Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — The Man Who Is Honored. [ARTICLE]

The Man Who Is Honored.

Col. L. Q. C. Lamar, of the late C. S. A., and present Secretary of the Interior of the United States, ordered the flag of the Interior Department to be displayed at halfmast, and the department and its bureaus, which includes the Bureau of Pensions, to be closed, because of the death of Jacob Thompson, once his predecessor in thejsame office. This is the same Jacob Thompson under whose mlg, ag Secretary of the Interior, several millions of the Indian trast fund bonds were stolen. This is the sime Jacob Thompson who left his place as Secretary of the Interior to enter the service o l the Southern Confederacy. This is the same Jacob Thompson who acted as the agent of the rebelions States in trying to organize a force in Canada to liberate the Confederate prisoners at Johnson’s Island. This is the same Jabob Thompson who tried to organize a parly of rebels and assassins in Canada to liberate the prisoners of war at Camp Morton, and then to assassinate Gov. Morion -and seize upon the United States Armory and supplies in the city of Indianapolis, and bum the city. This is the same Jacob Thompson who was part and parcel of tho conspiracy to spread smallpox in the cities of the North. This is the same Jacob Thompson who was part and parcel of the conspiracy to distribnte vellow-fever-infected rags into the hospitals and armies of the Union. And yet, Within twenty days after a Democratic President enters into the White House, a man of such infamous character is honored by having the one department of the Government having in especial charge the care of the Union soldiers disabled by war, and their widows and orphans, closed deference to his memory. If the Confederates can, within twenty days from the inauguration of their first President after the close of the war, so lionor such a man as .Jacob Thompson, what may not be done in a few short years of their rule? — Exchange. It has been discovered that Vice President Hendricks was obliged to use his utmost efforts to secure the nomination of his man as Postmaster at Indianapolis. It is even said that the victory was so dearly bought that Mr. Hendricks is now virtaally bankrupt in political influence. Democbath at Washington are more dissatisfied than ever. The dsappointed Bourbons call attention to the fact that Texas, which gave 132,000 majority to Cleveland, has received nothing, while Vermont, which never voted for a Democratic President,’ was awarded the first pick of the diplomatic appointments, and New York, which barely squeezed out a plurality of 1,000 for Cleveland, has captured the Secretaryships of the Treasury and' Navy, the Assistant Secretaryship pf the Treasury; the Turkish Mission, and the Solicitorship of the Treagary. . ■ . After Jane-30 a two-cent stamp will cany an ounce letter instead of a half-ounce.