Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — Cleveland is President. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland is President.

’J’he Indianapolis Journal asks what’s the matter with Jeff Davis for Democratic Secretary of War. I t would be a much fitter appointment than Dan Manning for Secretary of the Treasury. The Senate high license bill was killed in the State Senate last week by a vote of 27 to 14. We are unable to find .Mr. Hoovers name in either the list of those who favored the bill or those who opposed it. ' i " To Senator Hoover belongs the honor of being one of the three Democratic Senators who voted, for the State Civil Service Bill, m the Senate. We regret that lie failed to vote on the High License Bill, and on the right side. Now that, Senator Harrison lias voted foi the Texas Pacific landforfeiture bill and "Senator Yoorhees has voted against it, our Democratic exchanges will let up on their endeavors to prove that ’ Harrison bill- -which’ he never did. ■WI * 1 ■■■■WliriMMllWi The claim of Mrs. Sarah May, for SIO,OOO for her deceased husband’s services in preparing the plans for the new State House, was just, and the State was in honor bound to pay it The vote by which it finally passed the Senate, last Friday, was 28 to 18. Senator Hoover, of this district, voted against the bill, h W- x The Democratic Legislature of Indiana yesterday defeated a high license (S3OO and 500) bill. Owing to the St. John Prohibition vote, the Republicans were defeated in November, and the defeat of high license in the Legislature followed as a matter of course. The thirdparty Prohibition voters did more iast Fall for whisky, than wnisky has been able to do for itself in twenty years.— Chicago Evening "Journal.

A full account of the dreadful malady which is killing General Grant, may be found on one of our inside pages. The grand old herd’s days seem surely numbered, and he is eying as he has lived, calm, patieiit, invincible of soul; The -greatest captain of his age, and the greatest of living Americans, the feeble malice of those who have denied to himUie slight recognition of placing him upon the retired list of the army, will detract nothing from his true fajne but will reflect dishonor upon ‘them anddiscreditjapon'the Nation, The only man in the Legislature or out of it who, so far as we have heard, has venturned to defend the apportionment outrages, was one mau who said he favored-them on account of his undying hatred of the Republican party. Base and wicked as such a motive is, it is nobler than tW most of his fellow partizans can urge. Pure partizan hoggishness is their sole motive, and that, earned to shell lengths as m the cases of the apportionment bills, is more dishonoiabie than a rancorous and fanatical hatred. “ The State Senate found the same defect ns Senator Hoover’s life time sentence bill, that was pointed out by The Republican ' and in ordering it engrossed for the third reading, it was. amended ‘so as «o make the time of life sentences of convicts thirty years, less time earned by good behavior, instead of twenty-five years as ■at first. Thfe bill, however, was . drilled at the third rending by a TBotion to indefinitely postpone, by a vote of 24 to 20! X motion jo reconsider the lust vote was deflated 1 . Mdtiday*. by a vote of OIR to*

The infamous gerrymandering bills give to the 237,000 Republican votes of the state, only two con* gressmen, while the Democratic party, with a plurality of less than 7000, reserves to itself the privilege of electing eleven. In other words 16,000 Democrats can elect a congressman, in Indiana,* but it requires 118,000 Republicans to accomplish the same thing. The legislative bill is even worse if possible, than-the congressional bill. It binds the voters of the state hand and foot, and a popular majority of 20,000 in the state will not be sufficient to wrest it from their hands. Under its provision s the Republicans of the state can not elect more than 25 out of the 100 representatives, and 15 out of the 50 senators. More utterly unjust*and infamous apportionment bills were never passed m a northern state, and the districts they croate rival even tire famous shoe string district, of the Mississippi Bourbons. The Republican party may not always have been wholly guiltless in tlie way of partisan apportionment legislation, but for anyone to assert that they ever perpetrated anything in undiluted villisny with these bills is to belie The facts of history? and to insult the intelligence of their hearers.

Grover Cleveland Was inaugurated President, of liieso United States;"'-yes-terday. At the hour of goiug to press we have not received positive information as to the composition of his cabinet although the following is, in the- main, correctThomas Francis ltrvard. of Delaware, Secretary of State. - Daniel F. Manning, of New York, Secretary of the Treasury. W. C. Endieolt, of >!as?.'v;-husetts, Secretary of War. ■■ W. C. Whitney, of Kow York, Secretary ofthe Navy. Lucius Q- C. Lamar, of Mississippi, Secretary of the Interior! ========:; W. E. Vilas, of Wisconsin, Postmaster General. ' - Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas, Attorney General.