Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS. [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS.

The large Holstein bull Iroquois, for ■which $7,000 was recently refused, was killed recently, having suddenly become savage and gored his keeper. His quarters weighed 1,450 pounds after being dressed. - - , Jefferson Davis’ nephew having died recently, none of his name of his family now survive except himself. He has been married twice, but has no male descendant who bears his name, his only son having died a little while ago. ' ■ A Boston spirit medium was detected using a telephone in fiis cabinet. He his mouth to be filled with marbles and sealed with courtplaster. By attaching the telephone to concealed wires that ran to a confederate in another part of the house, he nevertheless produced, ghostly voices. Of the wheat imported into Great Britain for seven months in 1884 the United States furnished 13,773,980, a little over half, India less than one sixth, Russia about one-tenth, Australia less than one-tenth; 876,057,000 pounds of flour were imported in the seven months, of this the United States sent 599,603,800 pounds.

A French Deputy, very careless of his attire, paid a vacation visit lately to his constituency, and at the station was seized by a traveler, who put a valise fnto his hands to carry for him. The Deputy took it to its destination, but declined the 5 cents tendered him saying, “Thanks, no, I don’t need that; I have the honor of being your member.” The French Railway Companies are about to adopt an electric gate opener. A catch connected with am electromagnet keeps a gate closed. When a train approaches it closes the circuit, releases the catch, and the gate flies open- The last car on the train as it passes through opens the circuit, and the gate is again closed. The same device rings a bell violently on the approach of each train. s lIoLE-iN-THE-DAY,was a big Indian chief, bravo in war and cunning in the jwvwow, but Rev. Mr. Hole, of western Texas, makes a, bigger orifice than the red chief, according to the Kerryville 77;/e, which says: “Rev. Mr. Hole can run a horse-race, and can make it hot for his opponents in afoot-race; he also can jump a hurdle, sing a song, and at the end of the week preach a very good sermon withall. A lady in Schenectady, New York, hid in a closet so as not to be compelled to see a lady visitor whom she saw approaching the house. Accidently the spring-latch on the door caught and she was a prisoner. She rapidly consumed tho air in the inclosure. After four hours imprisonment, her husband returned home, missed his wife, and found her in the closet insensible. A short time more and suffocation would have produced death.

A Los Angeles, Cal., gentleman has brought from Guatemala a plant called the “melon shrub/’ which grows to the height of about three feet. It is an evergreen, with a beautiful purple and white flower, and bears a fruit shaped like a rifled cannon shell, about four inches long, by from two to three inches in diameter. This curious little shrub bears a melon of most exceleent taste, with the outside streaked vfith yellow and brown, and an inside the color of a canteloupe. The shrub blossoms and bears in four months from the seed. A certain collector in Syracuse must need a patent pair of pantaloons, judging*from his plan of operations. When a man persistently declines to pay he is called upon by this collector, ’ who wears a very large, tall hat, on which is displayed in gilt letters: “Commercial Agency; Collector of Hard Accounts. He calls every day until some arrangement is made satisfactory to both parties, or until the debt is paid. The collectors daily calls soon attract the attention of people, and his business is fully defined on his hat. The scheme is said to work first rate.- • Maj. Gen. Dillon, just appointed to the command of the Lahore Division of the Indian army, is one of the most notable veterans in that service. He served under Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde) in the first war with China ,‘ook partin the final campaign against the Sikes, and held a prominent place during the mutiny in the Oude field force, being severely wounded at Cawnpore. He was with Sir Hope Grant in his Chinese expedition, accompanied Lord Napier of Magdala to Abyssinia, and has since been aid-de-camp to the Queen. He belongs to the well-known Dillon'family of Ireland. President Woolsey entered the corporation as President of Tale College in 1846. After resigning the presidency, in 1871, be was re-elected to the corporation in the same year/ and has been a member ever since. He was graduated at Yale in 1820; studied theology at Princeton; became a tutor at Yale in 1823, and in 1831 was elected

Professor of Greek. The venerable ex-president will bo 83 .years old the last of this month, and Las been connected withe the college almost continuously for sixty-seven years. He is now on the Republican ticket as a Blaine and Logan Elector. The agricultural returns of Great Britain, taken on June 4th last, shows that there are 6,241,127 cattle, 26.037,217 sheep and lambs, and 2,582,333pig5. Compared with. the number two years since, there has been Ail increase of 74 per cent, in cattle, over 7 per cent. in’’sheep, and nearly 3 per cent, in pigs. There has also been an increase in the acreage of grain crops. In Ireland there has been a decrease in acreage under tillage, but a sight increase in number of cattle, sheep, and horses, pigs showing a slight decrease. The long drought in Georgia has given vent to much superstition among negroes, who are holding meetings for the purpose of turning away Divine wrath. lu Henry County the negroes assert that a. child was born with three teeth, lived three hours and died, after having spoken three words. “Three dry years.” which the colored people interpret to mean three years of famine. On Saturday a black child was born in Troupe County, which died during the night. The attendants insist that it said before death, “Five years without rain.” These two incidents are firmly believed by colored people, who expect their literal fulfillment.

The telegraph operators of the country, says the Current may feel some' gratification in knowing that the great strike cost the Western Union $1,000,000. But what an uncomfortable thought it is—this fact that a whole industrial guild has no other employment than that which can be found at the hands of two employers, the Western Union and the Baltimore and Ohio Companies. For that matter we may say one employer, the Western Union. It is as tohugh a man were, the best shoemaker in the w’orld, and w r hen he asked for a recognition of certain rights, his boss might say: “Go learn some' other trade, it you don’t want to work for me on my terms.”

Cattle-raising is the chief vocation in Montana and the neighboring territories; but cattle-stealing is a vocation not far behind it. And the curious part of it is that there is no region in - the world wlieie horse and cattle stealing is attended with greater dangers. Defection is followed by certain death. The life of a horse or cow thief in that rude country is not worth the price of twenty feet of inch rope. There is very little of judicial law in Montana, but there is a good deal of concrete justice, which, perhaps, is quite as good. It is stated that fifty stock thieves have been lynched in the territory in the last six months. Seven were hanged in a group in. one spot and at one time a few weeks ago. And yet, in spite of this summary way of dealing with the thieves, the stealing business continues io flourish. It extends over areas hundreds of miles in extent—from the upper part of California to the British line and from Oregon to the Missouri River—and it is estimated that several hundred persons are engaged in it. They descend on the herd at night, separate as many animals as they can take care of, and drive them to distant points to be disposed of. It is difficult and dangerous to pursue them, as they frequently operate in gangs, and are more than a match for the small parties gathered to follow them.

In the last twenty-two years the national debts have increased from $13,000,000,000 to $28,000,000,000. This is apart from municipal and corporate indebtedness, which, during the past quarter of a century, have been added to prodigiously. The only nations that have succeeded in getting rid of any part of their national obligations are the United States and Great Britain. We are liquidating our indebtedness at a rate unexampled in the history of the world. Great Britain’s debt was greatest just at the close of the Crimean war, when it amounted to £825,000,000 sterling. At last accounts it was £783,000,000. The Egyptian war, however, will probably add another £25,000,000 to the national debt of Great Britain. But in all the rest of the world there is a steady and immense increase in the national debts, as well as in corporate obligations. Capitalists and bondholders are growing in importance and power, due to the rapid increase of national and corporate indebtedness. We hear much of the reign of the people, but the real rulers of the nations to-day are the plutocrats, the great bankers, money-lenders, and creditors of the government, and the great corporations. There will be a revolt some day against this unnatural domination, and a general agreement will be come to to repudiate debts. The only foremost nation which seems likely to honor all its obligations is the United States of America. “Many people,” chirps, a witty observer, “have a very peculiar kind of religion. It resembles the portrait which 4 the young girl wanted to have painted, which was to be a perfect likeness of her lover, but not recognizable by any one else." There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suf' flee for small souls.— Bovee.

The President-Elect Indicates His Policy Toward the Colored Race. The Vice President-Elect’s Views on Civil Service and Revenue ” Reform. CLEVEIAND, His Policy Toward the Colored Race and the Commercial Interests of the Country. Gov. Cleveland was asked by a reporter at Albany, the other day, if he was aware of the delusion among the colored people of the South that a change in a dministration would unfavorably affect their condi ion. Gov. Cleveland replied: "Yes, I have been astonished at the statement that there was an apprehension existing among the colored people that in some way their rights now secured to them under the laws and Constitution of the United States were in danger from the election of a Democratic President I am even told that some of them are led to suppose the result of the recent election means that they may again be made slaves. Ail this has appeared to me to be absurd, and I have been so sure that the slightest intelligent reflection would dislodge such foolish fears, that I can hardly deem any notice of them necessary. But there is not the slightest objection to calling the attention of all who are in the least uneasy or uncertain upon this subject to the fact that the title of the colored people to freedom and all the rights of citizenship can not be disturbed except by a change in the Constitution,'which it would be absolutely impossible to make. Besides, the present condition or status of these people has been so fully accepted by the entire country that no one should have the slightest idea that any attempt would be made to change it if there were any possibility of accomplishing such a thing. So far as the new administration is related to this subject, the whole country can be sure that the lawful power and jurisdiction of the Executive will be so exercised that the rights of all citizens, white or black, under the Constitution and the law will be preserved and protected, and all the advantages to which they are entitled by reason of their citizenship will be secured to them. There need be no tear that the Democratic party or its newly elected administration proposes to oppress or enslave any part of our population, nor to destroy the business interests of the country. We hope, on the other hand, to do something to benefit the people. It seems to me that the effort in that direction would be aided if mischievous croaking and dark imaginings should give place to an earnest endeavor to inspire confidence and to make universal a cheerful hope for the future.”

HENDRICKS. He Makes a Speech. Giving Some Intimation of What WiH Take Flace in the Next Four Years. Vice Thomas A. Hendricks spoke at considerable length in the Brooklyn Rink, on the occasion of a Democratic jubilee, in the course of which he said: I do not join you to-night for any purpose of rejoicing over the fall of our opponents. It js enough to know that they have fallen. I join you to rejoice, not that their flag has been trailed in the dust, but that ours flies in triumph over the land; not that they suffer the pangs of disappointment and defeat, but that we, the representatives of the Democracy, the politics of the people, are successful. But lam also sorry that after the result an attempt has been made to infuse into the minds of our colored people the idea that the success of the Democratic party meant the destruction of the rights and privileges of our colored voters. This is a great wrong. My fellow-citizens, as a free and independent voter, the colored voter entered the Democratic ranks, and, as a free and independent voter he will remain under its broad banner and principles. We have been for nearly the last quarter of a century suffering with great patience the rebuffs of the party in power with the statement that we were not fit to be trusted, but on the 4th day of this month millions of our fellow-countrymen- declared that we are to be trusted. I' thank the Independent Republican party and those of the ministry, of the bar, and of the other great professions, who have stood by our side in the hour of trial. The people of the United States have taken up the great question of reform In all and every department. When the Democratic party took hold of Cleveland and Hendricks .it was likened to the cry of the traveler in the sledge who was followed by the wolves: but Cleveland and Hendricks came out of the battle better than the traveler. I am ashamed to say that tfle campaign just closed was the most remarkable I ever took part in for calumny and falsehood. -But I knew when I heard all this going round that it would not avail, and I did not go out of my w£y to say One word, but just let matters take their course in Indiana, and so it came out all right. I do not wish to speak in terms of disparage mentof those who must feel the pangs of defeat, but I will ask the Republican party who gave them the authority to sit in judgment on the party of the people, and say that it was not safe to trust the Government in our hands? This, my fellow-citizens, has been answered by the voice of the people of the Empire State, as well as the other States, in no unmistakable terms. Let us be as patient now in the hour of triumph as we have been in the long years of trial. We, they tell us, will be responsible for the future of this great country. Yes, and we accept the great responsibility that will bring peace and* good government to the people ot the United States. It was God that gave us the power to set this great lesson—a lesson that we must abide by, and a lesson that I hope the Republican party will not soon forget—that the great work commenced and carried out by the pebpleof the United States on Nov. 4 last, when the Democratic party was once more placed in power, means nothing more or less than a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Oh, you will see a very great change after the 4th of next March, when President Grover Cleveland takes his seat at Washington. , It has been decided by the people that there shall be a government executive reform, so that all the laws shall receive their just and proper construction—a construction that shall bring blessings upon the common people, upon labor, as well as upon capital; a construction that will be in accordance with the true intent and meaning of the legislators; that there shall be administrative reform, so that there shall be no longer any inability to carry the mails across the country-wlthout loss to the public treasury; so that there shall be honesty in all the departments of the Government.

Do you ask me if I am in favor of civil-service reform? Of course lam in favor of civil-serv-ice reform. lam not in favor of a,continuation of so many things that we have seen in some years that are past. The people are tired .of It, and they want a change. Do you desire to know from me what civil service I have confidence in? lam very free to say to you people to-night that 1 am not particularly confident of success after a schoolmaster’s examinat on. But I win tell you what I have confidence in, as it was in the days of Andrew Jackson. Let a true man come to lie President of the States, and let true men be called around him to aid him in the public service, and let these men resolve that the only test of qualification for office under them shall be honesty and fitness for the service, and you have civil-service reform. This great contest has established it in this country that there must be revenue reform. In his message of December, 1882, President Artnur informed Congress and the'Country that the revenues of the country exceeded by $100,000,600 the wants of the administration economically administered. A slight reform was made the next March thereafter, but after that the Secretary of the Treasury, your defunct Judge Folger —honored be his name; he is dead now—in hii last report to Congress, when he lived, declared that the present revenues exceeded the wants of the Government by $85,000,000 a year, and that is the last record on the subject. Now. my countrymen, you men of Brooklyn, you merchants, you business men, you laboring men, yon skilled mechanics, I ask you what is the standard by which the Government shall be regulated in the taxation of the people? President Arthur expressed it as well as I am’ able to express it. He said that the only standard should be the needs of the Government economically administered. But Secretary Folger. in his last report to Congress, said. “The question that now presses upon us is what legislate n will relieve the peopl-j ot the burden of unnecessary taxation. Ay, it is a burden, and it presses hard when it is $85,000,000 a year. How much for Obe country, if taxation were < educed wisely and judiciously, so as to leave it in the pockets of the people and in the channels of trade, would the $85,0<i0,000 do every year? What Is the position of the Democratic party upon the subject of taxation? I know of no standard of taxation except that taxes shall not exceed the needs of the Government economically administered. At the convention in Chicago the will of the Demo racy ot this great nation was express d in a resolution on taxation. Of course that resolution related mainly to -the tariff law, and now, if you please to give me your attention, I wifi state what the Democratic party at that convention declared. It is expressed in four propositions: I ' L Taxation shall not exceed the needs of the Government economically administered. . X Taxation shall only be tor public pur-

poms and not for private'gain and speculation, a. In the adjustment of the taxes care shall be taken not to hurt labor nor to harm capital. 4. Taxation shall be heaviest upon articles at luxury and lightest upon articles of necessity. These four oro posit ions express, the entire Democratic doctrine on the subject of taxation, and when that great convention at Chicago adopted that platform it wrote it in letters of silver brightness upon its banner, and that ban-> w-r it handed Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks, and they said this is the banner, carry it out before the people and stand or fall by the banner. That banner has been carried before the indomitable.Democracv of Indiana. They say the tariff is a very difficult thing to understand. I think It is difficult for those who wish to make it difficult, and to Impose somewhat upon the country. .To me it is very plain, for it is written in these four sentences. • Is it possible that a convention of the people, con-istingof so many delegates, has been able to pass upon that difficult question of the tariff, and to express itself so that every' man, woman and child in so large and intelligent an audience as this is compelled to say "that’s right?" It is an tineomm -n.lndorsement of a convention, and after this you won't b ame me much for being a whole-soul-d Democrat, will you? If a party is so clearly right upon the subject of taxation, one of the highest powers of government, it cannot ba wrong much upon anything else. Taxation comes to a man's home and takes that for the public use which was his, is his no long >r, like the law of eminent domain, that takes private property for public use: like the law of the Government, that says to the young man in the bosom of the familv, "War has come and you must serve in the army,” this power of taxation is one of the most tremendous that the. Government compasses or exercises: and now, while I have submitted it. sentence by sentence, and in detail, to this great audience, the sentiment is that sot once, anyhow, the Democracy may be trusted. So next spring, it Gov. Cleveland shall call Congress together, the machinery will somewhat commence, not to de’troy. but to remove objections. -Did you know that the Republican Chicago platform on the tariff subject pledged itself to reform in the tariff so as to remove its inequalities and reform its excess? They pledged themselves to reform their own work. " : - 1 Since the war there has been no Democratic Secretary of the Treasury, all being in the control of the Republicans, and now, at the end of twenty years, they say to their countrymen, “Our legislation taxing you is not equal; it produces excess of revenue, and we pledge you to reform it” It is too late now. The time for repentance is not passed, but the time for good work to make repentance good is now passed. How is it that upon the subject of taxation the Republican party has dared to come before the great elements of power in this country, New York Ciiy, Brooklyn City, and admit the taxation is unequal? But we must have the equality of taxation, and the mauls going in that's going to have it that way.