Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1892 — Page 1

VOLUME XVI

THE FORCE BILL

A. Republican Measure Which President Harrison is Committed to Revive. Republican Success Would Insure the Return of Tom Reed and the Success of the Force Bill. The Most Infamous Measure Devised to Perpetuate the Power of the Party of the Carnegies. An Army of Pinkerton Thugs to Bo Forced Upon the Country to Invade Homes and Take Possession of the Polls—Backed with Bayonets and an Unlimited Treasury Murder Might Be Committed by Davenport Heelers and No Stafe Court Could Bring Them to Justioe. For more than fifty years the invariable rule has been that the party which elects the president also controls the house of representatives elected the same year. Every time the Republicans have elected a president they have also elected a Republican house. Since 1872 the Republicans have elected only two houses—in 1880, when Garfield defeated Hancock, and in 1888 when Harrison was elected. In 1876 a Democratic house was elected, hut Hayes although inaugurated by the aid of returning boards was not elected by the people. This is generally admitted now. With this unbroken precedence it is reasonably safe to predict that the next pre»dent and the next house will be in accord, politically; that if the people ratify at the polls next November, the nominations made at Minneapolis by the office holders of the north and the negroes of the south, then every branch of the government will be under the control of the Republican party. Once restored to power, in all the departments, the Republican party will never again let go. It will entrench itself behind a “force bill” and no tidal wave of popular disapproval at the polls will ever he able to dislodge it. Under the reign of “force billism” the voice of the people will he nullified at the polls by the same army that vanquished Blaine at Minneapolis, the office holders and the negroes. “We must do onr own voting, our own counting and onr own certification,” said Tom Reed at a banquet given by the Pittsburg tariff robbers. Republican success would mean not only the retention of Benjamin Harrison in the White House for four more long years, but also the reinstatement of Tom Reed in the speaker’s chair to count quorums in many billion-dollar congresses to come.

The wild revolutionary scenes of the Fifty-first congress would be re-enacted in the Fifty-third congress. It is true there would be no more surplus to squander and no reason for Corporal Tanner to proclaim, “Gold help the surplus.” But Oklahoma, with her “bob tail” population, would be made one. of the states of the Union to maintain a Republican majority in the senate as was done in the Fifty-first congress when a few mining camps in Idaho and cattle ranches of Wyoming were manufactured into two sovereign states. The tarriff issue, the Republicans say, was settled when the McKinley bill became a law. So there would be no more “tinkering” with the tariff and relief from trusts and national taxation would be remote beyond generations. The Louisiana sugar growers and the Vermont sap boiler’s would continue to fatten upon the bounty paid them by the government at the expense of the com and wheat producers of Indiana and the other states of the west, Force Bill the Issue. The tariff having thus been settled to the satisfaction of the monopolists, there remains but one question for the Republicans to settle, and that is a national election law, which, through treachery of the Blaine element of the party, failed to pass the senate in the last congress for want of time. But with Blaine crushed and his followers out of the way, and with four years more of , executive power to starve out skulking Republican senators by the withdrawal of patronage, Benjamin Harrison and Tom Reed would surely drive the force bill through congress without opposition, and thus redeem the force bill pledge of the Minneapolis platform. The platform upon which Harrison stands today before the people, means simply, “The McKinley tariff to stand and the force bill to come.” The force bill which President Harrison recommended in his messages to congress and which Tom Reed bullied through the house two years ago is the only interpretation that can be placed on the plank of the Minneapolis platform relating to the election laws. A review of the monstrous measure brought forward by Congressman Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Davenport, of New York, in the last congress is therefore opportune. Chief Supervisor, for Life. The bill authorized the appointment of chief supervisors by the United States circuit judges who hold office for life,

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are amenable to no person, and are election directors in the respective districts. There are ,|iow three United States judges in each circuit, all Repnb. licans, with the exception of five judges who are in the minority and would be powerless in their districts when the appointment of supervisors were made. Under the bill the chief supervisor appoints three supervisors for election precincts and he may increase the number oi election officers without consulting congress and pay them without limit, the appropriations for this purpose being made in a lnmp. The chief supervisor may have as many deputy marshals ap* pointed as he may deem necessary. The supervisors have full power of deputy marshals and may arrest a voter if challenging him does not accomplish all that is necessary. They can arrest and imprison at will. They have the United States treasury behind them and the army and navy are placed under the control of the chief supervisors, and bayonets may he used at the poll whenever the election officers decide to use military force. As will he seen by Section 5 of the force bill, the judges are obliged to appoint as many supervisors as the chief may desire. The chief has the power to remove or suspend any precinct supervisor or marshal. Of the three supervisors no more than two are to be appointed from the same political party. The other member may be taken from any party or from no party, but as the two Republicans constitute a quorum to act independently of the minority member, the latter is simply a cipher; beside, if he should undertake to expose any rascality practice by the other two, the chief would suspend him without cause. The. chief supervisor is given authority to transfer subordinate supervisors from one precinct to another throughout a congressional district. This would enable him to send thugs from large cities to peaceful country precincts to intimidate the voters. For instance an army of negroes from Indianapolis could be made to invade Hancock county and take possession of the polling places whenever an election was held at which a congressman was voted for. By a recent decision by the United States supreme court these supervisors and marshals would be exempt from prosecution in the state court for any crime they might commit under the color of office or while assuming the discharge of duties thereof. If one of the marshals or supervisors should kill a citizen an indictment by a state court would not reach murder. He could only he tried in a United States court and before the partisan judge that commissioned him. The Secrecy of the Ballot Removed. By Section 8 of the bill the chief and his subordinates are invested with the power to revise and supervise the registration of voters; to examine state ballot boxes before elections begin, to keep a poll list and to number the voters; to receive and count ballots rejected by the state inspectors; to make statements and returns to the chief supervisor in whatever form, manner and to the extent the chief requires.

The Inquisition Revived. In a city of 20,000 inhabitants and upward the chief may require any of the supervisors and deputy marshals to make a house and house canvass which may begin live weeks before and be continued cm to the day of election; inquiring into the eligibility of voters; whether they had ever been legally naturalized, etc. As this provision does not require that this canvass shall be made by men of different political views it was intended for the purpose of placing Republican ward workers on the government pay roll to do partisan work and otherwise terrorize people. The force bill does not limit the number of supervisors and marshals to do this work, and in Indiana, in the cities of Indianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, New Albany and South Bend, thousands of ward-heelers would be employed to invade the homes of honest people. In their domiciliary capacity these modem inquisitors are given absolute power, by the force bill, to search the homes of citizens for the location of supposed illegal voters. There is no provision in the bill limiting the jurisdiction of these canvassers to their own precinct or city. There is nothing in it to prevent the supervisor from sending 500 Indianapolis negroes to made a house and house canvass in the city of Fort Wayne with power to arrest any man or woman refusing them access to any part of the house, or for declining to answer any question propounded.

The Infamons Returning Board. The bill provides for the appointment in each state, by the judge of the United States circuit, of a returning hoard or board of canvassers who receive the returns from the precincts in the various counties and hear evidence, if they think proper. Here is where the Republicans would have a chance to do their “own counting and certification,” as Tom Reed would say. For thin board declares and certifies who is elected to congress and the individual so certified shall be placed, by the clerk of ; the house, on the roll of members elected and thus authorized to participate in the organization of the next house. A severe penalty is placed on the clerk of I the house for failing to so place oa the j roll the'persons certified to by the re- ! turning boards. The board of canvassers has autocratic power far beyond the power of the . Czar of Ri.ssia. It has the power to make the boose of representatives of the

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United States, the greatest legislative hotly in the world, whatever it please to make it. Under the force bill it can certify any candidate as duly elected a member of congress, no matter if he received only 5,000 votes while his opponent receives 20,000, for the hoard has the right to throw ont votes, and from its action there is no appeal. The candidate so. counted ont could contest the election of the house after it had been organized by the members counted in by the returning boards. But no sane man would attempt such a contest before a body made up, largely, of men not elected by the people. State Authority Wiped Out. Under the existing system which has prevailed from Washington to the present time, certificates of the election to Congress are issued by the governor. The state returning board can not go behind the returns. In Indiana, the election boards chosen by the people return the number of votes cast for each candidate to the county board, which board is composed of all the inspectors of the county. The vota of each precinct is tabulated as reported and certified to the county clerk. The latter certifies to the secretary of the state the number of votes received in the county by each candidate for congress. • The vote of the congressional district is vibulated in the secretary of state’s office, by counties. The secretary certifies to thv governor the result and a commission is issued, by the governor, to the candidate having received the highest number of votes upon the face of the returns. There is no going behind the returns, and the man who bears the commission of the govemer is placed on the roster of the house by the clerk thereof. It will be seen that under the existing Bystem all election officers from the precinct to the governor are the creature of the people. But all this is to be wiped ont of existence, with a force bill, if the Republicans carry the next election, and the entire election machinery of the country will be placed in the hands of life long self-perpetuating federal office holders. There is another provision in the bill which beats Knownothingism. It requires the supervisors when instructed by the chief to compile a list of all foreign bom persons who have been naturalized with the date thereof, their place of nativity and present naturalization papers; and they are to examine and note the original affidavits and applications presented to the court and file the same with the chief supervisor for preservation. It virtually establishes political espionage over all of our naturalized American citizens, most of whom have been in this country for twenty or thirty years.

Cost of the Force Kill Array. If this bill should ever become a law it would create an army of election officers of about 275,000 at a cost to the country, for every congressional election of not less than $28,000,000, To carry on an election in Indiana under this system would require at least 18,000 subordinate supervisors. If these supervisors were on duty twelve days, which the law permits, at sls a day, which the law fixes as their per diem, it would cost for one election in the state the enormous sum of $1,080,000. To this army of Republican heelers another army of deputy marshals to be added at a cost of $5 a day, swelling the total expense indefinitely. There is one man in this country who bears the same relation to politics that Pinkerton bears toward organized labor—and that man is the notorious John Davenport, of New York. For years this notorious political thug has been employed by the Republicans of New York to intimidate naturalized American voters of atm York city. Fortified with a computation of chief election supervisor, tH» sum has caused the arrest of thousands of honest citizens, and detained them in prison on election day, with no other object in view than to prevent them from exercising their rights, as American citizens, at the polls. The records show that not one out of a thousand of the men arrested by Davenport has ever been tried, and not one out of 50,000 of the arrests made convicted, for attempting to vote illegally. For this service, covering a period of more than a generation. Davenport has received from the treasury Over st,ootr.O<M). Yet this is the man that the Republicans employed two years ago to frame the force bill, which still threatens the country. By reference to the files of the newspapers of 18%, the Associated Press reports from Washington will show that John Davenjiort consulted President Harrison, in relation to the provisions of the force bill, and that during its discussion in the house. Davenport occupied the speaker’s private room at the Capitol, where Republican members were steered before him and couched preparatory to the debates on the floor of the house. After the bill passed the house, Davenport moved over to the senate side, and from Senator Hoar’s committee room, conducted the force bill fight in the senate. Had the force bill sncceeded in going through the senate, then, John Davenport would in a few weeks be in charge of an army of 500,000 political thugs invading private homes, preparatory to turning the country over to the Republics us. And if the Republicans succeed this fall the Davenport gang will surely make its appearance in every precinct of the country in the election of 1892. _

“A FIBM ADHERENCE TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

Knows a Good Thing When He Sees It, and Says So, Too. [By cable from Sunningdale, Scotland, June 12, 1892.] To President Harrison, Washington, America: The people know a good thing when they get it. Heartiest congratulations. You deserve this triumph. ANDREW CARNEGIE. The Manufacturer Gets the Bounty. We believe that on all imports cominginto competition with the products of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the diffidence lastween wages abroad and at home.—National Republican Platform. If the tariff should be revised and the schedule made to fit this plank of the Republican platform the custom houses would not collect sufficient revenue in a year to run the government a month. Take the manufacture of steel rails for example; the report of Carroll D. Wright, as commissioner of labor, on the iron and steel industry shows that the difference in cost of producing a ton of steel rails (2,240 pounds), from the time the oar is taken from the ground is as follows:

cl O p I i n g? “ i| 8 g : & Direct labor *11.597 *7.817 *8.104 Officials and clerks.. .(505 .857 .581 Supplies and repairs. 3.416 3.417 2.643 Taxes 282 .150 .196 Transportation 5.949 4.207 3.894 Timber 081 .479 .668 Blast furnace profits 2.962 2.241 5.291 Cinder, scrap, etc... 1.081 2.678 Total, gross #25.878 *21.341 *21.822 Less scrap produced. 1.207 2.727 1.687 Total net cost *24.066 *18.614 *19.685 The above table shows the difference in labor cost to be $8.78 as in favor of the English manufacturer, and $3.49 in favor of the continental manufacturer. Of course this difference is largely duo to the efficiency of labor in the various countries. Mr. Wright shows in his .report that the efficiency of the workmen in the United Stares is .12 and .18 tons of product per men, per hour, while for the continent of Europe from .02 to .06 tons and .08 to .09 a ton in England. Bnt assuming that the capacity of the English workmen was equal to the American workmen; then, according to the last Republican platform, the tariff on steel rails should be $3.78 per ton, whereas, the McKinley tariff fixes the duties on steel rails at $22 per ton. According to the Minneapolis platform the American workman receives $3.78 and the manufactures $18.22 of this tariff bounty. No wonder Carnegie is able to take an annual regal tour through Scotland and bestow public libraries right and left, and buy old castles. No wonder the blood of American workmen has been slied at Carnegie’s Homestead mills. A few years ago Carnegie testified* before a congressional committee that his own profit from the iron mills amounted to $1,500,000 a year. Today the men who earned for him these millions are fighting for bread. Great is the protection to American labor!

No Pinkerton in Indiana.

Indiana was the first state to pass a law against the employment of Pinkertons. The Democratic legislature of 1889 passed the law at the request of organized labor. The same request was made of the Republican legislature of Pennsylvania, but it was ignored. The law provides that no man shall be appointed a special deputy, marshal, or policeman in Indiana, “to preserve the peace and prevent or quell public disturbance, who shall not have resided continuously in this state for the period of one year at least, and in the county where such appointment is made for the period of at least six mouths prior to the date of such appointment.” ’The same law provides “that it shall be unlawful for any person, company, association or corporation to bring or import into this state any person or persons or association of persons for the purpose of discharging the duties devolving upon sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, policemen, constables or peace officers in the protection or preservation of public or private property or in punishment of any iterson violating the criminal laws of the state.” Violations of this law render the offender liable to imprisonment in- the penitentiary for a year. This is the kind of protection the Democrats of Indiana believe in giving the workmen.

The Republican state committee will not deny that the Word was passed around among Republican county commissioners and township trustees not to reduce the local tax levy notwithstanding the increase of valuation of property. Over a $1,000,000 of local taxes w«*e raised in excess of the previ- ! ous year by the Republican commissioni era and trustees. This was done to make the tax law odious, but the people I are finding out that they are the victims : of a Republican conspiracy. Most of these Republican trustees axe leaving out this surplus at good interest which they pocket. A Massachusetts man has invented a recording device for scales. Upon a roller is placed a piece of paper, upon ! which a marker records the weighings at the scales as desired.

CARNEGIE

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET

For President, GKOYEK CLEVELAND, of New York For Vioe-President, ADLAI STEVENSON, of Illiuois. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

Governor, CLAUDE MATTHEWS, Ver Billion. Lieutenant: Governor, MORTIMER NYE, LaPort . Sawetary of Slate, WILLIAM It. MY ERS, MuilUoti. Auditor of State, JOHN O. lIENDERONM Howard. Treasurer,of State, ALBERT GALL. Marion. Attorney General, ALONZA G. SMITH, Jeunlugs. Reporter of Supreme Court, SIDNEY' R. MOON, Fulton. Superintendent of Public Instruction, UEBVKY D. VORIEB, Joimsbu. State Statistician, WILL/AM A. I’EELE, Jit., Marion. Supruite Judue, Second District, JKPTHA.D. NEW, Jennlm s Supreme Judge, Third Dietrlct, JAM IS MoDABE, Warren. • Supremo Judge, Fl.th District, Timothy e. how* kd, st. Joseph. lAppullate Judge, First District, GEORGE L. REINHARDT, Spoucer. Appellate Judge, Socond Dis’rlct, FRANK K. GAVEN, Decatur. Appellate Judge, Third District. THEODORE P. DAVIS, Hamilton Appellate Judge, Fourth District, ORDANDO ,1. LOTZ, Delaware. Appellate Judge, Fifth District, GEORGE E. ROSS, Cass. For Next United States Senator, DAVID TUIIPIE.

REPUBLICANISM REBUKED. We oommend the Legislature'for refusing to a 'opt Governor Hovey’s lecommendfttion to increase the State levy from 12 cents to 25 cents on the SIOO, and' for meeting the necessary expenses of the State’s benevolent institutions by a levy of 0 cents on the SIOO. Wo denonnoe the infamous conspiracy of the Republican county couimiseioners, township trustees and other officials of Indiana, who, for the purpose of oreating unfair prejudice against tne new tax law, have wantonly and needlessly increased the local taxes, in the forty-six counties controlled by them, more than one million twohundred and fifty thousand dollars—a sum greater than the total increase of the state taxes in the entire state. We call on the taxpayers of those counties to rebuke at the polls these local officials, who have put this needless and oppressive burden upon tbe people —Extract from Democratic State Platform. THE ISSUE. We denounce the Republican polioy of protection as a fraud, taxing the labor -f tbe great majority of the American people for the benefit of tbe few. We declare it t'jbe a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the F.DEKAD GOVERNMENT HAS NO CONSTI. TUTJoN*L POWER TO IMPOSE AND OOIiliF.OT TARIFF DUTIES EXCEPT FOR THB PURPOSE OF REVENUE ONT/T, and W 6 demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government when honestly and economically administered. ”- From National Democratic Platform. “To lav|with one hand the power of tho government on the property of the citizen, and with the other bestow it upon favored individuals to build up private fortunes, is none tbe less robbery because it is done under the form of law and is called taxation. Tnis is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms.Nor is it taxation. Beyond oavil, there can be no lawful taxation which is not laid for public purposes .—Opinion of Justice Miller, (Re-mblican) of the United States Supreme court. What is the meaning of protection? It means an additional six pence for each loaf; that is the Irish of it. If he had not the protection, the loaf would sell for a shilling, but if he has protection it will sell for one and six pence. Protection is the English for six pence; and what is more, it is the Exglish for an extorted six pence.. The real meaning of protection, therefore, is robbery—jobbery of the poor by the rich.—Daniel O'Connell in His Fight Against the High Tariff Corn Laws, Sept. 28, 1843.

There is a garden in China with an area of 50,000 square miles—as large, in fact, as New York and Pennsylvania combined. ‘'The American people know a good thing -when they get it. Heartiest congratulations. ion deserve this triumph.” Andrew Carnegie to President Harrison after his nomination at Minneapolis. ■ ■ •■>-«»»•»■ “T he necessaries of life used and con sumed by all ibe people, the duty upon i which add to the cost of living in every ! home, should be greatly cheapened."— Cleveland’s message, 1877. gar A. McCoy & Co. are prepared to furnish loans on farms at as low rates and on as favorable terms as can be obtained. Call and see os before making your arrangements. / 5 ——— ‘Party honesty is party duty; party courage is party expediency."—Grover Cleveland.

THE RIOT Ai HOMESTEAD. I From Pittsburg to Homestead at dawning A tug with some barges came, j Laden with villains and muskets, I Sent there in Liberty’s name, i And who on the haul, are awatling j Thoso two-legged beasts of prey. J ! They are Homesleads patient toilers. In grim and silent array—j They are men whose labor prodnoes j Tho wealth which Lord C arnegie ’ gives I In an alien clime with a Invish hand. While its makers barely oan live. ! They are men with homes half paid for, Hy the labor of weary years, And now their loss will bo Carnegie s gain Regardless of prayers aud tears; For a mortgage is not sympathetic, And for scenes of distress has no sight,

An Carnegie's rule of business Is the iufamonß “Might makes right Let us draw around He instead a curtain Before the Pinkerton's land, Lot ub bear not th cra&Lingof muskegs, Nor yet »he hoarse woids of command; For the Angel of Death hovered over. And widows and orphans are there, Aud anon on the breezes of summer Is wafted a dying prayer. What caused so much trouble?,you ask mo.f Why, i he cause, to you all, must bo plain; Mr. Carnegie needs more "protection. Wo must call on McKinley again [Cy’Bus Taylor. Toronto, Ind., July 12.

Curnegie * Co. fuvor free trade in—labor. ■ - -«•»«' ■ Carnegie & Co. favor protection, to a prohibitory point on the product of their mills, and they made sure to got It in the MoKinley bill. Qarnegio, before the Congressional oommittee, stated that his share of tho profits from his protected industries, amounted to $1,500,00(1 per year. , in.—.. ■ —— The state military on duty at Homestead will oost the taxpayers of Pennsylvania about a half million dollars. Carnogie is an expensive luxury to Pennsylvania.

"Those blatant demagogues and anarchists, Voorhees, Palmer and Jessy Simpson want to hang Andrew Carnegie, a man of the most generous impulses and of the most public spirited enterprise." ote. —Rensselaer Republican.Q Scores of republicans with whom we have conversed, in fat t a majority of that party In this locality declare that for the employment and arming of the Pinkertons, in oonneotion with the result, Carnegie &. Co. should be indicted for murder. It may be that they are not sincore, that they rather favor transferring to the Carnegies the entire blame for the legitimate fruit of republican class legislation. Tho Rupublioan of yeHterdny lamenteth over “how enormously the assessments of the lands of Jasper Co. were increased by the operation of (he new tax law." The people arc not so much concerned in regard to the increased assessment as they are on account of the failure of the county board to pioportionally decrease the levy. The new so-called tax la)W is nil rißht; but where oounty boards failed to deorease the levies in proportion to increased limed valuations It is not all right.

“If there was no protective tariff we should have ne steel mills, no steel workers, anil hence no strikers.”—Rensselaer Republican Under the tariff for revenue ot 1840 Pennsylvania was full of steel mills mid steel workers, but ihero were no million, ai e Carnegios nor strikers. Millions! e lords and downtrodden strikers ore tie legitimate fruits of protection. Ellis Walton had the misfortune to lose a valuable young horse Sunday night. Mr. Chase K llev and sister Holrn are visiting Mr. Childers’ family, near Delphi. Two kinds of Threshing Coal for sale cheap, at Coen A Paxton’s. Mrs. Hoyd an i daughter returned to their home, Delphi, the other day. MisslSara Chilcote entertained a number of her friends Wednesday evening in honor of her friend, Miss Irwin. Mrs. Will Ege is visiting her sisters at Grand liapias, Michigan. Mr. Huds m, a prominent Indianapolis Democrat, made ns a pleasant call Thursday morning. Mntters beyond our control have made it impossible for ns to issue a whole sheet to-day. The Pilgrims ar returning by degrees, Gorby'reached home from the Y. p. C. E Convention at New York, the other day. Miss Mabel Campbell is visiting Miss Angela Hammond. The Remington Fair will be held Aug. 23d to 20th inclusive. 'J’hi premium lists oro being distributed. David H. Yeoman, of this county, is the nominee of the I’cople’s party of this district for Congress, lie is a good citizen and a clever gentlemen. Pat Keefe, of- Kentland, is being warmly urged for the Democratic Congressional nomination for this district. Three child:en of O. K. Ritche.v, a few miles southwest of town arerepoited sick with the diphtheria. I'iulrusse, of the Stock Farm, en'ered the 2:30 list at Kankakee, 111., Tuesday. Rev. E. H Shanks wlil preach in tne Missionary Baptist church next Sunday, morning and evening. Monday last Taylor McCoy fell from a horse, breaking both boms of his left . arm. Mr. and Mrs. Huff are to-day entertaining a Urge number of Mttle folks, it being the birth-dhy anniversary of their little daughtess- Mabei aged 5, and Ethel aged 3. Last Saturday the Jasper county Prohibitionists placed in nomination the following c'ouutv ticket: Treasurer, Henry Welsh; Recorder, Everelt Halstead;|Sheriff, C W. Faria; Surveyor, Austin Rath, son: Assessor, S B. Thornton; Coro .er, W. T. Perkins; Commissioner, 2d dist., Jasper Kenton.

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Mr. aud Mrs. John Kepner return thanks to good neighbors fortheir kindly offices in their recent sad bereavement Tbe only place to get Hendersoa’a Boots and Shoes, is at I. J. Porter’s. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Welsn have re« tnrned from their visit with friends in California. Those figures represent the number ol bottles of Dr. King’s New Discoveryiof Consumption, Coughs and Colds, whiab were sold in the United States from Match ’9l to March, 92. Two Million, Two Hon* dred aud Twenty-Eight Tbo sand, Sis Hundred and Seventy. Two bottlessoUin One year, and each and every bottle wtm sold on a positive guarantee that money would lie refunded if satisfactory results did not follow its use. The secret of ite suoooss is plain. It never disappo nti and can always be depended on as the very best remedy for Coughs, Colds, ota. Prioe 500. and SI.OO. At F. B. Meyer a’ Drugstore.

Advertised letters- ~ Box 20, Mrs. Nellie Mitchell, Miss Latu ra Smith, Mr. Henry Wiltsien. Persons calling for letters in the above list will please say they are advertised. Ed. Rhoades, The Ninth Indiana infantry re* gimeut will hold its next re-union m Uenssolaer, Tuesday and Wednesday, August 110th and 31st. Clarauoe Carpet Warp, nt I. J. Pouter's. Win. N. Jones started for Columbcc a this State, Monday ni.ht, in response to a telegram announcing tho sudden death of his brother Riohard. For the occasion of tho meeting of the Indiana state militia to be held at Frank* fort, ind., July 25th to 30th, the Mown wdl null excursion tickets at one and one* third fare for the round trip. Tho Monon .v 111 run a World's Fair ex* version to Chicago Sunday, July 31,—. Thu fare for the round trip from Bens* selaor will lie only $1 (10. Tiokets will bo good returning until aud including August Ist.

Caipets very oheap, at I. J. Porter’s. Mrs. Elizabeth Florenoe has returnee) after a protraoted visit with friends in Kansas. John W. Paxton Is prospecting for ti now lumt or yard at Albaliy, this stale. TRUSTEE'S NOTICE. Notjoe is hereby given that I will be til n,V office at John A. Knowlton’s, in Jot, dun township, oi tho Fourth Saturday c each mouth for tho transaction of bum* mss connected with tb i duties of Tru. * tee. JAMES H. CARR, Trustee Jordan Townshl| Sam Duvall, of Chicago, is visiting* his brotbor J. W.,. and other friends in; Rousseiaor. “ W T SHOT) BE IN' EVERY HOUBEtI J. 11. Wilson, 1171, CJI&y st., Sharpe-* burg, P«., si ys ao will not be wltticm. Dr- King’s Now Disoovory for Conn! sumption, Coughs and Colds, that it* amed his wife who wus threatened, wl'li Pneumonia after nu uttnek of “La Utipiie," whan various other retudli'w and several physicians mtd done* hat no good. lk>“ert Jlarber, of Cuuksport, r «„ claims Dr.King’sNew* Dl’ioov ry mis done him mote goodt titan anything he ever used ior Luna* i i iiblo. Nothing tike It. Try it— Fit a Trial Bottles at, Meyer's Drug** s or«: I‘>r«e bottles. 500, and sl. 6 ASK THE STARVING MINERS.

“Wliar I* F.f'gyf” Posted in the window of The Tirnert counting room last week was a bulletin announcing that, Wyoming’s twoeenatoi’H had been hanged in effigy for casting votes against free silver. A crowd, of men stood on the sidewalk reading it with interest. Finally there sauntered along an old darkey. “What dat bul'ten say?” he asked. “Two men hanged in eftigy,” answered a bystander sententiously. Then everybody laughed when the old man gave vent to a low whistle and asked: “Wharis Ef'gy?”—Kansas City Times. The Journal does not yield to any paper or person in its zeal for the rights of labot and of workingmen. It would fight tor those rights as quickly as it would fer those of capital and employers.—Journal Of course! who doesn't know ft? Ask? printers; ask the starving miners of Clay county.—lndianapolis News (Ind, Rep,). It would seem that reciprocity is not receiving its fair share of attention since a recent change in the cabinet.—Washington Post (Ind. Rep.). What the Homesteaders really object to is tho idea of having their wages Frick-nsseed.—Washington Post (Ind. Ib'p,)

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT. The State of Indiana, ) Jasper County, ) 88 ' In Circuit Comt, To October Term, a. d. Reba Thomas 1 vs. No. 4396. Howard Thomas. ) Be it Remembered, That on this 2d day of July, a. D. 1892, the above named plaintiff, by James W. Douthit, her Attorney, filed in the office of tl.e Clerk of said Con it her oomplaint Against said* defendant for divorce, and also the affidavit of a competent and disinterested person, that said defendant is a nonresident of the State of Indiana. Said non-resident defendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said sni , and that said cause wiil stand for trial at the October term of said Court, 1892, towit: on the 17th day of October, 1892. Witnesa, My hand and the , —*— i stal of said Court, affixed Seal, c »< office in Rensselaer, on •- 1 ; * 2d day of July, ia. D. 1892' WILLIAM H. COOVEIi, Clerk. James W. Douthit, Att’vfor Pl’ff, July x, 1892 - ■*'>.