Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1884 — Page 4

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A Letter from mark In DeMtte

The following letter was read by Mr. H. t E. James at the complimentary dinner, at the Jtowels House, Thursday evening, !|ov27th. For its weighty and well ißonsidered utterance we bespeak a careful perusal. _ Hou. Horace E- James,

Dear Sir* Accept thanks for your kind invitatio a to be with you at dinner on Thanksgiving day. I would take great pleasure in joining in your testimonial of appreciation to the Remington Republican trie© Club, the Rensselaer lilaine and Logan Glee Club, and the Rensselaer Cornet Band. They did good sorvico in that that mos* remarkable campaign in the history of our country. The Republican party, with its illustrious record, its careful organization, and its matchless leaders, entered upon the campaign of 1884, conscious of its power to overcome all opposition from without. It was silent upon no national isue; it was equivocal on none; but with a courage and candor peculiar to it, it assumed the aggressive, and everywhere, where its intolerant opponent was not strong enough to prevent, its asserted its claim to the continued confidence of the people. Begotten of the necessities of freedom, free born, and reared literally in the line of battle of a war against oppression, it invited to its ranks the liberal minded, the advanced thinkers aud the moral and political reformers of the day. Ignoring side issues and the restraint of party machinery; encouraging freedom of opinion, speech and action, it welcomed every creed, race and nationality, the only requisite being a common devotion to freedom and equal rights. This aggregation of earnest, educated thinkers, advocating principles, which were not only the conclusions of their minds, but the sentiments of their hearts, was, as I have said, invincible against an outward foe. It could be overcome only from within. Lookiug from the wonderful achievements of the last quarter of a century, to the prospect of still greater things in the future, the masses of the Republican party said “There are greater than side issues—than individual ambitions-. than personal likes and dislikes, and in November the Kepubliean phalanx will march solidly to another grand victory.” But the result of that day taught us that what had been our past strength was our present weakness. Our contempt of party restraint, our encouragement of indepeudenoe, our sympathy for those who struggled for other than political rights, had led to our defeat, (.ike the eagle struck by au arrow winged with its own feather, we * * nursed the pinion that impelled the steel." 1 The treachery of trusted friends hail accomplished what our enemies could not. But it is to the future and not the past we should look. We have suffered defeat, but have not surrendered. That word is not in the Republican vocabulary.

The achievements of the past have lost none of their lustre: the field ol usefulness in the future is as broad and inviting as it ever was. The groat Republican arm}’, from General down to Private, must keep in line Tor the struggle of 18884 , , Victory does hot porch upou our banners, but there is no stain upou them. The men, the measures and the methods of IHS4 bring us no ropreach but, reiiect credit upon us, and if we are true to our principles and to ourselves, the grandest ol ail victories is in store for us in the future. ' Hoping that the occasion may be a happy one, anti with regrets that. I cannot be present, I am Yours Truly,

Grover Not the Youagest.

When the 4th of March ociups, Grover Cleveland will lack hut fourteen clays of bciug 48 years old. Only one ydduger man has been inaugurated President, and that is U. S. Grant, who lacked gome six weeks of being 47 years old wheu he entered the White House, frauk Pierce \yas three months over - 48, and Arthur and Garfield were each a trifle less than fifty. All the other Presidents have been older, William Henry Harrison, with his 68 years, being the oldest of them all at taking the oath of office.—-[ Ex.

MARK L. DEMORRE,

THE PEED CONFESSED

Uleßmei’ Wai'tuei*’s Guilty Moul find* Iti'Jief'in telling how anil why |ic killed John IM'eger. . * Wartner, the man who has been in jail at Rensselaer for the last live or six weeks, charged with killing John Dreger, inJKeencr township, has made a full confession. The combined effects of a guilty conscience and'hnxiety as to the fate of his wife and children, have bi-oxen down his physical frame, and so worked upon his mind that lie has been driven to find what relief he could in a free and full confession. At his request, last Thursday, Mr. AP. Feldman, a reputable fellow countryman of Wartner's, came down from Keener, and through him, and in the presence of Ex-sheriff Powell and Deputy Prosecutor Doutbit, he told the story of his crime, which was comniiti.ed to writing, sigued aud sworff to by the guilty man.

Those who have possession of the written confession have, for some reason, thought it advisable to withhold it from publication, at the present time and therefore we are only able to give its general points. Wartner says that he was poor and destitute, with a large family and no means to feed or clothe them. Dreger hadgno one but himself to support and he determined to kill him and take his property. The manner and form of the killing was almost exactly identical with the theories advanced, 'jsome weeks ago, by certain of the amatuer detectives i f Keener. Wax-tner pursuaded Dreger to go to the river with him for fishWhile there he watched his opportunity and felled Dreger to the earth with a blow with the butt of a gun. The gun was broken, by the force of the blow, in such a manner as to leave a long sharp point extending from the brooch, and with that the deep hole in the neck was made and the murder completed. The iron pump heads were thtn securely fastened to the body and it was thrown into the river, it was a cold blooded, heartless butcher}*, but done alone and without the knowledge or complicity of any one else. 1

Among other statements in the con. session YV/trtfter told where Dreger’s best suit of glothes had been hidden, in a certain locality, for the purpose of strengthening the belief that Dreger had left the vicinity. On Sunday last Ex-Sheri ft' Powell, with a posse of men, went to Keener tp., and after a dilligent search of several hours, succeeding in iiuding the clothes; and thereby corroborating Wartner's confession, and making the last link needed, in a chain of evidence that insure) the speedy punishment of this cold blood and mercenary crime. For several days previous to his confession Wartner had been confined to his bed by sickness, but now shows considerable siguss ot improvement in bodily health. He has been much distressed in mind in regard to his family, not knowiog that the laws of the country would provide for their support. The family consists of a wife and two children. The}' have been cared for at public expense for sometime and are now in the county pothouse.

Wartner has shown much concern lately in regard to his spiritual condition, and on Friday last, at his request, j the Rev. M. C. Miner passed several, hours in his cell in reading and prayer. I To Mr. Miner he talked freely as he could ia bis broken Euglisli, of hisj crime and the motives which led to its, perpetration. He was extremely poor; ami destitute, wltnout adequate means j for making a living, and his wife and children were unclothed and hungry. The fish he cought in the river he could not sell because the people arnoug whom he lived were poor and scattering, and lie had no horse to take them io a distance., Dreger had cows and other property and iu h ; s desperation fie eouoe vbd and carried out the idea of killing aim and taking his property. For the benefit of such of our readers as do not fully understand the processes ut the law. in cases like this, we may properly state, the next step necessary will be his formal indictment by the Grand Jury, at the January term of the circuit court, and theu.his ai r. igumeut before the court, upou the charge’ of murder, to which he will be require l to plead -guilty'’ or -not guilty'\ it he pleads guilty, as under the circumstances; he is almost certain to do, t.ie duty of fixing his penalty and passing sentence u >on him will devolve upon , the judge ot the court and may be either death or imprisonment.

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