Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1882 — Republican State Ticket [ARTICLE]

Republican State Ticket

Secretary of State, EMANUEL R. HAWN. Auditor of State, edwaedh. wolf. a Treasurer, BOSWELL S. HILL. Attorney-General, DANIEL P. BALDWIN. Superintendent of Pub. Instrution. JOHN M. BLOSS. Judges oi Supreme Court, WILLIAM P. EDSON. JOHN G. BERKSHIRE. JOHN F. KIBBEY. Clerk of Supreme Court. J. W. GORDON. Jasjer County P.ejuiiicau Tictet. For Clerk of Circuit Court, JAMES F. IRWIN. For Auditor, GEORGE M. ROBINSON*' For Treasurer, MOSES B. ALTER. For Sheriff, JOHN W. POWELL. For Recorder, THOMAS ANTRIM. For Coroner, FRANK J. SEARS. For Surveyor, LEWIS S. ALTER. For Commissioner Ist District, A. C. PREVO. For Commissioner 2d District, SAMUEL R. NICHOLS. For Commissioner 3d District,. JOHN WAYMIRE. For State Senator for Jasper, Benton and Newton counties. HENRY S. TRAVIS, of Benton county. For Prosecuting Attorney, 30th Judicial Circuit. MATTHEW H. WALKER, of Benton County. For Representative, Jasper and Newton counties. WILLIAM W. GILMAN, of Newton county. For Congress. 10th district, MARK L. DeMOTTE, of Porter county.

—We hear, that inorder to get republican votes Mr. Hoover democratic candidate for State Senator, is promising to vote for submission of the amendment. We wonder what he would do if the Democratic caucus should decide against submission? , Major Jacobs of Logansport, a life Jong democrat, made a speech Monday night publicly denouncing the unholy alliance of the democratic party and the liquor league. He will not vote for anyone who supports the democratic state platform. The Liquor Dealers League is an Old Man of The Sea which has been invited to take a ride upon the shoulders of Sin bad' Democracy. The Old Man is riding Sin bad to inevitable and overwheming defeat in November, as. sure as fate. —rwnn —, * How does Capt. Edmonds foolish attempt to humbug tern, pernnce people with the idea that the democratic platform means honest submission of the amendments, to a direct vote of the people, compare wite the position of the democratic Jejjdevs ou this point?. Hendricks, McDonald. English and Vorhecs all hold that the ques

tion of prohibition is now sobmitted to the people, and if the anti-prohibition party carries the election this fall the amendments will be killed at the next session of the legislature. Not later than Monday evening of this week Senator Vorhees distinctly reaffirmed this position in a speech at Indianapolis, no wonder Edmonds thinks he “is not authorized to speak for bis party.” We should say not.

Our deserved strictures upon Capt, Edmonds, last week, have called from him a long, libellous, abusive and inconsequential letter, addressed to the editor* f this paper, and published in the “Democratic Sentinel." The Captain has the assurance to request us to republish ihe letter; but nothing should surprise us in a man who lacks the sense of propriety to restrain him from political work at a temperance meeting. All through his letter the Captain whines and whimpers, and returns again to the pettifogging plea that we ought to have published his remarks before wd presumed to criticize them. , He knows, full well, that the plea is a mere piece of pettifoggery/ He knows that there was no short-hand reporter present to take down his words, verbatim. He knows, too, that when we said tljat he assured his audience, at the! meeting, that the democratic platform gave equal assurance with the republican plat* form, that the amendments would be fairly submitted to a direct vote of the people that we stated his position fairly and justly. And finally, he knows, or if he does’nt know, we will repeat it, that Jn our opinion such a position is an insult to com* mon sense, and to take such a position at a temperance meeting, fol the sake of political effect, is an outrage on common decency.

The Captain seems to think that he really has made a point because in our article of last week, we did not argue the relative merits of the two platforms. The objection is of lio value whatever. Time and again since the two parties held their state conventions, has this paper discussed their positions upon the amendments; and it has sho.vn the fraud and falsity of the democratic platform, in arguments which, to use the Captain’s own-by no means original-style of expression, “he could not, and he dare not try” to answer. When we choose to repeat those arguments, or to advance others upon the same subject, we Beall do so; but shall choose our own time, noble Captain, however much we should like to oblige you. As to Mr. Edmonds opinion on the question of prohibition we are utterly inc i ferent; and, indeed care little when or where he advocates his ideas.

True, it seems to us, that a more appropriate place than the Blue Ribbon meetings might b& found for the advQcacy of anti-prohibi-tion ideas, especially when those ideas seem to be the result of mere prejudice and insuficient information .

The Captain has the impertinence to ask us why we do not openly advocate prohibition. When prohibition becomes an issue before the people the Republican will be ready enough to speak on that subject; but until that time, we beg leave to inform the erudite gentleman that it is no business of his whether we have any opinion upon the subject at all. Mr. Edmonds speaks of our art:c ?as a “scurllcus attack” upon luiq. The term is a gross libel for which he might be held resjjonsibie at a court of law; but as we believe him to Le in the habit <-f using words whose/meaning he does not understand, we pass it by with contempt. J,

Finally, we assure the sapient Captain that we shall probaly waste no more time upon him. If he chooses to amuse himself by writing more letters to the -‘Sentinel/ he has our full Consent. If the Blue Ribbon society, after the experience they have had. choose to permit their work to be perverted by political trickery, that, also, will probaly be w ithout further protest from.us.