Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

The Democratic voters of Jasper county, and all other enemies of monopolies, trusts and combines, who believe that the adoption of of Democratic principles are essential to the welfare of the whole people, are requested to meet in mass convention at the usual,voting places, in the various townships, on SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1890, at 2 o’clock p. m., to transact the following business: Ist. Appoint a committee of three, who, with the chairman of township committee shall prepare a complete and accurate poll of the voters of the township, the same to be delivered to the chair** man of the central committee on the date of the county convention.

2d. Select such other committees as may in the judgment of the convention be necessary to a com-* plete and thorough organization of tLe party in the township. 3d. Select one delegate for each ten votes, and one for each fracs tion over five votes cast tor C. C. Matson for Governor at the Nov* ember election of 1888. The above apportionment entitles the various townships to delegates as follows:

Hanging Grove 4 Walker 7 Marion 20 Newtoa 7 Kankkee... .*. 4 Carpenter 17 Union * ] 8 Gillam 4 Barkley 8 Jordan ’ 7 Keener 3 Wheatfield 6 Milroy 3 The delegates so selected will meet in delegate convention in the Town of Rensselaer, on SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1890, at 1 o clock p. m. to nominate a county ticket to be voted for at the November eloction. 1890, and also to appoint delegates to the various conventions. By order of County Committee. DAVID W. SHIELDS, _ , „ Chairman. Jas. W. McEwen, Sec’y. Needless taxation is unjust taxation. *"*" s 1 1 > m . McKinley places acc nw on the free list. Thank.- to Senator Turpie and Hon R. P. Flower for valuable documents. The enumeration of the people etc., commences next Monday.— We give considerable space to matters pertaining to the census toth« exclusion of some* articles den f erred to next week.

.Butterworth charged in the Hous6 hat audience was given to trusts and combines by the Me* Kmley committee, and suggestions received and favorably acted upon ■The people, interested in lower taxation were barred out. The republican gang in this locality solemnly assure Nichols and other defeated aspirants that they dared not select more than one candidate from a township, and planted five or six in Marion townshop. No wonder the Kensselaer republican managers have been denounced as “hoggish.” * # *

1 - - - .. 1 ■ 1 ■ M. H. Walker, ‘P-sq., of Fowler, visited Rensselaer this week with reference to the judgeship. He declares that he is more intent on defeating Judge Ward’s aspirations than he is to secure for himself the nomination.

Chairman Michener, of the re** publican state central committee h p Ten out to the faithful of his party, in Democratic counties, to select their candidates for the legislature from the Farmers’ Alii, ance organization with a view to win and elect Michener to the U. S. Senate. Let the Alliance everywhere be on its guard. If true to declarations in favor of tariff reform, lower taxation, etc., and m opposition to monopolies, trusts and com bines, it will repudiate and bounce any member receiving a nominat.on at the hands of the pa~ty of high taxation, and the friend of monopoly. “Forewarned! forearmed!!

We advise everybody to answer all the questions propounded by the census enumerators, fully and truthfully. As the New York Herald says: The census schedules are prepared by authority of congress.— The law requires the ques ions put by the enumerators to be answered, and prescribes a flue of SIOO for refusal. That is a valid law if congress had the power to pass it. Until repealed or amended by congres3 it must be obeyed or its pen »lty paid. The assumption is in favor of its validity. Hence any person who disobeys it is liable to arrest, arraignment and fine. It can be declared uncons.itutional and set aside only by a federal judge in the first instance and finally by the U.B. supreme court. If the question were raised it wo’d probably go to Washington for settlement.

1 he McKinley bill, if it becomes a law, will, it is estimated, impose nearly seventy-four millions of new taxes upon the American people. On the basis of present imports the increase on chemicals will be over $2,000,000; on earthenware and crockery over $6,000,000; on nietsds over $9,000,000; on tobacco nearly $18,000,000; on agricultural products ovcr$8,000,000; on cotton goods over $1,500,000; on hemp, flax and jute nearly $7,000,000, and on sundries about $2,000,000. After deducting the sugar tax repealed, the people will be taxed $18,000,000 more thau at present. This is what revising the tariff “by its f iends” means

The full meaning of a “home market” is only grasped when it is known that our protected manufacturers charge our buyers from 10 to 30 per cent, more for the same goods than they do foreign buyers.

Our farmer friends who may rejoice in the “home market” “secured” to our manufacturers may like to know how it works. Here are some examples: In the “home market” 111 is the price of a hoe cultivator; the same from the same American manufacturer the foreigner gets for $8.40. Shovels m the “home market,” $9.20 a dozen; burnished to the foreigner at $7.86. Axes that cost the American $7.76 a dozen are PPj r ° l 1 Its 1 t s 0 i’oign market at vb ( 5. Kettles, home price $1.40 foreign, 85 cents. Clotheswringers,s4o a dozen here; $33 toi tliG pauper washer— woiDen of Europe. For post hole diggers the American pays sls a dozen; the foreigner $12.33A circular sa w the foreigner bu\s from the American man ufacturer for $25.55; the American in the “home market’’ pays S3O. And so on.

Taking the tax off raw sugar and leaving it on refined is not going to benefit the people much. It will enable the refiners to get their raw sugar cheaper and sell the refined sugar at better profit than now. • ® remarkable case on record m thal; of the Yankee soap man, who, in • violent stem at sea, saved himself 53 th » cak® of his own *oap and washing himself ashore,