Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — A BRILLIANT SCHEME. [ARTICLE]

A BRILLIANT SCHEME.

Chicago Herald: What Jimbiainism means to the republican partv is shown by a “new and original plan” of nomin ting a;oandidate which is to be tried at the Minneapolis convention if we miy believe A. L. Conger, one of the dizziest of the gnano statesman's magnetised subjects: *lt is very important," says Colonel Conger, for the republican party to go nto the next campaign united and with the strongest man as the candidate. The national committee proposes that the whole field shall be looked over and the strength of th,e various candidates carefully considered. Then the decision will be made and the man will be named by acclamation by the convention. In other words, there will be no contest on the floor of the convention. We propose Hat he next republican nominee shall be a draft candidate. The offiot will seek the man. ” In other and plainer words, the Blaine gang is putting up a iob to deprive the convention of • voice in tie nomination of its candidate. It is studying Czar Reed’s methods with the idea of gagging every honest man who may attempt a protest. This Conger is an Ohio monopolist who has grown rioh and insolent on tariff protection. He and otters like him buoked and gagged the house of representatives when they wanted to pass their infamous McKinley bill. Why should they not buck and gag a republican convention now that t ey want to nominate Blaine, the idol of the trust and the hope of the adventurer?

For the outrageously unjust and partisan deoisiou by which he enabled Dudley to escape punishment for the conspiracy of 1888 Judge William A. Woods, of Indiana, deserved impeachment. President Harrison, has rewarded him by naming him as one of the nine new Circuit judges. A second and soarcely more worthy motive for the nomination is the President's desire to annov Judge Gresham, whose hostility to Woods is well known. A President who uses the bench to uphold the grossest partisanship and to gratify his personal spleen need not he surprised at the development in the senate of considerable opposition to his appointments. Woods should not be confirmed. - Chicago Herald. 1 The Chicago Times urges the impeach ment of Judge Woods by the prompt actiod of the Honse of Representatives instead of his promotion by the act of the Senate. In concluding a long exhaustive artiole on the proposition the edttor concludes: “Whether or not the Senate advise and consent to the promotion of Judge Woods the House ought to take action looking to his impeachment." The way of the transgressor is hard Instead of relieving Judge Woods of the infamy attaohed to him by his double charges to the grand jury In the Dudley oase, Harrison, by his desire to elevate him assumes a share : n the great wrong perpetrated. It is to be hoped that his confiimation will be defeated in the Senate.

Chicago, Deo 23.—8. J. Larsh, a druggist of Remington, Ind., is in th® city in search of his wife, who disappeared very mysteriously here last Satuiday evening. Mrs. Larsh had $1,200 about her person when she disappeared, and it is feared that she was waylaid and robbed by some of the thugs who infest that quarter of the city through which she had to pass. Just one week ago Mrs. Larsh left home to come here on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Shepherd, at 945 West Lake street. In leav ng, she told her husband that she would return the following Monday. Mrs. Larsh reached hei sisters home safely and last Satur ay she went out to spend the day with a friend at Lagrange. She purchased a round trip tioket on the Burlington road, and it is known that she returned to Chioago, reaching the lUnion depot on the 5:25 o’clock train, where all trace of her ends. When Mrs. Shepherd had waited several hours for her sister’s return, she telegraphed the friend at Lagrange The answer was that Mrs Larsh had already returned. Search was at once instituted, and Mr. Larsh was notified. Yesterday morning he arrived in Chicago, nd about noon the case was put in the hands of a private detective agency. The detectives are now working on the theory of foul play, as in addition to the sum named, Mrs. Larsh had some valuable jewels. It is possible that she may have attempted to walk to her sister’s, in which c sea direct route from the Union depot would have led through a disreputable portion of the city. Another possibility is that she may have been taken suddenly sick and been caied for by some one who was unaware of her name or address. This is hardly probable, however.