People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Archibald Pullins was born in Champaign county, Ohio. Jan. 18, 1831. Departed shis life April 15, 1884. Aged 63 years, 2 months and 27 days. Was married in early manhood to Miss Sarah Ropp, from which union there were born 14 children, nine of whom are living. Bro. Pullins joined the M. E. church about 30 years ago, and has since tried to live a consistent Christian. He moved to Gillam township, Jasper county, Ind., in 1865, where he remained until death took him to the realm beyond. He was respected and highly esteemed by his neighbors and all who knew him. His last sickness, which was of short duration, was painful and severe; being a complication of diseases. He left abundant evidence that he was ready to go. Before he died he offered a prayer to God in behalf of his dear companion and the children he so much loved. The funeral services, which were largely attended were conducted by Revs. Sebring and Wiley at Independence Chapel, where the remains were laid to rest.

The old Non Con in its last issue sends up a wail of anguish and declares representative government among us a failure, says men will all sell out. Hold! hold! Non Con, you ought to read qp in the political history of forty years ago and learn that every Whig and Democrat that was elected to congress by making pledges to the anti-slavery voters always betrayed them, just as Dan Voorhees, Bynum and Martin, of Kansas, and certain in Congress now have promised to carry out Populist principles and then basely betrayed them. But when such men as the Washourns, John F. Potter, Lovejoy, Giddings, Burlingome, Sumner and Hale were elected, elected solely to resist the encroachments of slavery, that was the end of the “northern doughfaces,” as they were aptly named. So when the people elect men standing on the Populist platform there will be no more sell ing out or traitors to Populist principles. Look at our twelve or fifteen men in Congress so elected, they are firm as the eternal hills and we are proud of them. Come, Non Con, let us elect on our platform tried and true men and all will be well.

We have not now, nor never have had any respect for Tom Reed. He is a great, overgrown creature, with an abdomen like an ox, a burly, brainy, buldozer that believes New England is the American people, and yankees have a divine right to make hewers of wood and drawers of water of all not living in their favored locality. While we despise his boorish and dictatorial political manners, and his pigheadedness in utterly refusing to investigate any measure not directly beneficial to his own locality, we thank him for falling upon a plan that makes it possible for a majority to legislate. That in a government constructed upon the theory tha,t. the majority must rule, and yet in our legislative bodies the majority was powerless to act when forced by a factious minority, was one of the crying wrongs in our so-called system of popular government. Our government is a government of ' majorities, and the majority should and must rule, and Reed has done well to have a plan adopted to put an end to the foolish and anti-republican practice. Let the majority legislate and go before the country upon their record, that is the way to do.