Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1875 — MASS STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

MASS STATE TEMPERANCE CON VENTION.

The St. Louis Globe and Democrat, |baYe consolidated. '. ywywwwpw— t *, When joa call a Chicago juryman a shyster be claims $30,000. Cincinnati papers are continually faying Rye’s up, W ilium Allen, as if tbe old gentleman didn’t Yaow it..; Not less than a hundred Democrats : are now on their good behavior. Each wants to be the flag bearer of Democracy in 1876. June 3d is the day appointed by the iGovernor of Missouri as a day of humiliation and prayer for preservation from the plague of grasshoppers. Last week Government officials seized all the distilleries in Chicago and six in St. Louis and eloeed them up. They are charged with violating the revenue law. The Democracy of Si. Louis must Lave made a mistake somewhere in nominating Rainwater as their candidate for Mayor, as this thing don’t usudfiy go down with them. ~~ Robbert Bonner has given SIOO,OOO to Rev. John Hail’s new church. It is said that the Lord loves a cheerful giver. Doubtless the members of Dr. Hall’s church love a big giver. The transfusion of blood has pat new life into General F. P. Blair. His condition is said to be improving since the last operation,: when five ounces of blood was introduced into the circulation.

The New York Time* thinks that Mr. Schurz’s position is a little peculiar, “It is not unlike that of the Irishman, who, climbing a rope, let go to spit on his hands. Where or how he expects to get hold again, we do not know.” The New Haven Palladium says that Mr. Schur*, as a political leader, lacks nerve, readiness and knowledge of the people. The lack of these qualities is as fetal to his success in political leadership as it was to his success on the field when Mr. Lincoln gave him a General’s commission. A blunt but sensible Ohio Republican paper obeeives: We have this to say to the whole brood of Democrats, Independents, Liberals, or what not: Please mind your own business; the Republican party has shown itself equal to the emergency in the past, and will doubtless put a man in the field that will occupy all your time to beat. We had scarcely recovered from the shock occasioned by the receipt, of the news of the loss of the Schiller with over two hundred passengers when the cable brings us intelligence of another disaster. The Steamer Cadiz by a misreckoning of her captain got out of her course, struck on a rock and went down almost immediately, with sixty-two drowned.

A philosophical Democrat has just arrived at the conclusion that, “if there had been no Republican party, there would have been no vjgrWhy not go further and say, if there had been no Republican party, there would have been no country. The party saved the country from destruction, and its followers are not yet ready to forget the sacrifices called for, or surrender the frnits of the great victory into the hands of their enemies. Some chaps who have been recently exposed by Postmaster-General Jewell in connection with the postal frauds, have decided, it seems, to take Mr. Jewell’s scalp. They will have a tough time of it. It happens that Mr. Jewell’s late exposures have raised up for him an army of friends who believe in honesty and economy in the management of the government. They are quite numerous enough to guard him against the attacks es those whose rascally practices have been brought to light. It may be difficult as to scalp all the bad men in office, but we bare feith to think that their scalps can be preserved to the good^meu.

At the eloeiog exercises es the fortyfifth annual Coherence of the Mormon Church, on April 12th, Brigham Young said that an Indian prophet in the p*rt of the Territory hud received r'fevel* ation from God through Adam, leech ahd Noah, that the Indians were descendants es Joseph who was sold into Egypt; that the Indians must be baptized- Jor a remission of their sins, become' friends with the Mormons and stop killing each other, and that the Mormons must resist the United States Government and hill all United States troops sent against them. Brigham closed by prophesying that woe and sorrow would fell upon the United that they would soon be disunited, and that God- had come forth from his hiding place and would bring misery and degradation upon the United States for their sins, . t

The second Maas Temperance Convention of the State of Indiana, under the auspices of the Woman* Christian Teat peranee Union of the State, Is hereby called to assemble in tbe First Baptist Church, in tbe city of Indianapolis, at 2 o’clock p. Si., on June 9* 1875, to continue throughout Thursday and one-half of Friday, June 10th and nth. v’ r \ '?rn--'; v:~ H Believing that tht temperance question has become of paramount importance in the church, Sunday school, in legislation and in society, and that the evils of intemperance can only be suppressed by the eotubiped moral forces and powers of law in the State, it has been determined by the executive committee to invite all church, Sunday schools, and temperance organzationa to seod representatives, and to ask members and ex-members of tbe State Legislature and National Congress, ministers of the gospel, lawyers, physicians, teachers, and all men and and women of Indiana who deplore the evils of intemperance, to come to this convention, and assist in devising measures, which, with the blessing of God, shall ultimately result in its suppression. The citizens of Indianapolis tender their hospitalities to those who may attend the convention. Railroad arrangements will he announced in the Indianapolis papers on Monday, May 24.

A committee of arrangements will receive visitors at the Third Presbyterian Church, on Illinois street, opposite the Academy of Music, between the hours of BA. u. and 1:30 p. n., on Wednesday, June 9, and assign them to their homes. A committee of gentlemen, wearing white badges will meet them at the depot during the same hours. Dlinois-street care leave the west end of the depot every few moments, passing the Third Church, which is five squares distant. Persons arriving during the night, or on can find temporary accommodations., at reduced rates, at the National Hotel or Spencer House, opposite the depot Those arriving after the opening of the convention will report at the First Baptist Chnrch. Mrs. Z. J. Wallace. President Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of the State of Indiana. * Mrs. M. M. Finch, Secretary.

The Democratic party has been dying, for the past fifteen years and is not dead yet In feet it has more life titan it had ten years ago. Now the organs of this party that has been buried more than a dozen times, have suddenly discovered that the Republican party is dead. If its death is as long postponed as that of the Democracy, there will be no necessity of ordering a tombstone for the next ten years at least. Great parties die very often in the imagination of their opponents, but they refuse to be buried. Of this fact our Democratic friends will be made aware before the Centennial gun is fired in 1876. Some parties have the faculty of developing extraordinary life when their enemies are about to bury them. Ours is one of them. The Philadelphia Pres* very justly suys if the Republican administration is wrong in forcing whipped traitors into obedience, then the Republican administration committed a crime when it whipped those men. Follow this reasoning, and you inevitably arrive at the conclusion, to which the Democratic party has arrived from the hour it allied itself to traitors, that the war for the security of the Union was unconstitutional; that the war debt is illegal, that the abolition of slavery was a usurpation of power; that the sacrifices the North made to sustain the government were so many slaughters which ought to subject those who participated in them and survived the conflict, to penal prosecutions.

KingKalakaua of the Sandwich Islands will send his father’s cloak to tho Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia.— This article will represent more labor than any other that will be on exhibition. Its manufacture was commenced over a hundred years ago, under the auspices of some of the ancestors ■of Kamchamcha, the first King of the islands, and upward of fifty years of time was requited for its completion. It is made of the feathers of a peculiar species of bird—each bird, furnishing only two feathers one from under each wing. In size the oloak is a fittle over a square yard and its color is a golden yellow. It used to he worn by the King on state occasions, butof late years it serves only to adorn the reception room of the palßfe. t i, - i „ : - j

The Democratic leaders have made the diSeorny frar the hundredth time that the expenditures of the National Government were less before the war than now. On this they base a claim for national control. “Only give os power they cry, “and we will wipe out the tax list altogether.” They are very cartful to conceal the feet that Democracy is alone responsible for the enormous debt incurred to save the Government from the Southern wing of the party.

ha lookiag oyw the field tea » wadi date for President we see no one more deserving of the saffrages of the peoplemore honest—more capable or more availipirf iu giant intellect and wields it for his country’s good. While men who began public life when he did have rode upon the topmost wave of feme and now me in the political sea trough, Morton’s escutcheon grows brighter as years silver o’er his head. First called from the laboring masses to Lieutenant Governor. Then by the election of Gov. Dane to the B. S. Senate, left to fill the sw?uKy. Next elected governor, and, asChegreSi war Governor, he endeared himMf Jfo aH true patriots of the nation. After Qpl he k elevated to the exalted dtsftdjn which he now holds, and has apMyjeej upon the floor of the Senate. been the target at which the Opgßtro* have fired their (yiy finrdflnfld -jßhell, bol like a diamond coming in contact with dross, he oulj shines the brighter. No better evidence of hfe greatness k needed than to koow thatthe opposition have left nothing undone that they could do, to drag ten down. Oliver P. Morton, the enemy of traitors in the dark, days of the war. Oliver P. Morton, the soldier’s friend during die time that tried mot’s souls. OBve r P. Morton, the peer of any living American Statesman. Oliver P. Mortal, the friend of the laboring man. He k the- man for the times and would make a model President.—Rentland Gazette.