Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1889 — MRS. HARRIET A. DOUTHIT, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. HARRIET A. DOUTHIT,

The impression is fast gaining ground that Ohio will go Demo, cratic next November. In three weeks Clarkson has appointed 2,329 postmasters, which beats all other records in that line. It is said that there are forty applicants for the Manchester consulate and two hundred and thirty for that at Birmingham. Tne g. o. p. seems to be composed of ‘Flanagans.’ «-<<»--. Fifteen collieries were shut down down at Pittston, Pennsylvania, March 25th, and on the same day three ir n mills at Lancaster ordered a reduction of the wages of their men. It was a good day for tariff reform. There is an opportunity for many more equally good or better during the “next four years, with the republican party in power.

It came out in Judge Woods’ court, the other day, that Carpenpenter’s method of getting his money into the hands of purchased voters, was to remark to the person, that ‘’if he would look in feed box,” in a livery stable wher© the conversation occurred, “he would find something that he might take without hurting anybody’s feelings.” Under these vague instructions Thaddeus Major looked in a feed box and found $35, and another party found $lO in a place designated. And yet according to Woods’ understanding of law, this was not bribery! What a farce! Halstead goes for the republican senators who opposed his confirmation as Minister to Berlin, in rough but truthful style. He denounces Plumb as a “robber” and says he can prove it He declares Ingalls was elected by fraud and bribery, as well a? Farwell. He charges Teller, while in the Interior department with being mixed up in a huge land steal. What interesting sketches the Cincinnati editor might give of the oalance of the republican senators may be judged by the samples furnished above.

Tn« farmers who follow the lead of Jim Blaine and then form an organization to resist a “trust” are a queer set of fellows. Blaine said “a trust is a private eonoern with which neither the President nor the people have any right to interfere. ” With a wheat crop to eut and a twine binder to cut it with, the determination not to use twine in order to defeat the trust, reminds one of the man who held the other down by inserting hie nose between the teeth of his vic- * im. How much easier it would be to defeat those trusts at the billot box. But you wdl never do it by voting the republican ticket* —Lafayette Journal. * SB The Indianapolis News, republican, is compelled to say: An illustration oi the impossibility of conviction for election offonses, as a rule, is given in the Cronk case, in which the jury have disagreed. The opposing testimony in this case agreed in th s: The briber says ha told the bribee that he, would not vote the republican ticket, and bet him $5 to that effect. The bribee did' y.>te the republican ticket, told the

briber that he had done so, and was paid the $5, and yet the jury cannot agree that thii was a case of election bribery. What a 1 shame! This sort of a thing will reap a whirlwind. The public conscience will not be besotted forever. Already it is quickened as, one by one and score b’ score, partisan election law offenders are I 3sed unscathed by partisan authority. The passage >f the new election law meant something. It meant that there is a wide awakening on this subject. There will be evidences in the future plainer still that Indiana 1- determined to have pure elections and to know why the d bauchers thereof arc nut punished. Compare the above reference to the methods of Judge Woeds’ court with the snlush copied into columns of the Republican this week from the Indianapolis Journal. The News, a republican paper, is compelled to cry out “What a shame!”

Wife of lames W. Douthit, died at her home in Rensselaer, Tuesday morning, April 16th, <• 1889, after ai. illness, of about a year's duration. Her funeral services were hel- Wednesday, at the family residonc ,at 9:30 a. m., and was largely attended, Rev. E. G. Pelley conducting the services. The body was taken on the 11 o’clock train to Lawrenceburg, Ind., to be interred in Greendale cemetery, at that place. Harriet Amelia Robertson was born in York Ridge, Dearborn county, Indiana, on the 21st day of September, 1848. When a child her parents moved to Guilford, where she remained until her marriage. She was married to Jas. W. Douthit, of Rensselaer, Indiana, on April 29th, 1886, and immsdiatel; moved to this place, where she remained until her death. — She leaves an aged mother, th’-ee brothers, two sisters and a husband to mourn her loss. Kind friends and relatives were at her bedside and did all that could be done to render her last days comfortable. She discharged her duties as a daughter *sis + er and wife and felt fully prepard to die. GEORGE O. HOOVER, Departed this life at his home, in Rensselaer, en Thursday, April 18th, at 6 o’elock a. m., aged 39 years, 9 months and 14 days. Rev. B. F. Ferguson will conduct funeral services at|the family residence, Sunday, April 21st, at 10:30 a. m. Interment in West on cemetery. Friends of the family and the public in general, are respectfully invitedta attend.

Mrs. Emma Ryan Pritchard, an aged lady, died at the residence of I. 1). Walker, in Barkley township, last Saturday. Interred in the Smith cemetery the Sunday following. ■ —» ■ ’Gene Spitler has purchased the stationery stock, etc., of H. J. Dexter, in the post office building, and hopes by attention to business and fair dealing to secure a good patronage.

The Lafayette Couries tfils the plain unvarnished truth when it says: “There is a certain class of persons, a small class to be sure, but none the less worthy of att ntion, who regard newspapers in a haughty and disdainful manner at all times except when they have some particular use for them. There are men in every community who. take special pains to continually complain of the lack of enterprise on the part of local newspapers, and yet they never contribute a dollar to their support. And every now and then an ungrateful office-seeking politician is found who grins at and patronizes the press until he succeeds in worming himself into place, and the rest of the time he devotes to defaming the hand that fed him. If i L is a party paper, it is expected to print columns of lies to further the intere*ts of the worst political shyster and to studiously avoid t filing the truth about him, however much he may deserva to bo exposed as a hypocrite and incompetent who is unworthy of public confidence. Ac a rule the supercilious persons who are wont to sneer at newspapers ar? oftenest

those whojhutnble themselves and plead that their business, political or social crookedness be not exposed, although their misconduct is something tho public has the right to know. There are journals that exceed the bounds of propriety in printing the news, but as a general th ng the newspapers are decent and fair, and are sinned against far more than sinning. If there is anything substantial in the boasted power of the press, it is about time it was asserted, or else a confession sho’d be made that newspapers are mere conveniences that a class of pigheaded rersons kindly tolerate as necessary evils, to be used at their pleasure and in any manner they may deem fit.