Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1887 — JACCSON’S PURPOSE. [ARTICLE]

JACCSON’S PURPOSE.

V e are unavoidably compelled to issue but a half-sheet to-day. Ou the 14th inst., J ustic-. Blatchford, of the U. S. Supreme Court, r 'ndered a decision in which he declares the ‘drive well’ patent invalid on the ground that it was first used in public at Courtland, N. Y., two years before the patent was made. This decision will sto’? further payments of royalty. Some of our Republican exchanges are bi' ding for the anarchist vote. The Indianapolis Journal gave the key-note, to-wit ; “Gov. Oglesby is a Republican; he commute? the sentence of the only wage-workers in the lot, therefore vote the Republican ticket hereafter,” and the small fry take on.

The Democratic State Central Committee met at Indianapolis Wendnesday last for the tran . action of business and consultation. The meeting was attended by a large number of representative Democrats from all over the State. A jubilant feeling prevailed over the result of the New York election, and the una r imity regarding Cleveland’s renomination and reelection. A prominent Democrat said: “’There has been apathy and a lack of confidence in Indiana, but now everything i changed, and more earnest, aggressive Demcrats can not be found anywhere than in Indiana to-day. Al of the of the open and quiet oonosition t<_ Cleveland that formerly existed has been swept away, and with one acoord the party is getting itself in fighting trim. This means certain victory in Indiana next year.” The prevailing opinion was in favor of an early convention.

“it is not necessary to-carry New York in order to elect a Republican President. Grant was elected in 1868 and nayes was elected in 1876 without the help or New York.”—Kentland Gazette. Grant was elected without the help of New York, socalled reconstruction times, when one-third of the States were disfranchised. As to Fraud Hayes, he was never elected. , He had against him the electoral vote, and a quarter of a million majority of the popular vote. The Presidency went to him by virtue of perjury, forg ry and thef+, and the Wack and white perpetrators of the crime received places of trust and profit at his heeds for committing the deed.

“Keep it before the people that the present depleted state treasury is a democratic legacy, and that al’ the financial embarrassment which the state is now undergoing is due to the party whieh has been persistently shouting “reform ’ most of the time,” etc.—MonticeUo Herald. When the Dera cratic State Treasurer, Cooper, retired from office last February, he paid over to Lemcke his republican successor, $320,525.20, every,p nny with which he was charged. And only a few days ago the State Auditor and Treasurer, both .Republicans, in compliance with law published their official statement of the condition of the treasury at the close of October. That statement shows, after t. e payment of all current expenses of the State, a balance in the treasury es $373,#44.21. This ’would seem to make out that the Herald is outrageously

That entering wedge which the republican party attempted to drive into the solid south thro’ the state of Virginia failed to stick. Fred. Grant is quietly considering “What there is in a name,’ and no doubt will conclude that “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” • “Scooped,” cries the Philadelphia Press. “Disheartening,” adds theglndianapolis Journal. “As goes New York in 1887,’’ shouted the Rew Yor& Tribune before the last election, “so the country will go in 1888.” New York went Democratic in 1887.

“The true inwardness of Henry R. Jackson’s treesonable speech at Maaon. doesn’t seem to be known at the North.” said a Georgia gentl man. “And whac is that true inwardness?” “Well, you know that Jackson resigned his position as Mexican minister because of a quarrel with the administration. The fact is he hates the administration because it would not lei him run things. Now he has given the North something to talk about in the hope that it will d Teat Cleveland if he is nominated next year. Jackson would rather see a republican elected than Cleveland, and he would like to have Cleveland feel that when he let him go he weakened himself and his party.”