Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — An Honest Bench Is the First Requisite [ARTICLE]

An Honest Bench Is the First Requisite

Indianapolis Sentinel: The organ of Woods, Dudley and Carpenter sagely observes “that every election more and more demonstrates that local laws cannot be relied upon for honest elections. ” And the last electit n in Indiana has also demonstrated that the federal statutes cannot be ie!ied upon so long as a tool of corruption sits on the bench to “construe” them into nullities. An honest bencL is the first requisite to honest eleciions.

All desiring to move South are invited to investigate FLORENCE, ALABAMA. In the selection of a business location, a pleasant home is also desirable, and in no place will the intending settler meet with a more cordial welcome than is offered by the enterprising citizens of Florence, Alabama, and Lauderdale county. The soil is diversified and yields readily, as is shown by the variety and quick growth of crops, consisting of cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat, oats, sugarcane, Iso apples, peaehcs and grapes. Florence excels in beauty of location, being situated on the gently rolling plateau banks of the Tennessee River —navigable for the largest class of steamboats. The records show singular exemption from malarial diseases,and the mild temperature, pure air and water make it a desirable resort, both summer and winter, from the extreme heat of the South ond the rigorous cold of the North. Aside from this it is on the basal line of the new iron and ceal discoveries, and with abundant water-power supply, favorable transportation facilities, by rail and packet, and by virtue of clese proximity to valuable ores not found in other localities, Florence is destine* to become the metropolis of the State, and will necessarily concentrate the bulk of industries in this region. The country north of Florence is covered with a primeval gro vth of immense poplar, whitsoaks, maple, hickory, pine, and walnut trees, and within a few miles large quarries of beautiful marble ''re found. Building stone and limestone abound all over the county. Ths erection of the finest college building in the South was commenced May 13th, and at this time there are over 250 houses i . course of erection. For excursion rates and full particulars address, E. v. McCormick, Gen’l Pass’r Ag’t Monon Route, 185 Dearborn h’..j Chic g, 111. Srikes for living wages continue’