Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — The Two Candidates. [ARTICLE]

The Two Candidates.

The Ladles* Literary Society will meet, at the residence of Sirs. R. S. i)wiggirarMay 8:h, IBS4, to execute the following programme: Subject Men of the Legal Profession of Indiana. Mu5ic....... .........Mrs. Belle Kerr. J. E. McDonald Miss Rpsa Eaker. Col. Idick Dell; rf..'sli::-> T.izzie Purcupile Gen. Ben Harrison.. Mrs. li. S. Dwiggins. Ccl. R M% Thompson 3h-i. A. PurcuptteT Music... Mrs. Slay Thompson. Sirs. S. XTHsnkiv &e<?yl Senator Jacob Reiser, of Winamac, was in attendance at tlie convention. He has been quite generall y urged to 'become a candidate for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State, and has decided to make the canvass. He is a German, was a lieutenant iu„ the late war, and for several years published the Winamac Republican. Fie was elected State senator in 1880 for the countiesofWLu te, Carroll and Pulaski, and is the first Republican that ever carried that district. He is geographically advantageously situated and promises to make a vigorous canvass for the nomination .-[lndianapolis Journal. Mr. Keiser is well known and well regarded in Jasper county, and as lie has really decided to try for the nomination for Secretary, we doubt not ne will receive the hearty support of the Jasper county delegation, in the state convention.

Tint enormous and palpable fraud “The, Peoples’ Railway Company of America” which originated in Indianapolis last J u ne, was removed to Chicago a few months after and still later to San Francisco, upon the verg e of dissolunou, judging from an exhaustive articlo from the San Francisco Chronicle of April 21st, and republished in the Indianapolis Journal of last Monday. Erni Kennedy was the originator of the scheme and has had absolute control from the first. The Chronicle .fully exposes the devious ways of Kennedy and con* eludes with the following paragraph: d At present the visible assets of the company cousists of Kennedy, a large safe, two sofas, three parlor chairs, two desks, eighty yards of carpet and a lot of worthless printing, papers and maps, which the Fenced subscribers may dis- " tribute among themselves if they appear japon the scene with “{fie necessary celerity.

Au extensive article in the Temperance Column, this week, from the New York Tribune, is deserving of the most careful reading. It is powerfully written, and, in most particulars at least, not oyerdrawn.' In this connection, the following from- the Chicago Tribune has onr hearty endorsement: Lk-uor-selling is a lawful business at common law, where” there are no-statutes or ordinances governin'' or prohibiting it A license law confers no permiasiou or privilege, bat lie:its, and regulates, and restrains * privilege already existing from time immemorial. The Prohibitionists can apt honestly tight-high license on the ground they pow occupy if they will inform themselves of kh? law;, limy tin rad fairlyOrWlemn high' . liceftse as sjfggl perajit /whea -it is not a ptnhi: at all. but a tax, and they can not 'consistently oppose ii when it is considered as a restraint cud regulation of a traffic which ink ought to be sapr pressed entirely. It it Is not possible ,to prevent the gale of hqnor altogether, it is desirable to limit add regsUUe it and to tax it to make good in part the damage it deev. li isdlt&coßte how a. jProhlbiconitt high tfiTwfiiin of th p iiasor Vr alllc.

There are now two candidates for the office of town Marshal before the voters of Rensselaer, Joseph Clark and Charles Piatt. We shall now take tf>3 liberty to give, in as concise a manner as possible a few of tlie reasons why we believe that the republicans of the town should - support Mr. Clark. He is in every way well qualified for the position, and there is no reason to doubt that he will make an excellent officer. He is the regular nominee of The party, nominated in the fairest manner, in a largely attended open convention, of the voters of the party.' He has never asked for, or received, any political favor although eminently deserving of the good will of the Republican party. His record as a soluer entitles him to the favor of his fellow citizens. In 1883, when but seventeen years of age, he joined a veteran regiment, the 72nd Indiana mounted infantry, and from that time saw the hardest kind of service, until the close of the war. His opponent, Mr. Platt, although he, too, has deserved well of his countrymen, for brave service in the army, has already been mumticiently rewarded. He has served two terms as county sheriff, one term as ( county Tieasurer and two terms as town Marshal. He has long been the recipient of a generous pension from the and which he still draw's at the rate of $24 per month. We respectfully submit that having received and still receiving so much from the people, his claims for the office on the grounds of his soldier record, are much inferior to those of Mr- Clark, who has received nothing.

Lastly all true apd honorable republicans should not forget that one year ago, Mr. Platt, after having pubiicly announced, over his own name, through the colupins, of this paper, that he wonld be a candidate for Marshal, subject to the decision of the republican town convention, and having entered that convention and being fairly defeated, he bolted the action of the convention, and was elected to the office mainly by the votes of the opposition party. These considerations might be much amplified and indefinitely increased in number, but enough has been said, as we believe to suggest to every thoughtful # republican voter in the town sufficient reason why Mr.' Clarkshouidbe unanimous* ly supported-by his party in next Monday’s election.' Two extensive political articles upon oue of our inside pages, are especially deserving of careful reading. One of them is from die Indianapolis Journal and is entitled “A Southern Campaign”, the other is from the Chicago Tribune and is headed “Democratic Incompetence.”