the English lords I find the Marquis of Tweedale owns 1,750,000 acres, the Duke of Sutherland 425,000 acres, Lord Houghton 60,000 acres, and Lord Dunraven, in Colorado, 60,000 acres. Special agents have found that an English firm has obtained 100, 000 acres of the choicest red-wood lands in California. The books have not been fully opened and read, bat so far as it has been found that foreigners own 20,747f--000 acres of public domains, The foundations have been laid for carving outfseveral Irelands in our own country. These startling figures confirm the plea that it was time “to open the books," discharge the book-keeper and place an honest man in charge of the General Land Office. Should your local Republican newspaper ask, ,f Wh«n are yon going to open the booka?" give him some of the feet* I hare furnished yon, and, my word for it, his organ will cease to grind oat the question. It is the examine*

tion us these fraudulent entries that has raised such a howl all along the Republican line. In one year, ending March 31,1886, 2,223 of these entries weie cancelled or held up for further hearing, and more than 300,000 acres reclaimed for buna fide settlers. This does not include the large number of entries which have been canceled for fraud which has been developed by individual contests, aud the books are being opened every day. The great reform goes on, and Mr. Sparks is making the sparks fly wherever his hands reach.

THE CATTLE KINGS.

The cattle kings have had a regular picnic, and have taken possession of the remainder of the public lands not gobbled up by the* railroad corporations, the land companies and the English lords. Criminal and civil suits in fifty-six cases were brought the first year of the Admidistration against these robbers, and possession of 1,632,395 acres recovered. In forty other cases fences were removed fiom around 566,180 acres. The cattle kings are about as lawless as their bulls, and the strong -arm of the Government had to be evoked to drive them out of the Indian reservations.

THE TIMBER THIEVES.

The railroad companies, the land companies, the English lords and the cattle kings operated in the open country, an*-' left the forests for the timber thieves. During the first year of the administration 515 criminal oases and 230 civil rases were commenced against these timber thieves. The amount involved in the civil suits was $5,504,870 09,. and' thus see how extensive the depredations were. Of course they were all opposed to opening the books, and are also opposed to opening the doors of the penitentiary, -y ■,

THE PRIVATE LAND GRANTS.

I would like to refer in detail to ♦he ft auds sanctioned by the Republican administrations in surveying private land grants in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona.— The history reads like a romance,, but unfortunately the romance in founded on facts. The Spanish and Mexican private land claims are the foundation for all this rascality. 1 can only give you a few specimens. Mr. Martinez has a grant which was limited to 48, 000 acres. Survey is made, and he is given 594,515 acres, and the patent issued. Salvador Gonzales, in 1732, was granted 1: y New Mexico “a spot of land to enable him to plant a cornfield for the support of his family.” A Republican administration surveyed this cornfield, and gave him 103,959 acres. This discounts the big cornfields on the Wabash, and is conclusive evidence that Mr. Gonzales had a very numerous family that lived principally on corn. These are only specimen cases of the hundreds which have been admitted and fraudulent surveys made, so that there is very little public land left in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. The Spanish and Mexican claims have been bought up by men like Dorsey, who are all unanimous that the Republican party should be returned to power. Mr. Sparks says of the General Land Office: “I found this office a mere instrumentality in the hands of ‘surveying rings,’ ” and says, “it shall not be such dn ring the present incumbency.” In all this great work the Commissioner has the backing of the President who stands up firm and grand as the cedais of Lebanon. The great mission of his Administration is to reclaim the public domain from the land sharks and grabbers, and thus majfe it possible for millions of freemen to find happy homes in the great - In this great undertaking he sbh’d receive the hearty snpporiol at all parties, and I do not'ffiau. tale to say that from, Ip 'Part of this broadband will be have arnbre entimsiastfo following then ip our own State..

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