Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — RANDALL THE HONEST. [ARTICLE]

RANDALL THE HONEST.

An accounting has been had in a Probe, te com t in Pennsylvania of the estate of Samuel J. Randall, the administratrix being the widow . It is found that Randall left no real or personal estate save a few personal effects, and that after the payment of funeral expenses and the setting aside of an award of S3OO there was nothing to ac-, count for nor enough money left to pay the costs required in the ac This was the saving and the profit of a ong life of service to the public. Commencing ' , s a councilman in Philadelphis, Mr Randall was ferred to congress, where he held his seat for almost a generation, and to the speakership of which he was advanced not only because he was a sturdv democrat but alto because his large experience had made him a, thorough parliamentarian . Mr. Randall was essentially honest. He was honest in thought as wed as in action. He did not lend himself readily to the democratic idea of tariff reform, but we see from the sequel that while he was doing tremendous service for the protect d industries in holding democrats for a time against the pohcv of tariff reduction he was doing it with perfect integrity of purpose. The protective idea had in his mind a lodgment which he could not shake off. Had he chosen to prefer a claim for his services; had hs in the speaker’s chair sought to barter his vote ai d the influence of his place forwor’dly ends, he might have rolled up one of those great fortunes which republican statesmen have had such a happy knack of getting together upon the slender salary of a representative in congress. Mr. Randall served the public according to his conviction of what service to the public ought to be, with a single-mindedness of which there are not many examples when his peculiar opportunities are taken into consideration. He was always an advocate of retrenchment in the expenditures of the government, and a foe to that ex travagance which since the war has been characteristic ot congresses both republican and democratic It was his idea of administration that it should be both simple and frugal, andjthough simple and frugal in his own life there was nothing left of an estate for his family. Mr. Randall was a public man of the very highest character and of the profoundest patriotism. He differed from his party regarding the tariff, but nothing tells more significantly and more eloqueuty of the perfect honesty in which he held this view than the accounting of his estate in an orphans’ court Pennsylvania. —Chicago Times.

The republican national committee is after the Pinkertons now for that Homestead affair Why n~t scoop Carnegie and Frick in the drag-net? The Pinkertons were their tools.

MILL WOBKEBS’ WAGES TO GO UP. Boston, Nov. 15.—At a meeting of all the local cotton mills 10-day it was decided to voluntarily .increase the wages of all operatives at least 7 percent: totakeeff ct Dec. 4. The owners of the Carpenter mills, at Providence, to-day voted to raise the wages of their employes 15. per cent, without a dem and. Theowners of the Goddard mills, the Lonsdale company and the B. B. & D. Knights, the largest cotton mills of the world, to-day an-

nounce the voluntary increase of wages of th fir employes Dec. 4, and though the amount is net made public it is hinted to be between 6 and 7 per cent. The mill men generally state that their business at present does not justify an increase, yet they deny that the general increases at Pall Rive-, New Bedford, Lowell and Providence are due ip any measure to prospects through a change in admin" istration. Greenfield, Mass., Nov. 15, A republican election bugbear, that the new K-ith parer mill, which is to cost $400,000, is not to be built, is exploded to-da - by Treasurer Burnett, who says the contract has been awarded and the mill is in process of ere tion. Norwood, Mass., JSov. 15.—Geo. S, Winslow, senior member of a big tanning firn, of Winslow Brothers, says that the change in ad’ ministration will lead to increased business and he will enlarge his tanneries and give employment to double the number of men on the pay-roll*

It wbuld be well to have an extra Br-ssion of congress m order to relieve the people at once from the ills they suffer from republican legislation.

The campaign of education was not a bad thing tor the Democracy after all. The chairman of the state central committee was in constant communication with the press of his party all over the state and everything worked like a charm as the result proves.

It was a groundswell on the one band and a heap of earth on the other. —Indianapolis News, rep. A snow-white deer was killed on Saturday, Nov. sth, in Clinton county, Pennsylvania. Accidency Chase, late republican candidate for Governor, thus insultingly refers to American citizens:

“Democrats went from house to house telling the ‘lower classes’ that if the Republicans won they would be deprived of the right of suffrage.” The candidate who will refer to a portion of his fellow citizens as of the “lower classed” deserves defeat. The News very properly adds:

“Among other things that got a blow on Tuesday, we think, was the aristocratic idea in our affairs. Arrogance and hypocrisy were hit, but the aristocratic idea of upper classes a d lower classes, of unwashed herds and masses unfit to govern themselves, with a superior class eminently fitted to do the governing for them got a very severe blow. The idea of lower classes has not so much substance in it since November 8 as it had before, and it is by no means an evidence of sagacity or soundness to expound it”

Cleveland’s majority on the popular vote will be more than a half million. All white men, too.

Accidental Governor Chase has found out that the “imps of hell” and the “lower classes” outnumber the other fellows tbout ten thousand in Indiana. He will be sent to the hospital in January and placed unde, treatment for the “big head” and “big nose.”

The Indiana supreme eourt will be composed of thr e Democrats and twoy republicans after next January, and the ap t ellate court judges will be democrats.

Now let congress put wool on the tree list instanter. Free wool means cheaper and better clothing for the people. It means more than this. It means that the manufacture of woolen goods will be greatly stimulated. The people should no longer be compelled to pay wool prices for shoddy goods.

Hon. S. P. Sheerin, secretary of the democratic national committee, was the right man in the right place. He did great service for his party in the late campaign, and bis unselfish labors deserve and should receive the highest recognition .

Hon. Luzon B. Morris, who was counted|out of the governorship of Connecticut by the republicans two years ago, was counted in by the people at the recant election by a large majority.

The new tax law is one of the best on the statute books of our state and should be faithfully executed. It received the approval of the people nt the iecent election Property values ca i stand an increase, and tax levies be correspondingly reduced. The next legislature can, and probably will, reduce the state school levy.

We trust our democratic committee will make an effort to ascertain if any democrats were lured to remain awav from the P°hs —if so, by whom, and then see that “no guilty man escape.”

The democrats of Remington* this county, and Mt. Ayr, Newton county, jollified Tuesday night, and had a geneial good time.— James W, Douthit, Esq., of this place, addressed the Mt Ayrites.

Let one of -he first acts of the next congress be the admission to statehood of New Mexico, Arizona and I tab. They have twice the population of Nevada, Wy; ming and Idaho.

The republican gain inJasn e r county over 1890, is 84. This may be charged 4 to republican members of the Peoples’ party leaving the Democratic membership of that organization to hold the bag. In Newton county the republican gain was 54, In White county the republican gain was 24. In Benton county the republican gain was I ut 2. Of the four counties J asper democrats sustains the heaviest loss.

Chase followed his big nose and it led to defeat. From his allusions to “imps of hell” and “lower classes” he belongs to the class who declare they can smell a mechanic.

If the Peoples’ party of this judicial circuit had shown the same magnanimity as thaf exhibs ted by the imnocrats, and if the names of the judicial candidates had been properly filed in Benton county Messrs. Sauuderson and Davis would in all probability nave scored a victory.

Mr. Douthit was not ejected from the presence of the canvassing board, and it is possible, 'oo, he may have caused a scheme to miscarry-

The federal election law ought to be repealed. The people should be trusted to conduct their elections withoutfedtral interference.