Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XJ

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTIOEL. DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FjcHDaY, Jas. M- McEwen RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. •••year,.., *l-5" Advertising Rates. One «viQDm, one year, sß* 00 Half coluian, “ A® oi SuarUr " 3* »>» Eighth " t . i°o Tentocr cuot. added to foregoing price if dlvcrtlsamonts ar« set to occupy more than aingla eolumn width . Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding 1 inch space, S&a year; safor nix months; J 2 fer three Alliegeinotices and advertisements at es♦ablishcd statute price. Beading notices, first publication 10 cents iline; each publication thereafter s cents a ine. Fearly advertisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the opion of the advertiser, frß* of extra charge. Advertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be paid for In advance of first pnblie vtion, when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

Alfred MgCoy, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. M?C©¥ & ©to, BANMEM S» (Sncceefcoisto A. McCoy & T.Thompson,) Rensselaer, Ind. DO a fie; eral hanking business. Exchange bought and sold 'Certificates beariug interest issued Collections made on al' available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy & Thompson April 2,1886 MORDECAI F. CKILCOTE. Attorney-at-Lavr |! ENSSELAER, - INDIANA Practices |in thb Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlnl BIMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter* We pay v xrticular attention to paying tax- , selling and ieasiag lands. v 2 n4B TV" H. H. GRAHAM, ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW. • Rresdelatk, Indiana. Money to loan on long time at low interest . J Sept. 10,’86. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, AVrORNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, &T Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new building. Rensselaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885.

W WATSON, ATTOitNHY-AT-LAW Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, _!*=} RENSSELAER IND, Yf W. HARTSELL, M D 30MCE0PATHIC (PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.. Diseases a Specialty..Jgfl OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeover House. July 11,1884. .. H LOUGH RIDGE Physioian and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second, Jlflor, second door right-liand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Galls promptly attended. Will give special attcr don to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. maw mii, r.ENSSELAEE, IND., B. S. Dwiof.i vs, F. .T, Sears, Vat,. Sun:, President. Vic-President. Cashier Dobs a general banking business; Ccriificatee bearing interest, issued: Exchange bongbt and sold ; Moneyloancd on farms t lows*t ra:es and onmos:f avcralile te * April .i i.

RENSSELAER. JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA. FKIDAY MARCH 11, 1887.

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UNITED FOR LIFE

In tlio Holv Bonds of Wedlock, John M. Buli add Miss Lillie F, Hall. One of the most pleasant and enjoyable weddings of the season occurred last Wednesday evening, the. 2d inst. at the residence of J. i T. Hall, one of our old residents, is only daughter, Miss Lillie F., and John M. Bull, being the contracting parties. The ceremony was performed in a brief yet impressive manner by the Bev. F. M. Sapp, of Skidmore, formerly pastor of the M. E. chureli of this place. The charming bride was elegantly attired in a rich tan colored silk suit tastefully trimmed, encircling her throat was a deli cate white tull, fastened with a plain gold pin, at the left of 1 which and a little below was a little boquet of white moss rose buds. The groom iyas dressed in a handsome dark brown suit, decorated simply but effectively witb a I very pretty button-hole boquet of moss rose buds.

After the united pair had been heartily and sincerely congratulated by the relatives and friends present, supper was announced,and they were invited to the diningroom, where an elaborate repast had been prepared, to which the sixty odd present did ample justice, while tho merry jest w*cnt round, and wit sparkled on every side - The bride and groom doubtless feel very grateful to the everend gentleman for shortening the marriage ceremony to the fewest words and shortest time adequate to the occasion. The groom for ths past few years a resident of this vicinity, formerly of Rensselaer, Ind., is an intelligent, economical, and industrious young man of steady habits, highly esteemed wherever known, with a host of friends, and with ha* f a chance will make a success of life. 1 The bride is a mist estimable young lady, highly respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances and affectionately remembered by her music pup Us. It is tho’t by many that she wot Id have proved a very successful music teach©*

Lad she not chosen to take up higher and nobler duties. They will soon take up their abode at the present residence of J. L. Parker, an uncle of the bride, who talks of going west the coming spring, he having engage ! them to take charge of his large farm the ensuing year at a good salary. It is the sincere wish of their many friends that God’s blessing may attend them through a long and happy life. The father of the bride presented them with a very fine organ two cows and ■ white damask table cloth; mother of the bride, silver ware consisting of set of knives and forks, half dozen napkin rings and butter knife; Charles Hall and Ida Lanning, set of silver teaspoons; E. P. Myers and wife silver caster; J. L Parker and wife, Joseph Bangs and wife, Miles Carver and wife, R. Dwight and wife, and Mrs. Bisbee, of Oregon, set of stone china dishes of fifty ; J. A. Parker and wife, parlor lamp; N. F. Hopper and wife, large parlor lamp; John Hall, Braddyville, lowa, syrup pitcher; M. Nicholas and wife, Crooks, lowa, set of goblets; Miss Flora Mabry, glass tea set; J. N. Gillespie and wife, glass fruit stan ; C. C. Cain and wife, set of tumblers; A. J. Livengood and wife, glass fruit stand; Miss Martha Livengood, glass pickle dish; Miss Anna Lanning, set of colored tumblers; W. E. Briggs and lady, set of knives and forks; Geo. F. McElwee and wife, vol. entitled “2010 popula- quotations”; D. R. Eversoie, Maryvihe, beautiful white Marseilles bed spread; A. Teucher and wife, table linen and rolling pin; Joseph Hardcastle and wife, fine linen towels; Y. E. Cain and wife, table linen; Miss Minnie Teucher, pair linen towels; Miss Lizzie McElwee, linen towel; Mrs. Helena Griswold, Lansing, Mich., chair tidy; Mrs. Delia Eastoil, Lansing, Mich., sofa pillow t:dy; Mrs. Lou. and Miss Rose Abbey, Miss Emma and A. C Barker, F. L. Fort, white damask table linen and dozen damask napkins; F. M. Sapp, broom. The young couple wish to express their sincere and heartfelt thanks, for the many tokens of esteem and affection presented them by their numerous friends, and hope to prove worthy of their kind wishes. X in a Missouri pas er.

THE RECORD.

[lndianapolis Sentinel, Tuesday] At last night’s session of the Senate Mr. Fowler offered the following resolution -which was adopted: Resolved, That the following memorial, as an address to the people, is adopted by the Senate as being true, and that the same be spread at length upon the journal of the Senate. The following is the memorial, which recites the facts of the most extraordinary legislative session ever known in the history of Indiana :

THE MEMORIAL. On the 2d day of November last a general election was held in Indiana for the clioice of certain officers of State, and of members of the General Assembly. Within three days after the election was held the result as to the Legislature became known, and the Indianapolis Journal published that the Republicans had seventy-four (74) members in the two houses, and the Democrats had seventysix (70) members therein, leaving the Democ ats two majority upon a joint ballot. In this way it wap acknowledged by the leading Ilepublican n ewspaper of the Stat , that the will of the people expressed under the form of law, had declared that some member of the Democratic party should, be elected Senator of the United States to succeed the Republican then holding that position. This statement with respect to the number of the two parties in the Legislator?, and the Democratic! majority of two, wps published day after day in the

Indianapolis Journal, and the fact of the majority, of two, and tlie effect it would h*ave upon.the Senatorial election, were as well known to every voter in Indiana at that time as they are to-day. Neveitheless, within a few weeks before the meeting of the General Assembly, the Journal, giving tone to the Republican press and politicians of the State, asserted with the utmost confidence that General Harrison was to he re-olected to the Senate of the United States notwithstanding there was a majority of tw<3 against him in the Legislature; and Mr. Huston, a State senator from the county of Fayette, Chairman of the Republican state central committee, repeatedly made the same declaration, and had interview’s published * in which he made the same statement. Nothing v’as said about how this result was to be accomplished. There were some intimations that Democratic members, one or two, might absent themselves or refuse to vote for tHe nominee of their caucus, or that the Independent Labor mem) ers actually preferred Harrison to anyone els 3 for the senate; but this, as will appear in the sequel, w T as a mere blind to conceal the real purpose which the conspirators, to defeat the popular wall, had alroady formed and prepared for execution. How they proposed to accomplish their design ** as unknown until soon after the meeting of the General Assembly. The General Assembly met pursuant to law on the 6th day of January, 1887. The House of Representatives was republican by ten majority. Cornolius Meagher a democrat, had been elected representative from the county of Yigo, by an unquestioned majority of twenty-one votes. Such election had been regularly, certified and returned, aud he had taken his oath of office and had been assigned a seat in the House of Representatives.

On the 14th day of January, 1887, four days before the first vote in the Senatorial election, the House by a strict party vote, passed a resolution unseating Mr. Meagher, striking his name from the roll, and declaring that one Dickerson, his competitor who had been defeated t y the people of that county,was the representative from the county of Vigo, and entitled to act and vote as such. This was done upon die flimsy pretext that Mr. Meagher had been elected, some time before Inspection to the House, a Justice of the Peace, an office which had been abr lished before his election to the Legislature, and none of the duties of which lie had ever exercised. As soon as Dickerson, the minority defeated candidate was seated in place of Meagher, the plan began to develop, the plot thickened, the cons Jrators became bold and confident. It was announced, both publiclyfand privately, that General Harrison should * certain 1 / return to the Senate of the United States, and that the way to do it was to unseat enough Democrats in the House, by whatever methods, to destroy the Democratic majority of two on joint ballot, so as to give him at least seventysix votes for United States senator.

This shows very clearly that the Republican House of Representativesthuß made a breach and struck a fatal blow at the freedom of elections, deliberately setting aside the will of t e people and lending themselves to the purpose of that dark, lawless clique and cabal which had conspired, at all hazards, regardless of law and regardless of right, to return their friend and favorite* to the Senate id the Lnited States. It became now very apparent, although plain people have not before understood it, how these plotters i might el - ct a Unitefd States Senator, a 1 though ther •* was a Democr die' maj ority of ,: two in the General Assembly opposed to his return, and the mask being now thrown off and concealment no longer possible, they*

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