Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1888 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XII

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AM McCor. A. M«COY & ©®.J BANKERS) (Succesfcoie to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer, Ind. ■AO a liberal bankins. business. b Exchange points Office same pUeO as old Mr . & Thompson mordecai r. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Eaw Indiana fENSSELAEB. fAsUee. Un Uta. gtreet, opposite Court House ‘ Attorn.y-rt.Law. THOMPSON v. BENSSELAEB, - Practicein al’ the Courts.

ARION I*. SPITLER, Collector ;vnd AbstractorWe pay particular attention to paying -tax- , selling and leasiag lands. __ TP. fl. H. GRAHAM, ’ ’ ’ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Reebdelatr, Indiana. Money to loan on longtime at low interest Sept. 10, on. JAMES W.DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, *#**»*»” Office upstairs. In Maieever’s new jUildine. Rensselaer. Ind. Edwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin. HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT'LAW, Rensselaer, Ind, Office on second floor of Leopold’s Block, coiner of Washington and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Avstin purchases, sells and le. bps real estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable instruments. may27,’B7. yyM. W WATSON, Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER. IND. yy W. HARTSELL, M D HOMCEOPATHIC IPHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty..® OFFICE, in Makeever’s Mew Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884.

H. LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, seesnd door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent. Interest will be added to all AMounts running uusettled longer than tree months. vini DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, 7?en«se&zer, Ind. □ails promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. Zimri Dwiggins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib President. Vic—President. Cashier CITIZENS’STATEBANK BENSSELAEB. IND., TjOES A GENERAL BANKING”RUsYnEsT; Jfz Certificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on farms at lowest rates and onmossf avor.tble terms, Jan. 8, 88.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY JUNE 22. 18S«

CLEVELAND BLESSED.

How the President Received the Ntwa of His Nomination. A Republic reporter was talking with Mr. W. C. Connor, mayor of Dallas, Tex., and secretary of the Texas delegation to the recentconventio , oa Fourth-st. yesterday, when a tall, well-built, fine-looking man i clerical black walked out of the Planters’ house and turned south yard. “ihere’s a man you ought to know,” said Mr. Ccunor. “He is the Rev. A. P. Smith, r-.l one ol the most prominen clergymen in Texas, and can teh you a very interesting story regarding a recent exnerience with the president, if he will.” The reporter immediately approached Mr. Smith and said: “I understand that you recently enjoyed a very interesting experience with President Cleveland.”

“You are rightly informed, sir. I recently had an experience with the president that was not only extremely interesting, but to me it was one ot the most s< lemn episodes of my life, and an occasion never to be forgotten. I have been for the past three weeks in attendance on the Southern presbyterian conference at Baltimore and the Union conference at Philadelphia. On my return I stopped off at Washington and called on President Cleveland. 1 was received with a frank courtesy I can never forget. I also enjoyed the honor of a presentation to Mrs. Cleveland. I have met many charming and beautiful women in my day, but never one more attractive than she. As I was leaving the white house the president came graciously forward to shake hands with me, and while I still grasped his hand a messenger entered with a telegram, which, with an apology to me, he handed to the prosid -nt Mr. Cleveland opened it, read it at a glance, and, without the quiver c e a muscle in his face, continued his conversation with me. I imagined the dispatch related to some unimportant piece of state business, but, as 1 was leaving him he handed it to me with a smile and said:

“Perhaps you will be pleased to be among the first to Know this piece of news?” “1 cannot describe to you my feelings when I read on that little slip of paper the announcement of the president’s renomination! I could not offer stereotyped congratulations to a man so grandly calm and so wonderfully self-pos-sessed, and as I looked at his strong, commanding and impassive feaures, I felt the inspiration of the hour, and the man’s singular and splendid fate, and I know that he was the creature of a will even stronger than the will of the people, which had called him to the high place he so magnificently fills, and would maintain him there until his mission was ended. Lifting my hands above his head, I blessed him and his administration, in the name of Almighty God, a»d gave him cheer for the fight to come. He received my blessing with bowed head and remained an instant in the same position; then, withja gesture and a word,he tliankme and moved away. It was an impressive moment, and 1 do not believe there was a person in the room who did not feel a solemn -conviction that he was looking upon the next president of the United States, beyond the power of mere partisan opposition to make otherwise.” Mr. Smith is a handsome man of imposing appearance, apparently about fifty years of age, though extremely well preserved, with bright, kindly blue eyes, prominent features and a corn-colored beard, worn in the Conkling style. He is one of the foremost divines in the country and took an important part in the proceedings of the recent presbyterian conference. [St. Louis Republic. California papers are boasiing of strawberries eight and nine inches in circumference.

A Demagogue unmasked.

In his last pronunciamento to the American people, from abroad, James G. Blaine says: “Were impossible for every voter of the Repul lie to see for himself the condition and recompense of labor i:i Europe, the party of ?r e trade in the United States would not receive tht support of one wage worker between the two oceans.” Political dishonesty is st'-inped on .he face of this statement. In Public Document No. 12, October 1881, Commercial Relations of the United Stares, cn page 98, in submitting to the House of Representatives the reports from the Consuls of the United States on cotton manufactures, this self-same James G. Blaine, then Secretary of State, m his “Introductory Letter,” savs:

“lhe Wages of spinners and weavers in Lancashire and Massachusetts, according! to the foregoing statements [tables of hours and wages in the cotton mills of both countries], were as follows per week: Spinners, English, $7.20 to $8.40 (master spinners running as high hb $12); American $7.07 to $10.30. Weavers: English, $3.84 to $6.04, subject, at the dates on which these ra + es were given to a reductibn of 10 per cert.; American, $4.82 to $8.73. The average wages of employees in the Massachusetts mills is as follows, according to th * official returns: Men, $7.30; women, 85.62; male children, $3.11; female children, $3.08 According to Consul Shaw’s report, the average wages of men employed in Hie Lancashire mills on the Ist of January, 1880, was about $8 per week, sub ject to a reduction of 10 per cent.; women from $3.40 to $4.30, subject to a reduction of 10 per cent. The hours of labor in the Lanca - shire mills are fifty-six, in the Massachusetts mills sixty per week The hours of labor in the mills m the other New England States, where the wages are generally less than in Massachusetts, are usu? lly 66 to 69 per week. Undoubtedly the inequalities in the wages of English and American operatives are more than equalized by the greater efficiency of the latter and their longer hours of labor. If If this shpuld prove to be a fact in practice, as it seems to be proven fiom official statistics, it would be a very important element in the establishment of our ability te compete with England for our share of the cotton-goods trade of the world.”

Secretary of State Blaine then goes on to say: “In the two prime factors which may be said to form the basis of the cotton manqfacturing industry, namely, raw material and labor, we hold the advantage over England in the first, and stand on an equality with het in the second.” Over $6,000,000 of gol 1 has been exported to Europe in the last fortnigh and the outflow still continues. The balance of trade is turning against the United States owing to the difficulties American farmers meet in exporting food products and offering them for sale in the free trade marker oi Europe. Commenting on this, the Republican Chicago Tribune says: If the farmers are not given some relief they cannot be depended upon to hold the balance of trade in favor of the United States and gold exports must set in. The projected manufacturers will do nothing and can do nothing to hold a trade balance in favor of this country so long as they are wartaxed on their raw materials and cannot'enter foreign markets on equal terms with British manufacturers. If the United States is to avoid ruinous drains of specie the

farmer’s rost of living must be reduced so as he| can endure free trade competition ui d the manufa turers roust be put in condition to export their products. If the farmers are to be overtaxed on everything they buy and compelled to sell their surplus produce at free trade rates and American manufacturers continue, carrying away to Europe and expending there in pleasure-seeking tens of millions of monopoly bounty acquired in the United States, the balance of trade will run permanently against this country, which must soon be depleted of the precious metals. ’ -* < «»*■■■■•- The Newton County Democratic Convention will be held at "t. Ayr, Thursda ' of next week. •> • Adelbert Boyer, the slayer of of John Genhart at Peru, will be tried at September term of White Circuit Court.

■ ID DM. The Union Township Hendricks League No. 3 will meet at the Center School House, Union Tw’p, on Saturday, June 23d. Evening. The Barkley Township Hendricks League No. 2 will meet at Center School House, Barkley Township, Saturday, June 30th. — Evening. The Democrats will meet at rhe following named places and time for th-* purpe se of organizia? branches of the Hendricks League: Jordan Township, Egypt School House, Thursday, June 28th.— Evening. Milrov Township, Center School House, July 7th. Evening. Wheatfield Township, Wheatfield, Saturday, July 14th. Evening Kankakee. Township, Dunrville, Monday, July 16th. Evening. Let all Democrats turn out. By order of Jasper County League Organizing Committee. DAVID W. SHIELDS, President. A. N. Lakin, Sec’y

MIS' no !■ I The Annual Session of the J asper County Summer School for teachers wi 7 l be held in the High School Building, Rensselaer, Ind., beginning, July 16, 1888, and continu five weeks. The Instruction will be under the charge of Prof. F. W. Reubelt, superintendent of the 1 ensselaer schools, assis’ed by I. C. Rbubelt and Amanda W. Warren, of the same schools. The Course of Study will include all the common school branches, Pedagogy and such of the sciences as may be desired. The work will be given by topics and any good text book may be used. The Primary Practice Work will be under the sup-rvision of Mrs. Warren and it will be the aim to make it one of the most interesting features of the scheol. Tuition for the term $4.50 if paid in advance, if not paid in advance $1 per week will be charged. The County Institute will immediately follow the summer school. The usual special rates for board can be secured. Believing it to be your desire to improve and advance in your work, I shall expect you in attendance during the entire term. Our very poorest teachers are satisfied with present attainments; our best ones, ready and wdlling to receive information from any source. l Yotr friend, J, F. Warren, Co. Supt. J. C.

In James G. Blaine’s ‘Twenty Years in Congress’ that Republican leader speaks of Mr. Thurman as follows: His rank in the Senate was established from the day he took his seat, and was never lowered during the period of his service. He was an admirably disciplined debater, was fair in his method of statement, logical in his argument, honest in his conclusions. He had no tricks in discussion, nu catch 'phrases to secure attention, but was always direct and manly. }.l is mind was not preoccupied and en grossed with political contests or affairs of state. ' He had natural and cultivated tastes outside of those fields. He was a discrinii natmg reader, and enjoyed not only serious books, but inclined also to the lighter indulg nice of romance and poetry. He was especially fond of the best French writers. He loved Moliere anil Racine, and o uld quote with rare enjoyment the humorous scene, depicted by Balzac. He took pleasure in the dram ', and was de.oted to music. In Washington he v ould usually be found in the best seat in the theatre when a [good play was to be presented or the opera was to be given. These tastes illustrate the genial side of his nature, and a fitting compliment to tin stronger and sterner elements of the man. His retirement from th« Senate was a serious loss to jnis party a loss indeed to the body. He left behind him the, respect of all with whom he had been associated during his twelve, years of honorable service. In his speech at Soringfield, accepting the Democratic mmination for governor, ex-Governor Palmer repeated and emphasized his promise to give Illinois “a government as firm r the law, no firmer; as- weak ns the law, no weaker.” He dec! rr that there is abundance ol pow in the Sta e 10 enforce laws and preserve order. If he is .dected he “will make the acquaintance of the Pinkerton army,” and if he finds it what he expects “it will either go out of business or go to the penitentiary, if he can get a law to send it there.” Illinois may well thank God for men who have the intelligence to hold such ideas and the courage to express them. What greater cuise could there be to any State than government by pnyate detectives? We have had too much of it in Pennsylvania. The men to whom Governor Palmer has referred as “the Pinkerton army” >re at best hired spies and sometimes become hired murderers. —Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post.

The Red Bandana.

The red bandana which has been so quickly <.s the standard of the democracy,and which promises to play a picturesque and conspicuous part in the coming campaign, first came prominently into public vie v during Judge T urman’s service at Washington. It was a l uge affair, of the brightest scarlet, and was generally stuffed into the breast pocket of his coat or into his hip pocket. The judge was an habitual snuff taker, and after »e galing himself with a big pinch from his capacious snuff-box wp’d pull out bis bandana and sound a blast that would shame an able bodied bassoon. Another use to which the bandana was put was somewhat malicious. When a friend, iike Edmunds, Mrtt. Carpenter, Conkling or Bayard, was talking, Judge Thurman carefully refrained from sending out that distracting snort, but when some senator of smaller calibre was speaking, especially one fond of spread-eagle rhetoric and eloquent addresses to the gallery, the bandana wou’d appear at some particularly brilliant point and a blast would be sounded that would knock out the flow of eloquence and scattec the speaker’s fine rhetoric. —Philadelphia Record.

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