Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 January 1895 — Page 4

JASPER C0UK1ER

J.tSPKR. 1X7HOIS COUNTY, INDIANA. atr1 ti ta rwttoSlct st Jptr liutun. (or rwi'umcluD tbrc Jb tbt ntll erniil cIsm aistttr. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1895. A LETTER FROM CONGRESSMAN RRErz. He ThMs Tbc Csrkr Hn Misresreseate4 Hia. House or Kepkkjkntativkh Wahhinuton,. juii. 21nt, 1, C. Doask, Jasper, Ind. Mr DkakSik I reirret very much to be compelled to write this letter. Hut the pro vocation U too itreat. to bo overlooked or Basaed bv with uu more than a pussln no tice. The Offenau iustiSes urn lu utilnit uUlu Uairuajce In charscterizinK uiy dlsproval of It, and neac I will not go out or tuy war to elect oft wordi to express uiy tnouKtiu. When I entered pubhe life more than tea year ago, I took the rink, and Indeed expected critlciaui on matten pertalniUK to uiy public acts and official conduct, and bunco 1 uave never taken exception to a clone crutluv and a fair, decent and truthful criticism of uiy conduct. I can bear wltU a great deal of auvurse censure, even wiien uutrutniui and unwarranted, from my politicul adver series, because they have a motive, and I can bear with fortitude and circumspection any truthful and worthy exceptions to uiy otticial conduct from my political associates. But I du object and protest against untruthful, unwarranted and inexcusable assaults from my political friends, especially when coming trout my fellow townsman and neighbor, who understands better, perhaps, than any man living, my views on most public questions with which I have to deal. Simply because 1 am a public servant may lead some men to believe they huve an Inalienable right to assail me, whenever and wherever they please and on all sorts of excuses. I have never thought so. You accus me iu an article in the Cocuikk of last week, with having voted with the Kastern bankers, on the currency bill. I deny it. 1 voted, as did also the entire delegation (rout Indiana, to carry out the positive and unanluious instructions of a democratic caucus, composed of a hundred and fifty deuioeruts, to the Committee on Kults of the House, to report an order, to be adopted by the House, to limit debate on the Carlisle bill, and bring it to a vote la the house. Debate nn the bill had been going ou for more than two weeks, and was not changing a vote one wuy or the other, nor giving the country any information. I was tired, as was the conntry, of listening to the everlasting Jawsuiitbs of the House, and wanted to take a vote on the bill, and dispose of it. In order that we might go on with other business. My vote to sustain the Committee on Kules, limiting debate,was no indication whatever of how 1 would vote on the passage of the bill, and your knowledge of pari iuientary Inw, teaches you any thing, will teach you so. Every member of the Indiana delegation, as well as many others, knew I was going to vote against the bill. 1 es, and you knew It, for I told you when I was home during the holidays, I did not think I would vote for the bill, and hence there can be no sort of excuse for the malice that iaduced you to make such an attack on me as you have. You say no friend of the common people voted as 1 did. The venerable Judge Holman, who for thirty years has stood up in the hottest of the fight ana fought the battles of the common people, voted Just as I did, as did many others whose honesty and faithful fidelity to the common people Is equally marked. I cannot believe you was prompted by malice, yet your language bears that construction, and aoae other. You seek by It to discredit my social standing among my neighbors and friends, who earn their dally bread by the sweat of their face, among whom I live, and of whom I am one. I challenge you to point to ose single vote I ever .east, since I have beta In Congress, or one single utterance I ever made either here or on the stump, that was not Qireciiy in ine interest or me com mon people. Yea say my vote on the repeal of the Shermaa law, and yet you approved and minnnrtwft a nlulfurai that I cut lirtil ppon, aeciariajg inai, mat iuw was a trauu i isrt and a aiaketshlTt. and oromlscd Its repeal.-! There was nothing said in that platform, ydu so heartily endorsed, about unconditional t before I cast repeal, and yet you knew that before tuy vote for the repeal of that law. I bad daae everything In mv Dower, both bv vote aud speech to secure the passage of a law ?rovfdlng for your hobby, free coinage, ou say all true democrats voted to scotch the Carlisle bill at the first chance. I deny It. The bill was not before the House, to be voted upon, wbea the vote was taken you have taken the liberty to assault me on. The ones you refer to with so much favor and approval, as "true democrats," were the bolters of the unsinlous action of a democratic caucus which they attended and participated In Its deliberations. In that same aeaieace yon question my democracy, which has been as fixed as the stars, and bears date mi of my birth. Can you say as much of yours? I am told not. And It you keep on Bomlaatlna Dcbs.AItjrelt. Coxev. Carl Hrown and Herr Most for president, and extolllng- , tueir cuaracier anu uecus in ine ioukiek, it will aeed another reconstruction soon, if to discard the stars and stripes, law and order, and take up aad follow the red flag, riot and disorder. Is what is expected of democrats, I will not aik to be excused from following such, but will at once excuse myself. Ji your gods of democracy are these men, taiaeare not. I deny that these men tr cither of them represent the least worthy prlaeiale of the Democratic party, I protest auslast being placed In the same category With these men. Now I am done. I know your heretofore fairness and belief in the right of self defense will at once prompt you to wake amends of your uncalled for and Impetuous assault, and if you have the courage aau chivalry 1 think yun have, you will publish this, reluctantly written, letter Immediately following your artli'lc in last week's CoraiBK, Very truly, Juhx I BaiTf, The Courier cheerfully gives Congressman Bretz the opportunity he asks of making some comments in defense of his vote to give the Carlisle-Cleveland bank-bill a right to a vote on its merits in the House though of course we do not admire the spirit or concede the correctness of what he says. But the first is a matter of taste, and the latter of proof. The Courier said his vote was not a Democratic one, and it still so contends. The Democratic caucus, composed of only 144 members of congress, a little more than half of ine democratic congressmen, in a a a a- . a sieaa oi tne over zuu, voted by a bare majority that the Committee on Rules should report a rule limiting .debate, and jetting a day for a vote on the proposed currency bill. At that caucus the proposition was made that the caucus action should le binding, but was not adopted a number of members stating that they would not be bound by it. go much for Mr. Bretz's statement about voting with the caucus, and justifying his action thereby. The dispatches stated that Messrs. Conn and Martin, two of Indiana's Democratic congressmen were not present at the caucus, and did not sustain its action. So much about the statement in regard to the "solid delegation from Indiana. I But the Coumm contends that t.J:ju.i- i 4i .i IMiYid.sts are of themselves noth-

ing tho principles upon which OerryiiJtr. they were entrusted with public po- The proposed Republican Legissitton by the People being para- lative gerrymander if a most beauti-' mount to all else. The currency ful and symmetrical juggling with" bill of Carlisle was nothing but a political 'majorities and figures, scheme to retire greenbacks and Uv There are li) Republican hold-over

Ö. notes, ana issue interest bearing Senators, who went in under tho bonds for a debt now bearing no in- Cleveland goldbug ücare in Xovetnterest, thus compelling the common ber. The proposed hill puts 1(! of

people to pay more taxe, and iurther to fasten upon the country for an 'indefinite iwnod a system ot na tional banks, against which the Democratic party has placed itself persistently upon record since th time of President Jackson's veto of the U. S. bank bill, before our Con gressman was "born a Democrat." And after a sad realization of the fact that the Democracy was in Nov. overwhelmingly repudiated by the People, all over the country, because it tailed in the oöd congress . .a mm . fm. to redeem its pledges to them m re card to currency, labor and tariff, the Coukikh is forced to the belief that those are better Democrats who adhere strictly to Democratic principles, under all circumstances, than are those who trust others to shape their course for them, command their votes, and blindly follow others to the slough of defeat and dishonor, although they may have been 4 ' born Democrats. ' ' The Democratic party will only gain success when its public servants adhere closely to time-honored, mos-grown, battle-scarred, fire-tried Democratic principles, that have come down from the days of Jefferson in the immortal Declaration that "all men are created equal." Bankers and Wall street gamblers, and Pullman monopolists, and Carnegie armor m . a plate scamps should not be given rule over the people. Friend John savs tho ' Couriek' found fault with his vote on the re peal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. The editor did so to him individually, but not through our columns, any more than with the rest of the Democrats who allowed Cleleland to cajole or buv them into voting money into the Wall street gambler's pockets. The Sherman act was denounced as a "miserable makeshift," and its re peal demanded by Democratic National and State platforms, because it demonetized silver and made a mere commercial commoditv of it. This was urged upon the hustings by every Democratic speaker in the West, and Mr. Bretz pledged bin. self in every speech he made to vote for the restoration of silver to the position it had occupied from the formation of the Government until the sneak act of the banking Re publicans in 1S73. And vet when it came to a vote Congress onlv VOied 10 repeal a pan Ol II Had j- A, it repealed the ei.tire act, as the platforms demanded, instead of only the part which authorized tho coin age m jnthly of 14,500,000 of silver the currency ot the country would havebeen thrown into such confusion as to have immediately forced a settlement of the questions involved, regardless of the gambling interests of Wall street, and the currency is sue would have taken precedence of the tariff issue, as its greater magnitude entitled it to. Its just settlement would have avorted the panic of 1893 ; the country would have been prosperous; there would have been no labor riots, because money would not have been hoarded for speculation. Eugene Debs, who was an honored and honest Democratic member of the Indiana Legislature from Vigo county, would not have been driven from the party by its affiliation with capital against labor; the Democrats ocrats would have carried the country ag'iin last Nov. instead of meeting a Waterloo, and John L. Bretz might have been on the high road to earning political fame, instead of being defeated in a Democratic district. And this was all changed by not carrying out the plain pledges to the People. Mr. Bretz says he was tired of the interminable jawsmiths of the House. The People generally were. and wanted to see it ended, and the quickest way to end it, for both House and Senate, was to kill the snake the first chance you had to hit it which the result following tne adverse vote proves. mi i - m ine geniieman is mistaken in supposing the Coukikk had any uaaiice in us comments, it was in 4 i sorrow, and not in anger, that it noted his being led away from the l 1 T . ancieni lanomaras. tie is too much inclined to trust others; who may have peculiar interests, rather than being imbued with the "courage of ua rrin vifti"sriQ a w v v aawaaj Tke Dtscevtry Saves His Life. Mr. G. Crillouette, Druggist, Heaverville, 111., says: "To Dr. King's New Discover' I owe my life. Wag taken with La Gripp and tried all the plivni. cians for mile around, but of no avail ana was given up ana told i could not live, mvisy ur. King .New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and be Kan its use and from the first dose beaan iu get ueiier, ana alter using mree ml ties was un and about an n. It is wnrih "fLJA. .OT'!.." w uuuw wnnoui a. uei a iree trial at MarUn Fritdmaa'i Druf Store. y

these in decidedly Democratic dis

tricts, so that these Democratic counties shall not have any oppor-' tunity to elect Senators in 1890,' I ! i r- ......... aim uisinuuics sucn uemocmuc counties as are left so that the Republicans will be sure to have a large majority in the next Sen-tte, when a United States Senator is to ' be chosen. j In Representative districts no at-: tention has been paid to population the only matter considered! being a large majority in the next I House. For instance Dubois, Daviess and Knox are put together in a Representative district with a voting population of 17,000 whileoolU voters is the ratio for Representative purposes. Of course l)aviess and Knox are given each a Representative in addition but this sun leaves a surplus or over ouu voters, and Porter and Lake counties, with each no larger a vote than Dubois countv, are each civen a Representative because they are Republican counties. The Repub lican majority in the Legislature seem determined to make the Dem oetats "take their medicine." But it would seem that with an apportionment which gives them threefourths of the Legislature as they have in this one that party has no cause to be frightened, and enact so unfair a measure as the one proposed. True, the present Republican majority, both State and National was obtained by reason of the Democratic Congressmen violating the platforms and pledges in regard to finances upon which the People trusted them. But as Cleveland and Wall street brokers have shown an ability to buy and hold most of them the Republicans need have no cause of alarm jus to Democratic success. Unless labor succeeds in organizing united political action, the tidal wave of '94 is but the premonition of an ava lanche in '96, and no action of Re publican small-fry politicians can avert it. ! If Democratic Congressmen would break with Wall street and the goldbugs, and .British influence, there migni oe a cnance lor success in '96, but the congressmen are un der Cleveland's thumb too much to do this. Feb. 12, the birthday of Presi dent Lincoln, has been made a le gal holiday in Illinois. The following are the rates of taxation for several of the towns of this neighborhood: Princeton, $l.So; Uaklanü City, 92.0 1 ; Washington. 1.30; Rockport, 91.52; Mt. Ver non, $1.17; Now Harmony, 91. 52; Poseyville, 91.52; Jaspe'r, 91.21 ; Huntingburg $.92; Petersburg, spi.yo. Petersburg Democrat. Ine above is not a correct state ment, altogether. In some of the places named such as Huntingburg, Mt. Vernon, Rockport, and others, the rates do not include the corpor ation taxes at all those being col lected through the corporation ofli cers, are not embraced in countv 1 !.. T treasurer s nonces, in ouiers, as in Princeton, OaklandCity, Jasper, &c, where the countv treasurer collects the entire tax, the full lew t A 1 T IS" .1 is Hiaieu. uy auuing ine corpora tion levy to the general tax, thos quoted as lowest would be found to be highest. In Huntinffburg fo instance, the city tax is J7 cents, which ndaea to the 1)2 cents state ana county levy makes the rate thoro 91-89. In making compari ions compilers should be careful. CONSUMPTION BO rKOHOCMCED BytlstPhfekiMS COUCH -,' AI Kickt y - .... SMttMf LMM Givin Ovtr by the Doctors! Lift SAVED BY kWl CHERRY PECTORAL -wen years as. ny wire had a a "H-Ycre attack of lung trouble which aJ tlieiliyfci:tiis pronounced consumption, wt Tlis tonsil wan extremely dlitremlnjr. JJ i . 1 1 . . i . . i . .... uinri-nii- ai infill, ami wi ircfjucnuy .Ueii'kd with the snlttliif of Mood. The itocton lelns mahle to help her, S I n'ttioMt her to try Ayer's Cherry Pec- I torsi, and was surprised at the sreat ! roll"! It irrive. Nefnr iilo nn. vrtinU f Iwtltle, hIic wai ctired, so that now she Is quite, strotic ami heallhy. That this nte Heine saved my wife's life, l Jmve not Ute Iect "oulit." K. Morris. Momphis, Tciiti, Ayerfs Ghtrry Ptctoral Rtcetvesl HltHest Awarslt AT THE WORLD'S FAIR coe.e.eee.e.mTTTtj?

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