Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1888 — COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY TICKET.

Treasure!, WM. H. WELLS. Sheriff, JOHN C. CHILCOTE. Coroner, VICTOR E. LOUGHRIDGE. Surveyor, AUSTIN N. LAKIN. Commissioners. Ist Dist.—DAN H TURNER. 2d “ JAS. T RANDLE 3d “ ED. W. CULP. Read the Democratic Platform. It gives out no uncertain sound. Thurman gives the Democratic national ticket a boom in Ohio and on the Pacific slope.

Al. Nethercut, was dragged from his buggy, near Idaville, last Wed. nesday, and robbed of S3O.

A cLizen of Monon, named Diamond, was arrested last week for sending obscene literature through the mails.

Last week Pension Agent Zollinger, at Indianapolis, distributed to Indiana pensioners the magnificent sum of $1,085,000.

Mayor Nester, of Marquette, Michigan, formerly a prominent republican political! says that Blaine is too| smart to be put up as a sacrifice.

The Amalgamated Association •f Iron and Steel Workers, in ses sion at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by resolution denounce the Milis tariff-reform bill.

We venture the prediction that the platform of the Republican convention to be held in Chicago next week will contain a piank in favor of tariff revision. Our Democratic County Convention was equally as unanimous in the selection of a ticket ae was the Democratic National Convention in its demand Kr Cleveland and, Thurman. A good omen.

We understand that Chas. Parm Wright recently stated that lie had , Jani’es under contract for one year. Janies had the material of the played-out Message office. The new press and a small amount of ether material reached here directed to Mr. James. Therefore it is natural to infer- .* Ist. That Horace H. James holds proprietary interest in the establishment, and that Mr. Sickles has no part of $2,000 invested therein. 2d. That Parm. Wright- if he has a contract with Mr. James will conduct the real estate and other interests connected with his Board of Trade department.— Bros. James and Sickles w II look after the soft soap am l political departments. Retrospection. Prior to 1874 Bro. Janies was loud and bitter in h’s denunciation of Democrats as rebel sympathizers, copperheads, butternuts, etc. In that year a bright light, like that which bewildered Saul of Tarsus, shot across his pathway, and lie rushed to the support of some of those he had formerly bitterly denounced. In 1876, after having given, due notice that at a designated time he would announce his political affiliations, he resumed full fellowship with the Republican organization, and was one of the few who illuminated their premises in t >ken of the joy felt at the success of the Fraud Hayes steal. — In 1879 he was appointed, postmaster, and soon <fter withdrew from journalism. The defeat of Blaine, in 1884, rendered him desperate, and on the day following the great Democratic jubilee in the intense bitterness of soul he spread the following thoughts on his bulletin board: “The vandalism committed last night are the legitimate, organized, deliberate insults of Democracy for Reform.”

“In tbe interest of Reform the Democracy of Jasper County deliberately, wantonly insult every soldier who lost a leg or arm, or who was wounded in the line of duty in defence of the Union.”

In 1886, he founded the Message as #he only ‘trooly lo:l’ republican paper in J asj er county, and plead for recognition. In the course of the campaign he “split,” and supported the Democratic candidates for Auditor and Treasurer. The Democrat > fully expected to reelect their Treasurer, and felt that they had a good show for the Auditor, but James’ support helped to defeat the Treasurer and increased the majority of tfyo republican candidate for Auditor threefold over that he received before.

Mr. Sickles is a stranger. We know nothing of him, beyond his statement to us. t He informed u» that m the past he has been employed on Democratic and Republican papers; that it was a rule with him “when in Rome to do as Rome does” —i. e. Democrat or Republican as +he circumstances might require. Mr. James can claim no more than this.

We look upon the advocacy of Democratic men, maesures and principles, by men of such claims as only so much “lip-service,” not -ntitled to the confidence and support of the partv they might pretend to represent.

' Among the recent utterances of Sam Jones, the great revivalist, we find the following: “I am not a Democrat, but you Republicans needn’t grin; [ never belonged to your gang. I’m for Cleveland though. No man has sat in the White House in this nineteenth centurv, who has had more grit to do what he thought to be right, and he is growing all over the country on account of hi determined courageous action. This is the kind of a man we want. If any one doesn’t like what I say, he can come up and apologize after the lecture is over, and I’ll forgive him.”

Congressman McKinley, i epublican, of Ohio, says the nomination of Thurman by the Democrats for Vice-President necessitates the nomination of Sherman by the Republicans for President to save the State.

Indianapolis News(iepublican) •_ Cleveland is objec-ional le to a good deal the same element in his party in New York that Thurman is in Ohio, and it is a credit to both of them. There were many men in the mines of the Hocking valley in Ohio who were glad to hear of the nomination of Allen G. Thurman. He stood by those men and got them their rights once on a time. —lndianapolis Suu (Ind.)

“ ‘Onward and upward’ will be the maxim of the new paper,” said the editor, proudly. And it proved a happy maxim, too. For three short months the paper went onward, and then it went upward.— Harper’s Bazaar. Yes, when once the limit of the donation was reached it would naturally cease to go “onward” and have a tendency to proceed “upward,” taking with it the advancepa i<i subscriptions.

Indianapolis Sul (Ind.): I’he Cleveland Press, m a very able editorial, takes the ground that Ohio cannot be carried by the democrats —in fact, that it cannot even be counted on as a doubtful state. Perhaps the P. ess is mistaken. Ohio was a doubtful state in 1876, even when the candidate of the republicans was a Buckeye resident. If the democrats make a strong fight in Ohio, as they undoubtedly will, that state is not sure to go republican. The vast independent element in that state, which is bound by no party, is quite apt to go with the democracy this year, and it is a question if it is not of sufficient strength to not only make up for the McLeanBuck Brady renegades but to carry the state as well. Ohio is not a sure republican state under ail circumstances.