Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1883 — Page 3

HOW INDIANA WAS CARRIED.

Rot the Work of Abt Om Moo. M of AH the RipubUeu Voters. [Washington Cor. Chicago Herald.] Before leaving Washington the Herald sorreapondent had a talk with Mr: John C. New in regard to the campaign in Indiana. “I have no desire to apeak up6n this subject,” said Mr. New. “The cam* paign of 1880 is over and the victory won. It is of a great deal more importance to the party that we should devise ways and means of carrying the election of 1884 than to discuss the campaign of 'IBBO. The statement of Dorsey, so far as he: speaks'of the campaign in 1880, is fairly correct. I have oo objection to it. Dorsey did very efficient work in the State in 1880. He came there at the request of the State Central Committee and myself as Chairman of the committee. The idea prevailed that Indiana was a sinkhole for money for political purposes, add I had a desire that somebody representing the National Committee beside myself should be on the ground to see where the money went. Dorsey, who was Secretary of the committee, a good organizer, and a man of ability, came there. But the credit of carrying Indiana belongs to no one man, nor ten men, nor any hunched men. It was the work of the Republicans of the State. The State Central Committee, every county committee, every township committee, every prominent Republican, and the Republican voters of the State were all alive to the importance of carrying Indiana, and they worked with unflagging zeal and energy.” “How about the vast expenditure of money by the Republicans?” “It is quite true that a large sum of money was spent in the campaign in Indiana. There have been no elections in that State for years in which large sums of money were hot expanded on both sides. In 1876 the Democrats spent $lO where the Republicans spent sl. I presume in 1880 the Republicans had a little more money, and it was used judiciously in the thorough organization of the party. The Republicans did’ not need to be bonght, because, as I have said, every Republican in the State was in earnest, actively at work, and heartily in accord with the candidates and the platform. ~ The Democrats will hardly claim that good, honest Democratic voters could be bought for $2 a head. To the best of my knowledge and belief, there were no importations to the State on the part of the Republicans, nor do I know of a single dollar having been corruptly used. Money was distributed to various county committees and Township organizations to defray the legitimate necessary expenses of the campaign, such as providing speakers and in aiding and assisting in bringing out a full vote.” “Then,” said the Herald correspondent, “there was no shower of $2 bills?” “No, sir; that story is a myth. As I hove stated, the credit of carrying Indiana belongs to the Republicans of the State as well as to those who were only voters. As to those who occupied lor the time being positions upon committees, where all did so well it would be invidious to claim credit or make distinctions.” “Do you know anything of the part Gen. Brady took in the campaign?” “Gen. Brady came to Indiana a few days before the October electidn. He made a contribution of, I believe, SSOO to the State Central Committee. If he gave anything beyond that sum it was at his own home, in Delaware county. I have no knowledge, however, of his doing anything beyond that. Gen. Brady was formerly Chairman of the State Central Committee, and an efficient worker, before he went to Washington.”

Republicanism Is Courage.

Not a few old stagers among the pol iticians who have been at the front in the Republican party daring the last two decades are disposed to pat the finger alongside the nose and look sarcastically wise when any proposition is made looking to the commitment of the party organization to any measure of public policy which squints in the direction of public morality. These men forget*that the Republican party was born of a moral idea, that its original mission was the promotion of a moral reform, that its whole successful career has been mainly in connection with questions of right and wrong more than of mere governmental expediency. They forget that a party of this sort, which has gathered into its ranks ninetenths of the character, the virtue and the intelligence of the country, cannot safely pursue a course which would be entirely expedient for its opponent with a wholly different constituency. In a word, the Republican party must keep in the lead, os it has done from the day of its inception, or it will die the death. The party itself has accustomed the the country to look to it for a far higher , class of political motives than are expected in its antagonist, and for thjp reason, if for no other, it would be suicide purely as a matter of policy, for Republicanism to itself and attempt to solicit votes by the same devioe proposed by the Democrats. In 1856 the Whig party, in the presence of a magnificent opportunity, turned its back upon destiny and died from its own cowardice—died because it was too timid, conservative and time serving to,assume a great and inspiring responsibility and declare itself the champion of Free Soil. The capital failure of the Whig party rendered the Republican party possible, and grandly has it met the demands laid upon it. Near the third decade of

its existence the Republican party it oalled upon to face the question, whether it will distinctly maintain its position as the party of moral ideas and of advanced ethical principles—in a word, as the party of reform, pr whether, in the presence of a new and crucial test, it wfli play the. poltroon like its predecessor in 1856, and follow that predecessor to the tomb of the Capnlets. At such a crisis the cynical and cowardly adviser is the worst of enemies. If the Republican party of to-day shall take counsel of its fears, and not of its courage, it is as good as dead already. Jt isnot impossible that, whatever course the party shall pursue during the next thtee years, a temporary defeat may await it, but this has nothing to do with the broader question, whether the party really desires to be a permanent force in the great republic or whether it is willing to be. relegated to the list of petty political factions, content with jabbering about its historic past, while voluntarily surrendering a superb future. Minnesota Tribune. - -

Republican Practice.

One of the most prominent and commendable features of the Republican party is its readiness and its determination to abolish abuses within the party. When the whisky ring was arraigned, and Republicans were detected in swindling the Government, the rings were broken np, and Republicans and Democrats were alike punished. It has been no part of the policy of the Republican party to shield the guilty. The star-route conspirators who swindled the treasury, violated their trusts, and brought disgraoe upon the party, were swiftly overtaken, and, while they have not been sent to jail, they have been convicted at the bar of public opinion, and are suffering a torture that could’hardly be aggravated by confinement withia prison wells. They entered pleas of party service in vain. The darts of justice struck high, and men who had occupied exalted positions were not spared; and, because these have been stricken down, their punishment is all- the more severe, and the courage of the party that refused to spare them on. the pound that they had been high and influential in its councils is all the more commendable. It is hardly to be expected that a business of such magnitude as that of the United States Government can be conducted without cases of dishonesty occurring. Such cases occur in private affairs, and relatively much oftener and to a far greater extend than in public affairs; but all that can be fairly asked of an Administration is to Use diligence and to purify the public service. In this direction the Republican party has a good record. It has held up the scales of justice with a steady hand, and, if it has not made every man honest, it has made rascals afraid and satisfied the people that its purpose is to expose and not shield unworthy officials. This is the history of the Republican party; but it is not the history of the Democratic party. The polioy of the latter was to protect its members who were guilty of corruption—to cover up and hide, and not to expose and punish. And now what are the Democratic organs doing with reference to the starroute transgressors ? Using their testimony to blacken the character of a dead President who spared them not, and of living publio men who did their duty. In the interest of the star-route criminals old stories are revived and desperate efforts are made to reburn wet powder. These stories, if true, might inculpate public men responsible for prosecuting dishonest officials, but could not exculpate the latter. The witnesses, too, are the men who are smarting under the rod at justice; are full of malice, and have no character to lose. Their shafts, at the same time, are mainly directed against Garfield, who is dead and cannot speak for himself. They know this; otherwise they would be more careful. But, as a sufficient offset, the fact stands boldly out, that among the last acts of the murdered Garfield’s life was an order that could not lie misunderstood, to prosecute the guilty. His heart overflowed with kindness, but for the guilty he bad no compas on And President Arthur took up the work where his predecessor left off, and the result is before the country, and it is a record that will strengthen public confidence in the administration.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

Political Notes.

Jeff Davis joins tlie New York Sun in the cry that the Republican party must go. That do settle it. Bo long as leading Republicans maintain their integrity and hold the confidence of the country, in the eyes of Democrats they are very dangerous men, unworthy of public countenance or private credence. But when one loses and forfeits his high standing among his fellows, his words then are regarded by the democracy as little less than oracular. —lndianapolis Jourfial. It is one of the cheapest and most foolish tricks of the oheap demagogue to be continually canting about the corruption and profligacy of the opposite patty when it is in power. Inasmuch as the Democrats are in laok of more decent or effective campaign material this year, one can hardly be surprised that the cheapest demagogues among them run platforms. But the man that this mud-slinging does him any good or strengthens his party only shows that a -callow politician.— Nevq. f York Tribune.

THE BAD BOY.

" ! “Come in,” said the grocery man to tha bad boy, as the youth stood on the steps in an uncertain sort of a way, as though be did not know whether he would be welcome or not. “I tell you, boy, I pity you. I understand your pa has got to drinking again. It is too bad. I can’t think of anything that humiliates a boy and makes him so ashamed as to have a father that is in the habit of hoisting in too much benzine. A boy feels as though every one was down on him, and I don’t wdnder that such boys often turn out bad. What started your pa to drinking again?” “Oh, ma thinks it was losing money on the Chicago races. You see, pa is great on' pointers. He don't usually bet unless he has got a sure thing, but when he gets what they call a pointer; that is, somebody tells him a certain horse is sure to win, because the other horses are to be pulled back, he thinks a job has been put np, and if he thinks he is inside the ring he will bet. He says it does not do any harm to bet, if you win, and he argues that a man wh# wins lots of money can do a great deal of good with it. But he had to walk home from the Chicago races all the same, and he has been steaming ever Binoe. Pa oan’t stand adversity. But I guess we have got him all right now. He is the scariest man you ever saw,” and the boy took a can-opener and began to cut the zinc under the stove, just to see if it would work as well on zinc as on tin. “What, you haven’t been dissecting him again, have you?” said the grocery man, as he pulled a stool up beside the the boy to hear the news. “How did’ you bring him to hiß senses?” “Well, ma tried having the minister talk to pa, but pa talked Bible, about taking a little wine for the stomaoh’s sake, and’ gave illustrations about Noah getting full, so the minister couldn’t brace him up, and then ma had some of the sisters come and talk to him, but he broke them all up by talking about what an appetite they had for champagne punch when they were out in camp last summer, ancT they couldn’t have any effect on him, and so ma said she guessed I would have to exercise my ingenuity on pa again. Ma has an idea that I have got some sense yet, so I. told her that if she would do just as I said, me and my chum would scare pa so he would swear off. She said she would, and we went to work. First I took pa’s spectacles down to the optician, Saturday night, and had the glasses taken out and a pair put in their place that would magnify, and I took them home and put them in pa’s spectacle case. Then I got a suit of clothes from my chum’s uncle’s trunk, about half the size of pa’s clothes. My chum’s uncle is a very small man, and pa is corpulent. I got a plug hat three sizes smaller than pa’s hat, and took the name out of pa’s hat and put it in the small bat. I got a shirt about half big enough for pa, and put his initials on the thing under the bosom, and got a number fourteen collar. Pa wears seventeen. Fa had promised to brace up and go to church Sunday morning, and ma put these small clothes where pa could put them on. I told ma, when pa woke up, to tell him he looked awfully bloated, and excite his curiosity, and then send for me.” “You didn’t play such a trick as that on a poor old man, did you?” said the grocery man, as a smile came over his lace. “Yon bet. Desperate diseases require desperate remedies. Well, ma told pa he looked awfully bloated, and that his dissipation was killing him, as well as all the rest of the family. Pa said he guessed he wasn’t bloated very much, but he got up and pnt on his spectacles and looked at himself in the glass. You’d a dide to see him look at himself. His face looked as big as two faces, through the glasses, and his nose was a sight. Fa looked scared, and then he held up his hand and looked at that. His hand looked like a ham. Just, then I came in, and I turned pale, with some chalk on my face, and I begun to cry, and I said, ‘Oh,pa, what ails you? You are so swelled up I hardly knew yon.’ Pa looked sick to his stomach, and then he tried to get on the pants. Oh, my, it was all I could do to keep from laughing to see him pull them pants oa. He oould just get his legs in, and when I got a shoe horn and gave it to him, he was mad. He said it was a mean boy that would give bis pa A shoe-horn to pnt on pants with. The pants wouldn’t come around pa into ten inches, and pa said he must have eat something that disagreed with him, and he laid it to watermelon. Ma stuffed her handkerchief in her mouth to keep from lafflng, when she see pa look at huself. The legs of the pants were so tight pa couldn’t hardly breathe, and he turned pale, and saici, * Hennery, your pa is a mighty sick man,’ and then ma and me both laughed, and he said we wanted him to die so we could spend his life insurance in riotous living. But when pa put on that condensed shirt, ma she mid down on the lounge and fairly yelled, and I laughed till my side ached. Pa got it over his head, and got his hands m the sleeves, and couldn’t get it either way, and he couldn’t see ns laugh, but he could hear us, and he said, ‘lt’s darned funny, aint it, to have a parent swelled up this war. If I bust you will both be sornr.’ Well, ma took hold of one side of the shirt, and I took hold of the other, ,and we pulled it on, and when pa’s head came up through the collar, his face was fairly bine. Ma told him she was afraid he would have a stroke of apoplexy before he got his clothes on, and I guess pa thought so too. He tried to get the collar on, but it wouldn’t go half way Around his neck, and he looked in the glass sad cried, he looked so. He sat

j * out of breath, and the shirt and pants r ipped, and pa said there was lo use living if he was going to be a rival to a fat woman in the side-show. Just then I put the plug hat on pa’s bead, and it waa so small it was going to roll off, when pa tried to fit it on his head, and then he took it off and looked inside of it, to see if it was his hat, and when he found his name it it, he said, Take it way. Mv head is all wrong, too.’ Then he told me to go for the doctor mighty quick. I got the dqptor and told him what we were trying to do with pa, and he said he would finish the job. So the doc came in mid pa was on the lounge, and when the doc saw him he said it was lucky he was called just as he was, or we would have called an undertaker. He put some pounded ioe on pa’s head the first thing, ordered the shirt out open and we got the pants off. Then he gave pa an emetic, and had his feet soaked, and pa said ‘ Doc, if you will bring me out of this I will never drink another drop.’ The doo told pa that his life was not worth a button if he ever drank again, and left about half a pint of sugar pills to be fired into pa everv five minutes. Ma and me sat up with pa all day Sunday, and Monday morning I changed the spectacles and todk the olothes home, and along about noon pa said he felt as though he oould get up. Well, you never see a tickleder man than pa was when he found the swelling had gone down so he could get his pants and shirt on, and he says that doctor is the best in this town. Ma says I am a smart boy, and pa has taken the pledge, and we are all right. Say, you don’t think there is anything wrong in a boy playing it on his pa, once in a while, do you?” "Not much! you have very likely saved your pa’s life. No, sir, joking is all right when by so doing you can break a person of a bad habit,” and the grocery man cut a chew of tobacco ofl a piece of plug that w 4 as on the oounter, which the boy had soaked in kerosene, and before he had fairly got it rolled in his oheek he spit it out and began to gag, and as the boy started leisurely out the door the grooeryman said, “Look-a-here, condemn you, don’t you ever tamper with my tobacco again, or by thunder I!ll maul you;” and he followed the boy to the door, spitting cotton all the way, and as the boy went around the corner the grooery man thought how different a joke seemed when it was on somebody else. And then he turned to go in and rinse the kerosene out of his mouth, and found s sign on a box of green apples, as follows: “Colic or cholera infantum. You pays your money and takes your choice'*— Peck's Sum.

The Biggest Foot on Earth.

If there is anything on earth which contributes to make a handsome woman proud it is pretty feet. An infinite amount of misery is caused by the ladies endeavoring to crowd a No. 4 foot into a No. 2 shoe, and a great many of the masculine gender suffer with corns because the covering of their pedal extremities fits too much. A woman with a big foot is inelined to be unhappy, but what must be the sorrow of Fannie Mills, who resides two miles east of this city. She has the biggest feet in the world so far as known,, and they are still growing. The poor girl is a marvelous curiosity, and only those who have seen her ponderous feet would ever believe they are so immense. Fannie Mills is 22 years old, and resides on the dairy farm of her father, Qeorge Mills, two miles from Sandusky. The family are English, and emigrated to this country eleven years ago. The father is well-to-do, and makes a good living from the sale oi milk. Mrs. Mills is a small, keenlooking woman with a pleasing face. There are five children besides the unfortunate Fanny, all of whom are healthy and good-looking. The deformed girl* for her feet are very imperfect, is afflicted with elephantiasis frpm the hips to the ankle. Her head, shoulders and biist-are normal, although she is slightly built. Fannie has a plain but interesting face. Her dark, large eyes possess considerable expression, and there is a sad look upon her countenance which shows that she fully appreciates her deplorable condition. The right foot is 1 foot 6 inches in length, and Ihe left 1 inch shorter. Over the instep of the right foot is 21 inches, and over the other 1 inch less. The big toe of the left foot is 11 inches in circumference. The right foot is longer than the left by an inch, but tho latter is heavier and thicker. The feet are respectively 7 and 8 inches wide. From this actual measurement of Fannie Mills’ feet one can readily imagine what marvelously large shoes she must wpar. The left shpe is 164 inches long, the right 18 inches in length. The left 74 inches wide, and the other 8 inches. The right instep of the shoe measures 194 inches, the left 174 inches. Fannie Mills* weighs 109 pounds, and, although delicate-looking, says she has good health. It takes two calf-hides to make her a pair of shoes, aud all her vitality goes to sustain her massive limbs ana feet. The girl had usually large feet when she was born, and they have continued to grow alarmingly fast ever since. The cause of the malformation is said to arise from the fact that before Fannie was bom Mr. Mills compelled his wife to wash the swelled leg of a horse, very muoh to her horror and disgust. The young woman is without doubt a great curiosity—her feet a marvelous freak of nature. —Sandusky (Ohio) letter. Thx machine for catching cyclones alive has not yet been invented.

A PERSIAN PAGEANT.

How the Shah Received the First Diplomatic Representative of This Country. Hie Name Is Benjamin and He Was Presented with Grand Ceremonies. 11 1 * [Washington Telegram,] 8 CL W. Benjamin, the first diplomatic representative of the United States to Pecala, gives the following aooount of his reooption by the Shah: A. brilliant pageant had been prepared outside the walls of Teheran at one of the royal pavilions. At the stairway of the pavilion Mu Benjamin was met tyNas’rel Mulls, or the Generel-ln-Ohlef of the armies of Persia, sad a guttering crowd of prominent officers biasing with bine, soarlet, stiver, and gold and dooorattona innumerable of diamonds and oostly gems Mr. Benjamin was escorted to an audience hall by the General-in-Chief, where an exchange of courtesies was ottered and accepted. Next Mr. Benjamin was taken to the oourfe below and mounted upon a fine horse to continue his travels. This was the signal for every one to mount and the cortege of nearly 1,000 royal guards was put in motion, they being brilliantly and elaborately costumed. As the procession moved across the plain toward uhe beautiful turreted gate of the city, which is decorated with particolored glased tiles, the Oossaeks dashed hither and thither between the lines, firing muskets in the air nnd exhibiting Che mom brilliant feats of horsemanship. The streets were lined with spectators At intervals ware stationed poUoe or squads of military. Passing through the grand square of tttb Department of War, the cortege filed into the new or European quarter of the olty. On approaohing bin quarters Mr. Benjamin was told by an aid that aOO soldiers were marshaled at the entrance to receive him. Mr. Benjamin dismounted, returned the salute, ana. accompanied by the General-in-Chief and his staff, was escorted to a recep-tion-room. where further oourtestes were shown sad refreshments enjoyed Mr Beniamin next nude an informal call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs at his residence, according to the custom of the eountry. He has held offloe thirty-six years and is a conservative and astute statesman of kindly manners and disposition. Tho 10th of June Mr. Benjamin reoeived a call from the Grand Chamberlain, who Is a son-in-law of the Shah, nnd who Informed Mr. Benjamin that his Majesty desired to reoeive him nil o'olook p m. the 11th. Mr Benjamin was taken to the palace in n landau furnished by his Majesty and drawn by six horses, each mourned by a Mverted postillion. Twenfy royal Ferqtubes or footrunners dlsd in scarlet and wearing plumed tiaras preceded the carriage, together with a score of horsemen acoompanied by Mohamondan, the second master of oeremonlea Mr. Benjamin arrived at the gardens of the palace, which are beautified with fountains and shrubbery end foliage arranged artfully wild, after a style peculiarly Persian. All were ushered intp a spacious end handsome hall, where the first master of ceremonies and other gentlemen and dignitaries gorgeously arrayed were in waiting. Here Mr. Benjamin was invited to make the seat of honor and treated to “tea and kallaun,” or water pipe Soon after the announcement was made to Mr. Benjamin that his Majesty was in readiness to reoeive him, and thereupon ho was oondueted by the find master of oeremonles to the paiaoe itself. “At this moment," says Mr. Benjamin, “a salute fired in honor of the United States thundered over the city, and on entering we amended a magnificent staircase. The walls were decorated in part with paintings of European masters, From the stairoase wa entered an audience-hall of vast proportions, and moot impressive in effect His Majesty stood at the upper end Leaving my outer shoos at the door, as prescribed by tho treaty of Kourmantohlo, I made a lew bow and walked up to where tho King was standfer. Benjamin then addressed the King in French, and presented his letter es oredenoe. His Majesty replied that it gave him great satisfaction to see an American Legation at Teheran, and bo considered that both Governments would be farther bonefitted by Increasing the intercourse and diplomatic relations es the two peoples. After this oerembny his Majesty expressed strong hopes that the United States, now that it had established a Legation intends, should maintain one permanently at Teheran. At the conclusion of tho audience with his Majesty, Mr. Benjamin made a formal call upon the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and paid his respects also to bis Royal Highness, Nalb Sultan, who ia Secretary of War and one of the sons of the King, and thanked him for his military esoort

ODD HAPPENINGS.

A goat bitten by a mad dog la Graysvllla, Oa, butted its own brains out * Liohthwo struck in tue oven lake, la Lauderdale county, Tenn., during a thunderstorm, and killed hundreds of Usk Muss Bam, of Greene county, Virginia, dropped deed just ss he was raising hiehand to swear that bis tax list was oorraot Aubukh (Kr.) jail has not bad an Hr tor to long that the look baa become maty and will not admit a key, and the hornets have taken possession of the interior. A smußon wanders at sweet wIU about a house in Moundsville, W. Va. It is aooompanled by an indescribable sound, whloh penetrates the air for miles around, and seems to originate in the earth. Six sheep owned by David Avery, of Bast Claremont, Mass, ware killed by lightning recently. The animals wars walking in a line, one behind the ether, and were lying dead in that position when found. The lightning struck at other points without serious damage. Nobthakttpt, Mass., has a woman of mors than ordinary pluck. Ber husband has not boon able to dress or feed himself for several years, end besides oaring for Mm the wife does all thawork for a large family, has an excellent vegetable garden which aha manages bv herself, audalso has in her yard large broods es ducks end Chickens Ha Baurrunr, of Escambia,'Ala., noticed afrcojeotlon from his oow*s stomach which, upon dose examination, proved to be a pocket-knife, open, with the point of the blade nrojecAing on the outside. Be took hold of the knife blade, and says it bounded out like the oork out of a beer bottle. He hae the knife, beside other proof of the acts. Vauwtiki Ybsxb, a convict in the Ohio penitentiary, obtained a large iron spoon from the dining-room, and made a strenuous effort to swallow it. but falling in that he forced it down his viroat with snob a violence that the handle broke in turn When the doctor arrived Yeake waa lying on his back eyes rolling; and his had evidently found the •poonunpolaftable! for he did what ho oould to aooaMratethn process of extracting it, which was finally accomplished, ‘