Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1887 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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A*»rxd McCoy, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollihumworth. A. MM3OY & C 0 BANKERS s (SiccMkori to A. MeCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer, Ind. f\O afieieral banking business. Exchange I) bought and sold. Certificates hearing in£est issued Collections made on al.' available pKnts Office same place as old firm of McCoy ThoMpion April *,1886 KORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attoraey-at-Law ftHNSSEIAEB. - - . - INDIANA »«aatiees lin the Courts of Jasper and ad•inlng counties. Makes collections a speHalty. Office on north aide of Washington opposite Court House- vlnl MMOHB. THOMPSON, DAVTD J. THOM PBON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Fraetieein all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector and. AbstractorWe pay r , selling and Icu-sidK lanes.

vr?. H. H. GRAHAM, ’ * aTTOkNEY-AT-LAW, RbESDELATK, INDIANA. Money to loan on long interest. .TAMES W. DOUTHIT, AV®ORNEYsAT-LAW and notary public, a?" Office upstairs, in Maieever’b new /Uilding. Rentselaer. Ind. Edwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin’. HAMMOND & AUSTiK, ATTORNEY-AT'-LAW, Rensselae , Ind. Office on second door of Leopold’s Block, co: nor of’Washington and Vanßeusselaer streets. William B. Avstin purchases, sells and lo- ses real estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable instruments. may27,’B". ■yyM. W WATSON, ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay. RENSSELAER. IND. yy W. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC (PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty. JO OFFICE, in Makeevei’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. Ji H LOUGHRIDGE 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. vinl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind, Calls promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIES W BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., R. S. Dwiggins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking businessCertificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms t’lowjst rates and on mas .favorable te “ April 8 85

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1887.

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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND WORKINGMEN.

[lndianapolis Se tinel] It will bo well to bear in mind that the Democratic party is not a Trade’s Union of any kind. It is not a guild, a brotherhood. It has no secret signs, grips or passwords. It has no outside and inside guardians. It has no Grand Masters, no Sir Knights. There is not a man in the Democratic party who cn order any other man to stop work or £o to work. Not a man in the Democratic party, acting under any authority confessed by the party, who can fix the price of a day’s work of any other man; who can levy any assessment or tax upon him to support any other man in idleness. The D mocratic party has no power to order a boycott, or* to declare any man a “scan” or a “rat,’’ oi to apply to him any offensive sobriquet whatever, for doing anything becoming at American citizen, and no man capable of conducting a Labor organ, a workingman’s newspaper of any kind, will seek to hold the Democratic party responsible forfsuch things as belong exclusively to labor organ izations. To do anything of the kind is proof positive that they are not only totally disqualified for the position they hold, but that they are republicans in disguise, seeking by methods that an honorable man wot Id disdain to pursue, to accomplish a purpose which they have no* the courage to avow. That we are not mistaken in our estimate of pseudo labor organs, it is only required to notice with what blatant bombast they attack the Democratic party which never laid a straw in • heir way, but which, on the contrary, has always been first and foremost to advance their interests, while, with regatd to the Republican party, they co’d scarcely be more quiet and unobtrusive if they were mice instead of men. The great object of workingmen, so far as we have been able to comprehend their purposes, is to secure fair pay for a fair day’s work, and just here we desire, for the benefit of all concerned, to place the Sentinel squarely on the record, not politically, but as an industrial enterprise. The Sentinel, in carrying forward its business, must have printers. What constitutes a fair day’s work, printers determine, as a general proposition, for themselves. What constitutes fair pay the print© ’s absolutely determine for They also determine when they must receive their pay. The Sentinel accedes to these determinations and pays the price demanded. These declarations being true — absolutely true —what can be the grievance? Just here we unhesitatingly challenge the self-consti-tuted organs of workingmen to state the facts as we have stated them, and make their comments. This done in the spirit of rairness, open, frank and above board, without subterfuge or duplicity will at once put an end to the senseless effort to damage the Democratic party by falsely assailing the Sentinel.

Ourpurpose in writing this must not ba misunderstood. Workingmen have a right to be heard. — Their interests cannot be advanced bv falsehood. They are entitled to the truth, and when their chosen or self-constituted organs engage in vulgar villification, they become their worst enemies. The truth will out, and when workingmen secure for their services just what they demand, when they work or remain idle as they may elect, when Key choose their vacation, fix their own time for work, and receive their pay at the time stipulated by themselves, what more could be required eveii if the Democratic part/ controlled the situation, which it does not, never did, never can and never ought to. We invite the labor organs, and all other organs, regardless of persuasion, to wrestle with the foregoing, and let 1 their readers have the benefit of these cogitations.

Negro Suffrage as an Issue.

The Sherman-Foraker racket in Ohio is attracting so much atte ition among the collar-button republicans or tl e east that it is not going out of the way to say that these two lively partisans have struck the key-note of the next republican campaign. The remarks of these men are taken up by the Philadelphia Bulletin, which, in a general way is a very mild newspaper. Referring to the votes of the negro at the south, the Bulletin remarks that “by virtue of the existence of these votes, the democrats hold thirty-eight seats in the electoral college, and about twentyfour seats in congress.” To this sad announcement the Bulletin adds this heart-rending reflection: “No thoughtful man can contemplate this vast po ver which southern politicians possess without concern. It will bo one of the most interesting questions of the future how the south oan be compelled to abandon this advantage, and how this inert, ignorant and helpless population can ba made an active, intelligent and untrammelled foi ce in exercising the right of franchise.”

It is a pity that the republicans should be compelled to chew this bitter cud,. but chew it they must. Rampant republicans like the editor of the Bulletin should have thought of these things before. We submit that it is a little late in the day for republican partisans to be inquiring in public how the “inert, helpless and ignorant” negro voters “can be made an active, intelligent and untrammelled force in exercising the right of franchise. This momentous question sho’d hayp been asked when the proposition to confer the privilege on the negro was debatable. The negroes have the privilege of the ballot, and, in the south, they are not exercising it in the interest of the Republican party. This is where the shoe pinches. This is where the trouble arises.

What is the remedy? Well, it is perfectly plain, but only a few blunt Republicans dare to mention it. There is Ingalls, for instance» Ingalls doesn’t hesitate to say that “negro suffrage is a delusion and a snare,” and he is bold* enough to say “the privilege should be takon away from them.” But to what end? Only that the Republican party may thus cripple the Solid South. Very well; we admire the frankness of Mr. Ingalls, but it is too late to turn back now. We are in favor of negro suffrage, not because the race is prepared for it, but because it gives thj Democratic party of the south additional power. We are inclined to be as frank in this matter as Senator Ingalls is.—Atlanto Constitution.

They grasp the situation in the far-ofi State of Oregon. The Courier says: “The railroad companies of Pennsylvania o>n the coal mines and the legislature of Pennsylvania. The existence of of this combination explains the hellish oppression which is crushing civilization out of the coal miner, his wife and children. Do send missionaries to the Republican State of Pennsylvania! .It’s a godless country, ruled by bulldozers.”

GRAND EXCURSION! SEPT. 20.

Io Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Minnesota and all points in the west, southwest and northwest, over the famous Burlington route, Great Northwestern, RR., and Chicago & Mi.waukie Ry Cheap fare. Apply to C. P. Weight & Co. Rensselaer, Ind. The next reunion of the 20th Regiment Ind. Vols., will be held at Monticello, Sept. 1, 1888. The case of Jasper Spain vs J no. G. Reynolds has been dismissed by the White Circuit Court.

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