Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1897 — The Greatest Country On Earth. [ARTICLE]

The Greatest Country On Earth.

The Land of Promise is down South iu the eight great Southern States penetrated by the Southern Railway. One way Settlers ickets and "round trip tickets are sold by lines leading south in connection with the Southern liailw ay to give the people a chance to s' 3 6 thatgieat country. the Southern Railway runs to Asheville and Hot Spriugs, N. 0., ‘‘ t he Land of tA.eSky,” America’s greatest resort of health and pleasure. Through vestibule trains from Cincinnati and Louisville i hro’ Pullman sleepers from So Louis via the Southern Railway. J. C. Beam, Jr., N. W. P. A , 111 Adms St., Chicago. Wm. H. Tayloe, A. G. P. A., Louisville, Ky. ‘Judge’ Healy has hadsomely fitted up his salesroom. The other day we overheard one lady remark to another: “I have 'visited Mr-. Healy’s Boot and Shoe Emporum, and realize whv he has been dubbed “JUDGE!” “He has had many vears experi in the manufacture of s' oos —is a practical workman—there fore is a good “Judge” of tie woi k in a shoe. •His experience, too, in the hand ling of material constitutes him a good “Judge” of the stock in ibis goods. “He has an ex tensive stock, in all sizes, and can ‘‘fit” the most exact ing, which goes to Drove that lie is a good “Judge” of the wants of 1 ho people ”

A million and a half of gold was ordered for export Wednesday.— The gold conspirators are beginning operations again. tm If Bryau had oeen elected and banks bad failed as rapidly as they have since HftcKinley’s eleotion, what a howl the corporation managers would have made. At the Woldorf gold-bug dinner Saturday night, Grover Cleveland admitted that be and the demo. cratic bolters generally had been badly buncoed by Mr. McKinley and his managers. Cleveland has no right to oomplain. He did all he rould to advance McKinleyism with a full knowledge of what the success of McKinley meant. The Indianapoliß News which also supported ‘ 'The advance agent of prosperity” says. “The whole Dingley bill is so unblushingly a bill for the private benefit of those whom it concerns that demonstration of the fact is superfluous. The goblins have got us. The moneyed interests of this country, the combines, the corporations, the trusts, the “vaporized” institutions, like the Indianapolis street raailway company get everything they want. The laws ure so framed that these {hinge have all the easy chances. The public has al out as much show as thelproverbial snowflake in the traditional warm place. And we still think this is just a government by the people I”

'•ha South Bend Times notes that “of the ‘old guard’ that was a prominent factor of Democratic politics in Indiana as far back as 1860 only Senator Turpie and Judge Robert Lowery remain as survivors. All the others have been gathered to their fathers. David Turpie was that year made the Democratic nominee for lieut-enant-governor; Judge Lowery presided over tho store.v state convention that nominated the state ticket headed by Thomas A. Hendricks for governor and that sent an enthusiastic Douglas delegation to the Charleston convention. This convention was perhaps the most intense gathering ot

the kind ever held in Indiana. There was a bitter fight frr supremacy between the followers of Stephen A. Doug'as and these who rallied under the leadership of Jesse D. Bright and Jonn L . Robinson, supporters of the Buc’ ananBreekiuridge ving of the party. A number of mm were in that convention armed with pistols and revolvers. Thatno actual collision or outbreak occurred was largely clue to the impartial ruling anil the firmness and dignity of tlie presiding officer, Tud ;e Lowiy.”