Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — SAVED TO UNCLE SAM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAVED TO UNCLE SAM.

The bal oting Wednesday f<>r U. S- Sonat n esnlted as follows: For Tnrpie, 76 For Harrison, 7i For Allen, . :: Glory! Tu -pie got ther- ! And will take liis seat! Bennie got left! Bennie do you still exclaim: “I am glad that i am not a Democrat:” Our Senator Thompson is to be commended for ignoring the rump joint convoation which met in the hall of the House at Indianapolis jeste.da . When Bennie reached the “Forks o the Hoad” Mr. Rob.nson introduced him to Monsieui b Gates, Glover and Mackey, and parted o inpan y II i f had so Lapi encd that Ben H; rnscn had received the seventysix votes the Republican speaker of the House would have been awful slow in making the announcement that tli re was “no legal el etion.”

Some of Senator Thompson’s partizan friends hereabouts* think he neglected his opportunity when he ignored the late ‘rump’ convention and failed to become a martvr by b( ing fired out. But then lh , Senator knows that it is not the blood of such martyrs that constitute the “seed of the church.” The grounds on which the' Kep beans claim tnat Turpie is not legally elected are simply ridievJous, and Republican members of the Legislature, by their participation day after day in the proceedings of the joint convention, are trio roughly estopped from the clainrthey are making th; tth vot? t,ie Senator* is illegal. Poor Ludley! On the marning ollowing the election last November he announced himself m the role of Zack Chandler in 1876. he claimed everything—claimed the Legislature by ten majority on joint ballot, when he knew it was Democratic, and then went to work to designate a few subjects for the ‘ bouncing process” in the House. But through the aggressive and unceasing efforts of the Indianapolis Sentinel, Die nerve of President Green Smith backed by the determined stand of the Democratic Senators, lllam’s plans miscarried. Break the news gently to William

On Wednesday last the deadlock in the legislature was broken when Mr. Robinson announced his vote for Judge Turpie. It is “better late than never,” but Mr. Robinson owad it to himself and to his constituency to vote for Mr Turpie on first ballot. Cates, Glover and Mackey (the latter an in. eligible if there is one) w re simply stool-pigeons pressed into the ser ice of the “grandson of his grandfather” to prevent an election. Their asserted devotion to the principles of the greenback party and the Labor interest. They exhihited the same ungovernable rage as did the Republicans over the resulr, and changed their votes to a man who nad denounced the greenback element as “fiat idiots,” and *.vh > has one symonthy f r laJjjr.

Indianapolis News, (Republican): There are republicans who are of the opinion that Turpie has been legally elected, and that the republicans should accept the situation philosophically. Major Gordon, for instance, said last night that the federal senate could, in h.s opinion, do nothing but ac_ cept the vote as certified to by the governor of the state. This vote would show that Turpie had received a majority of all the votes cast. It w'ould destroy the last vestige of state rights for that senate to inquire hov T that major ty Avas constructed. It is the province of the state alom to judge of the ciual fications of the members of the assembly.

Harry Zimmerman is employed on the White County Democrat this week. Just after the election, last fall, Tommy Mooney left Rensselaer for a visit to his old home in Ireland. He returned on last Saturday. - —• *-. The town board recently passed an order directing the purchase of thirty-two street lamp» at a cost of $6.25 each on cars at Indian: polis. Goo lewd Herald: A p ivy v. h » is in position to know all about it, writing’from Indianapolis, says: “The compromise between the parties has fur the time being, at least, brought peace and quiet; but the election committee has its report prepared in the Thompson case recommending his removal, and if hostilities are renewed and any member’s of the Hou.ie rethrown out, Simon’s legislative career will be cut short in five minutes.” Ibid: Miss Hattie Hopkins, of Rensselaer, has been the guest of her f-iend Miss Lo Wilson, this week. — Tommy Mooney brought with him from Ireland a black thorn stick which he presented to his old friend and counyyman, John Sullivan. Mr. S. prizes it very highly and has converted it into a handsome walking stick. Remington News: Last Friday afternoon, while shelling corn, Charles Burling had his right hand caught in the sheller and crushed. Dr. Landon amputated the second and third fingers, and the tip of the first fingpr. *

A goodly number of the mem--1 t-rs of the Order of Eastern Star accepted invitation anti enjoy -d hospitality of Masonic brethren and sisters in Lafayette, Mondif, evening. " ’

The lunch anti meals, gotten up by Antrim are attracting a patronage *o that establishment highly appreciated by the proprietor thereof. Antrim says his aim will be to deserve it.

When after the last great day s some leading angel shall: ay, ‘Well; Gabriel, haye you got ’em all up? that mighty trumpeter shall wearity respond, ‘Yes, verily, except a few hundred republ can officeholders in Washington, and I’ve b own in vain for them for twenty four hours. Tb y'll never o’ m> < ff!’— x.bUlTOi-yVj UIUUx.

The Victims Aimed At.—Canned fruit, vegetables and m.ats have come to be regarded as staples of trade. The growth of the canning industries has been marvelous. A current paragraph mentions the one item of tomatoes, of which during the past year 2,263,760 cases of two dozen cans each were put up during the year just closed. This is only one article, and to it are to be added the immense supplies of corn, peas, beaus, apples and other fruits, to say nothing of the millions of cans of meats annually made ready for the market.

It will be' seen at a glance that an industry which uses so many cans must become an object of great j terest to the makers of cans as well as to the men who manufacture or deal in the tin of which these cans are made. As matters stand at Die present time most of the tin plate which is used in this manufacture is imported, and on this the government levies a trx of 1 cent a pound. This is a tax upon industry and upon the people’s food. In Pennsylvania is a crowd which is anxieus to go into the tin plate manufocturing business on an extensive scale, but it is ajso anxious to take the government into partnership with it. To this end it only asks that the tariff on imported tin plate be increased to 2.| cents a pound, with the idea of prohibiting its importation. With this tax laid at the custom houses the American tin plate manufacturers would have a monopoly of the business in this comi fry. hey would a r -k for their wares prices wnich would be just low enough to prevent lmportaAw, and the growing industry of canning, as well as the food of the people, would be placed under.a most burdensome tribute to the Pennsylvania Crowd. It is in this way that protection, so loudly applauded by tiie interested and unthinking, becomes a destroyer of business instead of a promoter of it The project of the tin plate men is nothing more nor less than a scheme to lay this canning industry, which has built itself up without any protection, under tribute, and if it shall be successful there wnl be less canning done and less canned fruit eaten. The men who are behind this conspiracy are the ones who,by bribery and misrepresentation, caused the deb at of V\ illiam R. Morrison for Congress last fall.

Land Commissioner Sparks has had a set of maps prepared for his individual use. Taken altogether they embrace nearly all the territory lying west of the Mississippi river. Scattered here an , there upon these maps are man • spots in dark colors. Occasionally the color urns’ in stripes, and'on two or t hree of the maps it spreads out until it embraces a third or mors of the territory shown. The work is not very artistic, but the color is all there, and it gives the maps a strange appear nee, especialy as there is no lettering to show what the blotches represent. Many peopl calling upon the general look at those maps and go away mystified. When the general isn’t busy he gets the maps down, spreads Diem out on his big desk and sits there by the half hour looking at the spots. The other dsy a O culluu and found

+he general engaged in his farorte par-time, and he asked, “What have you got there, Mr. Commissioner ?’ \ “Yc u see these?” replied Sparks, pointi gto the scores of spots and stripes and inked sections. “AYell, sir, these are the lands J’ve saved to this government. The land sharks thought they had ’em, d —d rascals, and they would have kept them but for me. I’ve restored them to the public domair.” A New Light-Running -Se’.ving Machine, cheap for e«ish or trade. Inquire at this office.