Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — Democratic Central Committee Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Central Committee Meeting.

The members of the Democratic Central Committee oi Jasper County, Indiana, are requested to meet at the Court House, in Rensselaer, on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1888, at 1 o’clock p. ro., for the the purpose of reorganization and the transaction of important business. Let every member be present. JAS. W. McEWEN, Sec’y. * M. H. of the Winamac Democratic Journal, has bepn appointed postmastar at that p ace. "We congratulate Bro. Irgrim. The owners of protected indue tries in Pennsylvania are having a serious time with the pauper bbor (Polish and Hungarian) shipped into this country by them to take the places of American wageworkers who could not live, with their families on from 60 to 90 cents a day. Protection evidently does not extend to the wage-worker

Take the tax off raw materiel.— Give our manufactui er s a chance to produce goods at prices that will enable them to compete for the trade of other countries. Then, indeed, will it be necessary to increase our productions—steady and remunerative employment wil be the result. Surplusage of productions at high figures, and idlen sb in corsequence, will then be unknown. A number of Republican election officers testified in the conspiracy trial at Indianapolis that they took possession of election papers, to which they were not entitled, in obedience to instructions contained in circular is’ sued by the chairman of the republican county committee Carnahan. We pause to see whether Judge Woods will expend the same amount of virtuous indignation in Carnahan’s case, as he ha* in those recently on trial,

Misery in an Unexpected Quarter. —The shutting down of so many furnaces, in Pennsylvania) for want of coal has caused misery in an unexpected quarter. TLere being no demand for ore, many of the iron ore mines along the East Pennsylvania railroad have closed down. The miners who have large families receive but 75 to 9!' cents per day and are consequently, even when working, in almost abject poverty. About thirty of them with then families have been compelled to seek adm'- ance io the Berks ond Lehigh c ,’-y poorhouses until work r ■ . i L Coy and Bernheimer were convicted of the election conspiracy, according to our reading of the proceedings f the trial, on the unsupported and uncorroborated testimony of S. E. Perkins, who vas granted immunity for appearing as a witnes • for the State.— So far as the mutilation of the tally s-hee-s is concerned -Perkins confessed that he operated on some of them; but that the convicted parties had a hand in it is totally repudiated and denied by witness-1 es relied upon to corroborate Perkins. With reference to the conspiracy to get possession of the election papers, the only thing proven was by the testimony of certain republican election offioerr, who testified that they had unlaw-

their districts under instructions contained in the circular issued by Carnahan, chairman of the Re publican county committee. Had Coy and Bernheimer be*’ proven guilty Democrats would concur in the verdir t and sentence.. As it is, in the language of a prominent republican lawyer to us the other day: “The verdict is not in harmony with the testimony; in my judgment no case was made against the defendants.” We think Judge Woods, when we consider his rulings and charge, has been overzealous in his desires to secure conviction and hasten them to prison. It looks as though he submitted with bad grace to interference from a hioher court. He belongs to a party that for many years maintained its supremacy through violence, corruption, fraud and rape of the ballot box. In all these years we may presume Judge Woods smiled complacently at the success of these deeds of crime while the perpetrators were rewarded w th positions at salaries ranging from SI2OO to sl7 500 per annum, knd the Judge, too, is the beneficiary of an administration which virtually bought its way 13 power.

A prominent New England naanufatturer being asked what he thought of President Cleveland’s message on the tariff question, replied: ‘lt is an important document, and should be read by every voter in this country. With free raw material the American manufacturer can place his wares in competition with those of foreigners in the markets of the world It will enable them to enlarge their trade and secure an increased demand, which insures steady employment to our laboring people, and at good wages. This is not so now, for the reason that we have no market for our goods. This is the way to protect American labor. Give them steady employment, and that can never be done until we have a foreign market for the work of their hands. The President sees this state of affairs, and hebas had the courage to rise above all party considerations, and say so, in terms that cannot te misunderstood.”