Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Democratic Conventions. At a meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee, held at Indianapolis, January 15th, 1896, it was recommended that the democrats meet in their respectiveorecincts in the several counties of the state, February 15, 1896, at 1 o’clock, p. m. for the .purpose of electing a member of the central committee for each voting precinct of the county. And the members so elected for Jasper county to meet in Rensselaer, on Saturday, February 29th, 1896, at;l o’clock p. m. for the purpose of organizing said committee by the elec-, tion of a Chairman, a Secretary, and a Treasurer. A REMINDER I Time to Move. Where are you going 9 That's the q uestion! I) o 3oil tiii’m *.* Then let us sell you a farm at once. We have them in size from tO.acres up, and ranging in prites hat can’t possibly help but suit. Example:—4o acre improved farm ip good location, with S3OO as first paymept. Larger firms in proportion. T)o .you work in Town*? Then we can sell you Town property from a vacant lot to a mansion. Do .you want to engage in Bnsiness?--Then we can fit you out there. We have good fresu stocks of goods for sale or to trade on good fa-ms. Stocks in good location or movable. Or, if you desire to change business we can sell yours, and sell you som< thing exse. In fact we have anything from a farm to a home to retire to n the city. Look fo* our list in this space next week. We respectfully solicit your correspondence and patronage. Lee & Campany.

M APOUNCMT! On March Ist we will remove to room one door east of Post Office, now occupied by Laßue Brothers Grocery S'ore. ns’i pb OUTRAGES IN ARMENIA. In the United States Senate, Jan. 28, ’96: Mr. Tubpie. I present a p t'tion, in the ioim of resolutions adopted at a meetingof local churches of Rensselaer, Ind., 1 eld in Trinity Methodist Episco al Church January ,9, 1896. expressing sympathy for the suffering people of Aimema and remonstrating against their further oppression. The petitioners respectfully urge our Government to make every pos sible effort to induce the Governments of Christendom to rousej themselves from tbetr apathy and put an end to this intolerable state of ass drs, which thr ateiis with extermination thousands and thousands of ourfellow-Christians, and urging also upon our Government to do everything in its t ower to preserve the fruits of American missionary toil and expressing their ardent sympat y with the unuttura ble sufferings of th s persecuted race; and calliug upon all the peoples"of Christendom to insist that these unutterable sufferings shall cease. Mr. President, this petition comes from a very rcspectaole source in Indiana, and I should like to address the Senate very briefly on the subject. Armenia is an oasis of Christian faith places in a desert of unbelief. It is the largest body of Christianshaving any local Oi racial unity within the limits of the Ottoman Empire. Its inhabitants had been long subject to the Turks before the Sublime Porte was located at Constantinople. They have been faithful subjects of that Empire. They h ive paid their treasure in its support. They have furnished the blood and life of their sons, their fatheis, and their brethieu for th< defense of the Empire against foreign invasien. They were not charged in the recet t calamities which have befalen them with any disloyalty to the Turkish Government They were charged with n > revolt, with no attempt at treason or rebellion They were charged with nodi tobedienceof any law or ordinance of the Empire. They were charged only with being Christians. They were charged, they were seized, they were condemned, th y were executed, under circumstances of indescribable atrocity, as Christians. Their only crime was that they persisted in exercising that right to w rship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, a right, as has bee., said, guaranteed to them by the treaty of Berlin, but a right given, granted, to them and all mankind by a power greai er than either of those of the signatories to that instiument the Divine Creator of the universe. Sir, I think ut this juncture the time approaches when there ought to be express advices, official notifications (if that be the morii courtly phrase) given to the Government of Turkey—to the Turkish Government and to the Mohammeaau Church - that there has been a great and fatal decadence of that power in the last three centuries. The 'Turkish Government is recognized and established; but h w? By reason of its own strength or merit? Not for a d y. It is suppoi ted and only maintained by|those international jealousit s wrdeh cluster aroun i the transatlantic segment of the Monroe doctrine called, in ail the waters of the Mediterranean, the