Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1882 — COMPARE THE TWO. [ARTICLE]

COMPARE THE TWO.

God's Truth vs, Satan's Sophistry. Democratic Platform, Republican Platform August 2nd, 1882. August 'Jth, 1882. The Dem ocfft ti c That* reposin'. party is now, as it has trust in th# people a> always been, opposed the fountain of poWto all sumptuary leg- er, we demand that islation, and it is es the pending amend, pecially opposed to the rneuts to the constitu proposed amendments don shall be agreed to the constitution ofko and submitted by Indiana, known as thejthe ne£t Legislature prohibitory amend-jto the voters of the tijent, and we are in State, for their decisiavor of the sub mis- ion thereon. These . sion of said proposed amendme n ts were tynefidment as well as not partisan in their other proposed amend origin, and are not so nients, to tbt; people, in character, and according to the pro- should not be made visions of the consti-s > in voting upon .jutionffir its own a-them. Recognizing •tyendment, and the the fact that the people have,the right people are divided ■9 oppose ol favor the in sentiment in re • <ideptiotf of any or all gard to the propriety iiieomendmhnis at all of their adoption or -piges ol their cousid-rejection, and chereration, and any sub- ishing the right of Hission of cun s t i t u- private judgment, we ional amendments to favor the stlVtnission l vote o£tlw>peo pie of these amendments .ijioukLba at a t i tn e at a special election, . ipd under circumstan- so that there may ips most favorable to abe an intelligent de•all vote, and th ere- ci s i on. lhereo n, tyre, should be at a tin influe nco d by general election, partisan issues. The question of the proposed atneudments to the State constitution has formed the touch-stone of the present campaign, and once more is the true metal of the republican party made clearly manifest, and mice again is the dust and dross of democracy revealed to the world. The republican party, which, “in scorn of consequence” has favored the side of right and justice in every issue that has come before the people for thirty years, declares m fayor of the submissian of the amendments to a direct vote of the people; apd under conditions most favorable to a fair and impartial decision.

The democratic plattorm, was forced upon the convention without chance for discussion or protest, through the machinations of that greatest of political shysters, Tom Hendricks. The amendment plank opens with a deliberate falsehood when it declares the party, as such, to be opposed to prohibition; as every intelligent man in the state knows that vast numbers of democrats favor prohibition. The balance of the plank is shuffling, double-faced and tricky to the last degree. While seeking to cjitcli prohibition votes by seeming to favor a submission of the amendments to a diiect vote of the people, it is really intended to leave the way open for the defeat of the amendments in the next legislature if enough anti-prohibition democrats can be elected to do so. it will then be claimed that the amendments have been submitted tv the people “according to the pro-. visions of the constitution for its own amendment”; and that the people in electing a democratic legislature on a platform distinctly opposed to the prohibition amendment have decided, and at a “general election” against the amendment. But the plank is ingeniously designed to provide for emergencies and if the friends of submission should be in a majority in the next legist at ure the next move will be to have the amendments submitted to the vote of the people at the genepl election of 1884. 'This invention is evident from the reading o| the platform; and a Senegambianof mastodonian dimensions is secreted in this wood-pile. They want the amendments submitted at a general election, that it may be “under circumstances most favorable to a full vote.” A blacker lie never soiled paper. 2*io one better than the authors of that platform knows that from the vast and vital interest the voters of Indiana take in the two principal amendments they would turn out utmost to a man ro vote upon them, for or against. The authors of t-tiat platform know -that a prohibition amendment alone in lowa has just called out a larger vote than was ever cast in the state at any time, except ut the last general election. They know that the. prohibition and ■wpmau’s suffrage amendments together will bring out a larger vote in lAdiana than was ever cast in the state. But here is. th§ “tri.ie inw{irdness(,’ of the wish to have tljein disposed of at “A General they wish to squeeze •> f m*” but of the’ -Liquor 1 *’• Igut-.i, .andother; whiskey ■ 4i-.* ; * I '.iu C Li.i i \ -fet.iLt lil. . * • z r . ;• vJ;o favdr'tempo ';mee

Democrats Who fayor the rights of die people: will you, be bargained tor, sold, and delivered in a manner so shameless and transparent as this? * '■ l hi o > Last week mention was make of the fact that Mr. Edward Brown, ;of Delphi, was about removing his clothing store and merchant tailor ing establishment from Bensseiae to Delphi. After the goods wer invoiced and shipped to Delphi Mr. Brown caused the arrest, on the charge of embezzlement, of his last manager, Mr. Chas Lyons. The preliminary examination, which was held before Justice Wood, occupied several days. All the ac counts of the business during Mr. Lyons* management were gone over, and although it was evident that the books of the business had not always been kept with suiricient care, it was proven that Mr. Lyons and the managers before him were acting under the direction of Mr. Brown himself in selling out tne stock at a sacrifice. The court on its own motion, stopped the pioceedings, on Thursday morning, and dismissed the case without allowing defendant to finish his evidence, holding that the prosecution had wholly failed to make a case. The verdict seems to meet'the approval of all who are familiar with the circumstances of the case. Mr. Lyons has been placed in a very trying position and we are glad to be thus able to announce his vindication. In this connection tne following telegram from Mr. Lewis Gros, a well known merchant of Delphi, for whom Mr. Lyons clerked for 14 years, and which was sent after learning the result ot the examination, shows how some of the Delphi people regard Mr. Lyons: Delphi, Ind., ) Aug. 15, ’B2. J Frank W. Babcock, ltensselaer,.lnd. Lyon is an honest man. Delphi sent up a cheer. Thanks for vour letter.

LEW. GROS.