Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — Democratic County Mass Convention! [ARTICLE]

Democratic County Mass Convention!

Headquarters of Democratic 1 Central Committee. J Rensselaer, Ind., March 23d, ’BB. The Democrats o f Jasper County wi l ! meet in Mass Convention at Rensselaer, on SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1888, for the purposeof selecting delegates to the Democratic Sta + e Convention. Also, delegates to the Congressional, Legislative, and Judicial conventions. The dates of these conventions will be announced at the proper time Every Democrat in Jasper county, and all in accord with the policy of the present administration are cordially invited to be present and participate in the proceedings of the co vention. Ihe Democritic Central Committee will meet on same day for the transaction ot important business. LEE E. GLAZEBROOK, Chairman. V. E. Loughridge, Sec’y.

Cleveland’s annual message:— “The simple and plain duty which we owe the people is to reduce taxation to the necessary expenses of an economical operation of the government, and to restore to the business of the country the money which we hold in the treasury through the perversion of governmental powers.” Opinion of the United States Supreme Court: “To lay with one hand the power of the Government on tne property of the citizens, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. * * * Beyond a cavil, there can be no lawful tax, which is not laid for public purposes.”

The Indianapolis News says that “the special feature of the George H Ihomas camp-fire last (Tuesday) night” was the reading of a paper by one Gen. Coburn devoted “to reviving recollections of Indianapolis during the war, more particularly the famous Democratic gatherings headed by Hendricks, Voorhees and McDonald, which culminated in an attempt at the State House to kill Hendricks by Some of the enraged soldiery,” etc.

Th 3 News can bet its ‘gallus’ life that if the reading of Coburn's wonderful caused Dem< - cratic comrades to “look at each other askance,” then he was engaged in gross perversions of history, as, during the war, he and his party were unrelenting in their misrepresentations of Democratic men and measures, and persistent in their attempts, by outrageous falsehood and calumny, to incite violence again t men who dared to differ with them; men who, while obstinately oppos d to secession and treason south, were equally opposed to the designs of radical lenders north to secure partisan advantages and party perpetuity at the expense of the patriotism courage, endurance and sacrifices of the gallant soldiers at the front. Accor.irg t > the News, General Coburn was in command of the Union forces at Jeffersonville and New Albany, Ind., and it is pot to be ’wondered at that he selected the theme he read on the occasion referred to.

The Philadelphia Record says: “The great curse of the tariff system of this country is that it cut* off American manufacturers from the equal advantages which they should enjoy in the field of raw materials. While the manufacturers of England, Germany and France have their pick and choice of the best raw materials of production that the world can supply, the manufacturers and workingmen of the United States are compelled to take what is left and pay high tax upon it Under such conditions successful dompetition of Amer : can industries with European rivalry i out of the quest'on,

either in the home or fore’gn market.” Accessories to the Eldredge Sewing Machine can be procured of Mrs. Jas. W. McEwen. The Cincinnati Enquirer: “The heart ©f the Republican managers is very sore over the prospect in Indiana.” One of the most marked peculiarities of the present tariff is that it taxes the poor man more than the rich. It levies an average tax on -woolen goods of 70 per cent, and on silks of 49 per cent., while the cheaper woolens are ta ed attwice the rate of the finest si’ksComoare the taxes of 90 per cent o i window glass, 54 per eent. on ready-made clothing, 52 per cent on stockings, 54 per cent, on felt hats, 58 per cent, on crockery, and 48 per cent, on tinware —compare these rates with the 20 per cent, on watches, 30 per cent, on linen laces, 20percent, on furs, 25 der cent, on jewelry, 50 per centon champagne, and 10 per cent, on precious stones.

A dispatch from Bloomington, dated April 9th, concerning the pitiable condition of cattle that have been subjected to the dehorning process, says: “Thousands of cattle have been dehorned in this section since the outbreak of the craze a few months ago, and vitli but fe\ exceptions the animals rapidly recovered from the operation. Yesterday, however. news came that several droves of recently dehorned cattle on farms west of Bloomington are in a most pitiable and serious condition. Their horns were removed March 1. The wounds have Dot healed, and mortification is reported to have set in in the flesh of the head. Something like 10,000 animals are reported to be thus affected.”

Kentland Gazette: James Sapp and John Banes, the two young men of Goodland, who* were ar rested so: passing count *rfeit $5 silver certificates have each furnished bail and are now at their home in Good land. We are informed that they will easily prove their innocence as they can produce evidence showing that they received the monej through a legitimate business transaction and were entirely ignorant of it being bad money. The amount of this money placed in circulation has been greatly exaggerated. Their friends of this county will be greatly pleased to hear ©t their innocence being proved as both are young men who have always been highly respected.

The Supreme Court decided a “school supply” case from Fountain county last week, ho’ding that although the Trustee ordered the goods, and the seller sold in good faith, the township not needing the goods, the sale was void and the plaintiff could not recover.— This is a good decision, and one th should be kept in mind by taxpayers. Inexperienced trustees are often the victims of unscrupulous agents who sell them school supplies at two prices, which perhaps are not needed at all.

Some vears ago an Oregon schoo ma’am was keeping company with a youth, who one day gave her some dead lands in California. Beth considered them worthless; but a woman hates to part with anything, so she laid the deeds away. Last w.ek she received an offer of half a million for the land, valuable mineral deposits having been discow red.

At Logansport. Ind , Tuesday, Louis and Andrew lUy, grocers, were arrested on the charge of black lad Ued by R. B Mathews, to whom they sent bills inclosed in envelopes marked “Dead-beat Claims Collected.” ■ - The Rensst L er High School will give a Shakespearean entertainment, similar to the Dickens and Scott given in the past, at the Opera House, Friday evening, April 27, 1888.. Proceeds to be applied to the Dickens library. Remember the new Grocery and give them a trial. Two doors east of post-offic . J. W; Duvall, proprietor.