Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — A Nice Arrangement. WALKER ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

A Nice Arrangement.

WALKER ITEMS.

The Say-re Rob* rtson combination are doing Indiana with a view to work up a kom in their own interests.* iiir the people know Say-re was : blatant obstructionist and Rob-rbon a pretender. The Message assumes the championship o£ Me o. j. iiiom. ' , nd Dunn, and lectures the Keutland Democrat on the proprieties of jour alism. Of course, what Horace don’t know—in his own estimation—isn’t w< rth knowing. “Contributed to The Republican by special arrangement,” reads the announcement at the head of a labored—very labored—article on “The Recent Legislature.” The same “special arrangement” signifies that is furnished by the Indiana Republican Publication Bureau, with positive orders t > their organs to insert. We suggest to the writer thereof, one Holstein, that wlilie engaged in giving his views on the constitution lie sho’d designate instauc s when Lieuten-ant-Oovernors were vot >d for undei circumstances similar to those of Robertson. - ■ —■ ♦ -♦» <£» - 1 m

In spite of; Holstein essays, the peOi le will bear in mind these facts: 1. That the vote for LieutenantGovernor was not counted in t' e presence of the two houses. 2. That the only Judges who have given opinions po'n the main question in. the Sinith-Rol ertson controversy held that the election was invalid. That the E 'publicans of the General Assembly did not establish the dead-lock until four-fifths of the time of the ses ion had r pired. 4. That during the dead-lo( ’ Republican Senators drew pav o ■ President Smith's warrant. hile Mr. Fish buck was draw--81,600 per year as his salary, under the ruling and advice of a Repu lican Attorney-General, all was lovely, and the aquatic bird was highly suspended, but now that Dr. Harrison is drawing the same pay for the same work, t> e Republicans are howling like hyenas. As the Republican had something to say on this matter last week, will it please copy the above?

OBITUARY.— Fannie Flournoy Miller was born at or near Mount Washington, Ohio, from whence she came to Rensselaer at t.e age of 12 years. Educated in the Rensselaer schools she commenced teaching in the schools of Jasper countv at the age of 10, and followed that profession for about 6 years. She shortly after married, at Michigan City, Eugene Edwards, whose instantaneous di-ath. in the vigor, energy and strength of young and healthy manhood, about a year after their marriage, was such a severe shock to a constitution by no means robust, that she from that time began to fail, and last autumn went to Los Angelos, California, for the recovery of her shattered health. But all in vdn the work of the Uestroyer was accomplished, and on the 25th of March, 1887, she from the life that was too full o" suite'ing and sorrow for h r to retain. Her friends, schoolmates and pupils in this locality will be saddened by the news of her untimely death, for Fannie was a good and brave girl and a noble wom an. Those who knew her best will feel that there is a vacancy created which will never be filled. The little daughter, now an orphan indeed, w is. left with Eupha, at L s Ange os. A Friend.

It is not creditable to The News to continually and ] e misrepresent. It knov s very v ell that the soldiers’ monument 1 ill was p :ssed by the senate before the deadlock, and that nobody disputes the validity of the signature of the then legal nresiding officer of it. The News knows that Speaker Sayre signe 3 and had sent to t e governor every bfll passed by the senate before he 24th of February, and tliat they all became Lws by virtue of such action.— Indianapolis Journal The News nows nothing of tin kind, nor does any one e'se. “Mark, now, how a plain tale shall put you down.” The bill was passed by the senate 1> fore the* blockade policy (jf the republicans, but this passage no more made a law of it than if it had been tabled. It was simply one step. Next, the house passed it and Speaker Sarye signed it and so did Colonel Robertson, as lieutenant-governor, and it did not b come a law by virtue of such action, as our contemporary asserts. To become a law, it still reel tired the signature of the presiding officer of the senate. It got this by the cour r esy of the governor who did what speaker Sayre ought to have clone —returned it to the house in which it originated for the signature foresaid. It got this and it was that of Green Smith.

he attempt of our contemporary to m. in laid that because tne bill passed the senate before the republicans concluded they could not recognize Smith as the de facto president thereof, that, th refore, its validity is beyond dispute, is a case of that kind of misrepresentation which it charges upon The News, ft r it knows that it is by virtue of Green Smith’s signature that it is law, and that this was attached after it pleased the republicans to hold him as a revolutionist.— This withheld, we should have had no law to-day authorizing the building of the soldiers monument.— We are sorry for our contemporary, for it has two years of the tallest kind of explaining to do yet, unless it should me intime come to the age of gumption, which recognizes that in some ases “the least said, the soonest mended.”- Indianapolis News, republican.

The tariff tax on imported lumbea is $2 per 1,000 feet; but tiie-e is a feature about the lumber tax whici is not generally known. I is this: that the lumber barons annua 1 • import free from Canada a iarge portion of the lumber on wh/ch they charge and receive a $2 tariff tax on each 1,000 feet. How is this done? Why, simply because whi e the tax is levied on lumber, there is no tariff on logs, and the lumber barons, some of whom are United States senators, have purchased vast tracts of pine lands on the northern shores of Lake Superior. Th y hire cheap Canadian French-Indian labor to cut the logs which are then rafted across the lake into Michigan, free of tariff duty, where they are sawed into lumber, the value of which, to the lumber baron, is at once increased $2 per 1,0(10 feet by a protective tariff. A nice little arrangement, truly, by which'the government makes nothing, and the consu ,ier pays an unjust profit oii every board which goes into the construction of his house or barn or lumber wagon.—Dixon Sun.

Farmers are busy with their spring work. Health is generally good. Miss Anna Stalbaum has gone to Valpo. Charley will go west. Drs. Bouk and Kearns will soon move their office to the new station calle l Moonshine. We wish them success. Mrs. Mary Zeigler, of Bunker Hill, is visiting her father, J. L. Hershman. Some of our boys have got the weste n fever. F. M. Her d) man returne 1 recently with a fine bunch of c .tile. Jerome Andrus accident ill v killed two wil l geese at one shot the oher day. Madam6B Darner and Hershnu n have been on the sick list. Hay is plenty and cheap; selli ig at from $1.50 to c 2 per tor. Jim Winrick has moved into the old house on the Wilcox farm. Lewis Meyers has rented the old Mel ?er farm Robert Zick has got his new farm nearly fenced, and a place cleared out "‘or a new house. PreL ty go > biW mi < ld bachelor. A Id ’e ‘ffi. r : " ot boy” appe^r-

ed at the residence of Walter Hershman, a d they have concluded to keep him. The school teachers have all vanisned from our township Cattle have done excellently well this winter. We had only three law suits in one (lay at Frog-Pond Center Beat that, if you can, old -MossBack.” C. L. Hershman talks of going west this spring. “And do you doub my love*’ he asked, pa sinuate 1 v. “No, Lewis,” she answered with admirable poise. “But when ;ou say that the dav you call me vour’s will usher in an era<»f life-lni;- devotion and tender solicitude, you pardon me, dear—you put it on • triiie too thick. You seem to forget, Lewis, that I am a wVow. ’

UNCLE BEN.