Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — COUNTY TICKET [ARTICLE]

COUNTY TICKET

Treasurer, WM H. WELLS. Sheriff, JOHN C. CHILCOTE Coroner, VICTOR E. LGUGHRIDGE. Surveyor, AUSTIN N. LAKIN. Commissioners. Ist Dist.—DAN H TURNER. 2d “ JAS. T RANDLE 3d “ ED. W. CULP.

8®“ We have no asylum for idiots in Indiana, but I think it would be very well for the next legislature to turn its attention in that direction.—Ben Harrison’s compliments to the Greenbackers, 1878.-^8

Billy Owen savers taxes on salt sugar, lumber, etc,, and free whisky and tobaca*. lloolay for Hallison ! He heapee good Mellican man, lun like ellee.—Hop Sing. Benjaming J Lossing, the historian, has severed his ct nnection with the Republican party. When asked if the republican nominee for President is going to be elected request the interrogator to spell liis name back vard fer the correct answer —no-sir-raH!

Ex-Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn, N. Y., refuses to swallow the republican free-whisky-tobacco platform, and the N. Y. Tribune stigmatizes him as a “Sundayschool politician.”

‘‘Harrison is a thoroughbred.” —Lapurte Herald-Chronicle. Then there’s two of ’em. Our Bro. James, present proprietor of the Rensselaer Democrat, has laid claim to that distinction all along. Will Guthrie, republican, at one time County Superintendent White, the Democrat says, has announced himself squarely for Cleveland. He would have supported Gresham, but Harrison’s Chinese record is too rank.

Two years ago, at the commence- ' ment of the political campaign. “The Message” was established by , Bro James with the claim hat it was the only “trooly loil” Repub- j lican paper in the county. For j cause the paper took a slight departure soon af f er and undertook the support of certain candidates on the tickets of the two prominent parties. At the dose of the hrst year it ceased to exist. Now, at the beginning of another campaign the paper, under a new heading, and its proprietor, again press into the field. Now it professes orthodox Democracy, and is very windy and profuse in its advice to Democrats. It is persistent, and we may say insulting, too, in orders to Democrats to “start forward the band wagon,” etc. The masses of the Democratic party in Jasper county are true, faithful and intelligent. They give of their time and means, to the cause, to the extent of their ability, and need not to be goaded by men who boast of the established rule for their line of conduct “when in Rome to do as Rome does,”; or who can with equal sang froid plank down a pocket book an 1 declare ‘‘therein, gentlemen, consists my political principles!” The Democracy have a right to know, under the circumstances, what substantial aid— votes —may be expected from Bro. James’ office. — Votes are what count at the ballotbox. Will Bro. James publish a paper professedly in the interest of Mr. Cleveland, and -vote for Ben Harrison?

Herr Wilkorn, editor and proprietor of the Evansville Post, the leading German Republican paper in southern Indiana, bolts Harrison’s nomination, and will sup. port Cleveland and Thurman.

The republican platform offers the American people taxed salt } taxed coal, taxed Ixmber, taxed clothing, taxed blankets, taxed dishes, taxed glass and taxed tools, and free whisky and tobacco.

Capt. Gil Barnard, who commanded a company in Gen. Ben. Harrison’s regiment, and who was several years chairman of the republican centxal committee of Morgan county, refuses to support Harrison.

“Rather than surrender any part of our high tax system.” says the Republican National Platform, “we favor the repeal of all internal taxes. If taxes must be reduced, they mus c come off whisky and tobacco, and not off lumber, clothing, salt, iron and steel, coal and the other necessaries of life.”.

J. R. Buchanan, editor of the Chicago Labor Enquirer, denounces the nomination of Harrison as the triumph of monopolists. He says during his (Harrison’s) six years in the United States Senate he was the champion of all railroads jobs, and tho uncompromising foe of anti-Chinese legislation.

“The President’s reply ac .omp_ anying vetoes of some private pen_ sio i bills is that of an honest man > and he speaks the words of truth end soberness. It is singular that with the most prodigal and perhaps the most liberal law in its application of any Government in the world, out pension laws do not cover all deserving cases, but must be continually supplemented by special legislation. ” —lndianapolis News, republican.

One of the most significant things connected with the campaign in the Empire state is the position of the New York Sun. — That paper opposed the nomination of Grover Cleveland, and it took some rime for it to recover from the shock it received from the St. Louis Convention; but now it has come out in favor of Cleveland and Thurman. The Sun dislikes to be on the losing side. It carefully looked over the New York field. It got an idea how the vote was likely to go. It then espoused the cause of the democratic candidates.

□Bro. James was engaged this] morning tacking nr c ;r culars start-. ing out with theque/ “Are yon a Democrat?” One i iaiully inquires why he makes -it his fcusi-1 ness to know. “Jno. W. Sickels, Editor,” is the way it reads. The name of the printer, or publisher, is not given. Thin must be galling to James’ pride, as well as cowardly. Query: Is Hickels employed by James; or, is James the employe of Sickels?