Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — Hard on the Hendricks Discipics. [ARTICLE]

Hard on the Hendricks Discipics.

We have not received the Highmore, (Dak.) Vox Populi for last week, aud we begin to fear that it was “knocked out” by the late 'cyclone in that town. It is rumored at Laporte that Gen. Jasper Packard will soon start another Republican paper in that city. It is to make its tb'st appearance some time this month, and number one is to be a sixteen ■page publication. — Rochester Siritivd. - ' ■ , v • The revelations of the Pall Mail Gazette made the Prince of Wales, mad and lie “stopped liis paper”. An obscure allusion by the Gazette to a “prince of. the royal blood” seems to have fit so close to the royal rake that he applied it to himself at once. 4,movement has been inaugurated In New York to make Saturday afternoon a “half-holiday”. The movement has met with such success that already 100,000 employes are released from duty on that half day. The plan is a noble one and well deserving of indefinite extension. - wztMTin. B 1 Our exchanges, almost without exception, when they mention a case of wife-beating, express a desire to see the whipping post established for that class of offenders. It is the only logical and efficient punishment for that offense, and the newspapers are only giv ii)g voice to a general public sentiment in demanding it. The worst enemies of every good cause are. always its fool friends. If only now all the temperance people of this state would be of ■one mind, and the unreasoning dues would desist from fighting their best friends, and striving for what is, for the present at least, unattainable in Indiana and impracticable if attained, laws could soon be secured which would entirely prohibit the liquor business in more than half the counties of the state, and diminish by more than half the evils of the business m the rest of the st ate. The Indianapolis Journal of Monday, publshes, in full, a remarkable address, delivered in Crawfordsville, Sunday evening, by the Eon. W. D. Owen, the scholarly congressman from this district. The address is in answer to Rev. Beecher’s evolution theories, as set forth in the notable series of; sermons on evolution, lately delivered by the great Brooklyn preacher. As the. Journal well says: “Mr. Owen ns one of the ablest speakers in Indiana, and this discourse is one of his bc-sffproduetions.” /* B is,one of the foundation prin ' eiples q£ the law that a man shall not be compelled to do impossibilities. The democratic administration, in the‘hopes” of makiffg • n litfcie party capital, have ruined John Roach, and thrown twentyfour hundred men out of employment, because he could not perform wnat was impossible. Tim law under which the construct! -a of the L’Cipnin was contracted tor provided that the boat should have * sea going speed d? pot less thau ti» teen knots per hour. Tire same law also provided that the ocat must be built upon the lines and liter plans to be famished by the Naval Advisory Board. With this latter pfovision of the law Mr, Roach had no, alternative but te comply. He bui]t the vessel in exact accordance with the diree■ions of the Advisory feoard. Now it , so happens, as anyone who tnows anything at all -about ahip'djßding. weil knows, it is hupos- • •> ; -

sible to tell beforehand just what rate of bpeed a proposed vessel Tan attain; and more especially is this the case when the vessel is built upon new models. This last was the case of the Dolphin, and on trial it has been found that she can not always be depended upon to make cpiite so great a speed as fifteen knots an hour. The ship was built in jCjompliance with the orders, of the Advisory Board, aud the highest scientific authority of the country pronounce her to be as noble specimen of naval architecture; but the democratic administration was determined to find some manner of throwing discredit upon the Republican administration and could find no other way than by committing an act of flagrant unjustice against Mr. Roach. Another; great Democratic victory! Let the faithful rejoice and the discouraged take heart. Party capital has been made at the expense 6f John Roach, the head and front of whose offending wes that he built and repaired boats under a Republican administratidn. He is downed now, and his last boat has been rejected, and as a consequence his ship-yard at Chester, Pa., must soon close., A special dispatch to the New York World says that the outlook there is “tar from promising”. About seventyfive men, principally machinists, were discharged on Saturday, and the scene at the yard is one of in-1 activity as compared with former j times. The dispatch concludes.? “Shortly the great ship-yard wißi have to be closed, as all the old j contracts are rapidly running out/'., 1 This is an achievement of which j the administration may be proud. The largest of American shipyards, and the only one of its kind, i closed and its 'employes scattered, j But that’s all right. The 'Demo-| era tic party had to find something j somewhere to' make capital of, and j failing to find rascals anywhere, j it angrily assailed Mr. Roach,-tod make it appear that the vessel lie i had just finished was not built ac- j cording .to contract. , The point j has been carried; the Attorney. General, who does not know the difference between a dispatch-boat and an Arkansas river store-boat, has decided that the Dolphin is not seaworthy, and that the naval board is not bound to accept her. The conspiracy is a success, the Republican party has been “rebuked”, and the largest ship-yaid j. in the country is closed at a time j when it should be busy , building j new iron-clads, in accordance with j an act of Congress providing for the strengthening of the navy. Mr.! Roach, will probably attempt to j obtain justice at the hands of the gentlemanly thugs who, for a purpose, have casfcyliscredit upon his work. He might as well not try j it. They have determined to ruin | him, and will fight till they emceed. — huiianop'ii • Journal.

Tlie Chicago Times, lade pen- j dent with Democratic proclivities, j administers a deserved castigation, to. that office -hungry bo.iitlfof ! patriots, the democratic editors of ; Indiana, in the following article: U lie Times Las been invited to pub- : lisle au address that was. read at some | place in Indiana, that. 'endures the'i hideou t name of Maxinkiu keel Vv V-.a president of an alleged vdeimunh.: !<• editors’ asSoeiatio■>*' t The invitation ipnot accepted for” sufficient; I The document alluded to is/diifalm in'" ! lioasep -e and drivel that.it would ■ ;ti'.: no human being to read, ‘"and Iha: ration ti persohs would read .without ; w.ondeting why’the T*nm« -jlioX'.' : room to such rubbish. By tvits of hi si ■ hying these not over •eonapljraeatari,' observations, a few passages, fr-ora tin- ! Maxim: uekeo essay nvill he chad-t • “The dem.ierafic pvfss bounded the bogie call; it made prfri.; from. oeeaw to ocean the nantft of, ;cieve'and and drieks; its cohnims contained Uie glad 1 news that victory and success had Jin. ally come to take th& place of lain re and disaster. For twenty-live years men have toiled and labored to orirur about that result’' To bring abdiit what result? Simply a change of the label on the back-side oi a president Trom the letters nacilbbper to tarcomed? Or lg,it the signi-

flcatlon of this gush of resonant bathes that.the Maxinkuckeo . orator is onp of those rural .organ blowers* that look upon the post offices as “their meat?” -‘•Who can tell what they suffered, be fore being permitted to hang out their dags and join their glad shouts with hose of the victorious hosts. But if they should Dot get the post offices, would they take in their flags anyone can tell? .Doubtless; for a little further on. the Maxinkuckee orator said: * f- •' , . - “To place the democratic party in power meant to place Democrats in office, that political service reform might be everywhere inaugurated throughout the laud, and it that is not done, then the democratic victory in November last becomes a delusion. The democratic press ought not to be content with anything less than the most comprehensive results of that victory. The removal of ten or twenty thousand of those same republicans from oflice will not not, and ought not, satisfy the democratic press. The supreme uemaiid is political service relorm. That can be had, and only had by placing democrats in power; anything else rails below the requirementsof the times’ This suffices to show what the socalled “democratic editors, association’’ Is. It is,a company of idolatrous fanatics that have made to themselves a graven image and endowed it by their superstitious fancy with .the attributes ol a deity. They call it ‘-‘the party”, and suppose it to be a divinity of the neuter gender. It is a hideous object, to all but those who worship it with the blind and foolish adoration of the Maxin kuekees. Its- head is the appointing power, its deformed and disgusting body the spoils system (to "which the MaxinkuckeS orator give the new name of “politeal service reform”) and its arms and legs the party organs striking and kicking ; frantically for the post offices. But.to this hideous image of all the vices, corruptions and villainies that have degraded our political life, this symbol of the most corrupting, loathsome and dangerous disease that • can,infect a popular constitution, the Maxinkuckes bow in adoration with all the marks, signs and characters of superstition and fanaticism that arc found in the lovYest fetiffinsm of primitive savages, and forward to the Times, a "mass cl' verbal ‘‘hog-wash” on the disgusting-subject, expecting that-this independent journal of news anti ideas hasten to spread it before a gaping world. But it won’t. ——— —rr- ' ~ J Ts* 1 T ~