Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — Democratic Township Convention. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Township Convention.

The Democrats of Marion township, Jasper county, Indiana, are requested to meet in Rensselaer, on SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1890, at 2 o’clock, p. m., for the purpose of placing in nomination a Democratic Township Ticket to be voted for Monday, April 7,1890. Lee E. v.tlazebrook, Ch’n Democratic Township Com.

lhe bill for the admission of Wyoming as a State has passed the H use. Tlie Kansas farmer who gave Harrison, protection and home mark t 80,000 majority at the last presidential election should now be supremely happy, but is notA terrible cyclone swept over Louisville, Jeffersonville and other points Wednesday night. A great loss of life and vast des* struction of property was the result. "V oorhees is a great hearted man, and one whose feelings are strong and true, and when he is in accord with reason he is a power. His recent speech marks such codjuction. It is Voorheessian, of course, but it will reach. There is appeal in it. The monopoly servers can j rofitably study the indictment he makes; can profitably consider the force of his summing up. [lndianapolis News

Who is it, when ths crops are good, supplies the nation with its food? Who is t, when the crops are light and money scampers out of sight, still struggles on with z.ll his might? The farmer. Who, often when by debt oppressed, is forced to do his level best to keep paid up the interest ? The farmer Who is it, when he gets a crop, makes interest and debts both and comes up smilingly on top? The farmer. Who works content-* edly away, while the public tricksters pray and make th a laws he must obey? The farmer. Who gives his dollars and his dimes to greedy trusis ind big combines which only laugh when he whines? The farmer. Who is it must in future mix in public life and politics and down the trickster and his *ricks? The farmer.

The Supreme Court of Indiana declares that the schoo book Jaw is composed of “words clear in themselves, * * and that school trustees may not exercise discretionary powers, but eThall perform the duty enjoined upon them by procuring and distributing the books selected by the state board of education, as the l>w commands.” The Jasper county boaid of education presumed itself better qualified to pass upon the merits of the new books than the state board—the latter composed of the best educators in the state. As a result of this action on the part of the republican trustees of Jas. per county, thousands of dollars have unnecessarily, and in open defiance of law, been transferred from the pockets of our school patrons into the coffers of VanAntwnrp, Bragg & Co., and other school book monopolies. Some of these trustees a e seeking a reelection. Will you trust them again?

The Indianapolis Journal, Republican State organ, refused to publish a letter from Judge Ba<d* ■ win, of Logansport, late Republican Attorney General, in reply to some comment made by that pape r on the J udge’s tariff views. Let the voters of J asper county remember when casting their 1 allots foi Trustees one wee - from next Monday, that through ti e bull-headed p f .rtisanism of Republican Trustees they have been compelled io pay twe prices for books the p.-.st winter. When trustees tell you that the school books required under the new law are interior to those of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., just remind them that they were selected by the Stare Board of Educa-. tion, and recommended by it as equal in all respects, if not superior, to others.

Editor Democrat: We offer jotes of the various Temperance items of the week just closed to our county papers with pleasure. Ou EriUav atternoon, at the home of Mrs. Hui ns, a VV. (J. T. U. meeting well attended and enthusiastic. Dues were paid and work planned. After an enforced idleness, from la grippe, all felt we must make up for lost time. Adjourned to medt next Friday, 2| p. m., at parlors of Mrs. Berry Paris. At M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, an enthusiastic Gospel Temperance Meeting service. No lack for testimony against the open door of the saloon. All declared, regardless of the various political shades, that the saloon was a snare and a temptation. The meeting was a prayer and an outcry to God to abate it.

Prohibitionists met in call convention, Saturday night, and nominated a full township ticket Names only as supervisors left tc be supplied by the voters of the respective districts. Carrie A. Clark.

With the advent of Spring the interest in Chicago’s latest and greatest attraction—the Libby Prison War Museum—increases, and veiy few people| come to the famous World’s Fair metropolis without visiting this wonderful institution. The old prison itself, meved a thousand mibs from its home in Virginia, is fi aught with interesting memories of th. days that tried men’s souls n the greatest war the world has ever known. It was to be sure the paiace prison of the Confederacy, but connected with it are oecurences that will never be forgotten, be the buildmg defaced from the earth or still standing ss a monument to the heroism of the Union soldier.— These walls are as sacred as the shrines of martyrs and they sho’d be pregnant to us and the rising generation of patriotism and piety. This, which was once a prison under the very shadow of Virginia’s Legislative hulls, and after that great Civil War was left to decay by the march of time, bps been preserved by Chicago’s enterprise and conveitod into a vast war museum filled with thousands of southern and northern rebesof every description. In fact 'there is not anoth r institution in this country that compares with it. Old Libby is a spacious building, but no pains have been spare! to fill it with va'u I 'e and interest ing relics. It is divided into two displays-»-Uonfederate and Union. Th former is conceded to be the most complete in existence, and the Union exhibit is so extensive thaT it is hardly possibe to surpass it. These displays includ oil portraits of all the leading statesmen and generals of the north and south, original manuscripts by the thousands signed and written by tie noted men of those d°ys, including wai orders, official documents and personal letter*.— There are relics from all the ba’t ie fields and prisons, and ia fact thousands of things that would take space for enumeration. Nearly everyday some of those who fought under the blue and the grev m?et here,, and as they pass together through this old prison they uttor in one accord the senti-; meat, “No North—No South—No! Animosity—No Sectionalism.”