Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 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 shad 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 the 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 Newton 7 Kanktkee 4 Carpenter 17 "Union ’’ g Gillam 4 Barkley ’’’ g 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 election, 1890, and also to appoint delegates to the various conventions. By order of County Committee.

DAVID W. SHIELDS,

Chairman. Jas. W. McEwen, See’y. The Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Indianapolis, August 28, 1890. Jasper county will have five delegates. Ex-Sheriff Mat. Henderson died at his home in Monticello, White county, last Friday night, and on Sunday following his , remains were follower, to the tomb by a vast assemblage of frends. He was elected Sheriff of White County 1860, 1862, and 1866, ky the Democracy, and filled the posiion creditably and honorablyHe was a valued citizen, and a friend who could always be relied upon.

A pension of SIOO a month has been voted to the vidow of Gen. Hazen. She is worth, in her own right, §500,000, and belongs to a very wealthy family, the McLeans, of Ohio.—Ex. At the same time the Republican Congress say they have no money with which to pay pensions to deserving soldiers, who have no private fortunes to fall back on, and who need the money for the bare necessities ol life.

Judge Hammond has consented to accept the republican nomination for Circuit Judge if the judicial convention is favorably dis** posed. The announcement caused a chill to seize the other competitors.

The Republican thinks the proposition of the McKinley bill to give a bounty to sugar producers is very nice. Wonder how it wo’d work to give our farmers a bounty on g ain prodution. It wculd be equally proper.

The terms of 28 U. S. senators expire in March 1891. Of these 11 are Democrats and 17 are Republicans. This is a Democratic year, and Dossibly the political complexion of the next senate will be materially chrnged.

After supplying the home market the farmers dispose of their surplus in foreign markets. They find American machinery selling for less in foreign countries than than they can procure them at home. Our home manufactures charge home customers higher prices than they do those in foreign lands. The republican tariff fosters this state of things.

The Wichita, Kansas, Eagle* which boasts of its staunch Republicanism says of the McKinley tariff bill: “The McKinley bill is an outrageous performance. It is but a cheap monkey show in the face of high heaven and the Amer ican people. It is an attemut t» make an angel of the devil without abbreviating his tail or sawing off his horns. It takes dollars from the famers and returns them dimes. It does not imj ose a single duty which will help a Kan sas farmer.” It predicts that the Republican party in* Kansas “will hear something drop next November” if the bill passes.

The recent unveiling of the statue of Gen. Lee, at Richmond, Virginia, has been the cause of much vituperation from Republican orators, and wild howlings from Republican editors. The charge that the “star-spangled banner” was kept in the background while the “stars and bars occupied an advanced position, is set at rest by the Philadelphia Press, the great Republican journal of Pennsylvania, who had a staff correspondent present on the occasion.— “Everywhere,” he savs in his report, written on the day the monument was unveiled, “the stars and stripes wave from flagstaffs and hang from dows. Indeed the profusion with which the national flag is used for decoration is as marked as it would be in Philadelphia or New York or Boston,” He describes injdetail the manner in which the Union and Confederate flags were displayed side by side all over the citj, saying that the national flag floats over almost every door.”

Thoughtful attention is challenged by the soldier memorial services at Vicksburg on Friday. Confederate and Union comrades marched side by side, and vied with each other in honoring the memory of the Blue and the Gray. Graves of the Union and the Confederte dead were adorned with flags and flowers, and' addresses were made by veterans of the North and of the South The event comes with pertinent force at the present moment. It should put to shame those who have sought to revive wartime animosities in. connection with the ceremonies attendant upon the Lee statute dedicated in Richmond. While colone’s who never smelled powder are val iantly engaged in waging on paper a ne w war against rebel** lion, those who once lought with each other engage in the arts of peace and cultivate a mutual charity and sympathy.