Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — Page 1

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Alfred McCoy, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. M?CS®Y €?»., BANKE B S» (Succesfcois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Kensselaer. Ind. DO a fie; era! banking business. Exchange bought and sold. Certificates bearing interest issued Collections made on all available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy & Thompson April 2,1886 MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attornoy-at-L aw / ENSSELAEB, - INDIANA Practices [in the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north aide of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlnl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON • Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practicein all the Courts. MARION L,. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor* We pay r articular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B H. H. GRAHAM, ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW, Rxisdelatr, Indiana. Money to loan on long time at low interest. Sept. 10,'86.

JAMES W.DOUTHIT, A TTORNRYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, oT Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new building. Rensselaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. ff*Oio« Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. W WATSON, ATTORNNY-AT-LAW Office up Stairs, in Leopold's Bazay, /ei RENSSELAER, IND. yf W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC [PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. ▼•Chronic Diseases a Specialty.^® OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July lL 1884. 3 H. LOUGHBIDGE. P. P, BITTEBS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physioians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vim DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer , Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special attec tien to the treatment of Chronic Diseases.

CITIZENS 9 BANK. RENSSELAER, IND., R. 8. Dwiggisb, P. J. Sears, Val, Seib, President. Vic*-President. Cashier Dobs a general banking business: Certificates bearing Interest issned; Exchange bon eht and sold; Money loaned on farms at lowest rates and on most favorable terms. April 1886.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY: OCTOBER it 1886.

GOVERNOR PATTISON AND THE COAL RING.

Chicago Herald: The Instructions Issued by Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, to the Attorney General of that state to proceed against the anthracite coal combination i*ill surprise many people, and none mere .han flic men who compose that ag* gregatiou of plunderers. So many of the worst monopolies in the country have taken root in Pennsylvania, state and Federal laws h ,ve ‘jo frequently been warped in the interest of these rings, and local as well as national officials have so uniformly been pliant tools of the stupendous interests which are based on injusti e and crimp, that the exhibition by the Chief Magistrate of the commonwealth of sufficient honesty and courage io attack o r e of these robber combinations is almost enough to take one’s breath away. Mr. Pattison is entitled to great honor and praise for his outspoken letter, the more so because in assuming this attitude he at once invites the malig ant and unceasing hostility of more than one thousand millions of dollars, c In a state whose Legislature is al.. ways controlled by the money rings and most of whose officials for twentyfive years have been the mere creatures of monopoly, there has been small obacoe ior legislation not primarily intended to ben fit a class and absolutely no hope of enforcing laws enacted long ago for the general welfare. Corporations with the Leg** islature, the executive offices and the courts in their control have had no difficulty in overriding the Constitution and in defeating|measures of reform brought forward in the publ c interest. The coal combination in that state which is taxing the people of the country millions of dollars a year, could noi exist for a day if the organio law of Pennsylvania was worth, in tne hands of th ‘ corporation serfs who hold most of the offices, the paDer on which it is written. One provision of this instrument is that “no corporatad company doing the business of a common carrier shall directly or indirectly prosecute orengige in mining er manufacturing articles for tran»portation*over its lines.” Tuis prohibition has been ignored in the most contemptuous »nanner for many years corpoiatfons courts and officials all having a hand in the monstrous injustice which has resulted in consequence. By so doing the soi’called coal roads and canals—that is to say, the transportation companies occupy* ing the anthracite coal fields—have bet n able in defiance of written law to commit two great crimes. One of these, the first, was the establishment of a monopoly in the hard ooal trade. Miners who would not, or did not, join them soon found themselves unable to send their coal to market, because the roads, having unlawfully gone into the business of mining, re fused to carry the product oi mines other toan their own except at rates which the outsider could not pay and compete with the corporations. The result was that hundreds of small miners were ruiued and thousands of acres of land became almost valueless, only to be purenased at length by the monopoly. This in itself was a wiong which should have consigned its perpetrators to the penitentiary. The second crime was of wider seope. Having violated tbe law of Pennsylvania and successfully prosecuted a conspiracy for the ruin of hundred* es worthy men, the coal combination turned its attention o the people at large for tbo purpose oi reaping the benefits of its stolen power. At a meeting of its members the production of coal ior this year was “limited* to 83.600,000 tons, and this in spite of the faot that the mines, the workingmen, the machinery and all the resources of the business were adapted to and capable of the production of 60,000,000 tens annually. This much settled, the “scarcity” of an article America enjoys in greater abundance than all the other nations of the earth combined having been established, the combination, composed of the presidents of the coal roads, now proceeds each month to lift the price. In this way, without the interference of those laws of supply and demand which should be the safeguard of the peo® pie, the value of coal is regulated, first by an artificial scarcity, and see? ond by arbitrary advances in the sella, ing rate, Where combination is possible competition is impossible. Hers is a case where combinaiion was made possible through the failure of Pennsylvania to enforce its own laws. These are the two great crimes of the coal monopoly It has committed many others, such as the importation of pauper labor, the locking out of its men during four or six months of everyfyear, the introduction of th© oompany store or truck System and the enforcement in its harshest form of the black list, as a

result of whioh men, votnen and children, sometimes sick and naked Mid hungry, have been turned upon the highways in Bilter weather per haos to peris' 1 . To this aßsocia'ion every American who warms his house wit 1 - anthracite pays tribute. While it i to be feared that Govern nor Pattison has acted too late in the day—his term expires next January —he is *o be given full credit for acting at ail. If he shall be zealously supported by the Attorney General he may accomplish much even in tbe three months remaining to him.

HONEST OLD “SADDLEBAGS” ON THE ‘GERRYMANDER.’

We extract the following with reference to the so-called “gerrymander” from the speech of Senator McDonald recently delivered at Logansport. It appeals to the reason of men, not their partisan prejudices, and is calculated to open tho eyes of all fair men to the “stop thief' cry methods of Bennie Harrison and his followers. Read it:

The Republicans are making a very peculiar kind of canvass in this State this year. It is made up chiefly of denunciations against the Democratic party, based upon no truths, but simply resting upon denunciation, and one of their denunciations against the Democrats is for passing the apportionment bill at tbe last session of the Legislature for districting the State for Senatorial and Representarive purposes. Now that was a con stitutionai obligation resting upon the Legislature. Our Constitution provides that every six years the Legislature shall ascertain the number of qualified voters in the State, and to reapportion the State for Senatorial and Representative purposes, far their Legislature. And the last Legislature had that duty to perform, and they performed it, and the Re - publicans are making a howl over that. They say they gerrymandered the State, and they have got out maps for the purpose of trying to demonstrate that. Now, mv friends, a a I shah show you before I get through, a Republican who cab make that charge must have a very short memory, ani a seared conssience, or he could not do it. If he could recollect back over the history of tbe last twenty years and see the districting bills that they have passed in ‘hat time, he would blush to make a charge of this sort, unless his conscience was so seared that it would not make aoy difference to him what he said. But I want to show you that this so much denounced law, and this beautiful map they have got up—that is their getting up—is Dot subject to the crit. icism they are attempting to make. [At this point tbe speaker exhibited a map.] I don’t expect to show you that it is entirely equal, or that there are no inequalities In it; but I intend to show you that under the Constitution it is fair; muoh fairer than any they ever made, ai d a great deal fairer than any they would attempt to make now if they get back into pow® er. The Constitution provides that the Legislative Districts, Senatorial, and for the House, shall be framed upon the voting population of the State—not upon all tbe inhabitants, but the voting population. It requires, too, that no oounty shall be divided in terming a Senatorial or a Representative District. It farther provides that tlrse districts shall be formed as nearly as possible out of contiguous territory. How, these are the provisions of the Constitution.— At the time this act was passed we had nearly five hundred thousand voters in Indiana, not quite that; we have undoubtedly more than that now but we had nearly five hundred thousand voteis then. We have one hundred Representatives end fifty Senators. You see, therefore, that to apportion the State into one hundred Representative Districts each district ought to have if it could be, not quite five thousand voters, a little below five thousand—they have got the exact figures here, and I am giving them to you near enough to be correct—and not quite ten thousand voters ior a Senatorial District. Now, they have arrayed here oertainlflgures aud put down certain counties which they say this law has disfranchised I take the one that they claim to be the mest glaring, and I will refer to one or two others, and then I am ready to make the general statement that this law will not only compare favoraqly with any they ever passed, but that it is much more free from any possible objection. The cases that they dwell on most ar6 tte Senatorial and Representative Districts composed of the counties of Vermillion and Parke, Vigo and Sullivan.— Vermillion County lies west of the Wabash River. It had a voting pep-

illation at tbe time this law was parsed of a little over 3,000, so that it fel nearly 2,000 votes below the ratio for a Representative.f Mark that. Parke County which lay ri ht acioss-the river from it, had 4,777 vjtes. That was not quite enough for a Representative; not so great a disparity, but still 'not enough. Now, this bil gives to Parke County a Repre® sentative to itself; it gives Parke md Vermillion a Senator by their joint vote—rully 2,000 below the Senatorial ratio, yet this law so much denounced, gave them a Senator, and Parke County a Representa'ive. The only county that bordered on it across the river was Fountain Couuty, and that had no surplus. Below it was Vigo County, and the oitv of Terre Haute was its surplus center, where the people of Vermillion County went to transaot their business, and it had a right to two Repiesentatives, and it had a surpl s over: Sullivan County joining onto Vi o, having Terre Haute also for its business center, had a population that entl led It to a Representative and a fraction over. Now I ask any fair- minded man, a Republican particularly, if there is

any within the sound of my voice, and 1 hope there is, if you didn’t know the politics of these counties, what would you do? If you simply had these figures, and didn’t know whether Vermillion and Parke, or Vi go and Sullivan, or Fountain, or Montgomery, which didn’t touch on to Vermillion at all—if you knew nothing about their politics, what would you do? To give the county of Vermillion a right to participate in electing a member to the House of Hep* resentatives, would you not attach it to its business center—Vigo County? What would you do with the surplus of Sullivan? Would you not attach that to its business center also—Vigo County? And, therefore, when you were making up this Representative district, would you not- I ask any fuir-miuded man, now: Suppose you didn’t know the politics of these ooun ties at all, would you not put Vermillion and Vigo and Sullivan together? That is just exactly what this bill did, precisely.||Wbat did the Republicans want to do? They wanted it to extend through Parke, that was already over represented, and go into Montgomery, and form a kind of fish-hook District that way, because of the politics of the county, that is what they wanted. They didn’t want a fair bill. They didn’t desire that. They wanted one that would give them political advantages. |But, they say, we got political advantages out of that.— Well, are we to throw them away, my friends? I ask any fair minded Re* publican if he expects a Democrat to throw away a polltioal advantage that comes fairly to him? Does be expect him to do that, and to be disregardful of tue interests of his part ' ? I never have been and never expect to be. What is the o her one that they claim? Itjis Jav County. Jay has on the n&rth of it. Adams; it has on the west of it Blackford. Jay is a large couuty and torritory, and quite populous; it Las more than enough for one representative. But Adams has not near enough for one, and Bla kford has less. How what did this bill do. In short? It made those three counties a Senatorial District; that Is ju t what ft did; and it gave them a Senator, and it gave them jointly two Representatives, that Is precisely what was done.— What did the Republicans insist sh o’d be done? Why, that Jay County should have' a Representative of itself, and alone, because, they say, on account of Its polities. And yet these returns here show that Jay County only gave twenty-five of a epubliosn majority at t .e last election, and it goes Democratic as often as Republican. How, my friends, I have something of their handiwork here in the apportionment act made six years before, I will tell you how they fixed things; they were workmen at this business, they didn’t pretend to give counties fair representation; I just take two specimens to show you; here is the couniyof Clarke and and the eountv of Floyd on the Ohio Rivei, both populous counties; thbir aggregate vote amounts to over 10, ~ 000. At the time this apportionment bill was passed the ratio for Repre® sentative, was a little over 4,000, and the ratio for a Senator was a little over 8,000, double that of a Representative, so you get at it in that way. Now what did they do? They gave Clarke and Floyd one Senator, with a population of over 10,000; 2,000 above the ratio, and they gave them each a Representative. Now when they get up here into Lake and Porter there was a different state of things; Lake County lacked 1,200 of having enough. Porter County lacked 800. They gave Porter and Lake each a Representative, and jointly they gave them a Si nator, although they were 2,000 votes below the Senatorial atio. Now It so turned out, jproba*

b!y it was simj.lv a matter of accident, that Lake aud Porttr gave large Republican majorities, wMlo Clarke aud Floyd gave ;Demoer»iio majorities. Well there is Bartholomew County which had just 48 votes less than Randolph; it didn’t have 5,000, neither did Randolph have 5.» W 0 voters; neither of them had enough for Senatorial representation, yet this bill that the Republicans framed in 1878 gave Randolph a Senato / and denied one to Bartholome ,y While that same curious thing occurred there, Randolph gaye about 12 Republican majority and Barthoiov mew gave about 600 of a Democratic maj rity. But, say the Republican nress an 1 their speakers, why, McDonald is simply trying to show that the Republicans in the past have clone as bad as the Democrats. This bill was so had that Governor Baker would not sign ih It became law without his signature. They are saying that I am simply saying, “You are another.” They are mistaken about that. lam saying that they are one, but that we are not ano sher.

A COMRADE’S TRIBUTE.

Editor Remington News: Republies may be ungrateful, yet I hope the senatorial district in which you are located will not be so, but trust that, amongst the honored, the brave and the true, none wi 1 be thought more deserving to represent your interests in the State Senate than Col. David H. Patton, whom I see has been nominated for that position by the people of your district regardless of their political faith. This is nf> undeserved compliment to t o brave soldier whose name has thus so prominently been brought before them for their suffrage. It was my good fortune to be associated with him in the 38th Regt. Ind. Yols., from the time we were mustered into the army (Sept. 1861) until our final discharge after the war, with its hoary head and blood begrimed visage had vanished from our right. Being faithful to every trust iiu30sed, from “Corporal of the 3ruard” he advanced meritoriously ;o that of Sergeant of the Color Guard, where in the midst of shot and shell, hurled from the throats of rebel cannon, amidst a shower of rifle balls, striking his comrades from his right and left undismayed and fearlessly he stood; keeping the bright stars and pure striDes of our National emblem aloft, flaunting it in the face of our enemies and bade them defiance. Thus step by step did he advance, passing to the command of his brave company, when in a dire moment at Bentonville, N. C., our legimental commander, Capt. Jim Low, was mortally wounded, while conducting an advance on the enemy’s lines, then it was that Capi Patton was called to the command of the regiment, and whose management under those trying circumstances developed the dormant energies whifch had only awaited such an emergency to >ring to light In his conducting ;he various outline duties of the camp, he displayed equal ability, thus combining with nis intrend bravery upon the field of bat:le elements which proclaimed him “the perfect soldier.”. Should it be the good fortune to lave my old comrade, Col. Patton, represent your district in the next Senate “put it down on the list” ;hat he will bring to the dnti ‘s of ;hat office a brave heart, a pure mind and a determination to do right though the heavens fall. If it were possible, I would glad- * y pull off my coat and work night and day for his election, but hope he loyalty and intelligence of your community will but follow he example of the powers that were, in those times that tried men’s souls, and as they: —“Thou last been faithful unto few things, w J will make thee a ruler over many.” With three cheers and a “tiger” for the Col. and a wish that le maybe elected, I sign myself,

WM. C. SHAW, late Major

|3Bth Ind. Vol. infty.

The old Comrades of Col. Pat;on are mightily pleased over the prospects of his election to the State Sonate.

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