Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — FOR THIRTY DAYS ! [ARTICLE]

FOR THIRTY DAYS !

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Republican Senators recognize President Smith when they come to diaw their pay. His signature is an essential necessity. The Indianapolis News (rep.) says Gov. Gray must have held a pair of aces up-his s'eeve when he floored Robertson so completely. ■ , In iB6O Coi. Henry S. Lane wa placed in nomination by the Republicans of Indiana for Governor, with a view to tide O. P. Morton into place. d t the following legist itive session Lanj was elected U. S. Senator snd Morton became Governor, and the republican Senate eelected presiding officer.— Bid the people elect a Lieutenant Governor in 18u2? Will our republican friends answer? Again, in 1864 O. P. Morton was elected Governor and Conrad Baker Lieutenant Gover or. Morton was elected (J. S. Senator, Baker became Governor, and the Senate elected a presiding officer. The people were not invited to elect a Lieutenant Govo.nor for the unexpired term. If there was a reconniz d vacancy, why was it not filled by the people at the ballot box?

The Senate passed a bill for the erect o r of a soldiers’ monument. It went to the House and w s passed by that body. The republicans su} posed they had reached a point where they could outwit the naughty Democrats, had one R. S. Robertson sign the bill n connection with the officers of the House, and zeiii it to the Executive for disapproval. Gov. Gray immediately returned it to President Smith for his signature, secured it, and th. n gave it h ; s sanction.

The Republicans at Indianapolis called in their brethren from miles around, by means of secret circu. lars, and held a ‘spontaneous’ indignation meeting a few evenings ago in that city. The News, Republican, thus gives its opinion of t the effect of the outburst: “JV e have a dim glimmering of an idea that the usufruct of the Tomlinson h dl meeting will not be large.” Coming from a Republican paper, tne following items are not bad: r Indianapolis News: Th?, republicans are like the man who said the horse was' seventeen feet high. He meant seventeen hands, but having said feet he stuck to it. Like him they are about that far off from the real size of the situation. The. republicans have been badly advised in the management of their affairs. The only wise thing they have done was the going into the joint convention for t .e election of a senator, and this they did against the light of the Jack-o-lanterns, that have since led them ‘ ’Mura*',,.

From an article on “The State of the Case,” in the Indianapolis News, republican, we make the following extracts: • * * “The legislation that the members of the two houses were elected and sworn to enact in the interests cf the people is not to be enacted at all, and the public interests must bear the damage as they may because the majority of the representatives think the senate is n >t fauly and lawfully constituted, and won’t receive any business from it or s< nd any to it. The objection tblo < ondition o« the senate, * * is a matter that the members of the house can’t change or affect in the least, eithe~ by individual or organized action. They are not to blame for it. They can accept it as a fact beyond their control, as they accept a ‘cold ’ ave’ or a rain, and conform their legislative action to it, as they conform their clothing to allizzin', or their umbrellas to a drizzle. * *

But the republican representatives will not accept the situation and make the best of it in the interests ol the people. ‘ hey expect to do better by making party capital of it for the next election.— That is the hole in the cocoa-nut that the milk gets in at. They hope to start a stampede from the democracy by making the people believe that the democrats only are to blame for the defeated legislation. * * * As the senate is willing to work with the house, while the house refuses to work with the senate, and, as Mr. Speaker Sayre foolishly boasts, would not admit anything “from the senate unless its doors weix. blown open by dynamite,” the blame of the house is more obvious, if not greater than that of the senate.” The people fully understand the action of the house in blocking legislation wiil be sought to be blamed on the senate. But they understand equally as well that “the sente is willing to work with the house, while the house refuses to work with the senate,” and wiil locate the blame where it properly belongs—with the republican obstructionists. The anxious hope of a “stampede” from the democracy will prove a delusion, and not a ‘flattering’ one at that.