Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1890 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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■T I— t-JW a. - THE NEW MifllKlElE|V|E|R|XlHlO|UlS|E|.lL RENSSELAER, IND. O, S. PALE, Proprietor. WORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney -at-taw tfWJSSELAER. - INDIANA oi««Moea lin the Courts of Jasper and addSSfii counties. Makes colleetions a speon nerth side of Washington opposite Conrt House- ▼in* SnfOMP. THOMPSON, dattoj.thompsoh Attorney-at. Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, RIKBSELAEB. - * INDIANA Praetieeln ail the Coorts. ARION Lu spiteer, Colleotor and Abstracter » % . A r pyrtosular attention to payingtaijßHlfnfe and Aeaslag lands. vap * 8 irjr. H. H. graham, ” * ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW, RKBsnXLATB, INDIANA. Money te loan on tong time 8 JAMES W. DOUTHIT, atkjrk*y>at-law and notary public, /** Ofiee in re&r room , Yer H#m P hlll * Bonan's store, Rensselaer, Ind. _ Idwk P. Hammond. B. Ansrot. HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaev, Ind Jsirrstfssa: - IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Lam, notary PUBLIC Seal Estate and Getatini Meat* REMINGTON, INDIANA. WUI practice in all the Courts of Newto» Beaton and Jasper counties. , ■ LOUSHBIDOI. VICTOR E. LOUGH RIDS* * H. EOUGHRIDGE & SON, flbysleiane and Surgeons. Office in the new Leopeld B;«ck, nfhalL second door right-hand Bide of hall. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all amounts running unsettled longer than three months. 1 DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon Rensselaer y Ind . Otis promptly attended. Will give special atten Mon to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. W.HARTSELL, M B HOMffiOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. WCbronio Diseases a Specialty..® OFFICE, in Makeever’e New Block. Residence at Makeever House July 11.1884. Stitht Dwisgins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Cashier tTTTZENS’STATEBANK RENSSM.A2- V D Does a general banking business.Certificates bearing l-terest issued; Exbonebt and sold; Moneyioaned on farms at lowest rates and on mos :t avorable terms t,Jan. 8. 88. _______ john Makeever Jay 'Williams. Pres.dent, L*shl« CABMEB.B’ BANK, HfOppog'U* Public Square RENSSELAER, - - - INDIAN J Rece.ve Dspoilta Buy and Soil Exehaar Collections made and promptly remitted. Money Loaned. Do a general Bank, ing Business, ▲ igust 17,1888.

RENSSELAER JASPEB COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY, MARCH 21. 1890.

ST. JOHN ON HARRISON.

The Noted Prohibitionist Excoriates the Republican Party. At Tooeka, Kansas, on the night of February 27, in Representative Hall, ex-Govprnor John P. St. John spoke to a large audience. He excoriated the national administration and the Republican party. His denunc atio of he Reoublican party and its position on pro*, hibition was especially cutting. President Harrison and Viceo President Morton were touched up in lively style. On the tariff question and its its application to Kansasjfarmers, Mr St. John said: “Never in the history of this nation have farmers’ tariff duties and the mortgage indebtedness been greater than they are to-da^. “Just think it! Corn selling at 13 cents per bushel in Kansas and 53 cents in New York city. Who gets the difference of 40 cents between heie and New York? Hard coal selling ai $1.50 to $2 per ton in Pennsylvania and at sll here. Farmers using corn for fuel in Western Kansas because it is cheaper than soft coal from our own mines. Beef cattle selling at less than actual cost of production. “Oats at 10 cents per bushel and good horses going at from sso to sBo, w hile western potatoes bring only from 8 to 2o cents per bushel where they are produced, but command 8o cents to $1 a bushel in eastern markets. “Can any of you see where the western farmer’s protection comes in? His land is plastered with mortgages. He finds it almost impossiole to pay the interest and utterly impossible to liquidate the principal. T a x e s—municipal, state and national—never so exorbitant as at present; transportation and market for all he nag to sell, as well as for everything he is compelled to buy, are une'er the control of gigantic monopolies and trusts. “But is not his pig pec protected? Yes, if tariff means protectoin, then it mustfhe admitted that the farmer’s pig pen is protected. So are his plows, harrows, picks, shovels, reapers, mowers, wagons, harness, hammers, saws augers, gimlets, food, fuel, clothing—including the buttons on his shirt — all are ‘projected.’ In fact, the farmer is ‘protected’ to death, and hs is just beginning to find it out. Whatever we have- accomplished in the west has been despite this the so-called protection, which is nothing more nor less than legalized robbery of the many to en r : ch the favored tew. “But when we come to the Re publican party w>e are assured that it has given us ‘all the prohibition we ever had,’ and that w*? Prohibitionists are tryiug to turn the Government over into the hands of the ‘whisky Democracy-’ These are Republican claims. N ow, what are the facts? L*.t us see. A dozen states adopted prohibition before the Republican party was born. Within the past year such Republican, states as New Hampshire, M assachueets, Rhode Island, Connecticut —in an open fight between the home and the saloor —st od by the saloon by big majorities. Pennsylvania, which gave Harrison 80,000 plurality, defeated prohibition by 189,000 majority. lowa, which gave Harrison, the anti-Prohibitionist, 3o,r* 000 majority in ’BB, defeated the Republ can candidate forgove nor in ’B9 or a platform pledged to the enforcement of the prohibitory law, and elected an anti-Prohibi-tion Democrat. v “President Harrison was paraded befo e the churcn people in ’BB as ‘a strong temperance man,’ and the ‘family prayers’ racket was used to good advantage politically. The day bes re inauguration was Bunday. Two thousand s loons ran wide o. en in WashL gton City, in direct violation of law, riotous drunkenness was seen on every hand, and yet this ‘Christian President’ Lad not a single word to

*‘A FraK ADHERENCE TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

utter in his inaugural address against these outrages upon moral and common decency. In his inaugural precession marched 1,000 saloonkeepers How many slave drivers marched in the inaugural p ote sion of Abraham Lincoln? Notone. Why? Simply because thev were not in sympathy with Mr. Lincoln’s party. From the inaugural ceiemony this ‘Christian President’ **en* to a big dance in the Pension Office, where 400 ‘gal lons of Roman punch were consumed.

“It now turns out that he is not even a total abstainer He not only drinks intoxicating liquor, but serves guests with it in the White House. We are told by th e press that at a recent great feast given by the President five wine glasses were at each plate, and that the sparkling beverage flowed freely “Surely history repeats itself.— he Bible tells us that ‘Belshazzar, the king, made a great feast to a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand.’ And that ‘they drank wine and praised the god of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone. “Now, strike out Belshazzar, the king,’ and put Benjamin the President, m the first verse. We insert in the second ‘monopolies and trusts, pig iron and wool,’ and the parallel, so far as these two verses are coneerned, is complete. No ast, either official, or otherwise, gives us any reason to suspect that Harrison has any desire to verthrow the liquor traffic.— Vice President Morton is of a more practical tfirn of mind. He is only worth 10 million dollars and must in some way provide a living for his family, who have a right to look to him for support. Therefore, he owns a bar of bis own where the e ect are supplied for 20 cents a djink. And yet the liquor from ‘Shoreham bar* will make a man just as drunk as that sold in O’Brien’s saloon on the Bowery. May God hasten the day when this nation may have officials whose example, if followed by our boys, would not lew! them to the use of intoxicating liqnors. “Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless truy that in the states earned by Harrison there are two saloons in proportion to the population to one in the states carried by Cleveland, and the Republicans North consumes 22 barrels of beer to every one consumed in the Democratic South. So you see chere is no reason for alarm about ‘turning the Government over to the whisky Democracy,’ Nor is theie any hope whotever for prohibition from the Republican party. Why, right here in Kansas only a week ago, the Republican League met, and notwithstanding >li the agitation about resubmission it lacked the courage to speak ont against it, but as usual dodged the issue. Republican resubmission clubs are being organized daily. The Democrats ar < for resubmission straight, while the Republicans propose to reach the same end by way of a constitutional convention.”

A Quinine Pointer.— Even the large consumption of quinine occasion d by the grippe only put up he wholesale price of the drug 2to 3 cents an ouoce. The opportunity to “coiner” tbe price on the sufferers wa > lost when the tariff duty was repealed.—Philadelphia Record, j Warmoth was the figure-head of the worst administration that ever cursed a southern state during the period of reconstruction. He now emerges from his obeourit as the leader of the so ces of blgli-taxers in Louisiana. It was such scoundrelism as this that brought defeat to the Republican party. Its revival will prove its ruin. The proposal to aid the farmers of the western states by the imposition of an increased tariff for the protection of their corn and wheat fields will be understood by those

who have been forced to the study of economic problems by a loss of $10,000,000 in a single year on tneir corn orop9.

TO KILL THE ELECTION LAW.

MICHENER AND DUDLEY’S SCHEME The Republican Managers £on’t Want a Secret Ballot and Will Try to Overthrow the Australian Election Act. [lndianapolis Sentinel:] Chairman Michener of the re-* publican state central committee is sending out private letters to prominent republican attorneys in the state, requesting their opinions as to the auvisability of causing the constitutionality of the new election .'aw, or at least certain sections of it, to be tested. This is carrying out a decision of a confer** ence of leading republicans held a short time ago. It would seem that Mr. Michener has received some encouragement in his hope of } reaking down the law. Last Thursday a suit to that ead was filed in the circuit court at New Castle, and the mouth-orgaa of tht repub 1 ican party in this city, the Journal, reported the fact in this significant telegram: A suit was filed in the circuit court here tc -day, the ultimate result of which will doubtless settle the constitutionality of sec. 3. of ’ the new election law. The county clerk filed a bill with the county commissioners on Monday for registers and blanks required to be kept by him under the provisions of the section referred to The bill was allowed by the commissioners and the suit filed to-day is to enjoin the auditor and treasurer from paying the bill as allowed. The plaintiff is a heavy tax-payer, who will son test the ease to the. lasi The case will be taken to the supreme court, no matter hew it is decided here, and will doubtless be watched with great interest all over the state. Sec. 3 provides that township trustees shall act as inspectors and sball appoint the judges: Provided that if at least one week or more prior to such election the chairman of the county central committee of either of the two parties tha* cast the largest number of votes in the state at the last general election shall designate a member of such party as judge having the required qualifications, he shall be appointed, and such judges, together with the inspector, shall constitute a board of election. The section contains ot'ier provisions, but the above is sufficient to show the manner m which the republican managers hope to destroy the law and make it possible to carry the state by the “blocks-of five” method. It is contended that because sec. 3 confines the right to representation on the election boards to the two political parties it is unconstitutional. if it is not valid, then the whole aot falls with it and the state election raws are the same as those under which Dudley and his corrupt republican army of vote

buyers operated at the last election. It is realized by the republican leaders in Indiana that there is little hope of their carrying the state under the election law enacted by the democratic legislatuie at its last session, and they pro* pose to overthrow the law if possible. The Journal has intimated in its editorial eolumns several times that the enactment contained unconstitutional provisions. Th ono above quoted and that providing for tjie registration of certain voters six months before election have been assailed in that paper. These articles were, it is said, published at the instance of chairman Michener, and in accordance with the wishes of his cabinet as expressed at a conference called to consider the matter. There is no doubt that it is the republican plan to knock out the Australian law if possible.

Editor Sentinel: In your paper of March 7th was an article signed “Rho,” which is giving some republicans considerable concern It is not the subject matter that so much interests them, but the politics of the writer. We learn that one of the county officers has offered to wager a five note that it was not written by a republican. We Dover bet. Vows that we ha e taken, if L ept, will prevent us from winuing the gentleman’s mon-y; so we will just say that “Rho” has beea a good enough republican to vote for this selfsame county officer, and might be persuaded to do so again, were it not that he has now been in office twelve or fifteen years, and is in need of a little rest. What is the politics of “A Res publican” wno week before last offered his objections to the reelection of Marion township’* trustee? His article was refused by the republican paper because it criticised the official acts of a repubieaa township officer. If what “A Republican” said were true, it should have been printed; if it were not true, it oo'd lave very easily b.-en proven false, and would have hurt no one bat the writer.

But no. w*- must not robuke the siLB of our party for fear of being read out of lis ranks. If tho leaders of our party go estray we must follow; if incompetent and unworthy men are nominated *ve must support them: if our leaders use unfair means to secure for them** selves and their friends official positions we must hold our peace, vote the ticket and thus make ourselves worthy, reliable p«rty men. We believe in parties. Politics, in a measure, is a profession—if properly followed, an honorable prose sion. Borne one muat manage, plan for* and control these parties; all can not hold official positions in their party, directly hel to manage its inward workings; all have not the taste or the time for political work.

While all do not directly h.dp to foimul te political creeds and conduct political campaigns, all ars finally called upon to pass judgs ment upon the polioies, prao' ices and principles of thsir parties. The free, honest, intelligent man will follow his party whan ha thinks it worthy; will rebuke it whan Be knows it is deserving of rebuke. The best friends my party have are those who refuse to follow it in the wrong; those who labor to Keep it in the right. We should deal with our party very much as we do with our phy* sician, our blacksmith, etc., patro*. nize it when it does honest work; give our support to its rivals when it goes estray, iv those rivals are in a way to do better for us and oar country.

If our party leaders are not amenable to us; if they fear |no power; if their commands, becks and calls are to be impliaitly obeyed, how can their mistakes over be corrected; when once in the wrong how ever hrougnt tc the right? The party should be responsible to its members; its members sho’d be free, honest, nd p triotie, perform ng their political duties heedless party msh The honest thiuker and voter is ur country’s greatest blessing. North End, March 17,1890. The Collector of the port at Philadelphia is one Cooper, who received a grand ovation wheu he left th© army. Some people called it a grand drumming match. Soldi rs know what it means to be escorted out of the camp by drums. Cooper knows 00. But, then, Cooper is a loyal high-taxer, and his army record don’t count.

The T nnessee Legislature has passed a bill and the governor has signed it, incorporating ihe top of Lookout Mountain, under the name of the “Town of Lookout Mountain.”

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