Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — “SIMPLY TO MAKE VOTES.” [ARTICLE]

“SIMPLY TO MAKE VOTES.”

[Laporte Argus.” A short time ago the Journal publishe ft terrible tirade against the democratic administration because some letters sent to Richmond Logansport did not arnv? at their estination ns quickly as they should. “Incompetent democratic clerks” and “the democrats haven’t bra ; ns enough Io managH the government business,” was the Journal’s conclusion, and its words were’ echoed by all the little party whippersnappers of the country. The facts are, on that particular postal route there is not one democratic clerk Every one of that force is a holdover, and ev ery one of them a republican.— What censure there was should fall on the republicans. A similar state of affairs is found to be true in a majority of the cases where complaint is made by the republi cans ‘lt is simply to make votes/ and everybody knows it, and therefore, it will not make anv votes. — It is a fact that the admin .stration of Pxfesident Cleveland is so far above legitimate criticism that the republicans are left with nothing to say bat to carp about trivial affairs and imaginary evils.

Take your butter and e<zgs to J. W. Duvall, at the new Grocery, and get cash or goods for them. High Authority.—There is a decision of the United States Supreme Court which reads as follows: “To lay with one hand the power 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 ihe forms of law and is called taxation. * * * Beyond a cavil, there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for public purposes.

Sweet cider at Duv/ll’s. Try itMayor Hewitt, of New York, gives the republican patriots of th t stay-at-home brigad) the following c liter-shot for calling him a “copperhead” during the war: “In the annals of the war department,” says Mayor Hewitt, “will be found a record of thanks tendered Cooper & Hewitt, of the Trenton (N. Y.) Iron Works, for their services to the Federal Government during the war of the rebellion. We gave our plant free of charge to the Governmert, and ‘instead of making any money we lost SIOO,OOO. I went commissioned to Europe,” said Mayor Hewitt, “to secure gun-barrel iron for the Government, and could only buy 300 tons when 4,000 tons were needed. I entered an iron foundry in disguise as an artisan, learned how iron for gun-barrels w asmade, telegraphed the information to our Secretary of War, and in twelve days the United States was making gun-barrels.”

It has been but a few weeks since Ingalls, a republican senator from Kansas, and during the war a “camp-follower,” taking precious good care to keep out of the range of bullets, declared in the senate that McClellan and Hancock had been allies of the confederacy.— The denunciations of these creatures amount to nothing. Their claim to loyalty and patriotism is as groundless as the claim of Judas Iscariot to Christianity, or the other fellow who besought the Lord to fall don and worship him and he would give him the kingdoms of the earth, when he hai no title to a foot of it. Their pretensions are controlled by a superabundance of cheek. Ge to Duvall’s and get pure ear* ly rose seed potatoes.

James Freeman,a New Harmony boy fifteen years eld, (has already built two small engines for himself with no materials except some brass piping, wire rods, screws, tacks and lead, and almost without tools. The first of these he completed several years ago, and it is a perfect curiosity in its construction, especially as regards the valve gear and mode of exhaust; it bas« wooden balance-wheel. The second, which he completed last week, is a neat model of a slide-valve engine, with eccentric, rock shalt, etc., and runs with lightning speed. Steam is furnished from an iron pot, with a wooden top substantially bolted on, mounted on rough brick work and supplied with a neat safety-valve, whistle, etc., all the work of the youth. Even a steam gauge is not wanting, and this can be made to show an apparent pressure of thirty pounds — adding novelty to the unique collection of machinery. The boy is , now engaged on a tubular boiler to I supply steam for his smaller en-1 gine, and is already talking of budding a Corliss model with governor.

As a Scottish minister and an English lawer were riding together, said the minister to his friend, “Sir, do you ever make mistakes in your pleading?” “I do,” .said the lawyer. “An’ what do ye do wi’ mistakes?” was the question.— “Why, sir, if large ones, I mend them; if small ">ne«, I let them go. “And pray, sir, do you ever make mistakes in preaching?” “Ay, sir, I have dune sae.” “And what do you do with your mistakes?” Oh, I dispense with them in the same manner as ye do yoursel’. I rectifee the large, an’ let go the sma’ anes. No lang since, as I was preachin’, I meant to observe that the Devil was the father o’ a’ liars, but made a mistake, and said he was the father o’ a’ lawyers. But the mistake was sa sma’ that I let it go.”

A Heroic Girl. Miss Clara—“Oh, Ethel, I had my ears pierqpd to-day.” Miss Ethel—“Wern’t you dreadfully frightened?” Miss Clara—“A 1-ttle at first, but I kept saying ‘solitaire,’ ‘solitaire,’ ‘solitaire’ to myself, and before I knew it, it was all over.” —New York Sun.

Buy your garden seeds of Dutall. “Can I have a word with- yon?” asked a trampish-looking man of a Pharisee in spring cloth s. . “No, sir; I’m busy. Besides, vou are in no condition to ta’k with a gentleman.” “I only wanted—” “Oh, I know, y< u only rented to ( ask fora quarter, asun.iL” “Now, look ’ere, i ard, wu know me. “Yes;, you always insist on the acquaintance when you aie diunk.’* “Can’t you give a fellow a chance?” “Yes, I have given you half a dozen chances at my pocket-book. You owe me $4 now, and you are always going to pay next time. I’m tired of you. Good day.” “All right, pard. I only stopped you to say that I had been paid off to-day and would like to squ re up. Good day.” Brookstoh Magnet: A traveling man, stopping here a few days ago, stated that while in Goodland, lasi week, e was unable to piocure hotel lodging or even a railroad ticket, owing to the fact that he had no money ether than four five dollar silver certificates, and for fear of them not being genuine they would not accept them. Such is the fear existing in that locality since the counterfeiters hav6 been caught. — A Logansport man, in watching tho demolishing of an old house in that city recently, saw a <la/ pipe imbeded in a brick. Curiosity led him to break the brick and secure the pipe, of common white clay, which must have been lying m its contented bed for nearly fifty years, as the old building was erected in 1847. , W. J. Huff and Capt. Ed. Welty, of Monticello, purchased the Valparaiso Vidette; republican organ of Porter county. Pecuniarily we wish our old friends abundant success. The Minnesota Farmers’ Alliance indorse Mr. Cleveland’s tariff recommendat ons. —— Groceries! Groceries!! Groceries!!! Cheap as the cheapest, at J. W. Duvall’s new Grocery.