Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1892 — No Pinkerton in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

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.