Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — Some of the Villainies of the Gerrymanders. [ARTICLE]

Some of the Villainies of the Gerrymanders.

The citizens of South Bend having waked up to a realizing sense that the loss of the Oliver Cliilled Plow Works would be about a death blow to their town, have bestirred themselves and offered such inducements as will probably keep the works Where they are. ' General Grant is much more cheerful sihce Congress, it the last minute, did him tardy justice by placing him upon the retired list, and has many “good days;” but there seems to be no ground for doping that his life will be spared many weeks. He believes himself that he can not live a month, and the chances are that he is right in the prediction.

Honry G. Hufstetter, Assistant Secretary of the State Senate, is one df llie latest productions of Democracy and Reform. He was lately charged by Ezra C. Nowels, Engrossing Clerk, with having drawn $46 of his salary on a forged check; and this led to an investigation which developed any amount of crookedness, of a like nature. d:t; ' ■7 ■ The only Democratic Senator who opposed the apportionment outrages was Johnson, of Tippecanoe county; and he supported them ardently enough until after the congressional bill was so amended as to make his district, the Ninth, one of the reliably Republican districts of the state, and then he had a sudden revelation of the monstrous iniquity of the whole thing. The congressional and legislative bills as they were finally pflfesffl and signed by the governor, after much tinkering and amending, leave the Tenth congressional district unchanged except that Benton County is given to the Ninth district. The Senatorial district still consists of Benton, Jasper and Newton counties; Pulaski having finalty been joined to Carroll and White.

It should not be forgotten that Senator Hoover, although he clearly recognized the monstrous injustice and inequality of the Democratic gerrymandering bills, and was at first Out-spoken in condemning them, yet at the last, probably at the bidding of some of his political task-fflasters, Darnel . Voorhees, perhaps, he sacrificed his sense of right and justice tod coted for the billa

Here are a few facts for those deluded Republicans who elected Mr. Hoover to misrepresent this Senatorial district, to meditate Over: He gave the iotS of this loyal Republican district to that windy demagogue and fire-in-fhO-rear traitor, Dan Voorhees. He makes strong professions of friendship for temperancfi, but when the high license bill, (the only really efficient temperance law that could b 6. hoped for this year) was killed in tlie Senate lie did not vote and the presumption is that the failure to vote was to Intentional dodging of the responsibility. He recognized the wronghilVis •>f the apportionment bills and at' first avdfrkil bis determination to •ppose ihem, but at the first beck from his party bosses, he smothered his convictions of right and voted

Those members of the State legislature to j whom six rdollars a day is a mighty big 1 thing, have succeeded in forcing a special session of. the State Legislature. It will cost the taxpayers o$ the state about $40,0U0 and about forty days longer infliction of one of the most infamous an .I unprincipled legislative bodies that ever assembled in any state.

President Cleveland’s inauguraaddress will be found On one of our inside pages. It is little more than a string of empty platitudes and glittering generalities, and carefully avoids any expression of opinions or outlining of policies, upon any subject in which the people now feel an active interest. In a half-hearted noncommittal way, he does indeed convey the impression that he means to support the civil service reform; but his remarks on that head are. too indefinite- to possess any real significance. In its literary style the address possesses none of the bland and childlike simplicity that characterized his celebrated letter to Mrs. Beecher, and has evidently been subjected to a strict revision, by other hands than his own. -

It is currently reported on the streets, and the report has, in fact, gone all over the county, that a heavy shortage has lately been discovered in the accounts of ExAjjtditor Nowels, and that one day last week Hr. David Nowels, father of the Ex-Auditor, paid otCr to the proper officers tjie sum 6t $2,800, principle, and $570 accrued interest, to straighten the account.

This report, which its yery mildest and least damaging form, is a subject of constant discussion, everywhere, and places JJri Nowels’ official conduct in a very unfavorable light. He is closely related to a large circle of most, estimable people, in this vicinity, and has, heretofore, held a high place in the estimation of of the community. More than this, during the late political campaign, he was, first, foremost and loudest in demanding that “The book! must be opened” and the rascds turnbd oilt. Under Such circumstances be owes it tp himself, to his friends, to his political compatriots and to the public to make a full and impartial statement of this matter. If he has been maligned he should spare no pains to make the truth known. Let there be a full eiplanation.

Cleveland's Cabinet; is about such afi bne would naturally expect a mall of his calibh; and predelictions to select; Daniel Manning, Tweed’s old associate, is the ablest uidd in it, and the teal premier of the administration: At the same time lie i$ the only rbillly disreputable ilian in the cabinet. Mr. "V ilfls, the Postmaster General, is also an able man and we believe a good one; but the head of tbh post-office department has but little more influence with the administration usually, than the heads of one of the bureaus: Mr. Bayard, the nigger hating and aristocratic old apologist foi* secession, from Delaware, Has never give much evidence of fitness for the position of Secretary of State. The cabinet is made up with a strange regard for geographical considerations, -Mr. Vilas being tifo only western man in it, while two are from Mr. Clevedfoi state* and three connfciiig Bayard from Delaware; are from the ,SbutlL

A S’ttTldN Island lady who has befell married three times writes to a young lady friend: “Never marry a man with a mustache; if you do hell think more 61 the Horrid thing than of you." v V * T* " * Jr *< \ - Chicago Current: Men are getting ready for the erection of enormous buildings in Chicago. If they dare risk a million, the ordinary citizen should at' least nerve himself tp the prompt paV- . iuent of Ids butcher’s bilL " ’

Rochester Republican: Gen. Real). Williams says the Indian-ian-Republican has a number of subscribers at various -places (Rochester among the rest) who after getting befimd in their subscription accounts for some time either refuse to tiake their papers from the postofiice or remove from the county without squaring up their dues? All such have been put on the Black list, which will be published at no distant date. We notice that the last issue of the Rensselaer Republican contains a list of dead-beat subscribers, who in various ways have swindled the poor pencilpusher out of his just dues. Country editors, in their efforts to Accommodate their subscribers, are shamefully imposed upon by those whose dishonesty will not permit them to appreciate a favor, and the public should be warned of every person who purposely, knowingly, premeditatively and sneaking) y wiggles out of paying his subscription.

Indianapolis Journal. Marion county has two senators for a voting population of 29,860, or one for every 14,680, while in Hancock count} - they elect two senators with a voting population of 4,276, and in Shelby two in a voting population of 6,246. . Other districts are nearly as outrageous as tlaeSe, Wayne c )unty, Republican, with a vote of 10,045, elects one senator, while LaPorte county. Democratic, with a vote of 8,069, elects two. Elkhart county, Republican. with a vote of 8,677, elects one, while Boone, with a voteli>iL6 v 32s, elects two. Jefferson county. Republican, with a vote of 5,983, has no senator, while Clark county, Democratic, with a vote of 6,654, elects two. Brown county. Democratic, with a vote of 2,196, elects two senators, while Tippe canoe,.. Republican, with a vote of 9,242, elects only one Clinton, Democratic, with a vote of 6,855, not only elects two representatives, but two senators, while Randolph and-Dele-ware, with a voting population of 12,225, have but cne senator and two representatives.