Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1875 — High Old Reform. [ARTICLE]

High Old Reform.

[lndianapolis Herald.] Attorney General Buskirk has decided not to bring suit against the fictitious employes of the.last House, who drew about SI,OOO in all. He gives as bis reasons for this that it would be hard to get a judgement, and then if he did gain the case that it would be exceedingly difficult to recover anything.— Sentinel. The*people have already taken judgement against the Democratic party, and will endeavor to foreclose at the next election. It was a high old “reform" Legislature that filched SI,OOO from the. public treasury to men of straw. Henry Ward Beecher continues to deny he cpok hold of Mrs. Moulton’s and he swore to its falsity in general and in particular. The whole scandal has' thus resolved itself into a question of veracity. The jury has to decide which of the two sides is lying. Attention seems to be directed, for the time, from the original charge, and people are asking who is the perjurer, as if the discovery of this were the fact to be settled. Such gigantic, wholesale, continued peijury as there is in this trial has probably never been known in the history of courts.

The Cincinnati Enquirer throws cold water en the palpable movements of the Democracy of New York to cjov. d Governor Tilden on to the party as its presidential standard-bearer in 1876. It says that New York has had its full share of such honors; that it had General George B. McClellan in 1864, Horatio. Seymour in 1868, and Horace Gredey in 1872, and that it is about time that New Yorkers should learn that ’“there are faithful Democrats outside of the great State of New York. The Enquirer is probably thinking of Governor William Allen, and desires to “give the old man a chance.” It would Seem that all ought to know what the Chicago Tribune says below, but many are unmindful of it, viz: “The President cannot elect, nor even re-elect, nor even re-nominate, himself. The people only can elect a President When the time coms for electing a President, and the people want General Grant for a third term, he will be elected; if they do not want him he will not be elected. If the public sentiment of the country is opposed to a third term no persona will know it sooner than the politicians, and but few us them, if any, will favor a nomination which will be the certain forerunner of defeat.’'

The amicable relations which have lately existed between the Northern and Southern branches of several Evangelical churches, is cause for mutual congratulation. The recent session of the Kentucky Conference of Methodists at Louisville was a remarkable example of this. Four years ago the Northern Methodists meeting there, were excluded from the pulpits *of their fellow-church-men.— This year the northern preachers occupied the Southern pulpits and nice versa. This was not merely surface codiality, but appears to have extended to the laity as it must be to the clergy of evangelism. One of the most conscienscious Sherifls on record has turned np in lowa. A railroad was to be sold at Sheriffs sale, and a friendly agreement was made by which this model official was to receive $350 in payment for. his partin the transaction, which required to hours perhaps of his valuable time. But after the sale he happened to look at the statute which fixed his fees, when he found to his horror that he had been transgressing the laws of the State, which declared that he should receive no other'fees than those legally assigned .him, and he said he would take nothing but his lawful fees which, in this instance, it seems, amounted to SII,OOO. The railroad men endeavoredto hold his original bargain, but he was to . conscientious to violate the laws he was appointed to uphold, and the case going to the courts, his integritj wis rewnded by, verdict in B-■-•ar ? -*