Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — ZEALOUS FOR CUBA. [ARTICLE]

ZEALOUS FOR CUBA.

Senator Turtle f or War With Spain if Necessary. In speaking of the proposition to refer the report of the naval court of inquiry to the committee on naval affairs, Mr. Curtis, the special correspondent of the Chicago liecoid, makes the following reference *o Senator Turpie: “Under ordinary circumstances the re; ors would have gone to the naval committee without a question , but the foreign relatio s com mittee claimed it on the theory that a diplomatic rather than a military question is invol\ ed,and after some ‘heated conti oversy the naval committee gave in. The members cf the foreign relations committee prepared t:> tight, and passed tno word around the senate chamber. One of the members of this committee is Mr Turpie, of Indiana, the most litter, virulent and disagreeable antagonist that anybody can meet in controversy, and he is particularly zealous in tbe (inban cause. '“Wiien 1 told Turpie that tlie naval committee was going to try to get the report,’ said one ot his c ’the old man oegan to suck his bottle of uoison and hunt for his box of rattlesnakes.’ ”

A few weeks ago f iie tfeming" ton Press, then under the manage ment of Bibcock, announced the had completed arrangements to start a n w Democratic |paper in this city. Of course this was misleading all around, and was de signed to bo so as the result proves To strengthen the statement, however, the announcement: “D. W. Shields is interested in it.” The Press should have concluded the statement, in order to establish Shields’experience in the business, that he had been “interested” to the extent of a few shares ot stock and as a “director” of the Pilot, the Populist organ, up o the date of its demise; also that' he had taken part in the Populist convention in 1892, anti was in harmony with the movements of that party ever since. This might show the elastic natu. e of his political virtue but it would be truth. The Rensselaer Republican re cently announced ti e title under which th * new paper would sail, and that D W. Shields and E i gene Dif'ev would preside over Is colums. The outfit is on hand, worth probably S2OO, and we understand incumbered to that extent, which indicates that Democrats have ia> ken no interest in the stock. The mechanical department, we under stand, will be under the supt rvisioa of t e republican editor of the Home News, and the outfit of that concern wil’ be used to make up what the i ew paper * utfit jacks. Any one has a perfect light to establish a business wherever he may desire, but be has no right to distort and misrepresent /acts with reference to its backing. If the Democrats we e starting the flew paper, then tne cost of ti> : outfit, and the obligation given, (we understand a mortgage) to secure its Lavment, is a bad .Jam on the libeiality of “the democrats- ’ The fact is the movement Las been, in spired solely by certain ton pulistSjWho have founu tnemselves deprived of an organ since the sale of the Pilot.

Congress will . dopt a resolution for armed intervention, Monday. The President has been given till Monday to send in las message on the Spanish situation.