Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — NEWTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

NEWTON ITEMS.

Change in the weather, we trust for the better. Owing to our recent rains corn crop is w orsted. Oats crop likewise. Jake Thomas is visiting Morris Thomas. Ben Smoot and wife have returned from Indianapolis where he ba o been Ut work. The bridge which was washed out by recent rains near the Gowdy farm, on theold Bunkum road, has been replaced this week ready for travel. Ben Harris, of Rensselaer, is a frequent caller in Newton. We suspect he is watching up his farm. Miss Rilla Warren is back at her old home again. How long she will remain time will tell.

Esq John McColly, Sam Yeo-irv-’s tenant, brought on the farm la. t Saturday a very fine coR. S. E. Yeoman’s stock farm is being supoiiod with stock at intervals and is now one rrcong the best in the township. Miss Gertie Baker, of Onarga, Illinois, is visiting her grandparents. Hon. Ben Harrison, the rey. candidate, who would like to be our next president in a soeech delivered by him at Rensselaer, when Hen. Blue Jeans did him up at the ballot-box, said—and that was all he coud and did say—“ Thank God I’m not a Democrat!’ If he was he would be sure of an office, provided he was a nomine*.

SHORTY.

Labor Signal: The Lafayette Courier ‘-happens to know” that the committee of Indianapolis la - boring men who went to Chicago to protest again : 'Vo nomination of Harrison, “a-mocratic strikers and o vver 3 hired to go to Chicago to prevent the nomination of Indiana,soli ke.” The Courier s knowledge is truly wonj derful—almost as wonderful as its i disregard for truth. Or the eight men composing the committee, on-->y is of Democratic antecedents, tne other seven having generaliv, heretofore, voted the Republican ticket. Not one ©f them i« employed in the office of a Democratic county official, nr in the office of any county official whatsoever. The committee did the v or i they went kpChieago to perIxo m. 1 hey did it cleanly and abo aboard. They gave the convention fair warning. That warning was disregarded. In her, after election day, the Lafay etie Courier will “happen to know ’ a great deal mere than it knows to-day. It will whether that vim ting committee were the “representatives of the labor int- ; erests” of Indiana or not, In the meantime, the bignal advises the Courier 10 cultivate lore for and practice of truth. It will find, when the great tribulation of NovenVber falls upon and grieves its soul that a clear conscience is a wonderful eousoler. The Philadelphia Press says: ; “The Declaration of Independence 1 and the republican platform sho’d ■ be read at every Fourth of July J celebration where patriotic Amer--1 icon citizens are gathered toI gether.'’ “Just so. Tear both sides.”— ■ Newark Journal. YThen asked whence comes our candidate, Our sole rep’y sPall be — He comes from Indiana And ills famous ances-tree. Kansas City Star. This from the Chicago Times: Of all the words of tongue or pen The saddest are—they would kave Ren. —Walter Q. Gresham.

The ratifiers were very mum on the 'free list’ proposed by the republican platform: Free whisky l free tobaeeo. In his senate speech in favor of the immigration of the Chinese, Harrison said that the “Chinese wouli make better citizens than the Irish.”