Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — Chilcote a Candidate. [ARTICLE]

Chilcote a Candidate.

*The National Republican Convention meets next T uesday, ( —————— TUe twenty-first annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association will be held at Huntington on June 12 and 13. The National Green-back Convention is now in. session. at Indianapolis. Ben Butler will, in all probability, be the candidate for President. Tiie temperance laws of this state are about a quarter of a century behind the times, and the of this Representative District ought to see to it that our next member is a man who will work for a strong and practicable liquor law, «-

The Woodland Herald expresses the opinion that several of the Republican delegates from Newton county will vote for Calkms for governor at the state convention, notwithstanding the Dudley lxx>m which has been raging for months in that county, like a consuming fire. There is no one, as yet, so far as we have been informed, who seems to be very decidedly a candidate for Representative to the State Legislature, for the district composed of Jasper and Newton counties. Dr. Maxwell, of Remington, is sometimes mentioned, as are also, the Hon. I. D. Dunn, of Kankukee, aud Alfred Thompson and W. B. Austin, of Rensselaer. As to which of these gentlemen, if any, are redly candidates, we are unable to say. Mr. Thompson, it is asserted, positively declines to be considered a candidate. Whether the Hon. Gilman, the present Representative, is desirous of longer serving five people in the some teaparitty, also seems to be “one of those things no feller can' fiud out,”

■With no right “nor shadow like to right’' the democrats in Congress last Thursday gave Stanton «l. sßaeslies sosi to young Bill English, and on Tuesday McKinley, of Ohio, was ousted in favor of "W allace. The action in the Peelle and English case was of the most flagrant and unjust character, and even among democrats is widely condemned. leading democratic papers tlieie are scarcely any that endorse the action of their party in this matter. The unseating of Peele was earned by a majority of only three out of a total democratic majority in Congress of seventy. Xwent} 7 -seven democratic members were conscientious enough to vote against the outrage.

That regulation of the Post-of-fiee department which forbids ]>ostmasters to make the needed corrections in the addresses of letters which they know to be wrong, and which they also know i ow to make right, savors more of red-tape than of sound sense. Nevertheless the rule must be observed and therefore when people put letters in the .Rensselaer |K>Bt=oftice addressed to Mount Airy or to Marlborough, the postmaster has no choice but to -‘Hold them for address” although he knows full well that the Mount Airy letters should go to Pilot GrOve post-office and the Maril>oro letters to the post-office celled Zarti People writing to Mount Airy or Marlboro would do wejti Ip bear these facts in mind.

The time for the Republican national convention is almost upon us, but still public sentiment and opinion, in regard to the probable action of the convention, is “without form and void”; although there is no doubt but that the Arthur sentiment has crystalized and strengthened greatly during the last two weeks. Of Blaine, the brilliant, the eloquent and the magnetic, the opinion seems to. be growing that while lie, of all the candidates has, by far, the largest following of enthusiastic personal friends, lie, at the same time, lias a proportionally greater number of implacable and irreconcilable opponents, and tliat his nomination' for that reason would be impolitic, and is not likely to be made.

It is reported by Congressman Belford that Hon. Tom J. Wood, —our Tom—spells Rhode Island with a little “r” and “i”tlius: “road island”, and paired “pared”, and here —meaning present—“hear”. Tom is a man of great possibilities,—[ Kentland Gazette.. If Belford said that, lie lias said that which is not true, and it is about time to stop that kind of foolishness. Congressman Wood’s spelling is quite as good a 3 the average Congressman from any of the States, east or west. He is a demagogue of the most nauseating kind, and would prefer to be spoken of by liis political opponents as an uneducated Hoosier from the Kankakee slashes lather than as a gentleman representing an educated, intelligent constituency. He prides himself on his slovenly appearance, when among the people, and boasts of the hard work lie lias been doing on his ten acre lot, rather than of his ability as a lawyer or a statesman. —Crown Point Register.

The Register is published in Mr. Wood’s own town, *and in the above paragraph it sizes him up about as accurately, perhaps, as it can be done. He is not an uneducated half idiot, by any manner of means, but really a man of much higher education and greater natural abilities than he usually gets credit for, or indeed, than he wishes to appear himself. The fact is he is a subtle, scheming, fawning demagogue, of the very rankest type, and as the Register above indicates, it is his “game” to try to appear common and unpolished. He carries this artful artlessness of his to such an extreme length that one would naturally suppose that he would spoil his own game by overdoing it, but although his ways and means in this respect are extremely disgusting to the decenter elements of his own party, the fact that he has made them win once, will be a sufficient consideration to induce the Any-thing-to-win party to give him a second nomination, without doubt.

It may now be announced as a settled fact that the.name of Capt. M. F. Chilcote will be presented to the approaching Republican convention, of the Thirtieth judicial circuit, as a candidate for Circuit judge. In this case the expression, “he has yielded to the solicitation of friends, ffad consented to become a candidate” is strictly true, as a multitude of friends, in different pans of the district, have long persistently urged him to allow his mhne to be presented to the convention. In knowledge of the law and rules and methods of the courts, as also in the possession of the particular qualities of mind aud character required in a good judge Mr. Chilcote is, undoubtedly, the peer *of any man in the circuit His frank <ac4 geuial disposition have also made him very popular, personally, while uis record as a brave and willing soldier is au ex - ceedingly sti ong point in his favor

The Logausport Chronicle speaks disparagingly of Mr. Wolcott’s candidacy. Does MoSheehy suppose that congressional lightning is going to strike ill a lcouimunity of chronic kickers such as Logansport?—Monticello Herald. No kick iu Cass county this time, neighbor. W..D. Owen will go into the convention with every vote of the cpgnty. ,Mr. Wolcott, socially, ie an exceedingly clever gentleman, but politically he won’t ao and you know it.—Logansport Chronicle. And neither will Mr. Owen, Brother McSheehy.-Winamac Republican. '\V Who will ? Rochester Tribune.