Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — Page 1

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Axbred MuCor, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. M«COY & C®. 9 BANKERS , (Svccesbois to A. McCoy &T.Thompson,) Rensselaer,lnd. DO a fieieral banking business. Exchange bought and sold. Certificates bearing inteest issued Collections made on al! available voints Office same place afi old firm of McCoy A Thompson April 2,1886 ttf ORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney ■a.i-Law dBKSBELAEB. - - . - INDIANA Practices |in tho Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty/Office on north side of Washington gUett, opposite Court House- vlnl BHIONP. THOMPSON, DAVID 3. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts.

ARION L. C . ITLEB, Collector and AbstracterWe pay particular attention to paying tax- , gelling and leasing lands. v 2 n4B TT'. H. H. GRAHAM, * ATTOkN EY-AT: LAW. r, Indiana. Money to loan on longtime at low interest Sept. i<’- bb. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, AVXOBNEXsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office up stairs, in Maieever’s new building. Rensselaer. Ind. Edwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin, HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselae •, Ind Office on second floor of Leopold’s Block, coiner of Washington and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Avstin purchases, sells and leases real estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable instruments. may27,’B7. W WATSON, ATTO -fcl JNTHJ'SZ’- jAT-L A YV S3T' Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER IND. yy W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC JPHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty. OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884.

H LOUGHREDGE Physician and. Surgeon. Office In the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: . Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atteu tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS 9 BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., R. S. Dwiggins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking business: Certificates hearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms tlowsst rates and on mas _f avorable te a Aprilß 86

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Why He Chose to Blast His Reputation

tation. Indianapolis Sentinel Special. Washington, D. 0., Aug. 3. Indiana people in Washington have watched with considerable interest the outcome of the late conspiracy trial. While there may have been different opinions as to the guilder innocence of some of the accused, there is but one opinion with regard to the guilt or innocence of the presiding judge. H ? has been partisan from the beginning, and his charge—just received here today—is the sum of all j udicial outrage. Many personsjsay that whatj ever may have been the conductor the defendants last November, it has been more than condoned by the conduct of the judge on the bench, -arbo, forgetting his position, turned his court into an office for the prosecution such as will make the skeleton fingers of Jeffiies in his coffin rustle together for joy. To say nothing of the fact at this time that since Indiana was admitted into the Union has partizanship been never wantonly promulgated from the bench, it is to be m.ted, that in all the trials in Indiana’s capital, the opponents of Democracy who have been indicted in the Federal Court for crimes growing out of political offenses are few. I recall now but one. There may have been more.

It is well known in Indianapolis that since 1859, when Col. Drake was counted out for Auditor there has not been an honest election when the Republicans had the opportunity to be dishonestIn 1860, when the ballot boxes <ere taken to the jail and Democratic tickets taken out and Republican tickets substituted for them, and in 1864, when Massachusetts soldiers amused themselves by knocking down Democrats, and voting early and often themselves, and encouraging minors, sons ok prominent citizens, to do the same, Repbulicans had their own ’’ay and no Court was ready to make them afraid. Sammy Beck was counted out for Treasurer, John Fishback was counted'fout for Mayor, Dan Lemon counted out, other Democrats counted out scores of times, and no Federal Judge raked a Grand Jury for not returning indictments. I am rot alluding to these by-

gone outrages to excuse the conduct of any wrong doer, but with such a record of crime repeated year after year, is it any wonder, when Republican judges stand idly by, view them with calm, pass them over w thont action, that in a case like the one just cleared, that people awaken to the fact that in the United States Supreme Court there n punishments for only one class of offenses against the purity of the ballot box, and to that class belong Democrats? Republics jb go “scot free ’, in common parlancethe jail, stripes, ignominy and disgrace for Democrats alone. When such unfairness is exhibited federal j udges need not be surprised if the people refuse to listen to their parfizan harangues, and jurors refuse to return verdicts in answer to partizan jury speeches from the bench.

Judge Woods is a lawyer, presumed to be a good one, and no one knows better than himself, that such a charge as he delivered in the conspiracy trials, had he been sitting as a trial judge in the Marion Criminal Court, would not have stood long enough on appeal to the Supreme Court of our State, to be knocked down. He would not, for his own judicial reputation, have dared to deliver such a charge, and he knows that fact as well as anyone can know it. Had there been an appeal in the case just tried, the judicial ermine would not have been soiled by such a speech, for it was not a charge, but a speech for the prosecution ns able and strong as any made. Why he chose to blast his reputation for fairness he can best answer for himself. He knows, or onght to know that when a Judge ceases to be a Judge and becomesa public prosecutor, his influence for good is gone; unfortunately his influence for evil remains. When people onse know that no party except the one to which the Judge belongs, can have fair treatment in his Court, the respect due to his position is forfeited, and he has no one to blame but him; elf. To take such an unfair advantage of his position because there is no appeal is both cowardly and tyrannical. Such conduct merits contempt, nay, more, it merits impeaehmont.

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